I am not seeing why the massive fee here is being seen as a reason for impeachment, maybe someone can explain?
Sounds to me like the fee goes to the treasury department, so it’s not like Trump is getting this money. Maybe I am misunderstanding this?
Great article. The rise of sports betting and other gambling has been hard to watch as someone on the outside who doesn’t have an interest in gambling.
I think one side of the story that this article didn’t touch on that separates modern gambling such as Polymarket from the life insurance gambling of old is the participation of youth gamblers in today’s market. I think for me and many others it is especially alarming to imagine that children are the ones gambling on whether people will die. And I think that the normalization of children in betting sits in its own context of rising “loot crate” schemes in video games (not that it is completely normalized for children to gamble yet, but it is gradually becoming so).
Pretty soon you’ll be hearing folks say things like “why are you worried if you don’t have anything to hide” as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It’s a slippery slope!!!
I’m not sure I would call the particular missile the article is referring to “retaliatory” since afaik Turkey has not attacked Iran.
The article makes no mention of homelessness and thus I find the title disingenuous/misleading.
It’s a good article though. I think the community would be better served with a title about how this study shows that we would be better off removing parking requirements from building codes.
I had to go and listen to this song because of how outrageous I thought this interpretation was… But it’s real!!!
From Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss: I want to rock and roll all niiiite, and part of ev-er-y day!
My childhood best friend absolutely loved this song and sang it out loud ALL the time with these incorrect lyrics, I was totally convinced and would sing along with him. My mom thought it was HILARIOUS and so she never told us lol 😆
(The correct lyrics are and party ev-er-y day)
Ironic that Pakistan provided so much funding to the Taliban over the years only to one day see themselves fighting the Taliban. A familiar story…
Sounds like there will be more to come in this conflict. I really don’t see what Pakistani leadership hopes to solve long term by repeating mistakes of other countries (carrying out imprecise strikes with complete disregard for collateral damage) which led to intractable conflict rather than solutions in Afghanistan in the past.
Ah, the ultimate insult in 2026: accusing someone of behaving like an LLM. In hindsight my original comment probably had less value than the average LLM comment would smh 🤦
It is also the most serious contributor to acid rain.
https://www.gem.wiki/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal
The EPA estimates that more than 65%, or over 13 million tons per year, of SO2 production in the U.S. comes from electric utilities, 93 percent of which is produced by coal power plants.
“Miners with black lung disease, meanwhile, have had to the Trump administration’s move to roll back safety protections for the coal industry…”
From OSMRE website:
Each year, OSMRE transfers more than $1 billion to the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds to support health care and pension benefits for eligible coal miners and their beneficiaries.
The US spends billions every year subsidizing coal and paying for the toll it takes on coal workers’ health. And yet, the MAGA folks I know seem to be more supportive of coal than they were 5 years ago. Like a lot more.
I don’t get how this plays in MAGA favor when the coal miners themselves are getting shafted and when coal energy represents a complete and total grift - exactly the same type of stuff that had these same folks so excited about Trump and Musk cutting government programs. Any argument for coal falls apart immediately because natural gas is better in almost every way.
Why are these “coalfare kings” getting away with it?
I understand the downvotes on my comment, I guess it was in poor taste, not every joke is a good joke. I am however genuinely confused by the intent behind your reply.
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One point is that the Parker and Cross type of refills completely replaces the writing head and so by one view it is not really “BIFL” since so much of the unit has to be refreshed (and so not as environmentally friendly) compared to a fountain pen. That being said, for some people the risk of ink all over your hands is not worth or even entirely precludes using a fountain pen, or there may be other circumstances.
For example, at my workplace there is only one approved type of pen that can be used 😢