2022 4th quarter was the big drop, 2023 was small decline. The reason was higher than expected inflation, with expectation of interest rate hikes by the Fed.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/parkinsons-spoons#product-options

This bombing campaign won’t prevent missile attacks on shipping. If anything, it will further motivate ships to avoid the area.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

– George Carlin over 30 years ago

"The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

– (source unknown, but sometimes mis-attributed to Churchill)

Yoo is also a longtime and enthusiastic supporter of Trump. He does not get to plead ignorance on Trump’s deportation policies (“who could have known Trump would do exactly what I encouraged him to do!”).

This is the inevitable result of Democrats always running geriatric candidates.

The whole graph is bonkers. How is French level of democracy equivalent to that of Thailand!?

Written by the same journalist who broke the Wirecard scandal.

Hmm, are youtube videos peer-reviewed?

I am not Romanian and so perhaps misinformed. But what I’ve seen online (from Euronews and other outlets) is that the Central Election Committee refused to allow him on the ballot over refusal to sign income declarations and other document irregularities. He then appealed to Constitutional Court, which also wouldn’t put him on the ballot. As I said, pretty much any country would not allow candidate on the ballot if they don’t fill out the proper docs.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/09/romanian-electoral-committee-halts-calin-georgescus-presidential-bid

Georgescu was not allowed to run in the May election because he refused to sign the form regarding his income. And when pressed further, said if he did sign the declaration it would be perjury.

Which isn’t to say he might have been banned regardless…but show me any democratic country that allows candidates to run without filling out the necessary forms. This whole thing is just manufactured outrage.

Thanks to pollution credits, Elon gets paid regardless of whether they choose to drive an EV.

“Trump administration Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently addressed rising prices, suggesting that Americans should begin maintaining backyard coops and produce their own eggs.”

Having to grow your own food is peak dystopia.

1 in 1000 given a working hospital system. Without the vaccine, hospitals would be completely inundated with patients.

Oh wow, they are going to cancel all the scientific grant programs and put PhD’s to work as air traffic controllers:

“The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.”

Even better would be if the CDC had never posted it on their web site in the first place. I don’t know what they were thinking…they had to have known it would only serve as red meat for the anti-vaxxers.

I really don’t like to defend RFK, but the CDC does have a section on vitamin A:

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html

Note the July 2024 date, so it was posted during the Biden administration. The WHO has similar info as well.

Yes, and such intelligent systems can also optimize for pedestrian traffic,

In the US, these types of “intelligent” systems almost always degrade pedestrian traffic quite severely.

Because the US wants oil contracts. US foreign policy has always been driven by the fossil fuel industry.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-oil-group-expands-in-russia-as-western-rivals-leave-ft-reports/

Or just eliminate the athletic programs altogether.