Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral.
50 years of The Oregon Trail: The hidden controversies of a video game that defined the US.
How false claims that the Madison school shooter was transgender spread online. People are wicked dumb.
Low-income Americans are struggling. It could get worse.
Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich. The plutes want their slaves in their “proper” place.
Biden makes a last big push to keep Trump from killing the electric car. Very good.
Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature.
The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military.
“We will just line the bodies up and let their relatives pick them out,” he said. From 1940.
G.M. Led in China for Years. Here’s How It Ended Up 16th in Sales.
Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals.
Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Have a Jury Problem: ‘So Much Sympathy.’
Climate Change Is Stealing Weeks of Winter, Unnerving Ski Area Owners.
Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids. Let Luigi out; he has some business to take care of.
As Putin presses his hybrid war, Europe presses the ‘snooze’ button. And we’ll be bailing these fuckers out.
What We Have Here Is a Rudderless Ship. Thoughts on the Democratic post-election drift.
The Movement to Free Schools of Smartphones Is Winning. Smartphones should probably be only used by those 18+.
FTC announces final rule banning junk fees on tickets and hotels. Thank you, Lina!
He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words – basic ones. Like his brain was buffering. AI rot happening to humans.
Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners as Climate Shocks Worsen.
The China Shock Behind the Honda-Nissan Merger Talks.
U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes.
Is your air fryer spying on you? It’s time to stop buying unnecessary ‘smart’ devices. Only a dumbass buys a smart device.
My sister needed the right wheelchair to survive. Insurance refused it till the end.
Ukrainian troops say inexperienced North Koreans are making easy targets. Most Russians in theater are volunteers; all North Koreans are conscripts.
Trump will destroy the government agencies that most help working people. Well, that’s the goal, right?
The Push for Puberty Blockers Got Ahead of the Research.
LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced). Contra what you’ve heard, big companies love excessive regulation as only they can afford to comply with it. Thus, consolidation and monopoly is promoted.
Prices Won’t Stop Falling in China, and Beijing Is Grasping for Solutions.
Europe Has Choice of Doing Hard Work or Facing Next to No Growth.
Russia to prepare for war with NATO.
Germany Is Unraveling Just When Europe Needs It Most.
China Launches Hypersonic Test Planes From Drones, Balloons.
The Bitter Aftertaste of “Technical Sweetness.”
In 1999, the end was coming for newspapers. But few were looking for the signs.
Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Taiwan Targeted, Scenarios Swirling.
Instead of a christmas bonus thus year, i got to train my replacement in India. And another (next) Trump voter was minted.
Housing Bubble & Bust #1 and #2 as Seen through Employment in Mortgage Lending.
For a new generation of kids, sports and gambling now go hand in glove. Not great.
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood.
Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans.
How everything became surgery.
Russian guided bomb attacks fall sharply after ATACMS, Storm Shadow strikes, analysts say.
You are being monitored for any discussion on UHC.
A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work.
Taking stock of spaceflight one-quarter of the way through the 2000s.
Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses. Ugh. The “financial losses” are artificially imposed.
Woman behind infamous Duke lacrosse rape accusations admits she lied.
So guess what new requirement has come down from upper management. Plutes are really, really afraid now. Good.
Brush With Russia in Baltic Points to New Flashpoint in NATO-Moscow Shadow War.
When Neanderthals interbred with ancient humans: Research clarifies timeline of human evolution.
Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires.
Your Home-Insurance Bill Has Only One Way to Go: Up.
How an 836-pound ‘cursed’ emerald traveled the Americas, ruining lives and bankrupting men.
Republicans take aim at subsidies that help tens of millions of women.
The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space.
Why does McKinsey still get hired?
The Media’s Bizarre Treatment of the Mangione Case.
Wholesale prices rose 0.4% in November, more than expected.
Perfect Storm: The Rising Risk of China-US Conflict Over Taiwan.
Army’s Dark Eagle Hypersonic Missile Finally Blasts Out Of Its Launcher.
Platforms need the news — but they’re killing it.
The Egg. A story of extraction, exploitation and opportunity.
AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water. More Everything.
Doctors Say Dealing With Health Insurers Is Only Getting Worse.
Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths.
We all took the DVD boom era for granted.
Wall Street Is Betting Billions on Rental Homes as Ownership Slips Out of Reach.
Photobucket Sued Over Plans To Sell User Photos, Biometric Identifiers To AI Companies.
Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated.
Americans spend more time living with diseases than rest of world, study shows.
How have you or someone you know suffered under the US healthcare system?
Sweden Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Ebba Busch stated today that “she’s furious with Germany” for dismantling its nuclear power plants, causing a spike in energy prices in Sweden. One of the stupidest fucking moves by any country in history.
Healthcare stocks fall as lawmakers push for bill to break up drug middlemen.
Greece’s ghost towns offer a glimpse of a country struggling with ‘existential’ population collapse.
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research. And they’ll also claim that it wasn’t a lab leak when this gets out into the wild.
What a Bloomingdale’s Lingerie Catalog Taught Me. Good story. So weird how so much of the left attempted to ban being attracted to people. Like, what?
Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History.
Albertsons Backs Out of Merger Deal and Sues Kroger After Court Rulings.
The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with.’
Casino shocked, SHOCKED that gambling addict lost $30M after they bombarded him with texts.
Non-Infringing Sites As Collateral Damage In Music Industry’s War On Stream Ripping Sites.
Insiders Tell How IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers Over US Employees. Clownish libs told me this never happens, when it is in fact the common case.
Inside Ukraine’s Battle for the Skies as Russian Bombardments Hit Records.
Ukraine’s Drone Boats Are Now Shooting Machine Guns At Russian Helicopters, Boats.
Thompson’s murder is one symptom of the American appetite for violence; his line of work is another. Damn that’s a good sentence.
Wall Street’s complex debt bonanza hits fastest pace since 2007.
How Elon Musk backed away from his climate crusade. It’s denied now, but I remember when Musk used to be pretty firmly on the left.
Could Trump end birthright citizenship? Probably not, legal scholars say.
The Shooting That Was Inevitable.
What Doctors Like Me Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger.
My daughter could have died. I blame US insurance companies.
Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out.
2 million mph galaxy smash-up seen in unprecedented detail.
Misinformation fuels outrage—which in turn leads to mindless social-media shares, a new study finds.
From ‘Great Resignation’ to ‘Great Detachment’: How the U.S. job market has slowed.
The Overlooked Trend in China’s Military Violations of Taiwan’s ADIZ.
Obesity rates are down. Is that because of weight-loss drugs?
China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort.
From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying.
Restaurants are turning into vending machines with chairs.
Careful with the Unitedhealthcare posts and the suppression of them.
Forcing Ukraine to cede land will only increase Putin’s imperial appetite.
Privatized America. A shadow drops over the shared ownership economy.
Vitriol following insurance executive’s slaying not a surprise, Ro Khanna says.
From Brussels to Warsaw, Troubled Europe Reckons with Trump — and Itself.
Lower-cost sodium-ion batteries are finally having their moment.
Why top internet sleuths say they won’t help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer.
The Rich Can Afford Personal Care. The Rest Will Have to Make Do With AI.
Why housing shortages cause homelessness.
Democrats need to wake up and build real solutions to California’s affordability crisis.
A company that turned homeowners into renters abruptly shuts down. We can still assassinate that ex-CEO too.
Election confidence among Republicans surges after Trump’s win, a new poll finds. Dumbasses.
This little electric car made history. 25 years ago, GM stopped making it.
UnitedHealth Backlash Signals Possible Shift in Washington and on Wall Street.
Never Before Have So Many Sailors Been Abandoned at Sea.
Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect.
A Sex Trafficking Law Made My Job as a Sex Worker More Dangerous.
The Is The New ‘Counter-Drone Strategy’ Just Unveiled By Pentagon.
Final MiG-21 Fishbeds Stand Down From Active Duty In Europe.
Execs’ Names Wiped From Other Insurer Sites After CEO’s Murder.
After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance.
Lizards and snakes are 35 million years older than we thought.