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Also also pollution from cars tends to dampen blue and violet and enhance red, and when you’re at a grocery store you’re surrounded by vehicles

“Oil prices extended gains” after a Khamenei speech

CNBC with an absolutely deranged way to talk about oil prices spiking due to war

this is the story of so many technologies and certainly almost every technology that centers itself around knowledge work. that's because the technology isn't built/marketed/implemented with the workers in mind, it is for the bosses, who implement it in order to extract more out of people

I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver. The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time. He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. “We just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said. I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me. Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly. “There are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. “The only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.” “Is it too late for me?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he said.

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

Famous tweet: reading Mein Kampf and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with it

This, but bombing children

Drafted him in the 13th rd of a keeper league last year and he wasted away on my bench with me hoping he’d get an opportunity for 10-15 touches in 2026

And this is not to romanticize manual labor, which by nature will always be at least somewhat difficult. That doesn’t mean it may not be necessary though!

(I also don’t think the point of life is to never do anything difficult, but that’s for another thread)

In a world of climate change, water shortages, topsoil depletion, war, and possibly more pandemics, it may not be a great idea to outsource the actual work of keeping ourselves alive to tech overlords OR an exploited migrant class, which may mean more people working ag/food system jobs

Growing/hunting/gathering food or making clothes CAN be both fun and rewarding if done in a community that shares the load

It’s nearly impossible in modern capitalism and especially in America to do this. That doesn’t mean those things are de facto bad

Europeans and Americans committed genocide around the world

That’s as big a reason for the lack of subsistence farming today as people not wanting to farm

The responses also seem ignorant of how many of our ancestors lived & how hunter-gatherers or semi-sedentary peoples lived and still lived

For every person who rushed off a farm to a city to get away from the work, there’s one who was forced off the land by violence or political/economic forces

This person and the OP that’s quoted are getting dragged, and I’m not even saying I agree with everything they say, but

1. Modern ag is destroying the planet and
2. We shouldn’t uncritically adopt every tech “advancement” are both obviously true

No worries, Kash Patel’s FBI is on the case!

Nah this is just more government payments to corn farmers by changing the gas blend

Ohio school board member resigns following our questions about his social media posts denying the Holocaust Social media posts reviewed by The Buckeye Flame show a now-former Little Miami board member denying the Holocaust and supporting Hitler before voting to remove anti-hate poster.

Holy fuck. Endorsed Republican school board member who led charge against “No Hate” poster in classroom is a HUGE hater. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/11/d...

Yeah the thing about “America First” is that launching a war of aggression to steal another country’s resources is logically consistent with it

ODOT officials say they understand the concerns and are trying to minimize the impact on residents. "There's not a way to do any project at ODOT that doesn't impact somebody," said ODOT spokesperson Matt Bruning. "It doesn't matter if it's a culvert replacement, repaving, or a brand-new highway. Every project ODOT does has some level of impact and inconvenience."

Yes Matt, using the power of government to force someone to give you their land is just like repaving an existing road🙄

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I’d credit the sex but ymmv

Listen dummies, anytime you have the chance to pass for second place a guy who is 15th in value over replacement, 18th in points/game, 21st in win shares, 32 in player efficiency rating, 33rd in box plus-minus, and 67th in win shares/48 minutes

You simply have to not do it out of respect

If she fits, she sits

Stunning level of contempt from a government bureaucrat for the residents of the state

ODOT officials say they understand the concerns and are trying to minimize the impact on residents. "There's not a way to do any project at ODOT that doesn't impact somebody," said ODOT spokesperson Matt Bruning. "It doesn't matter if it's a culvert replacement, repaving, or a brand-new highway. Every project ODOT does has some level of impact and inconvenience."

Yes Matt, using the power of government to force someone to give you their land is just like repaving an existing road🙄

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I feel like puppy yoga at this point is just propping up the worst puppy mills around, because where are you getting this steady stream of purebred dogs?

So snake yoga may be a better alternative

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Relatedly, from what I can tell you’re not on here a ton, but there’s an interesting discussion you may want to build on (or not, since it’s the same argument that’s been going for years!) bsky.app/profile/ips-...

This bad joke brought to you by global warming

You know what they say: March showers bring April flowers

62 WITH A QUARTER TO GO

Sure why not, it’s not like we’re already spending billions of general fund dollars bailing out the highway trust fund. Crank up those subsidies for car juice!

Obviously George