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No economist has ever explained the trap of being poor better than Terry Pratchett's boots theory.
A wealthy man buys a $200 pair of boots that lasts ten years.
A poor man can only afford $40 boots that leak after six months, so he spends $800 over the same ten years and still has wet feet.
Poverty isn't just a lack of money.
It's a continuous subscription fee for not having capital up front.
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It's been real, folks. These assholes are going to blow us all to the moon and back.
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- The US Department of Agriculture correctly says on its website that "almost all" US agricultural exports to Canada face no tariffs at all
- The super-high Canadian dairy tariffs Trump often talks about are *over-quota* tariffs...tariffs that apply only after certain negotiated quantities of zero-tariff exports are met...and those quotas are rarely hit, often not even approached
- Most Canadian exports go to the US, but it's not close to "95%"; it was about 72% of goods exports in 2025, down from 76% in 2024
- The US goods-trade deficit with Canada has sometimes been $60 billion but often been much smaller, and it overwhelmingly exists for one reason: the US imports a lot of cheap Canadian oil
Rich Pike retweeted
Imagine if Kamala Harris became the first female president of the United States and then tore down the East wing, obsessed about a ballroom, started a losing war with Iran, took away health care and food from children, raked in billions, fired everyone to put her friends in their positions, fell asleep on camera consistently, mouthed off on social media, openly prosecuted people she didn’t like without real cause, started a slush fund to fund domestic terrorists, and generally lied every second of the day. She wasn’t even allowed to laugh.
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A perfect ring of stars wrapped around a glowing core.
Hoag’s Object is unlike most ring galaxies, and its mysterious origin still has astronomers searching for answers.
(Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)
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'Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star'
--- Carl Sagan
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A stunning view of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302), a billowing planetary nebula that resembles a cosmic butterfly located about 3,800 light-years away
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez, T.A. Rector, M. Zamani
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The greatest metal photo of all time was taken in 1982 when Ozzy Osbourne picked up Randy Rhoads during the Mr. Crowley guitar solo.
This is the rarest footage of that iconic moment.
