Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports. Good.

The Pull Back Car.

Biggest wind farm powers up, but Trumpโ€™s opposition freezes billions in clean energy.

Inflation & Nominal Economic Growth to the Rescue: The US Governmentโ€™s Ugly Fiscal Mess.

Gen Z and millennials arenโ€™t convinced the American Dream exists anymore: Only 40% of them can afford to buy a home.

I'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now.

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And Itโ€™s Manmade.

Putinโ€™s economy is running on fumes after Ukrainian attacks.

Bring Back Crappy Forums.

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I’ve been seeing a lot of doofs lately claiming that some study proves the Dunning-Kruger Effect isn’t real.

Just as with generational differences, of course it’s real. It’s just not easy to capture in your little science spreadsheets. There is a difference.

School smartphone bans seen as โ€˜punitiveโ€™ by young people, study says.

Gabe Newell: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. Itโ€™s a service issue" โ€” Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken.

RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply.

We Were Way Off About How Many Insect Species Live on Earth.

US renewable boom passes key milestone in April.

Is America becoming a gerontocracy?

The AI boom and geopolitics are rewiring Asiaโ€™s oceans.

Donald Trump is kicking out Chinese firms and keeping their tech.

Some 60-year-old Americans canโ€™t retire because they still have student loan debt.

Trump cut off support for Ukrainian defense. It didnโ€™t work out for Russia.

NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon.

Gripen E Fighters Officially Ordered By Ukraine.

Chinaโ€™s Truck-Mounted Electromagnetic Aircraft Catapult Seen In Action For The First Time.

Where Are The Aircraft Carriers: June 29, 2026.

Dis Respect Dat Respect

(1) matargashti-pilled ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ on X: "I'm so tired of lateness being viewed as a moral failing. I've been shamed for it my whole life because it's framed as "disrespect" (and no, it hasn't helped me be more punctual) and if I lost out on a major life opportunity because of it I don't think I could have ever recovered" / X

Fuck this clown-ass nonsense.

Being consistently late is a moral failing and it is disrespectful. You are implicitly telling me that your time is more valuable than mine. One of the reasons I am almost never late is that I do not presume to believe my time is more valuable than anyone else’s. And I am one arrogant mofo so if I value your time just as much as my own, you can show me that courtesy as well.

I just stop dealing with people who are consistently late. It is literally not worth my time.

Ukraineโ€™s vibe shift is bad news for Russiaโ€™s economy.

Crimeaโ€™s big cities in total blackout after Ukrainian drone strikes.

NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission.

NASAโ€™s X-59 โ€œfrankenjetโ€ tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom.

Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence. Ugh.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage.

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease โ€˜ RAMageddonโ€™.

Stubborn 6.5% mortgage rates cause stunning housing market change. High mortgage payments and elevated home prices fuel a massive generational shift.

Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero crackdown.

Then, you have the moderates. They often distinguish themselves by insisting on "statistics" and hard facts and refusing to accept common sense arguments and "what is before their eyes". The "just anecdotes" dismissal treats empirical observations as epistemically worthless unless accompanied by a regression table.

Is political polarization dangerous? Study provides clearer answers.

The Politics of Cooling.

Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined.

The AI jobs debate just got messier.

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Why, Microsoft. Why must you be like this. Who hurt you.

Why, Microsoft. Why must you be like this. Who hurt you. : sysadmin

The thing is, though Graph is terrible, I am sure its replacement will be far worse.

Graph is very developer-y in that is extremely, absurdly verbose and also ridiculously complex. I’ve had similar experiences to the above. What used to be single-line commands are now 30-50 lines.

I was forced by MSOL deprecation to rewrite a Powershell script that I used rather commonly. It was around 100 lines long. It’s now 2,000 lines of Graph slop. And it’s not even as functional as the old one as actual capabilities were removed.

I do not understand why insane complexity is so appealing to dev types and I guess I never will.

It’s a Pathy Alright

(1) Natalia Antonova ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@NataliaAntonova) / X

I saw someone who was worried that people didn’t have enough empathy for Decarlos Brown after he brutally murdered Iryna Zarutska. I mean, idiot leftists are gonna idiot leftist. But still. That’s the kind of evil that’s hard to even think about.

Decarlos Brown deserves one thing, and that is to be executed humanely, quietly, but quickly. That’s all. It won’t bring Iryna back. But it’ll mean there are no future Irynas.

These people talk about “empathy” when they just want chaos and destruction.