Misdemeanours. Jesus Christ. Does Michigan not have reckless endangerment as a felony or are they just so gun brained that your toddler finding your loaded firearm, bringing it to school, and passing it around to their fellow toddlers doesn’t count?

Heating my home hasn’t exploded in price, how awful.

I want a pair of Asics 727s but for whatever reason this particular pair of shoes is annoying and expensive to get outside of Japan.

There is a reason that over $2 trillion dollars was spent in 2026 alone on ai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Of course not, that’s why I prefaced my original comment with

If both of these things are true

I’m going off the reporting I’ve seen thus far.

I didn’t suggest it was unique to humans.

Wow, that was a really fascinating article. I suppose this will also factor in to understanding the differing ability for higher thought between us and other animals.

No, it isn’t. The US, if the deal passes and reporting is accurate, now no longer has to seek permission or even notify Denmark or Greenland about military buildup on the island. They have veto power over foreign investment on the island. And this all holds even if Greenland decides to go independent. Denmark basically agreed to the terms that Canada recently refused when the US tried to strongarm us into a bad deal.

Mr Trump, in a social media post announcing the deal, said the agreement “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many US concerns”.

He added that his administration would “immediately” begin the process of developing a larger military presence on the mineral-rich Danish territory.

In a statement, [Mette Frederiksen] said “the agreement recognises the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Greenland and Denmark and upholds both peoples’ right “to self-determination”.

If both of these things are true, this is a monumentally stupid move on Denmark’s part. It’s silly to think that Donald Trump is going to respect your sovereignty because he signed an agreement. Denmark would be essentially ceding Greenland.

That exam includes a 3-mile run, push-ups or pull-ups, and an abdominal plank.

I mean, that’s not much of a physical exam. Pretty much any person who isn’t physically limited in some way could achieve this level of fitness in a short time. I knew these fascists didn’t think much of women but I didn’t realize they thought they were totally physically incompetent. You really thought that women couldn’t jog for three miles? Or do a plank? haha

And then failing to realize that purpose.

Sure. I guess this falls under ‘natural experiments’ which is what David Card got his nobel for, figuring out how to test hypotheses some of the time. Now try and do peer review on that result.

The global financial crisis was a huge surprise to most economists and is basically the #1 example of the field not having any predictive power, something you generally want from a hard science.

Give me examples of economists coming up with hypotheses and then building experiments to test them.

What they said is actually totally reasonable. People (particularly economists) treat economics as though it’s a hard science akin to physics or chemistry, but it’s a soft science. They gave David Card a nobel in economics for figuring out a way to actually test hypotheses some of the time. In 2021.

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/sounds-goldeneagle.htm

For anyone who was curious like I was. Reminds me of a seagull.

(The link does lead to bald eagle calls, I don’t know why the link says golden eagle)

Currently 8 but I will be shifting to 1 in an hour or two.

Well considering that their federal government is currently being ran by an inveterate liar and his personality cult, that seems reasonable.

That’s not the point they were making. They weren’t suggesting that they personally were looking forward to becoming a party apparatchik. What they are saying is that the structure of these parties incentivizes both the party to empower loyal but unqualified people, and for unqualified people to seek upwards mobility through the party. Then, as the party grows and more of those types of people are put in positions of authority, eventually the whole thing collapses from incompetence.

Hegseth didn’t read a book, come on now.