Skip Navigation

User banner

Veedem

@ Veedem @lemmy.world

Posts
24
Comments
411
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin

    Jump

  • Whatever steps he could have taken to prevent it from happening (I’m not super familiar with crypto self management) aside, this still sucks for him. If I knew I had generational wealth right beyond my finger tips, I’d be obsessed too.

  • It Sure Doesn’t Seem Like the Supreme Court Is Going to Save TikTok

    Jump

  • They claim the ban is for national security reasons because China can easily use TikTok to spread propaganda that benefits them.

    Can’t have social media algorithms tweaked to spread propaganda, right Elon?

  • New York students could get free meals under a plan from Gov. Kathy Hochul

    Jump

  • Tell that to the people who will benefit from it.

  • New York students could get free meals under a plan from Gov. Kathy Hochul

    Jump

  • Later than it should have been especially when it’s already done in NYC, but still a major win. Perfection can’t be the enemy of progress.

  • Listening to NPR news about mortgages

    Jump

  • Listening to NPR news about mortgages

    Jump

  • Mortgage rates coming down is not the answer. It’ll only drive up demand while supply stays the same. There is a major need for more supply. People will reply with the number of vacant units, but vacancy is a broad measure that ignores things like a house currently being sold and going through the closing process.

    The country, as a whole, needs something like 6.5 million more housing units to meet demand at which point prices would come down.

    It’s unfortunately not going to happen without government (local or federal) intervention.

    This Freakonomics episode focuses more on rentals but the basic concepts are the same:

    https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-rent-control-doesnt-work/

  • Trump privately complains about clingy Elon Musk: NYT reporter

    Jump

  • I’m confident that Musk has seen Trump’s dick. Not that he’s touched it. Not that it aroused him. But he’s definitely seen it.

  • Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity

    Jump

  • If you read the article though, it appears as though a more basic prosthetic would be covered, but the one with electronics to provide greatly enhanced stability will not be.

    I’m in no way siding with the insurance company, but they’re not flat out refusing to cover the prosthetic.

  • Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why

    Jump

  • Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop

    Jump

  • It feels like Zuckerberg is out of ideas and just chases the trends to stay relevant. He was all in on the “metaverse” until he wasn’t because the concept disappeared. Now, he’s all in on AI because everyone else is. Even the quest, before it became the face of the metaverse, was him chasing another big idea from someone else.

    He and the company haven’t had original ideas in a very long time. Even the smaller ones, like Stories and Reels, are just ideas copied from someone else.

  • ‘Exhausted’ Americans are tuning out politics, according to TV ratings and new poll

    Jump

  • I had to disengage from the news a bit, too. I put my News follows on Mastodon on a separate list and stopped listening to NPR Up First.

    We’re fucked, but hearing about it non-stop wasn’t good for my mental health.

  • Christmas cheer

    Jump

  • People do that so that the content doesn’t get shadow banned by automatic systems on social media.

  • Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

    Jump

  • Musk is far wealthier and controls X, but Trump’s cult is locked to him.

    It would be an incredibly funny implosion of their relationship.

  • Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

    Jump

  • We need to keep needling him. If successful, it would be incredibly fun to see him turn on Musk like he’s done to pretty much everyone else.

  • Trump Transition Live Updates: Ethics Panel Draft Report Accuses Gaetz of ‘Regularly’ Paying for Sex and Using Drugs

    Jump

  • Looks like ole Matty Boy was trying to expedite his upward movement in the GOP.

    You think they high fived him after writing the report?

  • The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t | The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising

    Jump

  • Another sad case of progressives winning in policy but failing in messaging.

    The right ONLY focuses on messaging (what’s the last real policy win for them?) which makes them incredibly difficult to keep up with.

  • Absent US congresswoman has been dealing with ‘dementia issues’, family says

    Jump

  • How the hell does she not retire immediately? She’s in a senior home. She’s not representing her district at all.

  • Party City closing all stores after 40 years in business, report

    Jump

  • I’m on their site and 15 ct not inflated is only $1.49 before a small discount.

  • Party City closing all stores after 40 years in business, report

    Jump

  • The price of those balloons includes helium and the labor to fill them. It’s not entirely unreasonable.