.@Apple Planned Obsolescence
The “Truth” about why the headphone jack was removed.
I wonder how much damage has been done to the human brain with bluetooth tech?
PBD Podcast w/ Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan on Trump's Iran war: "Benjamin Netanyahu did it. He got Trump into a war with Iran."
"Every US president thinks they control Bibi. Bill Clinton walked out saying 'Who's the f***ing superpower here?'"
Trump said he'd end wars. Instead Bibi made him an errand boy.
Full Episode: https://t.co/5Tdd6FoAq4
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
How the hell is everything so expensive when all we've done for 40+ years is give corporations the tax breaks they swore they needed to hire workers and lower prices?
***All-Time Record***At 4:05pm this afternoon, KC has reached 90 degrees which is the record for earliest 90 degree day in KC history (going back to 1888) breaking the old record which was 91 degrees set on 3/21/1907!
#RecordBreakingKC
The sheer irony of Hegseth simultaneously asking for a $1.5 trillion military budget and criticizing Iran for "investing in missiles instead of investing in their people" https://t.co/LC5uEWs3u7
Heck in *that very same briefing* (!) Hegseth also defended asking for an additional $200 billion for the Iran war, because "it takes money to kill bad guys" (https://t.co/VKobo2azoe) 🙄
Breaking: The President's son is on a heater
Donald Trump Jr's fund invested in one of the only U.S. rare earth magnet startups at a $200M valuation
Three months later, the Pentagon awarded Vulcan a $620M loan and the Commerce Dept took a $50M equity stake
In February, Trump announced a $12B rare earth strategic reserve
Today, the company is now valued at $2 billion. That's a 10x for Trump Jr in under a year
Vulcan is building the largest rare earth magnet factory outside of China. The U.S. says it needs to stop relying on China, which controls 90% of global rare earth processing
The timing is either the greatest coincidence in investing history, or it isn't
We had to smoke out of soda cans with screens from a sink faucet and blow into a toilet paper roll filled with dryer sheets so Gen Z could hit a weed pen at Target
John Oliver on JD Vance’s mentor, billionaire Peter Thiel — who once wrote he no longer believes "that freedom and democracy are compatible."
Thiel bankrolled Vance's 2022 Senate run with "the largest amounts given to a single candidate in congressional history."