I recently switched away from SmartNews because it keeps getting into a mode where it 1) can’t load the stories, or 2) seems to load but just shows a black screen beyond a certain point, or 3) crashes. I hung on for awhile, hoping it would get fixed, but once I heard about the internal turmoil, I gave up.

I’m trying to understand how retirement and disability would work in such a monetary system. While the hoarding of wealth by the rich is a problem in the current system, it seems like devaluing all savings would make anyone who can’t work worthless.

Cats, like most animals and indeed people, exhibit a variety of personalities and behaviors. Dismissing them all as “assholes” is like stereotypng people based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc. It’s a weak argument. Combined with your “that’s not up for debate” makes me wonder if you are just trolling us.

What doesn’t seem sustainable to me is the Repubican party caucus. The right is incensed that McCarthy “caved to the Democrats”. I suspect a motion to vacate will be raised.

Mine’s Aachenosaurus. It’s such an interesting (if sad) story about how science works.

From Wikipedia: Independently in 1887, the name Aachenosaurus was created by the scientist (and abbé) Gerard Smets based on fossilized fragments of material that he thought were jaw fragments from a duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur). However, the fossils turned out to be petrified wood, to the great embarrassment of the discoverer.

So while he advanced science by reporting his discovery and advancing a theory about what it was, he will forever be remembered mostly for how very wrong he was.

Not an unreasonable belief, since eggs are often displayed under a huge sign that says “dairy”.