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I’m a New Deal Democrat doesn't bite but may hold forth about trains, politics, or computers consider yourself warned! Somerville, MA

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definitely snow and ice that seem more difficult than rain to me

06.03.2026 22:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think they’re pretty good at avoiding collisions in general but I kinda wonder whether they will be too passive to get anywhere at any reasonable speed.

06.03.2026 21:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

similar to AI, autonomous vehicles are a technology whose impacts I worry about because it works so well rather than because it doesn’t. has the potential to induce a lot of demand for taxi service.

06.03.2026 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At long last the GOP has achieved its true form: the party of Spiro Agnew

06.03.2026 21:31 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

I wonder if they’ll just suspend service when it snows.

06.03.2026 21:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I for one am interested to see how they fare. They seem to work pretty well in SF but they don’t really have weather like we do, I think that’s the biggest difference.

06.03.2026 21:37 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

I think most likely is that they have employees on both sides of this argument who are fiercely passionate and maintaining strategic ambiguity helps retention in an ultra-competitive labor market.

06.03.2026 20:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 18:03 👍 1408 🔁 262 💬 9 📌 5
"you best start believing in catastrophic energy shocks - you're in one"

"you best start believing in catastrophic energy shocks - you're in one"

06.03.2026 20:19 👍 409 🔁 46 💬 10 📌 3

i think that he is not a Nazi. his explicit explanation for why he kept re-upping to go to Iraq is that he likes killing people. Nazis are world champions in killing. therefore Nazi symbol, which he regards as not an endorsement of Nazism but homicide.

this is not better!

06.03.2026 19:43 👍 95 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

this is fucking nonsense. we know this because he got a second tattoo after getting the first and left the tattoo parlor with all his teeth. i am not willing to believe that a history buff didn't know what it is but it really strains credulity that a tattoo artist didn't.

06.03.2026 19:37 👍 232 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 1

Layla scorn best scorn tbh

06.03.2026 19:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Merz Warns of Economic Damage Due to ‘Endless’ War Against Iran German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the US and Israel against waging an “endless war” against Iran that could lead to the disintegration of the whole Middle Eastern state, a new migration crisis i...

Chancellor of the world's premier Do Nothing State which is the de facto leader of the Do Nothing Continent is now upset that Doing Nothing has enabled the US and Israel to do whatever they please to whoever they please

06.03.2026 19:56 👍 241 🔁 57 💬 11 📌 4

feel like CalDigit is the only company that gets this right and their shit is expensive. I do love my TS4 though.

06.03.2026 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

IRAN HAS NOT CLOSED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ BUT SHIPS LINKED TO ISRAEL OR US CANNOT PASS - SENIOR MILITARY SPOKESMAN

06.03.2026 19:55 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

Incredible to watch Hegseth just faceplanting into the Absolute Destruction acceleration of violence with his whole face.

Utterly convinced that you lose wars if you don't war crimes hard enough and entirely unprepared for any other theory of victory or success.

06.03.2026 15:44 👍 317 🔁 33 💬 15 📌 0

OH: "I turned off news alerts because alerts are only useful if they're actionable"

06.03.2026 03:47 👍 60 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 1
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Plan Seeking NH Income Tax To Fund Schools, Lower Property Taxes Spawns ‘Death Threat’ Shortly after Andru Volinsky announced the plan Tuesday, the Libertarian Party NH posted on X, formerly Twitter, "Governor candidate Andru Volinsky is threatening the forced conscription of millions o...

#NHPolitics So on brand for this libertarian hellscape.

indepthnh.org/2026/03/03/p...

05.03.2026 22:07 👍 1000 🔁 284 💬 114 📌 25
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im not sure how its possible but every new rendering from the administration of the ballroom is bigger and uglier than the last. the latest one looks like the stapled a goddamn amazon fulfillment center onto the white house.

06.03.2026 03:17 👍 749 🔁 115 💬 59 📌 58

Trying to imagine Jake Tapper’s reaction if Biden had been asked if we should expect terror attacks in the U.S. as a result of the Afghanistan withdrawal and Biden had responded “I guess”

06.03.2026 13:35 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

06.03.2026 16:49 👍 2378 🔁 393 💬 115 📌 36
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

06.03.2026 16:11 👍 3265 🔁 688 💬 42 📌 46

The Dishonourable Artillery Company sounds like a Guy Ritchie film

06.03.2026 17:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sage advice

06.03.2026 16:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well that's what you get for trying to argue with grandpa.

Also I once said old people try to argue with reality and people on here said I was ableist

06.03.2026 16:12 👍 145 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 1

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

02.03.2026 14:43 👍 5841 🔁 1298 💬 53 📌 39

If China bombed a school on a military base in Honolulu and assassinated the president and major Republicans *and also* Schumer, Harris, Sanders, AOC, etc. in the name of No Kings, how exactly do you think that would affect the liberal opposition in America?

05.03.2026 23:10 👍 547 🔁 80 💬 6 📌 3