US Added Nearly A Million Fewer Jobs Than Reported.
Here’s what happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood.
The U.S. economy actually grew by nearly a million fewer jobs than previously thought, and it shows ‘AI is automating away tech jobs,’ economist says. They were denying it for a long time, but of course it’s happening.
New SNAP rules could result in 2.4 million people losing benefits each month.
What.
I'm sorry, what. https://t.co/PWGz4xCBdt
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 9, 2025
Luckily he’s weak af. Look at those skinny-ass arms. He’s never seen the inside of a gym in his life. Which was a good thing for her.
Some people you should just be able to execute, though.
People incorrectly claim the degrowther movement has no political influence. In reality, though, degrowthers are everywhere. Most people in fact now are degrowth. We’ve collectively given up any vision of progress, of improvement, of collective organization to achieve societal benefits. It’s not the left or the right alone. Both sides are about making life worse in their own dipshitty ways.
If your energy use over time doesn’t look like China’s, you’re fucking up (and the US’s is about as depressing as the EU’s.):
Degrowthers are making everything worse. We should be building so much and burning up so much energy that the sun’s like, “Damn.” But no chance of that anytime soon as clowns are in charge of the circus.
How to make metals from Martian dirt.
How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe.
Shine dulls. Elegance changes shape and fades away. My mother dies and takes her hopes with her.
Paging FDR: Democrats need to embrace New Deal-style politics. I’ve said this since Obama’s first term.
How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight.
On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter).
IT Unemployment Fell in August. But the Tech Jobs Market Is Still Shrinking.
Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So. Mostly agreed. Her hired utter incompetents and it shows.
This is true. America will never go for transit without public safety. https://t.co/ZIGNVgRuK8
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) September 8, 2025
Indeed. This is the reason I avoid public transit. Too many crazies, too much chance of me having to do some shit I’d rather not have to do.
The answer is simple:
America is a much richer place! https://t.co/KKWbJ4CKBv pic.twitter.com/pEoX0lvzvZ
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) September 8, 2025
Basically. We’re now making ourselves poorer thanks to Trump et al., but Europe is remarkably poor compared to a lot of the US.
Doctor I trust more than RFK:
this is the number one story on Twitter right now and there are still people doing the “if you ever want to enforce the law on transit YOU’RE A FASCIST” routine. no one is going to take the bus if they’re afraid of getting stabbed on it pic.twitter.com/7w5nUWuRDy
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) September 8, 2025
Poor girl.
And the libs wonder why they don’t win. And that’s because they say shit like, “Batshit crazy vagrants should be able to kill and molest a few white women on mass transit for equity and justice! If you don’t want that, you’re a fucking fash!”
And then they lose lose lose. Shocking.
Are we on the verge of a depression?
Absolutely we are. It’s nearly inevitable at this point. It’ll be the first Trump depression. There may be a second one if Ivanka takes power after, which is what I suspect will occur.
I expect depression conditions to last 7-10 years.
Bro found his exact PR (275lb) with a good spot.
Wow. He’s just built different. I am way more muscular than that and I can’t put up 275 pounds.
I don’t really flat bench anymore as it’s hard on the wrists, but when I stopped I could do 200 pounds. I’m bigger and stronger overall now, so I think if I trained for a few weeks I could do 225. In the Army I did 250 a few times.
Crazy.
How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire.
In Every Tree, a Trillion Tiny Lives.
AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable.
Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes.
How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies. Evil, evil stuff.
The Unusual Asymmetry Of The C-17 Globemaster III.
The ‘Marry the House, Date the Rate’ Strategy Is Backfiring on 2025 Homebuyers. Highly risky strategy with a terrible downside.
The typical homeowner now has a net worth that’s 43 times greater than that of the average renter.
The myths that made Putin’s war.
Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy. I said this years ago.
China has clearly noted the fact that WW2 didn't end until the combined bombing offensive focused on and destroyed the Axis powers' oil supplies. The war was unwinnable for Germany and Japan from mid 1942 on the basis of industrial production, but both had sufficient raw… https://t.co/NArCV6fiQo
— Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer) September 5, 2025
We do seem to have just given up. Solar is far superior, though the desert isn’t lifeless. I agree that the priority should be solar, though, and put it in places that have the least long-term impact on humans.
Damn we are fucking up so bad.
Nope. That’s the elementary school reading of Nietzsche.
Now to what ol’ Friedrich was actually getting at. He was saying that all knowledge and progress is from a perspective, and furthermore was observing that with the loss of binding religion that had pervaded all culture, we’d need to create new horizons and values, of many different kinds, all instantiated by and for humans rather than handed down from some higher power or metaphysical authority.
In other words, we must become the god we killed; Nietzsche was not saying all hope of a shared future or futures was lost, but that now we were wholly in charge of creating any of that.
As I’ve said before, the philosopher Baby Queen understands Nietzsche better than most people who read him, including Nils Gilman.
The 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, ladies and gentlemen:
Back when cars were still cars!
What a classic. What a legend. I’d own one but don’t want to maintain a 1996 car.
What is Blueskyism? And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer.’ Agreed.
Americans are getting the economy they voted for.
The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously.
America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars.
Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes. Extremely bad for the economy and workers.
I worked at a company that used “predictive assessment tools” to secretly profile employees.
Navy Carrier-Based ‘Loyal Wingman’ Drone Development Suddenly Pushes Forward.
The Last Mainstream American Sedan Has Been Discontinued. Insanity.