it's another right-wing smear job to deligitimise what "may be the largest movement in U.S. history, as four polls suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations"

The attack has been made in recent weeks by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer; Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development; conservative talk show host Mark Levin; and PragerU, which has more than 4 million Facebook followers.

Black Lives Matter’s "emphatic support for gender identity politics sets it apart from historical Marxism," and the goals listed on its website "do not appear to be expressly anti-capitalist, which would arguably be a Marxist identifier," Berman added.

"I am fairly convinced these are mostly attempts to smear anti-racist activists. I think in some media, ‘Marxist’ is dog-whistle for something horrible, like ‘Nazi’, and thus enables to delegitimize/dehumanize them," Miriyam Aouragh, a lecturer at the London-based Westminster School of Media and Communication, told PolitiFact.

Black Lives Matter "is not an organization, but a fluid movement; it doesn’t actually matter if one of its founders was a liberal, Marxist, socialist or capitalist."

the market is almost 'littered' by games designed and marketed on the lines of instant gratification and dopamine boosts. It's no one's fault, it's the times we live in.

For example, for all households 35-44, the median net worth is ~$60,000. If you are a college-educated 35-44 with $100,000 you might feel a sense of entitlement at how good you are at managing your finances given you are so far above the median.

This is until you realize that the median college-educated 35-44 year old household has a net worth of $180,000.

Now, there is nothing wrong with being above or below the median, but, if you want to know if you are keeping up with the Joneses, make sure you have the right Joneses.

If you had beaten the market by 5% a year from 1960-1980, you would have made less money than if you had underperformed the market by 5% a year from 1980-2000.

many retail investors worship at the temple of alpha when they really should be praying for beta.

Japan is the winner for the greatest asset bubble of all time because of how well it scores on the three criteria (Market Cap, Price, and Recovery Time) relative to all other bubbles in market history.

To be precise, the Japanese stock market lost over $2 trillion and Japanese land values have declined by $8 trillion since the late 1980s/early 1990s.

More importantly, in the 30 years since the peak, both Japanese stocks and residential real estate have yet to recover.

The Associated Press reported in May that CNP Action discussed recruiting doctors who were willing to push narratives about reopening the economy before safety benchmarks were met in a May 11 phone call.

Whatever our equivalent of a psychic teenager triggering an extinction event would be, we’re not quite there in the real world.

"You spend some time searching for your father, asking everyone "have you seen my father, the middle-aged guy?", and that's the best part of the main quest and the game. Once you're reunited, the game hops on rails and takes you on a magical tour through one of the most idiotic game endings in the history of video games. Investing into a pair of good writers and story-tellers should be the top priority for Bethesda. The drop in quality, comparing the game to Daggerfall and Morrowind, is very noticeable and painful to experience. "

"Compared to the first two Fallout games, Fallout 3 is a pale imitation that may anger many fans of the original games."

men are reaching out to women 17 percentile points more attractive, and women contact men who are 10 percentile points more attractive

most attractive men still only get responses 50% of the time
looks like about 1% of men are rating to be in that "most attractive" category
80% of men are rated below "medium" attractiveness
though good news is women discriminate by looks a lot less than men, they message roughly evenly across the attractiveness spectrum

“They literally gained nothing,” said Jacob F. Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington

Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.