There were 906 billionaires in Sep 2025 according to Forbes, and they had $7.8tn of assets at that time.
That’s about the same as the 200,000,000 poorest American collectively owned.
The vast bulk of America’s remaining 150tn of wealth — about 100tn of it — is owned by the 15m or so that constitute the 90% up but who aren’t billionaires.

In other words: the majority of Americans own practically none of the wealth; many of the rest are still pretty damn poor; a big chunk of wealth is owned by the rich and very rich; and then there’s a tiny number of billionaires who own an extraordinary amount given their numbers.

From commodity, to investment vehicle. Anyone loaded with some DDR5 has retirement income.

We now have a NUMBER for the value of these data breaches. Time for the Lawyers to use this metric to go after every single data breach.

I’m curious why you’ve never used Apple Pay? I basically haven’t bothered with a physical wallet in years, living in the UK, I’ve just not needed to as Apple Pay is accepted everywhere. Also true in most places abroad from Norway to Saudi Arabia to Colombia (except in the US, natch, where i once had to run back to my hotel to get a physical card to pay at a big pizza chain restaurant in Chicago that supposedly took Apple Pay but wasn’t able to complete the transaction).

I think my deeper question is: just how much versatility is it sensible for a manufacturing plant to require of the robots that surface it? Humans are well-adapted for quite a few things (eg tool use, endurance running) but not others (giving birth safely, for one!). Most animals are adapted very extensively for a particular environment (eg a koala’s two opposable thumbs), rather than versatility per se.

We have the advantage of being able to actively design, but disadvantage of not having thousands of generations to evolve a well-fitted answer.

Interesting to think about, for sure

I just don’t get the value of using a humanoid figure. Are car assembly plants really so heavily optimised for the human body? Are human bodies so flexible in what they can manage? It all seems rather misconceived.

Guess what's going to be costing US more, and not just dollars and cents. Safety and health.

Its not racism or prejudice in the sense of judging people by immaterial qualities (skin color, sex/gender/ethnicity/etc) , it is the prejudice of Elitism. They think ONLY their elite compatriots are or should be eligible to doing the six figure job. There was a cute 80s movie that took this Elitism to task, The Last Starfighter.

It fits this pretty well.

Scots with a single t! Do not make that mistake if you’re ever there, or someone’s gonna rip your bawbag off

You live in the UK, right? You know that Frank Dobson’s best achievement as health secretary was bringing in the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), which makes decisions about what treatments to fund? Because no health system has infinite money, and so the alternative to making difficult, but calm, considered, evidence-based decisions for the whole country, is making those decisions whimsically and locally creating postcode lotteries and funding care for the patients who excite the most sympathy (eg cancer) over care for who who don’t (eg Alzheimers).

I have a dear friend, a senior clinician, who has served on a NICE committee. Genuinely some of the most amazing work he does. The decisions are really hard but they’re also inescapable.

Worth remembering that many European countries have tax-funded state provision of healthcare, often with national components. It’s not all social insurance like France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Spain, Portugal, Italy, DK, NO, SE, FIall Beveridgean. The UK has the highest degree of centralised organisation, though.

1. Separate shots haven’t been made at scale since 2009, so there’s no chance of doing this for the relevant populations
2. It creates a significant window of months in which babies are unprotected for two of the diseases, so it’s materially more dangerous
3. It means all these kids have more injections and discomfort
4. It’s pandering to idiocy. It’s really simple to explain that kids are exposed to far more pathogens on the daily than they’ll get in the three shots, and that their immune systems can cope. We need to do that, not admit defeat by dumbasses

The very same people who told right wingers to "go start your own" social media, when the whole big tech cabal collectively went after various people, are the same ones now complaining that they were banned without cause for posting on a Tuesday.

This isn't a pro or con right wing post, this is a "you made your bed now lie in it" post.

I'm not a fan of the bigoted posts from any side. People love the powers that be right up to and until they are on the wrong side of those powers. Take a moment and think things through, and lets stop being so damn tribal, and maybe, just maybe Liberty will survive.

I thought they required you to create a new account every time you log in.

Though that may have been 20 years ago. Last time I saw a reason to go there.

Gosh, what a thing to live in a country with unstoppable child rape gangs. How *is* President Trump, by the way? Bitten any 13 year old nipples lately? Silly question, of course he has!

It is always, *always*, ALWAYS projection with you lot. Every fucking time.