They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡

The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it.🤷🏿‍♂️

The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."

It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"

"America will never give up the moon again.🤡"

What an embarrassing statement.🤦🏿‍♂️

What a scathing indictment of the childishness and futility of an anti-science nation being in a space race.

What does "give up the moon" even mean?

Other countries sending scientists while we angrily hug a moon flag.

Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

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This car costs $8500. Not a typo. Less than 10 racks. And you don't have to put gas in it.

But we can't have it in the US, because we'd rather have racism and argue about solved problems like birthright citizenship, and should Black people be allowed to vote.

So you get Cybertrucks instead. Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqRnLp_htE

As November Kelly has pointed out, the weirdest thing about Trumpismo is how the man seethes and rails against a game that is thoroughly rigged in America's favor, because he resents having to pretend to play the game *at all*:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/#your-greenback-dollar

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Donald Trump has announced his intention to steal the midterms with a voter suppression law that would ban the mail-in voting that he himself uses (which he claims is not fit for purpose).

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We're a diverse species, cognitively speaking - different ways of thinking come more easily to some than others. I'm good at a lot of things, but I have *terrible* spatial sense. I can't parallel park or catch a ball, and I get lost so easily it's almost comical (it's a running joke in my family).

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The most important part of any law, rule or policy isn't what it permits or prohibits - it's whether you can *enforce* the law at all.

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US FCC Prohibits Approval of New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/us-fcc-prohibits-approval-of-new-foreign-made-consumer-routers/