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gonna play the heck out of GTA 6 simply because of its status as a cultural artefact: the final big game built before LLMs no-one will ever invest this much in a game again, no software will ever encode this quantity of hands-on human labour again. the last of the great pyramids

Canada will have the choice of buying or not buying a BYD vehicle, just as Mexico does in its free market. BYD is preparing to enter the Canadian market, with plans to open around 20 dealerships there later this year. Tesla will die the moment BYD enters the US market and Elon knows it.

"What if Mormonism wasn't made-up, and instead it was real? Do you think more people would become Mormon?"

@Kronykal Not true, infact it wasn't untill I started heavily smoking dabs every day (at 19 years old) that I was able to lock in on the 16 hour shifts and buy my first home, without weed numbing the physical pain and enabling me to work 90 hour weeks I'd still be renting

100%. Anyone under 25 shouldn’t touch it for the simple fact that if you become a habitual user you will stop progressing. In everything. No it’s not going to kill you. I know that. But it will sap your will to do anything to advance yourself as a person. The first 10 years after school are the most important in your career and you need to be motivated and busy if you want to be able to relax later on. Then you can smoke as much as you want.

@sharghzadeh 185k is still insanity, I paid 150k for a 4 bedroom house in 2025 let alone a crappy apartment..not worth

There is a housing crisis, and NYC is the most expensive city on earth, but you can also own an apartment 1 block from Central Park for $185,000.

Visiting my son on his break today… (He’s 17 and works approximately 30 hours a week making $18. an hour.) I just realized he makes more money, And pays more in taxes than his MAGA uncle does. His MAGA uncle works a seasonal job, Laid off 5 months out of the year collecting unemployment while receiving other benefits from the state like Medicaid and housing assistance. He’s also 52 years old. My son, a 17 year old liberal… Makes more money, pays more in taxes, and is less of a burden on society than a 52 year old MAGA male. Make this shit make sense.

In 1913, when America started taxing income, you owed nothing unless you made more than $3,000 a year. In today's money, that comes to about $100,000. Less than 1 in 100 Americans paid a thing, because the whole system was built for the rich. Then a war broke it. For the country's first 125 years, the federal government ran on tariffs and taxes on things like whiskey. In 1913, the constitution was changed to allow income tax. If you earned over $3,000, you owed 1%. The top rate was 7%, and only on income over $500,000, which is about $16.5 million today. Out of 97 million Americans, almost no one paid. Because only the rich paid, the rules were built around how rich people lived. They owned businesses. They had offices, employees, equipment, travel. So the law let them subtract those costs before tax. The phrase, then and now, is "ordinary and necessary" expenses. If it cost you money to make money, you only paid tax on the profit. For 30 years, that was the system. The rich paid and got to write off their business expenses. Everyone else paid nothing. Then WWII hit. A 1942 law gutted it. The tax-free amount was slashed to $1,200 for married couples and $500 for singles. A new "Victory Tax" took 5% of every dollar above $624. People paying income tax exploded from 7.7 million in 1939 to 36.7 million in 1942, to 50 million by 1945. The Treasury knew people would resist. So they hired Walt Disney. He made a cartoon where Donald Duck reluctantly does his taxes, then races across the country to hand-deliver them so they can fund the war effort. About 60 million Americans saw it. Tax filings doubled the next year. A sequel followed in 1943, the same year paycheck withholding became law. Your employer would now hand the tax to the government before you ever held it. When the system was rebuilt for workers, only the rules that taxed them changed. The rule letting businesses deduct stayed in place. There was never an "ordinary and necessary" rule for survival. Rent, groceries, healthcare, the bus you take to the job you're being taxed on, none of it deductible. Today, a single person in 2026 can earn $16,100 tax-free. The 1913 version, in real money, was about $100,000. The shield that once protected ordinary people has shrunk to a sixth of what it was. The tax code had one job: tax the wealthy on what was left after their expenses. WWII rewrote who had to pay. The right to deduct survived for businesses. For the rest of us, it was never written.

NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly. 1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting. No fertilizer. No crops. No food. Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025. 160,000 farms closed since 2017. Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year. They're not struggling. They're being wiped out. And the media is busy covering everything else. The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨

Is it not somewhat reasonable to feel like things are trending in a bad direction if your neighbors under 40 are doctors and lawyers and your neighbors over 50 are former teachers and truck drivers

This is one of the most important political projects of the next decade and I’m not even being ironic. Millenials and zoomers voting together can cast off the yoke of fully automated luxury boomer communism within the next 4 years.

Your 20s are for realizing that all your grandiose life plans pale in comparison to having people you really like being around

housing so affordable real estate speculators spent trillions to destroy the society that built it.

Kansas needs to follow in Missouri's foot steps and legalize bottle rockets, like why are they even illegal

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

Trump will lower quality fuel type with 15% ethanol (E15) vs the typical 10% in cars this summer. Ethanol has roughly 33% less energy content than pure gasoline. E15 thus delivers about 1.7–5% lower miles per gallon compared to standard E10 (10% ethanol) Promoted per-gallon savings (often cited as 10–30 cents) DOES NOT fully offset this efficiency loss, leaving drivers effectively PAYING MORE to travel the same distance. Ethanol is more corrosive and hygroscopic (absorbs water) than gasoline, which can degrade: Rubber seals, hoses, gaskets, and plastic components over time. Metal parts (rust/corrosion in fuel lines, tanks, and injectors). Carburetors and fuel systems in older vehicles. Diverting more corn to ethanol (already using a large share of the U.S. crop) reduces supply available for animal feed, livestock, and food products. This can raise costs for meat, dairy, eggs, and other groceries—effectively trading cheaper gas for more expensive food.

i accidentally discovered one of the coolest features on the internet the Wikipedia app has a "nearby" feature that shows wikipedia articles around your location! i opened it and instantly fell into a rabbit hole of random places, local history and weird things around me try it and tell me what shows up near you

HBO Max be like "you're streaming on too many devices!!!!!" like I don't have the easiest pirating alternative ever. Like ok man I tried to do it nice and legal and you still wanna fuck the consumer over, guess I'll steal your shit. Great job dude you're doing fantastic.

What these neo-nazi aligned freaks won't tell you is that the blanket property tax repeal is a trojan horse designed to decimate the public sector so that private entities can swoop in and take over. If that happens, say goodbye to personal liberty and financial stability.

Old school/outlaw country: •Fuck my boss •Fuck the police •I will resist the law until the day I die Modern country: •Let me lick your boots, sir •I love cops and injustice •Comply or die

i totally understand why my granddad used to walk around talking about how cheap everything used to be back in his day. cause now im that guy. beefy 5 layer burritos used to be 89 cents