This is a thread for comments on how to prepare for bad times. All off-topic comments will be deleted. The thread will be re-upped occasionally so that resources can build over time. (I’m going to bring this back to the top at least once a month, maybe more, so people can read the old advice […]
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Complaints about civilians killed or injured in the U.S. attack on Venezuela are instead being handled by the Pentagon directly.
The post U.S. Military Command That Attacked Venezuela Gutted Its Civilian Harm Team appeared first on The Intercept.
As is well-known, New Classical economists have never accepted Keynes’s distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment. According to New Classical über-economist Robert Lucas, an unemployed worker can always instantaneously find some job. No matter how miserable the work options are, “one can always choose to accept them,” in Lucas’s view. This is, of course, only […]
Understanding the intuitive power of the word ‘natural’ could help inform choices about what to eat or what to do when ill
- by Brian Meier
As deadly riots burn Iranian cities, Western media ignores the shocking wave of violence, turning instead to US government-funded NGOs for data. The one-sided portrayal has helped push Trump to the brink of authorizing renewed US attacks. Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across Iran by protesters described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “largely peaceful.” Recent videos published both by Iranian state media and anti-government forces reveal public lynchings […]
The post Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs appeared first on The Grayzone.
The profile picture for the Facebook account linked to the GoFundMe campaign used what the ADL has called white supremacist imagery.
The post Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to Jonathan Ross GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image appeared first on The Intercept.
This is another case of Trump doing the right thing in theory. From Matt Stoller: Trump also issued an executive order to ban buybacks, dividends, and cap executive compensation for defense contractors. The rumor is that DOD deputy secretary Steve Feinberg complained about the unwillingness of the contractors to do competent work. Feinberg is a […]
Australia’s most popular party (allegedly), One Nation, has called for a nation wide ban on writer’s festivals, claiming that they discriminate against those voters who are unable to read or write. ”I’ve had a bloody gutful of these so-called writers... Read More ›
The Massachusetts senator could belatedly become what she always should have been.
Space is cold and has abundant solar energy — the very things data centers need. Experts tell us it’s not that simple.
The post Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space? appeared first on The Intercept.
Alongside the mounting pile of elaborate theoretical models we see a fast-growing stock of equally intricate statistical tools … [M]ost modeltesting kits described in professional journals are internally consistent. However, like the economic models they are supposed to implement, the validity of these statistical tools depends itself on the acceptance of certain convenient assumptions pertaining […]
Tennessee regulators just sent cease-and-desist letters to online prediction markets including Kalshi and Polymarket.
Coconspirators in an infamous Ohio corruption scandal are asking the Supreme Court to reconsider anti-bribery law and overturn their convictions.
For the last year or so, left-leaning UK voters have been subjected to the looming nightmare that Reform – a bunch of xenophobes and welfare-state-slashers – might form the next government. There has been very little silver lining to this. The one bit of schadenfreude to be gleaned is the impending annihilation of the Conservatives […]
Destructive and beautiful all at once – an artist on the spectrum captures the ‘souls’ of machines from an Alaskan cabin
- Directed by Leonard Kamerling
Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world
- by Dominic Pettman
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January 12th, 2026: This comic wa I have closely followed the progress of India’s – Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) – since its inception on September 7, 2005. The scheme has been a major success in reducing rural poverty and providing income security to poor rural communities in India. It has also reduced the so-called ‘desperation migration’ from…
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