Americans can lock in a mortgage for 30 years. Canadians face a new interest rate every five years. Your payment can jump $760 a month.

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🇨🇦 I told an American friend how mortgages work in Canada. He thought I was joking. 🇺🇸 In America, you can lock in a fixed mortgage rate for 30 YEARS. 🇨🇦 In Canada, five-year terms are common. Then you renew at whatever rates the market offers. Imagine buying a home in 2021 at 2%. You … Read more

If your income has not risen by at least 30% since Covid hit, you are now poorer. And that is using the government’s own data.

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Since January 2000… 99.9% wages definitely haven’t kept up. pic.twitter.com/xoMPoNnMbO — TRON (@Tron91757) November 10, 2026 doom and gloom on Fox Business: "Real earnings for all private workers are flat now. Until this starts to show significant change, real earnings flat does not get consumers out of the hole they feel they have been in … Read more

New York man pleads guilty in $127 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme that ran for a decade

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Daniel Lee, 57, of Flushing, admitted running fake adult day care operations that billed Medicare and Medicaid for services never provided. The scheme also involved kickbacks to recruit patients and fraudulent pharmacy claims. Prosecutors say it went on for roughly a decade, costing taxpayers $127 million. Lee faces up to 30 years in prison. So … Read more

In 7 weeks, all 4 of our border states will be run by Democrat governors

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In 7 weeks, all 4 of our border states will be run by Democrat governors The caravan is already on its way: pic.twitter.com/8wvqtrcNuL — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 9, 2026 That won't stop them from doing whatever they can to hamstring enforcement — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 9, 2026 Rachel Maddow tells Jon Stewart what … Read more

A record number of young adults live with their parents. Now parents are helping pay for their kids’ holidays too.

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25.2 million Americans under 35 lived with their parents in 2025, a record, according to Realtor.com. Roughly one in three. And this isn’t simply college students staying home. Seven in ten adults aged 25–34 living with their parents have jobs. Housing costs have made moving out harder, even for people working full time. Now comes … Read more

Trump-linked investment firm backs company awarded nearly $40 million in Ebola contracts

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A company connected to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump has a new federal business line: disease screening and Ebola response. XpresTest, owned by airport spa operator XWELL, received an $18.8 million CDC contract and a $20 million State Department award for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The catch? XpresTest has never handled … Read more

People who stop GLP-1 drugs have nearly twice the rate of heart attacks, strokes and death, Lancet study finds

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A study of more than 80,000 people with type 2 diabetes found that those who stopped taking GLP-1 drugs had nearly twice the rate of heart attacks, strokes and death compared with those who kept taking them. So the weight-loss shot might come with a rather expensive catch. Once you start, you may not want … Read more

The economy is already struggling with inflation and high living costs. What happens when AI starts removing millions of paychecks from it?

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I don’t think people are thinking through the chain reaction here. AI doesn’t have to cause a recession by itself. It could make an existing economic problem much worse. Look at the timing. The October jobs report showed 165,000 new jobs and unemployment at 4.1%. Sounds pretty good. But the long-term unemployment share climbed to … Read more

What if Jensen Huang’s divorce is an exit strategy before the AI bubble bursts?

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Huang’s Nvidia position is enormous. A September filing showed roughly 811.5 million shares held directly and through family trusts and related entities, about 3.4% of Nvidia. At Monday’s closing price of $178.67, that’s roughly $145 billion. Even half of that would be around $72.5 billion. Now imagine trying to sell that much Nvidia stock. You’re … Read more

5th Generation Warfare, the battle you were born into.

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Dirty Civilian walks you thru 1st thru 5th generation warfare, and what the modern warfare looks like . “It is the first form of warfare where the public is unknowingly a combatant” Some military terms that they use that might not be known by civilians: TTP- Tactics Techniques and Procedures SOP- Standard Operating Procedures. This … Read more

Western tech CEOs keep telling us AI will destroy jobs. Then they wonder why people don’t like AI.

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South Korea and Singapore are two good examples of why this isn’t just a rich-versus-poor country issue. Both are developed economies, both are highly connected to the global tech industry, and both have democratic institutions. Yet people there are much more positive about AI than people in the U.S. and much of Europe. That difference … Read more

Commerce Department approved Nvidia chip sales to Chinese firms with empty offices and ties to sanctioned military suppliers

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The Commerce Department cleared Chinese companies to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, and a New York Times investigation found that some of the approved businesses barely seemed to exist. Reporters visited two company addresses and found empty offices. One company, New Matrix, had owners connected to Wise Road, a Chinese investment firm already on the … Read more

Apparently a lot of the cold medicine you’re buying is the same stuff in a different box.

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The cold medicine aisle makes it look like you need a different product for every symptom. DayQuil, NyQuil, Theraflu, Mucinex, Tylenol Cold, and about twenty versions of each. But a lot of them are combinations of the same handful of ingredients. You’re often paying for a different box, not some completely different medicine. One thing … Read more

Slax Linux 2026.11 is out

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Slax 2026.11 is out, and this is more than a routine update. The lightweight Linux distribution has been rebuilt around Debian 13, with a Linux 6.12 kernel, a redesigned desktop and a graphical installer. The entire operating system still fits in a 512 MB download. The new version adds a built-in AI assistant that can … Read more