Author: Jack Slater
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Vox: “The Senate GOP health bill in one sentence: poor people pay more for worse insurance”
This is the single most important issue for many Americans today. The Russian interference into our elections is bad, but this could be imminently devastating to anyone who needs their health care to actually function. Ezra Klein: If all this sounds a bit in the weeds, here’s the bottom line: Low-income Americans get less money…
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The Times’ Catalog of Dear Leader’s Lies
David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson: Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office. […] There is simply…
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The Hitman That Owned Himself
Square-Enix recently decided to drop IO Interactive from their portfolio of development studios, which left IO’s series of Hitman (and other games) up in the air. Good news. IO is now the company that owns themselves and also owns the Hitman “Intellectual Property” according to the CEO’s statement. I have a few questions as to…
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Inside a Ukrainian Nuclear Missile Base
Drew Scanlon of Cloth Map, and my favorite podcast about speedy race cars, Shift+F1, has this great video from his recent tour of a decommissioned nuclear missile base in the Ukraine. In the video Scanlon actually gets to use the launch controls. Here’s the location on Google’s mapping service: And here is the museum’s English…
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Metroid: Samus Returns on September 15th
You wouldn’t have been wrong to think that Nintendo doesn’t care much about Metroid when it gets largely ignored by Nintendo, until today. Nintendo has a fresh team developing a new game in the Metroid Prime series and this 3DS remake of the Game Boy’s Metroid II: Return of Samus due on September 15th. Very…