honestly what surprises me is that a guy who orders the government to give him a billy for no reason bothers to rip people off with branded phones and watches and such and promotes companies whose stock he just bought to the tune of low millions in profit. it’s purely compulsive criminal behavior

people are acting like this is some inherently ridiculous tradeoff but almost all of us on this site think it’s bad to call to end assistance to ukraine on the same basis (some support that on different grounds). the issue is the attack on iran is wrong, not that the economy is under strain

I wrote a post about this recently. It is a central fact about industrial capitalism that real resources are allocated on the basis of hopes and dreams, rather than as a rational response to prices in existing markets. jwmason.org/slackwire/mo...

哎呀 they got steven cheungus over there representing the diaspora we are losing catastrophic face

not that it matters at all but they should take him to see some countryside views with windmills. more to see if anyone in western media points it out

lmao

regional deforestation and particulate health impacts are also costs, but not directly borne by the consumer budget at the point of use. the long run soln is electric, but for the medium term there’s potential in ag waste carbonization and then briquetting/pelletization for charcoal substitutes

yeah the p source said there were two of them on the ark of the covenant but they didn’t count because [inscrutable priestly nonsense]

free energy from the sky + secure materials supply chains + logistical and factory robotics (ignore the humanoid gimmicks, that’s for show) + electrification of energy use = persistent future production surplus and low cost of living

free energy from the sky + secure materials supply chains + logistical and factory robotics (ignore the humanoid gimmicks, that’s for show) + electrification of energy use = persistent future production surplus and low cost of living

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i fully support the apparent commercial project of lying to the kids about what retro 00s style should look like

i have been thinking about the dynamics of the kwantung army and the imperial center in trying to find good models for the relationship between actors at different levels of zionist fanaticism/aggression within western power structures that don’t reduce to simple control. potentially useful imo

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didn’t biden already try this. it costs money to compete in high technology and quality of life. how are you going to do it with half the arsenal spent, way more debt, and zero legitimacy. at this point they can say actually they are more a democracy and young people outside the west will agree

The whole world is not America's chew toy

i don’t think they should let him say that

China has put forward three proposals regarding high-quality universal energy access, artificial intelligence (AI) plus energy and coordinated energy governance to promote energy cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

my understanding is iran is offering to let ships keep sailing through under conditions of trading oil in yuan and not being associated with america or israel. so maybe china should send ships to buy the goods and see what the various chains of third countries engaged in transshipment want for them

iran is making propaganda saying that they are under treacherous attack by crusaders, zionists, and warmongers, cruel demons united in perversion and greed, and seeking to destroy their innocents. this propaganda is fairly effective on account of being obviously true and somewhat understated tbh

this is an impressive level of 指鹿为马 but it’s still unclear to me why they don’t just order a pair in the correct size and pretend he got the size right

how is it everyone else’s fault that evangelicals are illiterate and have to delegate power to right-wing jews, mormons, and catholics, who are able to function in elite institutions just fine

Gas is expensive. Everyone will rush to buy solar, EVs and batteries i.e War will ACCELERATE energy transition. "More renewables will be built in the next 5 years than in the last 40 years" - IEA, lashing forecasts for US & raising forecasts for EU, India, Asia AND MidEast bsky.app/profile/scie...

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the acquiescence of the western allies who were so recently wailing about greenland is truly despicable. it's one thing to support this kind of madness while singing a stupid song about samson. to legitimate this as though it is a minor departure from a real negotiation is an insult to human dignity

nuclear powers aggressing against non-nuclear states on false grounds using false diplomatic processes and timelines in hopes of launching surprise attacks is bad. such actions have consequences far beyond the conflict itself. people are right not just to defend but to hit hard enough to deter this

probably not a viable strategy to try to overwhelm their capacity to reverse engineer captured hardware

we tried to do to independent korea what we are doing to gaza, and the survivors believed in the importance of maintaining military readiness and acquiring deterrence capability not dependent on china or the soviet union. somehow this is crazier than continuing to do this to people around the world

if i knew nothing about the case other than this list of minimizers i would immediately call to authorize the maximal response

you have to call it 90s-00s because it was already done away with in any organized sense lol. there’s not going to be an abolition of individual people making spot decisions to be rude to others

this is my main take on the thing. i have thoughts on llm-based ai research and capital returns, externalities, use cases, insights into the nature of intelligence and language, and more, but the left academic preference to demystify and disentangle received concepts seems to be what it objects to

congratulations and good fortune to all in the new year, including the devils and barbarians! as we shed old, very bad illusions in the year of the snake, let us work with tremendous speed and huge energy towards a fantastic, unbelievable new destination in the year of the horse. merry springfest!

congratulations and good fortune to all in the new year, including the devils and barbarians! as we shed old, very bad illusions in the year of the snake, let us work with tremendous speed and huge energy towards a fantastic, unbelievable new destination in the year of the horse. merry springfest!

in the previous decade and before, if you heard a team of doctors had arrived in a poor country that suffered a disaster, you could fairly guess where they were from. similarly, if a rich man fled sex crimes charges to a country that won’t extradite, there is a major statistical outlier. anyway

Much to consider. www.ft.com/content/3382...

genuinely confused as to why tate thinks epstein was a scumbag. oh wait jewish

the key to understanding the whole zionist overreach in antisemitism accusations is that this "whole package" identity encompassing faith, ethnicity, and a limited range on certain political positions is presumed, and any rejection of that presumption is itself taken as opposition to the whole group

taxing consumers and productive businesses to fund fat bonuses for the worst of us to destroy the best. possibly the most efficient society-worsening policy mix ever implemented

There can be no clearer evidence that the White House remains wedded to a Unipolar world.

it’ll go higher

Here's an article on AI-Assisted manufacturing: en.people.cn/n3/2026/0120...

this is really something to listen to live

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Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di... #Palestine #Israel

the man-made horrors have mostly been within our comprehension tbh

get bent mbs, we're building FREEOM

liberalism isn’t my framework but it seems like a baseline for it to have anything to say about international relations is it’s much, much worse to be inactive in opposing the crimes of your own country than to be offering incorrect explanations of the crimes of other countries

the turning the calendar page and the year is 1984 meme but the year is 1794