And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.

In Smallville, the spacecraft carrying Superman brings a kryptonite meteor swarm with it. Lex’s exposure to the meteors is the cause of his premature baldness and a partial reason for his resentment of The Alien.

In fairness, Doomsday beat Superman in a straight knuckle dust up, no kryptonite required. So that’s also a Superman weakness.

First Amendment was always a polite fiction of the regime. Americans get to pretend they have it until they upset someone with actual power.

But you’re always free to run scams, to slander the weak and vulnerable, and to rally bigots into a lynch mob. So the idea of Free Speech remains valuable to demagogues and unscrupulous marketing goons alike.

Cunnalingus appreciators win again

I mean, the title may be true, but I’d hardly call this a crazy law. Draconian censorship is routine and endemic globally. It’s the Free Speech policy that’s “crazy”.

As more media is heavily monetized, the real appeal of censorship is as a revenue source. Surveillance, draconian administration, and targeting of dissidents all become income streams for the platforms.

Nothing unusual about that, either

Any decent business wants dependable people who will follow the processes and work in a team.

I mean, they want people who can do the job. And most businesses don’t need a guy who can program fantastically complex solutions in obscure languages at a breakneck pace.

They also don’t want to pay above the “going rate”, which is inevitably less than what the market actually demands.

So while programming contests are fun, they don’t do much to improve your pay scale. Much better to climb the management chain and lead programmers than excelling at the actual work. Then you get to take credit for whole teams and land an outsized bonus as a result.

Intel implemented significant layoffs in 2025 as part of a major restructuring under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, aiming to reduce its core workforce by about 25,000 (roughly 15-20%) by year-end to streamline operations and cut expenses

Then you’ve got Kalshi… paying $110-140k, then working you to the bone on Christmas Eve.

Like, you’re better off as some schmick front end developer at a midcap company than a “top tier” developer at a code mill in Silicon Valley.

Difference in pay scale between all of these people is maybe $20k, and “you” aren’t even in the low end.

Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.

Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now

I’d intended that to be a horse on codeine

Mustangcadine

Every country becomes Argentina. Or maybe Texas

It would be nice if Wikipedia automatically integrated with WayBackMachine or some other archive service. Or even directly backed up the information when it was linked.

The only President I recognize is

You’ll regularly find a link to a secondary source that contains a reference to a primary source. If you just want generically available historical, scientific, or broadly epistemological knowledge, its great. If you want an on-the-ground testimonial from an eye-witness, it may give you the start of a breadcrumb trail towards your destination.

That said, the bias endemic to Wikipedia is largely a product of its origins - primarily English, western media focused, heavily populated by editors from a handful of global north countries. If you want to learn about the history of a mayoralty in Saskatchewan going back to the 18th century, its a rich resource. If you want to find out the political valence of the major political parties of Nepal or Azerbaijan, you’ll find a much thinner resource.

Some of that is a consequence of the editors (or absence of them) around a particular topic. Some of that is a consequence of the moderators/admins graylisting or outright blacklisting sources. Newer sources - 404media, for instance - aren’t tracked while older sources that have changed management significantly and lost some of their trustworthiness - WSJ, CBS, National Geographic, as recent examples.

jihadists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad

Arabic word that means “exerting”, “striving”, or “struggling”, particularly with a praiseworthy aim

Curious choice of words.

To a degree. But you also run into the classic XKCD problem of Citogenesis. This isn’t a hypothetical, either.

Had you, for instance, mentioned something you read about your own historical house on Wikipedia in the city’s newspaper, it would now be a cited piece of information that Wikipedia links onto.

There’s also the problem of link rot. When your small town newspaper gets bought up by ClearChannel or Sinclair media and the back archives locked down or purged, the link to the original information can’t be referenced anymore.

That’s before you get into the back-end politics of Wikipedia - a heavy bias towards western media sources, European language publications, and state officials who are de facto “quotable” in a way outsider sources and investigators are not. Architectural Digest is a valid source in a way BanMe’s Architecture Review Blog is not. That has nothing to do with the veracity of the source and everything to do with the history and distribution of the publication.

Gotta keep the Boy Who Cried Wolf around in case there’s a wolf.

I have heard the smoke alarm many, many times.

I have never been in a burning bidding

Misread that as

I don’t have chicken