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How in the name of Zeus' butthole can anyone believe this is not going to cause us to melt down at some point in the not so distant future.
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Back in 2000 our national debt was just over $5 trillion after over 200 years as a nation. Since then we have added over $25 trillion in debt and we now owe over $31 trillion. How is this remotely sustainable? (Graphic via @wsj).
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That the government has the power to seize your private property over failure to pay taxes is an absolute travesty. You can pay off your mortgage and you're still effectively renting your house from the government.
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A year ago, I wrote about a 93-year-old woman who fell behind on her property taxes. So the government seized her home, sold it—and *kept the profit.* The Supreme Court has agreed to hear her case. But there are many stories like hers, and they'll shock you. A thread.
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Note to computing teachers. If I needed to convert a table of 20+ items to binary, I’d probably write a small bit of code to do it. That code is a more useful computing exercise. Thinking in code and problem solving hugely beats rote character code conversion.
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Meet BOSS, the largest structre in the known Universe. The Great Wall of the BOSS is a large chain of galaxies discovered in 2016. It is located at a distance of between 4.500 and 6.400 million light years and has an estimated mass of more than 10.000 times that of the Via Milky.
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When are the elitist snobs going to fly their private jets to DAVOS, take a limo to their 5 star hotels, take helicopters to the conference, and tell us peasants to eat bugs and live in tents?
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NOAA makes it official. Last 8 years... global cooling... at a rate of 0.11°C/decade.... despite 450+ billion tons of emissions worth 14% of total manmade CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 warming is a hoax.
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If you're thinking about learning no-code, now is the time. Learn by doing with more than 45 real-world project tutorials, including: - an AI image generation app w/ DALLE-2 - a marketplace like Airbnb - a social network like Reddit
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At the very least, this whole debacle has given Amash and others the chance to highlight the absurdity of the US House.
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Concentrated power has decimated the House, turning legislators into actors. Here’s how many votes the speaker has allowed on floor-offered (not prescreened) amendments/year: 2011: 414 2012: 153 2013: 61 2014: 96 2015: 94 2016: 29 2017: 0 2018: 0 2019: 0 2020: 0 2021: 0 2022: 0
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A black hole located 230 million light-years away from Earth, at the centre of a galaxy named J0437+2456 and approximately three million times larger that our Sun - was found to be moving at a speed of 110,000 miles per hour.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has notified the public that instead of the previously reported 1.1 million jobs added between March and June 2022, the real figure is closer to…10K!! So, should we just assume everything they tell us before an election is a lie?
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