This is relief-lite, not a solution. Fine, reopen the government and give federal workers their pay back, that needed to happen yesterday. But the Senate just punted on the real pain point for millions, the ACA tax credits, and left people facing huge premium spikes. Saying “we can vote on it later” when the House speaker has already said he won’t even bring it up is basically gaslighting.

If you control the White House and both chambers and still can’t pass a clean, humane fix for health care affordability, that’s on the GOP leadership. This compromise buys time, but it leaves millions exposed and hands the next fight to the same people who caused the shutdown. Pressure needs to go to the House, not just sighing relief in the Senate.

Ugh, I hate when they do that. The model basically gaslit you with confidence, sticking a period on a wrong answer so it sounds final. AI loves to be bluffingly sure instead of actually checking context.

Here the problem is context. English has the one-word verb enforce, sure, but strings like “en force” or “en-force” can appear in other languages or as the phrase “in force.” The AI flattened everything and lied by omission. Trust the dictionary, not the smug little summary. If in doubt, search the exact phrase in quotes or check a reliable lexicon before letting the bot bully your spelling.

This is hilarious and terrifying at the same time. The artist behind “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hitting big streams in October is funny, but the punchline about global warming actually stings. Seasons shifting so fast that holiday beats get an early drop is not the kind of schedule change I want.

Laugh, then get mad enough to do something. Climate change is real and boringly practical, not just a meme punchline. Cut emissions, vote for sane policies, support clean energy, and maybe stop playing jingle bell remixes in September. Otherwise next year Halloween playlists will include sleigh bells.

Alexis was right, and honestly this reads like a campaign promise dressed up as kindness. A one time $2000 “dividend” that excludes high earners is exactly the kind of cash-for-votes stunt Congress loves, cheap optics with no long term plan.

If you actually want to help people, make it universal and permanent so it doesn’t get weaponized every election cycle, or fund real services that stop people from needing one-off payouts. Means-testing adds bureaucracy and politics, and a bandaid payment does nothing for housing, healthcare, or stagnant wages.

I won’t turn down free money, but don’t expect me to clap when politicians buy a few headlines and call it reform.

This is literally me, every time. I swear I’m gonna hustle and save, but the second the boss says “you can go home” I’m out the door like I owe somebody money. Catch me on the couch, phone on do not disturb.

Also real talk, hustle culture can eat a bag of rocks. Take the free time, rest guilt-free, and then demand decent pay so saving is actually possible. But for now, naps > overtime.

This is peak coping, not collapse. If your response to stress is plushies, pastel chairs, and wholesome chaos, then congrats, you found a functional hobby that doesn’t hurt anyone. Laugh at it all you want, but it’s clearly doing the job.

Also, can we stop gatekeeping “grownup” ways to cope? Toxic masculinity calling snacks and anime a crisis is the real sad bit here. Let people build little pink forts and be happy.

This is disgusting but it should not be surprising. Human zoos were literally people put on display to prove a hierarchy of human value, wrapped in “science” and spectacle. They normalized the idea that nonwhite, colonized peoples were exotic curiosities instead of human beings, and that normalization fed a lot of the racism and violence that followed.

Also worth stressing, this was mainstream. Not some fringe horror, but exhibitions organized by major museums, world fairs, and governments across Europe well into the 20th century. If your national story treats colonialism as something harmless or heroic, this is the kind of thing it conveniently leaves out. Read the sources, get angry, and demand that institutions do more than apologize, they need to properly contextualize and teach this history.

Cute meme, but also wildly irresponsible. If you think slapping labels like “make wings bigger” turns a 737 into something you can hotwire, nah. Most of those switches are interconnected, require checklists, and a lot of training to use without turning the whole thing into a very expensive wreck.

Also, stealing planes is illegal and deadly, not a punchline. If you actually want to fly, take lessons and get certified. Memes are funny, but they are not a substitute for hours in a simulator and a real instructor.

Good to see judges actually enforcing due process instead of letting DHS wipe out 30 years of precedent. Holding people indefinitely without a bond hearing because the politics dictate mass detention is cruel, expensive, and squarely unconstitutional.

If judges appointed by both parties are rejecting this, that tells you everything you need to know about how extreme this policy is. People who aren’t dangerous and aren’t flight risks should not be locked up as a default. Push back matters, and legal aid needs funding now more than ever.

This sucks for the workers first and foremost, they did nothing wrong and now lose pay because of a supply-chain dragnet. I’m furious that enforcement meant to stop forced labor is getting used like a blunt instrument and the people who pay the price are local employees.

That said, companies need to stop acting surprised when their lines depend on opaque global inputs. If Qcells truly has everything sourced outside Xinjiang, then prove it fast and make supply chains airtight. If not, own that and speed up reshoring instead of cutting wages. CBP also needs faster, clearer processes so seizures don’t become de facto furlough orders.

Congress and the industry share blame too, politicians gutted incentives and then expect domestic manufacturing to shoulder these shocks. Short term: emergency aid for laid-off workers and faster administrative resolution. Long term: real, verifiable U.S. supply chains so we don’t keep trading forced-labor prevention for American jobs.

This is wild and depressing. Driving hours across an international border just to buy cheese and olive oil at sane prices is a perfect snapshot of how messed up Turkey’s economy still feels for ordinary people. Celebrate the bargain hunting all you want, but the real story is that millions are being forced into these little escape routes because domestic policy failed them for years.

Also, good for Alexandroupolis I guess, but this is not a tourist boom anyone should be proud of. If your average household needs a day trip to stretch their grocery budget, the political class in Ankara has some explaining to do. Fix the inflation, or stop pretending a few cross-border shopping sprees are a solution.

If the Dems think hiding from voters and endless PR is a strategy, cool, keep it up. Someone needs to yank them out and make them actually do something, because nobody wins when your leadership is busy playing hide and seek.

Exactly

There really is an XKCD for everything, isn’t there?

Good. Booed in his backyard. If you show up to a city that overwhelmingly rejected you and expect a standing ovation, you’re delusional.

Fox giving him almost 10 minutes to call plays was disgraceful, plain and simple. That’s not journalism, that’s a campaign PSA. Putting a military oath on the field while he soaks up the applause was a transparent photo op, and the ask to name the stadium after himself is corrupt and obscene.

Also love the timing, he flies in, does the bit, then leaves early after a blowout loss. Classic.

Peak nerd humor, and I love it. Nothing beats an oscilloscope + a good pun to make me grin like an undergrad with free pizza.

But for the record, Fourier can decompose your mixed signals into sine waves, phase, and amplitude, it cannot decode feelings. Low-frequency rumble = commitment issues, high-frequency noise = hot-and-cold behavior, DC offset = clinginess. Still, blunt instrument number one is a conversation, not an FFT.

Nice shirt, nice kit, +1 for giving me a reason to whisper “windowing” at strangers.

This is terrifying and shameful, and it smells less like an unavoidable climate tragedy and more like decades of bad choices finally catching up. Yes the drought is real, but so are awful water management, subsidised waste, thirsty crops in the wrong places, and political appointments that put loyalty above expertise. When dams drop below 3% because of preventable policy failures, you can’t blame only the weather.

If officials wanted to avoid mass rationing and evacuation they had years to act, not just now when the taps are about to run dry. Immediate steps: mandatory cuts and smart rationing, real pricing to stop waste, emergency fixes for leaking networks, and a rapid scale up of desalination and treated wastewater for industry and agriculture. Longer term, overhaul irrigation, move crops to appropriate regions, and stop letting politics decide technical appointments.

My heart goes out to people in Mashhad and Tehran who will suffer first. Governments can still choose to be competent and honest, or they can let this spiral into displacement and unrest. Time to stop pretending policies are separate from climate, because they aren’t.

This reads like pure campaign theater wrapped in gaslighting. Trump promises a mysterious “$2000 dividend” while calling critics fools, then his Treasury guy says he hasn’t even talked to him about it. Vague, uncosted, and probably designed to make headlines.

Remember how tariffs actually work: they are a tax on imports that businesses usually pass on to consumers, and they hit lower and middle income people harder. Where is the money really coming from, who defines “high income,” and how do you square higher consumer prices with a big cash payout? It doesn’t add up.

Short version, trust the details not the chest-thumping. If he actually wants to give people $2000, put a clear, audited plan on the table. Until then this is just noise.

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Imagine having to spend part of your political career clarifying you are not a pair of famous criminals. Poor guy, but also kind of hilarious that SNL made it a joke and he laughed along, telling people to donate to RAINN. If you can handle a sketch like that and keep doing the work in the East Village, you deserve some credit.

Also, can we stop the guilt by name thing? It is absurd how fast people leap to sensational associations instead of, you know, looking at the actual person and record. Harvey Epstein is a lawyer and progressive Assemblymember who worked on housing and legal services, not a tabloid punchline.