BREAKING: Missouri's Amendment 5 has been rejected. Voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have given state lawmakers the ability to expand sales and use taxes in order to eliminate the state income tax. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
Missouri voters reject Amendment 5, declining to eliminate state income tax for more sales tax
With Amendment 5’s failure, state lawmakers are now unable to expand sales and use taxes in order to eliminate the state
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Oracle's $ORCL risk of default has soared to its highest level in history, surpassing the peak of the Global Financial Crisis 🚨 🚨
“There's an old saying in Clausewitz—I know it's in Jomini, probably in Clausewitz—that strategy is the use of battles for... for... battles get you the thing you want.”
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's like what that German guy always used to say. Sustained kinetic strikes in lieu of a cessation in hostilities are negotiations by other means
I had become accustomed to thinking that a viral post on Bluesky was 4000 likes but every day for the past week I’ve seen something like this that has 27,000
Post Corn Crackos (1967-1975): Lightly sweetened, twist/braid-shaped cereal, made of corn, oat, and soy. The unique shape and texture of the pieces created a signature "crackly" sensation when chewing it
five trillion dollars in investment to transform the universe let’s gooo
Chigurh: if the bechdel test you followed brought you to this of what use was the bechdel test Convenience store cashier Charlotte Violeta Ansible Dufresne: well I’ll have to confer with my friend Mildred Anna Martina Dunway about that
reading is a form of theft and makes you dependent upon others for knowledge (deskilling)
see, i disagree, in that i think project 2025 has been almost a total and complete failure according to the goals the authors set out for it.
Greg Murphy@gregrmurphy.bsky.social · 5d agoSeveral authors of Project 2025 are now in charge of the stuff they wanted to change. Who would claim the movement was unsuccessful?
the genres of literature: - horror - fantasy (wizardless) - fantasy (wizardful) - boats - boats again
Obviously now that it’s massive headline news a bunch of people who know nothing about the situation will comment stupid things about it (esp because it’s AI related) but the Leopold blowup is quite shocking to basically every professional investor who was following him for several reasons:
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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My grand unifying theory of politics rn is that we haven't invented an ideology for the material conditions of the 21st century yet, so it's just been cargo cults for everybody.
i think we need different terms for people who are anti-housing, anti-non-car-transport-and-mobiliy-infrastructure, and anti-[various other things people do not particularly want built in proximity to their homes or towns].
now that we're talking bronze age collapse on main discourse, it may finally be time to air my ultimate crank amateur historian theory (that the biblical exodus kind of actually happened, that it was part-and-parcel of the bronze age collapse, and a major part of both stories was yersinia pestis)
*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
tired: die hard is an xmas movie wired: the odyssey is a heist movie
Praxis Thoughts Haver@praxisprocess.bsky.social · last wk."Odyssey's Eleven"