The economist had a fabulous headline: “DOGE bites man.”

Meh. They didn't suffer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-04/frothy-tech-returns-helped-mint-an-extra-600-000-millionaires-in-2024 Frothy Tech Returns Helped Mint 600,000 Millionaires Last Year The number of high-net worth individuals across the globe rose to a record in 2024, driven largely by gains in the US stock market. The US alone added 562,000 millionaires, a 7.6% increase from the year prior, …

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De Gaulle said ‘communism will come and go but Russia is forever’

I have light weight folding 7” pruning saw that clips on to my belt or knapsack that does the same as that. I can easily cut any branch up to 4” or 5” diameter with it.

Capt. William Webster: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/casualty-identification-military/captain-wilson.html

Its not what you know, but who you know. Or I guess in this case, it is both.

Probably means the government will be seriously propping it up soon.

That I could see.

@jon-nyc hahaha

@taiwan_girl said in Trump’s screen lock image: Mine is actually my "business card" with a caption that if the phone is found, please call or text XXX number. Actually pretty boring. My lock screen wall paper also has a phone number and an email address that whoever found my phone can contact.

Doesn't look like the setup includes training. Looks like you just download pre-trained models and infer with these models.

That is crazy. I remember when you first posted that, and I was amazed then (and still am).

Quite satisfying to watch them put those together.

Depressing but important. How Qatar Bought America. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honestly-with-bari-weiss/id1570872415?i=1000710987124

Another question to ask is whether Mondalez's packaging designs were in turn "copied" from someone else. If they were, then one can argue that perhaps Aldi was merely inspired by the same sources that inspired Mondalez.

That looks pretty good. Not a fan of mint. But I'd give it a try.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/snakes-on-a-plane-man-caught-with-highly-venomous-vipers-five-turtles-at-mumbai-airport-101748837730005.html A man at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, after arriving from Thailand, was caught carrying 48 venomous snakes and five turtles, a customs official said. The passenger was intercepted by customs officials on Saturday night after he got down from a Bangkok-originated flight, news agency PTI reported. After discovering the 48 highly venomous viper snakes and five turtles, a team from Resqink Association for Wildfire Welfare assisted in the identification and handling of these species, he added. Among these snakes were three Spider-tailed horned vipers, highly venomous and targeting only small prey like birds, as well as five Asian leaf turtles, an AFP report said.