This piece is excellent because it made me not only think, but feel disturbed and a little fearful. "The philosophical difficulty begins when equality asks us to relinquish an advantage we had mistaken for normal." Together Is Cheap Until Somebody Has to Give Up Something | by Malik Shakur | […]

Why aren't firing squads composed of the most senior members of the military? Is the responsibility and work beneath them? Do they want to avoid what they have decided must happen? Why isn't it the judge who gives a sentence of death who must do the execution? The separation between those who […]

Soulless techbros. Insufferable pieces of shit.

"Bacteria can be dangerous! Use soap and cleaning products! -- recent news stories: dangerous bacteria found in cleaning products and soap. "Eat salmon to avoid heart disease!" --news story: salmon have heart disease This effing timeline, man. Hoo boy. Heart disease found in 5 of 7 open-net […]

Anyone know what's up with strangers randomly knocking on the door and asking if our car's for sale? It happens every few months and I can't figure out what the scam is.

It is pure madness that we build appliances intended to be sent to the landfill. Refrigerators are almost entirely disposable. Leaks in refrigerant coils embedded in foam insulation are not repairable. Older designs were better but in general, refrigerators haven't had a lot of design love with […]

I have posted in the past on repairability and repair-hostile appliance design practices. Let's integrate a couple of lines of thought: Firstly, our planet's resources are finite. Secondly, we're in late-stage exploitation capitalism. Thirdly, we have a mature ecosystem of open source […]

Russia also needs diesel fuel. The only reason they are sending any to the US, is because Putin wants the US to be angry when Ukraine targets refineries. And Russia will only send token amounts, highly credited to Donald Trump, then blame the low quantity on Ukraine, to try and drive Trump […]

Status: examining my own soul deeply trying to understand how I can feel sick and horny at the same time.

I have mixed feelings about these cold war relics. On the one hand, they're artifacts of what was perhaps humanity's most dangerous folly to date, locking the world in a deadly game where the stakes only went up with each round. This doesn't seem like something to commemorate or celebrate. On […]

I'm not stealing Amazon packages, I'm working at an Amazon warehouse... from home.

Elon Musk, whose political operation has spent $31 million on the 2026 US midterms, is openly backing Trump’s demand to replace Zelenskyy. The demand echoes the Kremlin’s longstanding pressure for wartime elections in Ukraine, which are prohibited by the constitution under martial law.

I wonder how many people who read Blackle's I Found Evidence of My House Spinning went on to discover "Horse Autopsy with Lizzie McGuire Iceberg Explained" which is an unfiction video featuring the same character. That video is possibly my favorite piece of unfiction cus it has such a bizarre […]