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Joining NATO binds countries to defend each other – but this commitment is not set in stone (theconversation.com)
Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93 - Yahoo Sports (sports.yahoo.com)
Mandela effect?
CEO pay is rising faster than it has in a decade — and 3 times as fast as worker wages (qz.com)
Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law (www.cnbc.com)
Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2 (www.macrumors.com)
Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over months (www.theguardian.com)
Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll
UK’s richest family on trial in Switzerland for human trafficking, confiscating staff passports, paying as little as £7/day (www.bbc.com)
Advice needed on buying a personal boat
I’ve never owned a boat in my life and now that I live near the sea I would love to own a small boat to travel along the coast from one city to another....
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait (www.businessinsider.com)
What's your most favorite place you've ever been to?
Natural selection has no plan
It's been 16 days since Ukraine began striking targets in Russia with Western weapons and nuclear war still hasn't broken out yet (sh.itjust.works)
What does the world think of India?
I am an Indian and I have noticed that Indians are way too proud of their country for some reason and at the same time lack any civic sense towards it, they are extremely loud and extremely proud. We feel like the world revolves around India and our culture is superior to that of others. Also, a considerable chunk of the...
Pornhub drops some shocking gay adult content data just for Pride Month 2024 (www.advocate.com)
How does it feel being into a loving relationship with someone?
M. 34...
Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset (www.gamespot.com)
House Republicans Propose Renaming Oceans After Donald Trump (dailyboulder.com)
House Republicans have ignited a firestorm with a proposed bill that would rename the vast coastal waters encircling the United States after former President Donald Trump. The legislation, spearheaded by Florida Representative Greg Steube, seeks to rebrand the US Exclusive Economic Zone as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive...
They're everywhere!!! (mander.xyz)
House Republicans subpoena ex-Capitol Police intel head for Jan. 6 inquiry (www.rawstory.com)
Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)
Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...
Trump to visit Detroit church as part of Black voter push (www.reuters.com)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election....
House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft (www.yahoo.com)
The whole concept of a forehead (hairless forehead) is strange.
Why is there no hair? It’s completely surrounded by hair. The entire rest of the head (except parts of the actual face) is covered by hair. Other animals have hair.
Global concern rises over bird flu as experts warn of potential human pandemic (www.irishstar.com)
Men-Only, Christian-Only Secret Society Gets More Secret (talkingpointsmemo.com)
With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....
Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
French election descends into madcap reality TV (www.politico.eu)
The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote....
A new challenger has appeared to challenge Soviet tanks for the title of The worst tank (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine....
Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv (www.ctvnews.ca)
Is "food" a social construct?
Hear me out. There’s nothing innate to an object that makes it “food”. It’s an attribute we give to certain things that meet certain qualities, i.e. being digestible, nutritious, perhaps tasty or satisfying in some way, etc. We could really ingest just about anything, but we call the stuff that’s edible “food”....
Registering as an "Independent" party member doesn't mean you have no party affiliation; most states have an Independent party who has a platform that you may or may not agree with!
It’s a common misconception, but if you registered “Independent Party” you aren’t “independent” you are a member of your state’s Independent party, who has a platform and agenda you may or may not agree with. What you actually want is called an “unaffiliated” voter status. The good news is, all you have to do...
Donald Trump shares stage with rightwing activist who's discussing stoning gay people to death (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Is everything the worst?
I’m 43, almost 44, years old and went through a bought of alcoholism during the early part of the pandemic. I went through treatment and have been fine since. However, I can’t help but feel that all the news in the last few months is just the worst. Between the AI bullshit, the wars, the effects of capitalism, and the...