Boycotts have one advantage over “consistently directing your money to companies in which you are confident”—they can work even if there aren’t any better alternatives. A coordinated campaign to target one company at a time can eventually force a whole industry to change, even if the industry offered no meaningful choices to start with.

Does $9,000 seem a bit low for the cost of adding windows to all the relevant restrooms in a school district?

Contemporaneous news reports in Nebraska indicated that Mr. Walz was still in his home state during the spring and did not leave for China until August.

Any link to these contemporaneous news reports?

Maybe he worked a few years at a temp agency?

The theory you’re referring to sounds like the free energy principle (or a variation of it).

…and now the strategy behind the couch rumors becomes clear.

The rate at which your hairs emerge from their follicles is constant, but the rate of increase of the total length of the hairs slows down and eventually stops because the hairs naturally wear down over time.

Imagine that your hair is like pasta being extruded into water, and that it slowly dissolves over time. The more time the pasta has been in the water, the faster it dissolves—and it eventually reaches an equilibrium length where the tip is dissolving as fast as the other end is being extruded. But if you cut off the pasta at the extruder and time the new pasta coming out, you’ll measure the full extrusion speed instead of the extrusion speed minus the length-dependent dissolution rate.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters

Naturalized non-citizens like… Elon Musk?

Hmm… I could have sworn that the first time I followed the link it went to this page which ends after a few paragraphs with a subscription link. But the page I get now is fine.

(Edit: I see now that I got to that page from a link in your comments, and mistook that tab for the one I’d opened from the main link.)

Anyone want to chime in on the downvotes?

Maybe because the article is behind a paywall?

Zipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.

AKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.

Not quite—it’s every four years, excluding years divisible by 100, but not excluding years divisible by 400. So 2000 was a leap year, but it was the first century in 400 years for which that was the case (using the Gregorian calendar).

Telling the Trump campaign directly was the problem—they needed to get Fox or someone else to make a video that they could watch on television.

“On the one side, you have the one school that is showing Harris with a lead but leading by unbelievable numbers, Peter,” he said. “That’s a fact, you know. […] And then really an edge that is not — is never going to materialize.” Baris claimed that conservative polls showed that Trump was tied or had a “believable” edge against Harris. “And when you look at the track records of the pollsters in those two courts, right in those two camps, really, you know the ones who are showing the tighter race with Trump with an advantage, have better track records,” he insisted.

So when he says “that’s a fact”, he’s trying to say it’s a lie.

Hay is for fodder; straw is for bedding and thatching.

And back in 1989 she was claiming citizenship in the “Rhythm Nation”.

They’re not wrong, but they could stand to recognize that some of their own policy shortcomings opened the door to her challenge.

With all that fame, zoo director Narongwit Chodchoi said they have begun patenting and trademarking “Moo Deng the hippo” to prevent the animal from being commercialized by anyone else.

Trademark, sure. But what exactly are they trying to patent?

I remember in the late 90s the Green Party in my district was on a roll, culminating in the election of a member to the California State Assembly (one of the highest posts ever held by the Greens in the US). Then came Nader’s presidential bid and its perceived role in the election of Bush, which permanently crippled the legitimacy of the local party. They’re still doing great work with voter guides, legislative analysis, etc.; but they’ll never escape the shadow of Nader and Stein.

I think the only viable path for a third party now is to start a new one from scratch, and disavow presidential bids from the outset.