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“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream
In her new book, Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

By Issie Lapowsky
June 9, 2025

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What about security, Higgiebotham?

This issue is often ignored by half-baked preppers...

...One thing maybe worth mentioning that is a bit off the beaten track and in my plans. I plan to put what looks like a tool storage shed out back, but it's really going to be a small rental unit. I plan ...

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I've mentioned in these pages that somewhere around 1971, give or take a few years, and it would vary from sector to sector with probably the more complex sectors coming first, that the US entered the maintenance phase of a declining civilization. There was a slow recognition and ...

Interesting. The political leaders involved in killing millions were born on average around 1885 while most of the notorious serial killers were born on average around 1945. If that's an 80 year cycle, the next wave of political leaders who will be involved in killing millions were born on average ...

The Great Depression and World War II may have caused enough stress to make more sperm go haywire. Think what a new dark age might do.

It's been noted that a lot of serial killers were born around World War II.

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"serial killer year of birth" gives these results from google AI:

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The birth years of several notable serial killers include: Ted Bundy (1946), Samuel Little (1940), Randall Woodfield (1950), Gary ...

The generational cycle could have a biological basis.

But plenty of studies show that anxiety is heritable, meaning that trauma felt by a parent can create a biological imprint in offspring. There’s an evolutionary argument for it—if mom experiences tough times, she’ll pass down that information ...

Which reminded me, several weeks ago, I had thrown out a couple ideas for how the tech bros could be self-sufficient in food in their walled off planned communities (not that I'm saying Bill Gates is one of the "tech bros"). After commenting about that, I realized I had forgotten an obvious go-to ...

Gates is optimistic about the overall benefits AI can provide to humanity, like “breakthrough treatments for deadly diseases, innovative solutions for climate change, and high-quality education for everyone,” he wrote last year.

Talking to Fallon, Gates reaffirmed his belief that certain types of ...

Regarding mannfm11's post above. I haven't read it for some years. Not 16 years, but maybe 2.

I think it's a fabulous post for the time it was written in 2009. What I see looking back on it is mannfm11 was illustrating what a severe depression would look like vs what we were served up, which is a ...