The economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has written an interesting piece on the widespread corruption in the current US administration. Some snippets: Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on Iran unless its government opened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a deadline ...

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2026 7:48 pm Whenever I want to feel old, I consider that my birth year is closer to 1900 than today.

Nah, for me that won't be the case until June.

Or I guess for this full year you can consider it a tie.

donlever wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2026 6:19 pm Was hoping to keep war and shit out of this thread tbh.

My bad. Will post it elsewhere in the future.

Ukraine is reclaiming territory in Zaporizhzha!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWLV1BBC ... 90Zjh3MWM3

Tucker Carlsson has been interviewed by The Economist, and weirdly he comes across as fairly sensible.
Is that how far we have drifted as a society?

Some Brits about the mess Trump’s gotten into over Hormuz.

President Stubb taking advice from an Australian journalist.



It’s actually good advice.

France and Finland have seized ships before, and now we've stepped up to start addressing the problem as well. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqwg0yej04o Yay! But doesn't this belong in 'Positive Shit' ? Sort of, but there could be retaliation. It would have to be minimal. You’ve been part of N ...

Zlatan has been hired as an expert commentator by Fox for the FIFA World Cup.

Could get interesting!

An outbreak of epidemic meningitis in Kent, UK. Two dead, both young women, 18 and 21. Another 13 in the hospital (article says 11 but is two days old). There is a vaccination programme at the university where most of the infected go and distribution of antibiotics to people who have had close ...

Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 11:15 pm

Per wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:45 am
France and Finland have seized ships before, and now we've stepped up to start addressing the problem as well.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqwg0yej04o

Yay!

But doesn't this belong in 'Positive Shit' ?

Sort of, but there could be retaliation.

While Trump has been stabbing Ukraine in the back by announcing that he will unilaterally lift sanctions on russian oil, Sweden is going in the opposite direction. We have in recent weeks seized two ships belonging to the "shadow fleet" russia is using to circumvent sanctions on their oil export ...

Frank Cannon is running away with this. :shock: Standings: 1. Frank Cannon 1263.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. rusco 1221.00 3. Cornuck 1200.00 4. 04cummins 1199.00 5. All4hockey 1199.00 6. UWSaint 1196.00 7. MCP 1191.00 8. SiSterWayne 1181.00 9. Per 1175.00 10. betterthanmost 1173.00

The playoffs are starting in Sweden. For Björklöven, who are in the second tier league, this is the greatest shot at getting promoted to the big league in a very long time. We won the regular season in 2019/20, setting a new all time points record, but then the relegation games got cancelled because ...