Phidippides

This is all so maddening. Feels almost helpless. The GOP is in on it as well, which makes it even sadder. The machine controls us, and the machine seems to want war.

This whole thing is odd for a few reasons: 1) The Chinese balloon story happened just days before the "UFOs" getting shot down 2) The Biden Admin is trying to tell us these were kind of like UFOs, but...

I saw a video of that guy floating around Twitter in recent days of him jumping into a watery crevasse holding two axes.

It's all so crazy how we've gotten to this. It's as if the Iraq War didn't teach Republicans anything, and it's as if the left's opposition to the war from the mid-2000s was all just a charade.

There's a lengthy article on Substack by Seymour Hersh which details the U.S./Norwegian operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipeline. The source of the article is not given but it seems pretty cred...

I think Trump is playing with fire here. I have seen on Twitter that the sentiments against him by some supporters is waning (myself included). DeSantis is taking a very interesting approach by not ...

This would all be great as the storyline in some movie. Not so great as the storyline from our actual news. Scary times!

I remember when Musk warned us of this about a decade ago. I thought he was kind of bonkers at the time since AI seemed like one of the last things to worry about. Then, a few years ago, I read an ar...

ChatGPT is an AI bot that was launched in November 2022 and has been in the news recently. Not only can it be used to write fake essays, thereby harming traditional educational practices, but it is a...

This article lightly criticizes "lifestyle rightism", which seems to be the trend of people adopting lifestyles or behaviors associated with the political right while minimizing (or not adopting at al...

So was this year's national championship game a bust with the Georgia blowout? It seems to me like without Alabama in it, it could never be a great game. Almost makes me think that Alabama should ge...

Well, we now have a speaker. Hopefully the holdout Republicans got some serious concessions in exchange for ending the vote.

So I think there was a post on here that got deleted during the database wipe of 2021, but I believe the idea was floated that Donovan Mitchell would eventually be one of the top players in the NBA. ...

We've seen how irrational the left becomes over Trump, even as Biden does the same things (and worse) than they accused Trump of doing. We've also seen the lengths they will go to stop Trump. Wouldn...

If the government is leading the way, then yes, I think digital currency is a threat. Two reasons for this. First, the entire purpose of digital currency is to bypass government control of the money...