Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Britain: Council Fined Man Four Times After a Disabled Bay Was Painted Around His Legally Parked Car
December 9th, 2025So sorry… Via: Telegraph: A council has fined a man four times after a disabled bay was painted around his legally parked car. The owner of the car, who wishes to remain anonymous, left his car on an unrestricted road near his home in New Addington, south London, while he was on holiday last month. […]
The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
December 5th, 2025Via: Gamers Nexus: More: The DDR5 issue just got INFINITELY worse…
People Living in Hotels Instead of Renting Homes or Apartments
December 3rd, 2025I don’t think this is a new phenomenon, but please correct me if I’m wrong. A friend of mine did this over 20 years ago in Oregon. Via: Epic Economist:
The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math
December 1st, 2025This is ending. pic.twitter.com/iZwltSmXr0 — Made by Jimbob (@ByJimbob) May 14, 2025 Via: Wall Street Journal: Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth nationally by U.S. News & World Report—can’t do either, […]
Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers
December 1st, 2025Via: Reason: Whether called homeschooling or DIY education, family-directed learning has been growing in popularity for years in the U.S. alongside disappointment in the rigidity, politicization, and flat-out poor results of traditional public schools. That growth was supercharged during the COVID-19 pandemic when extended closures and bumbled remote learning drove many families to experiment with […]
British Man Arrested for Posting a Picture of Himself Holding a Shotgun While on Vacation in the U.S.
November 29th, 2025Via: Telegraph: An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US. Jon Richelieu-Booth said he was shocked by the “Orwellian” decision by West Yorkshire Police (WYP) to prosecute him over the social media post. The 50-year-old said that on Aug […]
San Francisco: Brownstone Shared Housing
November 26th, 2025Via: Nick Johnson: Flashback 2017: “This is bum living with running water and wi-fi.”
Brain Rot: Short Form Video Use, “Associated with Poorer Cognition (Attention, Inhibitory Control, Language, Memory, and Working Memory)”
November 24th, 2025Via: Independent: Excessive usage of TikTok and Instagram Reels is damaging cognitive performance, the American Psychological Association has said in a recent study. Data from 98,299 participants across 71 studies found that the more short-form content a person watches, the poorer cognitive performances they had in terms of attention and inhibitory control – meaning the […]
Americans With Four-Year Degrees Now Comprise a Record 25% of Unemployed Workers
November 24th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: The widening mismatch between an oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs has grown even more pronounced. Bloomberg reports that the latest delayed BLS data shows a sharp deterioration in white-collar jobs, especially those holding four-year degrees, now making up a record 25% of all unemployed […]
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
November 18th, 2025Via: BBC: Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationality” in the current AI boom. […]
