paulnewmanseyes

US unemployment rate: 3.6% German unemployment rate: 2.8%

It's on hiatus right now, but I really recommend the @games_we_care twitter feed for this. The 1,041 recommendations in its archive are pretty great, and if/when it comes back, I'm sure the future will be good too.

Don't want me to play Call Me Maybe on loop on my phone speakers for the entire nine hours of the flight? You can pay me!

Or we could both behave like adult human beings.

They've already converted the 26m DOGE into $25,000, it says in the last two paragraphs.

Ten confirmations in, my coin still isn't showing up. I guess the site's overwhelmed, but I wouldn't recommend others spend any money until the backlog's cleared.

That's not what an externality is. The article suggests that people already have an internalised value of around $5/mile.

Since cyclists rarely kill others, an externality tax based on micromorts would hardly hit them at all. Compare that to motor travel, though…

To be fair to Pogue and Yahoo!, the latter's had a sizeable journalistic operation for years now. It's not like he's going off to work in their PR department. (Which is a thing that happens all too often, yeah)