I am familiar with inequality in the United States and arguments that the government's policies are skewed toward the rich and against the poor. This is one of the few things I (at least in theory) would agree with progressives on, and one I—a Gen Zer—can relate to: that Social Security is deliberately designed to make young adults pay for their retired grandparents' luxuries.

https://reason.com/video/2026/03/30/you-are-paying-for-retirees-lavish-lifestyles/

#SocialSecurity #entitlement #inequality #Medicare #poverty #regressiveTaxation #wealthGap

Two things can be true at once:

1: The Trump gov't's embrace of Afrikaners reveals blatant hypocrisy over its otherwise anti-immigration policy.
2: Welcoming Afrikaners into the US as #refugees is ethical because it is one step in loosening our nightmarishly strict #immigration laws. In fact, were an immigrant-friendly administration to apply that loose definition of refugee, millions of (far more oppressed) people would stand to gain!

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/

#SouthAfrica #TrumpAdministration

Early this morning, I had minor success in making one of my Internet Archive uploads more complete. My dump of InsaneHeat.com, a former fan site for the Invictus racing game Insane, has 11 more vehicle files for a total of 462, with some 137 to go. It also now has Utilities and imap folders, along with more skins and maps. This goes on to show that I don't just dump stuff on the Archive; I make them whole when possible.

https://archive.org/details/insaneheat-website

#1nsane #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive

Does anyone else remember Tux Racer, the old #Linux racing game from way back? Does anyone else also remember tuxracer.fubaby.com, where people would share their courses? Any way to download all the courses again? Sorry, but I want to upload all of them on the Internet Archive. I could only retrieve some of them from the Wayback Machine.

Latest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011021336/http://tuxracer.fubaby.com/

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #LinuxGaming #TuxRacer

Guys, get out your Internet Archive accounts. A video game repository called Myrient is closing down tomorrow, and a staggering 390+ terabytes of data will disappear with it. I am currently saving webpages at /Eggman's Arcade Repository/!EXTRAS/. Unfortunately, nearly all the saves are 404 errors, even though the files can still be downloaded directly from the site, so we may need to upload them.

#dataHoarder #dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gamePreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #Myrient

If Trump thought #Iran would collapse in a few days' time, he could not have been any more mistaken. The worst part of this particular intervention is the irony of the US pretending to be #Israel: hindering its own interests in just about every way. A global recession, the image of America as an aggressor, more antisemitism, and a possible shredding of the nuclear #NPT ... all made in the USA.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/this-is-israels-war

#foreignPolicy #geopolitics #interventionism #IranWar #TrumpAdministration

You know, as a Windows emulator with Wine built in, Winlator is literal proof that Android does what iDon't. It makes the smartphone feel far less limited.

https://winlator.org/

#Android #emulation #phoneWars #retrocomputing #smartphoneWars #Windows #WineHQ #Winlator

We have just had another Internet casualty. Replacementdocs.com was a website that hosted scans of video game manuals for anyone to download. It was most active in the 2000s. I just checked to see the state of the website after months of broken downloads, and—yep—it's gone forever.

Don't fret, you can find every video game manual that was on the website at the point of closure here: https://archive.org/details/p31-replacementdocs.

#dataHoarding #dataPreservation #gaming #InternetArchive #PDF #scans

It all boils down to two choices: either fully invade, destroy, and capture the Islamic Republic and secure US objectives, or withdraw and make a serious, genuine effort to de-escalate and resume negotiations. There's no being in between. Worse, there's no easy way out, which is evidence that the US probably should not have been involved in the war in the first place.

https://reason.com/2026/03/26/trump-cant-taco-his-way-out-of-iran/

#DonaldTrump #foreignPolicy #interventionism #Iran #IranWar #noninterventionism #TrumpAdministration