inb4 those fired show hosts start their YouTube channels and air their shows there. A Lithuanian journalist has been doing it for 10 years now and so can they.

“I would kill for that job!” Threat assessment: low.

I’ve seen one transported by ground vehicles. It was a humbling experience.

“The cost of our largest drilling input cost, casing, has increased over 10 percent in the last quarter due to steel tariffs,” Stice, the Diamondback Energy CEO, noted in his letter to shareholders.

Lol

I mean, have you ever worked on a Russian engine? They suck.

Yeah, I remember owning one of these, Siemens C65. It was one of the first camera phones:

As a centrist, I say roast them all. Leave no oil infrastructure in Russia standing. Make Zelenskyy the new face of Just Stop Oil just for the heck of it.

As a centrist, I say roast them all. Leave no oil infrastructure in Russia standing. Make Zelenskyy the new face of Just Stop Oil just for the heck of it.

Same.

Quarterly reporting makes company leadership focus on short term gains over the long term health of the company, leading to frequent layoffs, selloffs and other actions that hurt both the employees and the economy as a whole.

Many Central African cities are built on sandy terrain and steep slopes—conditions that make the earth especially vulnerable to erosion. When rain falls, instead of soaking gently into the ground, it rushes downhill, carrying grains of soil with it. Over time, rivulets deepen into channels. Left unchecked, those channels can transform into colossal gullies, wide and deep enough to engulf homes, bridges, and entire streets.

Nope.

The last time someone called me aromatic, I had to get a shower.

I have this idea of a story where teenagers from the near future ditch the digital tech and start reading books in secret, meeting away from the adults to discuss what they read. The adults think that it’s a cult of some sort, and that the books are dangerous, etc.

The English term “empathy,” in fact, was coined only in 1908. English-speaking psychologists needed translations of the German scientific terms appearing in the new discipline of experimental psychology. By around 1913, “empathy” became the term of choice for the German Einfühlung, which literally means “in-feeling.” Empathy captured the ability to project one’s own inner strivings, movements, and feelings into the shapes of objects. In the early twentieth century, then, empathy was quintessentially an aesthetic impulse.

Wild that we didn’t need a word for it before.

One person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia.

It costs 999.99€ in Europe too though.

Lithuanian literature: I killed a cat, now I’m sad about it.

Yes, and they solved the inequality overnight and nobody spoke of it ever again.

Something something Legend of Korra’s first villain?

I was raised and educated by people who grew up in USSR. If it was a paradise like tankies claim, those people would know.