According to David Graeber, money originated from the need for occupying armies to be fed, thus the invention of tribute payed to them by the occupied.. So weapons precede money.

The only thing that makes the fiction of country real is enough of us pretend it is. It's not necessary.

Tesla's earnings report twice mentions the detrimental effect of tariffs on its business & as well as the uncertain macroeconomic environment.

Trump campaigned consistently for the very tariffs now hurting Tesla.

How is it not a serious breach of fiduciary duty for Musk to have helped elect Trump?

Humanned space exploration can finally start to be part of our glorious past.

Vem provar nossa mandioca frita!

bill gates was never the “good” billionaire

Striking data from the latest release of the Democracy Perception Index.

This data is published by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a European NGO founded by the former head of NATO and the former PM of Denmark, and certainly cannot be accused of pro-China bias.

In the 80's I thought the decade would be remembered for vídeo games. But decades past are remembered by things that ended with them, like rotary phones, not things that started with them. So the 20's won't be remembered for pandemics and natural disasters so much as....social media maybe.

I finally saw one in real life! The strange amphibian caecilian, on my farm

I spend a lot of time sweeping which is a bad sign. The dirt is what I and my dogs track in from all our walking around the farm. Or It flies in with the wind. But there shouldn't be so much loose dirt. That means a lot of the land is subject to wind and water erosion. Nature is the ideal always.