back in them days I used to do the occasional appearance on CNN, but that stopped permanently after I wrote those stories. wonder why vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/h…
Dylan is correct. if you're rich and well-connected enough, there are no ethical standards and you can do whatever corrupt stuff you want
number 4 here is driving me most crazy. looking down the barrel of a full blown constitutional crisis and Dem elites are still prioritizing completely unjustifiable handouts to the donor class
let me comment briefly on the Sicknick news, as Glenn (in his characteristically magnanimous and fair-minded fashion) has asked for it washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
the reason I assumed Sicknick had died due to the Capitol putsch was a) that's what had been reported b) it seemed highly improbable that an otherwise-healthy 42 year old would die of a stroke by *sheer coincidence* after brawling and getting maced
I should note this this evidence is not dispositive. autopsies are not an exact science - 2 different autopsies found 2 different causes of death for George Floyd, for instance nytimes.com/article/george…
"I'm just asking questions" [that I could easily answer myself with two seconds of googling if I weren't trying to bait liberals into getting mad at me so I can play the victim] nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/…
very long thread, but some fascinating history in here
NFTs may be an even dumber and more toxic idea than bitcoin, and that is saying something seths.blog/2021/03/nfts-a…
it's a collectors item, except you don't actually have exclusive rights to the item, you just have a solved Sudoku that "proves" you "own" it. also the system somehow chews up more electricity than Serbia
"minting artwork on the blockchain uses somewhere between weeks, months, years, (and in rare instances decades) of an average EU or US citizen’s energy consumption." everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-enviro…