Oh, did I say $33/hr? Oops, I meant $36/hr.

$36 an hour × 40 hours × 52 weeks = $74,880

A worker earning $36 an hour wouldn’t make $75,000 a year.

The millionaires are fine.

I am aware of the Government Accountability Office. I want something more powerful than that. The Government Accountability Office is a toothless organisation without the resources and power needed to really identify and defeat Government inefficiency.

Elon Musk nonsense aside, a Department for Government Efficiency is honestly not a bad idea. Apparently, the military is tremendously wasteful, as are most other government departments. This could genuinely save some taxpayer money and free up funds for good things.

China isn’t doing this for the money. They do it to keep those countries under their thumb. It’s more like, “Yeah, you owe us a billion dollars, but we’ll forgive half of it and give you a fifty-year extension on the rest because we’re just the best of pals!” And then your country is expected to vote with China in the UN for the next three decades. On top of that, it makes the Chinese government seem really rich and powerful, which is helpful for both its internal and external politics.

China is trying to buy its way to the top like the US did in the mid-twentieth century.

I love the Internet Archive but they are pretty clearly legally in the wrong here.

Not morally, mind. I support open access to knowledge. But they very clearly broke copyright law here.

Perhaps the only way to get rid of them for sure is to require a CAPTCHA before all posts. That has its own issues though.

Choosing to spoil your ballot or not vote is a valid expression of a voter’s democratic power.

Never heard of that, send me some links and I’ll take back my comment if you’re right

So does the recycle bin behind the polling station

I describe her the same way that Romney described Obama in 2012. I don’t agree with your policy positions at all, but I highly respect you as an individual.

Obvious that she supported Harris but not obvious that she would have the courage to say it and risk gaining the attention of the Trump mob

A sinecure is an office that has little or no power or responsibilities.

She’s probably going to appoint someone like Adam Kinzinger to a sinecure. Or maybe even a secretary without portfolio. It sounds like an election strategy to win over Republican voters who dislike Trump but got absorbed by the “Kamala Harris is a raving socialist” rhetoric that his campaign has been putting out.

What are the implications of this?

For what it’s worth, English Wikipedia editors reached a consensus to deprecate (ban) it for unrealiability last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_424#RFC:_The_Cradle

The following notes are present:

The Cradle is an online magazine focusing on West Asia/Middle East-related topics. It was deprecated in the 2024 RfC due to a history of publishing conspiracy theories and wide referencing of other deprecated sources while doing so. Editors consider The Cradle to have a poor reputation for fact-checking.

Those last three words of the headline are doing some heavy lifting here

For many parents, it’s quicker to pay $10 for Disney+ than to load up a torrenting site and download the torrents every time. As a former piece of shit bratty toddler, I can understand why many parents would rather pay.

Yes and Disney will get very mad 😠😠

Think of the shareholders!!

You’re correct. Imitating this sort of speech even outside of Twitch is essentially the meme. The joke is that streamers get so inebriated with talking to the chat that even when no chat exists in real-life they still reflectively reference it. This meme started on TikTok but it has spread into general Gen Z pop culture.