I'm at a bar watching the US compete against China in the Olympic curling and it's the 10th end and I'm starting to realize I don't understand how curling works

I'm skeptical that the US will ever be a minority white country. Since whiteness is not objectively defined, mixed-race children will become culturally white the same way Fuentes is a white supremacist. This would be like the way mestizo culture developed in Mexico.

I saw the new Superman movie and it was good. I'm not sure why people were calling it an anti-zionist movie though. If they really wanted to go that route they should've had him actually be a journalist rather than spend half the movie getting muddled in black hole stuff.

One important policy that will improve outcomes and save unnecessary costs for Americans is for the FDA to have an auto-accept from EU drug regulations. If they're happy, we should be too. It will also reduce political interference.

It doesn't seem great the US is the only country in the world that's able to fund globally important disease research.

A side aspect of immigration is having infrastructure for them. If your city doesn't build housing, you can't say you're welcoming immigrants.

This will go so hard for women whose boyfriends live in the Upper West Side.

There's a lot of value in having local journalism to continue covering local issues even when the national press moves on. We need to expand funding to NPR affiliates around the country.

Maybe I just grew up in a small place but what I liked about social media was having access to so many smart people. It seems like so many people can't appreciate it.

"The burden isn't on you" What do you think democratic self-governance means?

The halftime show had: - Farmers - Small business owners - A man and woman getting married - A big truck - Someone waving the American flag Probably the least woke of all time

Definitely the worst performance by the Patriots in any super bowl I've seen

It's amazing they're going to debut his archrival, Wabad Bunny, at the halftime show tonight.

This person is supposedly a professor of AI but doesn't understand how autonomous vehicles work.

I've got a long night of decanting ahead of me.

Given how much safer Waymos are, maybe we should expand the H1-B program to include taxi drivers from the Philippines?

Everyone should read this.

I think like many other things there will be an unbundling of big news outlets. I use an RSS reader where my "newspaper" can pick the best sources in every category. I read the Times but really only the local section. There are better writers elsewhere.

The quieter streets is an understated benefit of congestion pricing

Today is a good day to donate to your local PBS affiliate.

The turnout percentage doesn't matter. If you aren't voting then you are literally saying your opinion doesn't matter.

It's interesting they understand what they are doing is unpopular yet cannot help but to do it anyway.

People will say no human is illegal and then protest building apartments in their neighborhood. But then where are they supposed to live?

Burning trash and punching people in the name of... Immigrants don't want you to do that for them. They're not asking for that.

I don't think Xi will be willing to let China's currency float and be out of state control. The more likely outcome is no currency becomes the global reserve and that's bad.

These news reports are very useful digests and your money goes to a great outlet.

It seems to me that Will has been doing a great job of informing the country what is going on in Minneapolis. It is unclear to me how the rest of the movement is doing any good.

Every time I catch a shiny Pokemon at the office, I name it after my manager. This has happened several times and has yet to impress him.

I saw the movie Running Man the other night and had the same reaction

This essay is from a few weeks ago but seems more relevant today that the purpose of ICE as it actually exists is entirely antithetical to Christianity and Catholicism. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/every-cath...

I don't think anything ICE has done has kept us safe.

I think the average person does not understand how language models work or how they can be used/not used effectively. That seems to be a hard barrier to cross.

If a Democrat wins in 2028, there will be a lot of migrants at the border. It will be important to have a plan to handle them and it's also important to handle the people already living in the country. Otherwise we'll be in this same place once again.

15,000 nurses are going on strike. They make an average of $160k a year. One of their asks is an increase to $200k. Hospital CEOs make $25m a year. Is that fair? Well it is more complicated. Even if you gave them that increase, that's an additional labor cost of $600m every year, 20x executive pay

I'm going to build a snowman this weekend. I'll just stand outside and let it happen to me.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

The DSA complains about identity politics and tries to center class instead. And maybe there's a point to that. But it is hard to say, even today, that being Black is not a specific class that needs specific policy intervention.

Apparently Tracey Morgan hasn't aged in twenty years

There's a cohort of accelerationists who keep saying they will be starting The Revolution™ to fight back and I'm still waiting for them. Seems like a good time to start if they are sincere.

They're so close to blaming Black Ice youtu.be/efiW2K8gASM?...

I think this is bad but a necessary move. It's a worrying sign that I expect more countries to follow.

A lot of horrifying videos posted from Minneapolis depend on having access to a free Internet. Iran having shut off access through the country is concerning. While I don't think it could technically happen here, it reaffirms the need for press freedoms everywhere.

I did a bit of math and saw that if you tax foreign revenue from Hollywood movies at 0.5% you could roughly double the amount of money that goes to the National Endowment of the Arts. I think it's worth looking into.

I think "Abolish ICE" is not good enough. We need to reform the entire citizenship process so tens of millions of people currently in the country are not stuck in precarious situations for years. Even our asylum process was clearly broken under Biden.

*Minneapolis, Tehran, and the Federal Reserve

In both Minneapolis and Tehran we should stand against state violence

Getting the government off our back is now the antithesis of conservatism.

I agree with this, but I think many people wouldn't.

It's perfect timing for 2000s nostalgia