Or it wasn’t. Very possible he was simply gifted the NFT and lied about the price.

A bunch of the early 20s NFT sales were wash sales

Orban is a fucking russian asset

He’s more bound up in American geopolitics. But then Americans keep smelling shit, then blaming foreigners for the load in their pants.

Gen Z kids can’t read these days.

we had eradicated it

Clearly we hadn’t.

We horded the vaccine domestically, patented efficient methods for manufacturer and distribution, and curtailed it’s use in states we considered too poor or too evil.

Some of the highest rates of measles today can be found in Yemen, a country we’ve been bombing since the early '10s.

We didn’t exterminate the disease. We incubated it. And now we’re reaping what we’ve sown.

Would pay to read a news journal that included “poll of how much we expected” and “tally of results” included in the footnotes for any of these headlines

This seizure appears in response to a gas pipeline that Ukraine destroyed during the war.

The price shock from the Iran War is driving people to do desperate things in order to stay in power. You can get mad at Orban for being a POS. But he’s not the prime mover here. This is all downwind of Israel/US closing the Straight of Hormuz.

Starmer is just Woke Trump. Their policies are increasingly indistinguishable.

I give it another two weeks before CBS runs an hour long special explaining how the Iranians bombed their own girl’s school.

There are four waters!

I’m afraid it will lead to a cessation of anti-pollution efforts

The bacteria release carbon during the decomposition process. So this isn’t a “solution” in any meaningful respect. It’s an instance of evolution at work, as a surplus resource becomes a food source for innovative organisms.

Also, we look at this as some kind of “clean-up”. In reality, this is a threat to one of our most useful durable materials. It’ll likely lead to the development of antiseptics to kill these bacteria colonies, as the last thing anyone with a hard plastic shell on their vehicle or appliance or equipment wants is a colony of plastic-eaters deteriorating it.

Hundreds

Nursing is the nation’s largest healthcare profession, with nearly 4.7 million registered nurses (RNs) nationwide

:-/

Anyone stupid enough to be paying more than $0 deserves to get rooked.

Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him without getting a cut of the action?

You claim Trump is dumber than Bush, and yet Trump has made billions while President compared to Bush who only made hundreds of millions.

Hell, I’m beginning to think Cheney was dumber than Trump, at least on these grounds.

Who is going to remove it? Trump’s friend Tim Cook? Trump’s friend Jeff Bezos? Trump’s friend Sundar Pichai? Or Trump’s friend Satya Nadella?

allowed public school districts to set aside non-instructional time

I mean, this right here seems to be the root of the problem. Schools that are pegged to standardized testing performance metrics have zero incentive to squander student time in non-test prep activities.

This isn’t just a problem with this dipshit’s “school prayer” bill. It cuts into the entire curriculum. Everything from independent study to sports to artistic expression to club activities are sacrificed on the alter of test-taking efficiency.

Get under the hood of most of these districts and you’ll find them boiling over with Christian Nationalists. But because the economic structure of the schools rewards high state mandated test scores and penalizes anything that might increase tardiness, there’s a huge counterweight to this policy already in place by these same Christian conservatives.

Much like the gerrymandering, the Republican strategy backfired

Insane to think gerrymandering backfired in Texas. The state has run out of room to draw safe districts. They are not in any way suffering from a district schema that squeezes a 65/35 state legislative majority out of a 53/47 partisan split.

We’re just at the limit of how much juice you can get squeezing this lemon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nations_Railway_Corridor

On May 9, 2023, the first trial run of cargo from Iran to Afghanistan via the Khaf-Herat railway was completed. This shipment included 17 wagons that transferred 655 tons of railway equipment that will be used in the further construction of the rail line. The Khaf-Herat railway is 225 kilometers long, with 140 km of the railway track traversing Afghanistan and the remaining 85 km running through Iran. The construction of the Khaf-Herat railway line, which links Khaf in eastern Iran with Herat in western Afghanistan, began back in 2007.

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The railway is expected to especially benefit the landlocked Afghanistan, which would gain direct access to the Iranian seaports of Chabahar and Bandar Abbas. Through Iran, the line can connect to the Turkish railway network.

Incidentally, as the US goes to war with Iran, Pakistan is going to war with Afghanistan.

And everyone’s continuing to freak out about the Chinese economy usurping the role once held by the NATO block. Crazy how all this happens at once.

So yes, you can visit your favorite blog, but its still not the same as it was in the 90s or early 00s.

It absolutely is. I might argue podcasts have kinda usurped the old blogging space (or, at least, supplanted it). But I’ve got an RSS feed full of blogs I follow that are barely different that what I was looking at 30 years ago. The 90s is alive on Feedly.

Fucken computers bullshit, its fucken sick

Lolz.

What, no Microslop?

No way this runs on Windows. It’s Linux or bust.

There is absolutely no evidence to support the claim that gender transition (in either direction) improves performance. There is ample evidence to support the claim that gender transition inhibits performance.

Incidentally, the Olympic Committee has had rules on transgender athletic participation 1968, ffs. The idea that this is some kind of novel threat to competitive sports is absurd. “Men are participating under a false gender” is an allegation that stretches back two years prior to 1966, after Western media began accusing Soviet athletes of faking gender certification (allegations that were never proven but have persistently circulated in competitions even to the modern day).

As often as not, the accusation of transgender athlete participation skewing the results of competitions has come from chronic underperformers and has been used by Western athletes to defame and discredit athletes from “enemy” nations and from the Global South.

Incidentally, one of the most outspoken anti-trans athletes - Riley Gaines - spent years accepting money from reactionary activist groups to denounce her transgender peers as a personal threat to her safety, while covering up sexual assault by her team’s coach for over a decade.