Oh now this is just *extremely* interesting. They're going to sell Base Power batteries at Walmart!

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What are the great successes of acquiescence, appeasement, talking oneself into inaction and obeying in advance? There must be a list of achievements for such a strategy, given how often it's recommended as savvy. Right? Right? For God's sake, get caught trying, what's the worst that could happen.

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It is extremely funny that the two big tech innovations of the last decade, specifically in this sequence, are “digital currency that lets you store and move money untraceably on a computer,” and then, “ultra-adept hacking robots that can crack any computer”

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When the US govt says the Iran war has cost $47.1 billion (and counting) that refers only to the munitions they used up and now have to replace, along with other operational costs. Nothing else. The actual cost is in the hundreds of billions, and by the time it’s all over, will be in the trillions.

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Loved this @ifbookspod.bsky.social bonus episode on Rahm Emanuel -- specifically, on the fact that he's being profiled by every single prestige media outlet (sometimes twice!) despite having absolutely no constituency within the party. US political media really is pathetic.

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