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US: We want a $15k electric car like you can get in China. GM: Here is a $30k gasoline car that will act like a personal assistant and spouse. US: How are we supposed to afford it? GM: It will pick up your groceries giving you time for that second job.

New. What those who find learning easiest can learn from those who find it hardest. I worked hard on this. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/w...

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge is up there with Snow Crash as a book that tech billionaires shouldn't read. Leave the Torment Nexus alone.

Hey look! More socialism for corporations. michiganadvance.com/2026/10/12/w...

@catalystgamelabs.bsky.social, 35 years and you can claim back copyright rights no matter what the contract states. Could this be a path forward for #battletech? Imagine having one holder for the entire IP!

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

Watching the original Jurassic Park with the kids. For a movie made in 1993 it holds up really well! Kids were on edge during the T-Rex scene.

"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite" "Magnifica Humanitas."

One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.

I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.

Cost of car rental at airport: $320 ($230 + $90 airport fees and taxes Cost of car rental from the local non-airport location of the same company. $320 ($290 rental +$30 taxes) Corporations suck.

Of all the weird recurring motifs of the stories people tell me about the AI labor wars, the *weirdest* is when bosses demand to be reassured that their contractors and workers will *absolutely* use AI to get the job done.

Another example of our vacuum up economy: I've been getting ads saying you should pay your rent with a credit card. People don't have enough money for purchases, so they are targeting people's largest necessary expense. They get 3% immediately and can trap people with interest payments.

They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/

This thread is a love letter to Battletech by so many in the community. The best fandom in gaming!

Don't reserve a room at @wyndhamhotels.bsky.social. They overbooked and didn't have a anything for my family. No warning! Refunding my credit card had a two day wait. I had to rebook at another hotel for three times the price. Never trust a booking at a Wyndham Hotel. Corporate enshittification.

Cleaning up and found old model kits I did 35 years ago. Members of my Golden Serpents #Battletecherc Company. Now only salvage, hopefully the Shadow Hawk pilot ejected okay!

Vance says the midterms are big because Republicans are one SCOTUS seat from ending birthright citizenship

This should have happened under the Biden administration. But leave it to Biden and centrist Dems to do nothing about a popular policy and let Trump make it his issue.

One will protect the city while the other tries to burn it down. An Urbanmech and Firestarter from the #Battletech Gothic set.

My Yeahs? Yeah yeah

I'm scared to see what Superman's values will be after Warner Brothers/DC is taken over by Paramount and Ellison. It will break my heart to have him turned MAGA.

1990's comic book hype worked on high school me. Not only did I buy all four covers of X-Men #1 along with the gatefold cover, but I got two of each! And look at the fantastic @jimlee.bsky.social art! #Marvel #XMen

See green! Post green! #Battletech #Davion #miniatures

If I want to UPGRADE my Xfinity internet to spend more money, it takes a couple of clicks online. But if I want to CANCEL, I need to go to the store or wait for a callback in two days. Tell me again how immigrants and trans people are making my life worse and ruining America...

Did anyone order a bunch of autocannons? AFFS... Davion? I'm looking at you. #Battletech

Probably because he didn't get enough sleep.

Updating my LEGO White House

If Trump is moving appropriated money around to pay the military, how come he doesn't just do the same for air traffic controllers or to keep parks open? The GOP Congress has handed him the power of the purse. There is nothing stopping him from unilaterally ending the shutdown.

@legaleagle.tv, after YouTube capitulated and gave Trump $24 million to settle his lawsuit, I'm subscribing to @nebula.tv!

Congressional democrats talking about rising healthcare costs feels like someone pointing out that the faucet is leaking while the house is on fire.

Trump's silence on the politically motivated murder of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman signaled approval for political assassinations. Renaming the Department of Defence to the Department of War further shows how he condones violence. He is the cause of Kirk's death.

name a non-LOTR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring

Add Gamespot to the list of small niche publications fighting fascism.

@hntdove.bsky.social, are you up for this?

Inspired a joke to share with MAGA: "How are Jesus Christ and Epstein alike?" "They both died for Trump's sins."

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Every time I turn the page to find the splash title in black and white for Absolute Wonder Woman it is jarring and hits hard. Such a fantastic effect. Great work by @kellythompson.bsky.social and @mattiadeiulis.bsky.social !