'The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.'
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I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.
It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.
I also paid $155 in sales tax.
Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.
To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.
So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).
52% went to the government in taxes.
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🚨: NASA released a new Mars image showing real clouds 250 million miles away. These include rare iridescent clouds seen for the first time on another planet.
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The latest print of the Casey’s Pizza Inflation Index (CPI) is in.
2020: $2.50
2021: $2.69
2022: $2.99
2023: $3.29
2024: $3.29
2025: $3.39
2026: $3.49
YoY: +2.9%
Since inception: +39.6% (+5.7% annualized)
Purchasing power of $100 in slices: 40 (in 2020) → 28
Independent gas station pizza research you can trust.
About 2.5 billion years ago, tiny organisms began making oxygen. It reacted with iron dissolved in the oceans and left red and gray bands in the rock, called banded iron formations. The air we breathe has an old story written in stone.
176 posts start with "This is f*cking insane" and mention Grok Bot, from 90 different accounts, between Oct 4 and today. Together they got about 5.17 million views. Another 24 contained the phrase but didn't start with it, so I left them out.
Volume: it was a trickle until Oct 22, then jumped to 12 posts on Oct 23, 22 on Oct 25, and 27 on Oct 29. There are 14 so far today.
Same template: many are near-copies, such as repeated "SpaceXAI engineer Lauren Tan: '99% of people…'" quotes and "19-year-old made $6,420 in 11 seconds" stories.
Find the Middle Way.
The Jedi actually deserved to go extinct. Their entire ideology is inherently antithetical to life itself.
You’re not allowed to have attachments, show emotion, love anyone, be passionate about anything, or embody really any of the qualities that make a sentient living being a sentient living being.
Anything that’s life giving is attacked for being associated with the Sith, who would otherwise be completely correct about everything if it weren’t for their over the top cruelty and cartoonish villainy.
The entire core tenets of the Jedi Order almost perfectly match the late-stage liberal fantasy of a world where existential divisions are all papered over and everyone and everything is forcibly dissolved into a universalist soup managed by a supposedly apolitical priestly caste who wield absolute power while lying through their teeth about how they’re just defenders of democracy.
And like all Liberal orders, the Jedi are so dogmatically committed to the false promise of universalism, neutrality, proceduralism, and “balance” (aka not taking your own side) that they can’t see any existential threats until it is far too late.
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The chances of being killed by a landmine delivered by a bear are low, but they are never zero.
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Being underwater in a swimming pool watching the rain hit the water above is one the most satisfying feelings 😊
