"When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. "

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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! (@gengelstein.bsky.social)

When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 6...

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I was curious how the state-by-state battle is going for minimum wages in the USA; here's what I found:

The world is a lot right now. But we all gotta fight for love. Because the path of hate is so simple, so easy, so seductive.. black vs. white.. us vs. them.. you're either on our team, or you are our sworn enemy.. whereas the path of love is far, *far* more complicated and difficult. But love is the only survivable path. Hating someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It’s only a matter of time before that hatred eats you -- and everyone else around you -- from within. Choose love. Come with us if you want to truly *live*. 💛

Unless they are being held hostage in some way, I truly do not understand people who willingly choose to work at Meta/Facebook. I mean, could be worse, could be Oracle, I suppose?

"By comparison, InfoWars has never been cited as a source on Wikipedia. It is one of several fringe websites that were never used as a source or only cited a single time in Wikipedia articles that have a bigger footprint on Grokipedia. Others include white nationalist forum Stormfront (42 Grokipedia citations), the anti-vaccine website LifeSiteNews (100 citations), and the conspiracy websites Global Research and VoltaireNet (51 and 45 citations respectively). "

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Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites

A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do

"... the reality is stark. According to the 2024 Knight Frank Wealth Report, there are about 225,000 individuals in the U.S. with net assets of $30 million or more, just 0.07% of the population. Far from expanding opportunity, this excessive wealth locks millions out of the chance to innovate and build, weakening growth for all."

TIME

I'm a Millionaire. No One Needs More than $30 Million.

Setting a limit on wealth preserves opportunity for everyone, argues millionaire Scott Ellis.

w/r/t dhh, I'm making this part of the public record, because I will *not* tolerate people who get off on putting others down. When someone shows you who they are, *believe them the first time.*

> "P.S. If you don't want to receive any more emails from me, reply with "stop" :)" No thanks, I think I'll just mark it as spam in GMail. Also, I have image loading off, so good luck tracking any of this. You're gonna need it.