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I enjoyed it but it felt more sci-fi than the Nuclear War book. Mainly because it centers around a pathogen that is engineered for maximal transmission and it seemed quite unbelievable that so many things that came down to bad luck would all happen at the same time. The Nuclear War scenario seemed a lot more plausible because only a couple of bad things need to happen to set off the chain of events and they all seemed plausible.

Def not confirmed, just assumed. People act like it's a fact though because it's plausible.

It's just a way to keep the culture war hot. They need people on Reddit mad, the media questioning what a DEI Bike Lane is and ridiculing, etc. The actual policy they've implemented, excluding the border, has so far been an abject disaster and even their own base is unhappy. "DEI Bike Lanes" is a way to throw their voters some red meat while stirring the pot.

If you use something like 1Password it's very easy. It stores your Passkey and it syncs cross device. It's another thing but once it's set up it's less of a pain than using authenticator apps or having to find some random iPad that Google popped up an approval prompt on.

Reminds me more of Peace Corps.

Maybe it's just me but as soon as something like this, that should be independent, is owned by something it reports on, it becomes something you need to automatically trust less.

I've seen it mentioned before but never checked it out. It def has ESPN vibes but I think it's more like a new Techcrunch.

It's hard to imagine this turn into 50-60% short term banger starting from a $1.75T market cap, I wonder if people will actually trip over themselves to buy. I had been thinking I wanted to jump on it to flip but at that price and the macro environment it may end up cratering before a pop. Seems like a sketchy buy.

I don't think we could see a bombing campaign like the one we've seen so far anywhere near that length of time. Partly for munitions reasons and partly for target reasons. There is only so much stuff to blow up and only so many bombs to blow things up with. We can't produce them at any where near the rate that would be required to just to do this for years.

He may still wriggle out of it but it is increasingly looking like Trump has stepped into something that he won't be able to reverse his way out of easily, a one way decision.

Clowns get the attention and the attention usually makes for winners.

My 4yo was a big fan of What The Car? on iPad. It's not quite as pleasant as this but there are some similarities.

Pleasant and nicely done. Took me a few seconds to figure out how I was suppose to drive around but very pleasant experience.

I don't think that is likely this time. Injecting capital to cover losses doesn't bring back the forward looking valuations so stock prices would remain down anyway. Gov isn't going to fund losses for like Microsoft.