Author: Daniel Keem
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Emergency Preparedness Matters More Than Gadgets
Preparedness is mostly skills, plans, and relationships, not gear. Here’s why the survival industry sells the wrong product to most households.
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Removing the bereavement exclusion from the DSM was a mistake
When DSM-5 dropped the bereavement exclusion, normal grief became a billable disorder. Here’s why clinicians and ethicists are still arguing about it.
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Your Phone Is a Bigger Target Than Your Computer
Your phone holds more sensitive data than your laptop and gets less protection. Here’s why mobile is now the primary attack surface — and what to do.
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Bigger TVs Don’t Improve Viewing Experience
Past a point, a bigger TV stops improving the picture and starts degrading it. Here’s the geometry, the resolution math, and the case for “enough.”
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Property taxes are the most regressive tax nobody talks about
Property taxes hit working homeowners and renters harder than the wealthy, with assessments that systematically favor expensive properties. Here’s the data.
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Waiting to Buy Can Sometimes Pay Off
Patience isn’t always profitable, but on certain purchases the discount for waiting is enormous. Here’s when delayed buying actually wins.
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Medicare for All is the only honest fix and we keep dodging it
Every other health reform proposal preserves the parts of the U.S. system that are actually broken. Medicare for All is the only fix that addresses the structure.
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Why Some Plaintiffs Exaggerate Their Injuries
Injury exaggeration in lawsuits is real, predictable, and studied. Here’s why it happens, how it’s detected, and what it does to legitimate claims.
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Cash-out refis built the 2008 crisis and we’re doing it again
Cash-out refinancing helped inflate the housing bubble that crashed in 2008. The data says we’re repeating the mistake. Here’s what’s different — and what isn’t.
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Tribal Guarachero: The Music That Made the Boots Move
Tribal guarachero gave Mexico’s pointy-boot dance scene its soundtrack. Here’s how Erick Rincón, 3BallMTY, and Monterrey DJs built a global subgenre.