For me it’s that Japan supposedly has some of the highest national iqs in the world while struggling to match Italy on labor productivity

Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit

Restrictions on the Ukrainian military are an absolute no.

god this guy sucks

Imagine "actively worked to deny the Cambodian and Bosnian genocides" being only the second worst thing in your bio

80s: Japan is the future 90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture Now: oh, that WAS the future

Larry Summers was doing dating the right way. by Ezra Klein

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.

Olivia Nuzzi was doing presidential candidates the right way. By Ezra Klein

"It was liberals—not conservatives—whose embrace of electric vehicles gave Elon Musk his power. Now he is on his way to becoming a trillionaire, having dealt great damage the US government with DOGE." @gilduran.com #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

you would think that a new york times columnist writing regularly about the fact that the vice president pals around with neo-nazis would prompt literally anyone to do some reported work. but nope!

Tit-for-tat is the optimal strategy in a repeated game? Stunning. First I’m hearing of this.

i'm watching the 2008 HBO movie RECOUNT about the 2000 presidential election like i'm mark wahlberg talking about 9/11. "yeah if i had been there, gore woulda been president"

this is why the nimbys are losing

I'm a science teacher by trade. This anti-market stuff is just like the anti-evolution or anti-vax folks I encounter. "YOU may not believe in evolution or germ theory or "science," but trust me, it believes in you" You may not "believe" in supply and demand. But trust me, it believes in you.

Left anti YIMBYism starts from the assumption that middle class people do not have moral standing to make policy demands of urban governments and do not have the right to engage in political action to improve their material circumstances.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

The fuckin bears did it. They built the toilet paper MOAB

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

holy shit -- the disclaimer CNN hosts read whenever they bring up Epstein is getting longer

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

This is my favorite list that I'm on

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

ADM. PARIS: "So you proceeded onward, having defeated the.........terminal cancer patients?" CAP. JANEWAY: "It was more complicated than that, sir." ADM. PARIS: "Of course. Shall we move on to the.....space garbage men, then?" CAP. JANEWAY: "Evil space garbage men. Sir" ADM. PARIS: "Of course."

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores You can’t make this shit up, folks

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

Nothing compares to the suffering of a senator whose flight back from Napa was just canceled.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Hey what happened with this?

This is … quite sad

It's normal for twentysomethings to live in undesirable housing, often with roommates. It's normal for people just getting started to have to budget severely. The idea that everyone should be able to live in a dream apt, alone, eating out all the time, and going on fancy vacations is not realistic.

in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

You can of course drive down costs of this or that, but overall America is roughly as affordable to live in today as it has been at any point in history. That's incontrovertible, even if some specific categories, like housing, are artificially higher than they need to be.