LAND VALUE TAX!

Am I right to be suspicious of something called a Folkeparti or is that innocuous in Danish

I think this has to be part of what you’re thinking about in terms of ‘opening Hormuz’ by force. The Moskva should have been a harder target, and the Black Sea a *much* freer zone of movement, than a tanker transiting Hormuz

Ukraine hit that first ship in Berdyansk one month into Russia’s invasion, you’ll recall - after Russia had like 100,000 troops between the ZSU and the Sea of Azov. We’re not re-opening Hormuz by force

Lmao Georgists and spreadsheet libs are gonna end up pro-Mamdani while the dirtbag & populist left turn on him

Trump is doing super well with a group of voters functionally defined as ‘people who like Trump’

One thing I do notice about watching sci fi or fantasy movies post 2012 is that after Mass Effect and Skyrim literally no world building seems adequate within a 3 hour time frame. The best worlds still leave me wanting space to explore than only a game gives you

It’s a good thing we haven’t given Iran any reason to doubt the workability of phased ceasefires with Israel

If I were writing the end, Rey would have said a force prayer, communed with Luke, forgiven the Emperor and then, without malice, calmly killed him not out of hatred for him but love for her friends.

Also - the end is the worst kind of neomonarchism where, for reasons of The Force, it’s fine to kill hundreds of thousands of storm troopers but not the Emperor!

The movie series hit the casting series jackpot of a bunch of incredible actors all willing to sign on to relatively small roles, along with another series of winning lotto tickets of pretty solid child actors, none of which went on to have debilitating drug problems.

Indeed. What the world is letting Russia do, it will, by Smotrich logic, let Israel do

I fail to see how this is different from Putin saying the Donbas must become part of Russia.

I’m not a pure AI anti but I do know it’s making my students into worse readers and understanders of written text

Would watch

Empire state is about a 100 meters higher than Chrysler. As Chrysler is on the right, we're located on the south side of these buildings. For the towers to be visually the same height, Chrysler should be closer to the viewer. This is not the case, empire state is located more south.

Biggest problem I foresee is ‘John Lithgow was born in 1946’

Gotta say the big winner of 2026 so far is…. 🌴🇬🇾Guyana!🇬🇾🛢️

Oil knowers - what would this come to on a per-barrel basis if extended to tankers?

He was on the wrong side of the war, and also probably a violent psychopath, but at least some of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s decisions are starting to become relatable

Episodes 7-9 do not improve this problem at all

And yes this rule is part of liberal hegemony but ironically the part Russia and China can least afford to jettison!

“It’s a very tremendous gift, for the gods actually and they just left it on the beach, because we won the war, so we’re actually bringing it inside the city walls right now.”

"The freedom to earn, without fear or favor, a comfortable living, ought to go with the freedom to vote. Thus alone can a sound basis for republican institutions be secured" -HG

Or else sign some military "cooperation" treaty. I note Trump spoke of joint US-Iran control of the straight - ie both sides are behaving as if it's America's to give. I'm sure Oman and the UAE have made note of that as well.

🙏🇺🇦 The ancient Bernardine Monastery in Lviv, which, along with other buildings in the city, was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is on fire.

that feels like something you say when you're wearing a wire

How would #3 even work? Oman just gives up its territorial waters in the straight?

imo a lot of this happens to be that most people talking like this have lived in a consolidated liberal democracy and genuinely have no perception of what like, the Junker class was

"That he who produces should have, that he who saves should enjoy, is consistent with human reason and with the natural order. But existing inequalities of wealth cannot be justified on this ground." - Henry George

First two are reasonable but non starters. #3 is not Israel’s to give

Every time another country has been claimed to be close to joining the war - last time, Azerbaijan - its total vapor

When the sci fi director realizes at the last minute that they don’t speak English in Space New York so they scramble all the fonts

What possibly could have led them to such a conclusion, I wonder

Remember when that explosives factory exploded last year?

EU-Aus-NZ-Japan-RoK-Ukraine-Mercosur-Canada trade union when

We make fun of Trump for pretending ‘no one predicted Iran would close Hormuz’ but let’s be real - everyone knew it was possible but no one acted like it

Why deny this? It’s both impressive and justified

Desperately trying to turn the clock back to 2003 when Americans would support bombing Agrabah if you proposed it in a speech about ‘national security’

It’s incredible watching them set each other up to take the fall like this

I think 1) this is corruption Americans can understand and 2) it fits with their priors. Both make it a good issue to campaign on

Surprising common assertion in fact

Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch staring down the German spring offensive of 1918:

Enshittification in the most literal sense: the city just putting up port a potties in parks because they can’t afford to keep fixing vandalized restrooms

‘Is 12 a lot?’ ‘Depends…on how lucky you feel’

All the dictators showing their support and flexing their collective muscle. Which of our billionaires is there?

I am a big tough scary ICE agent which is why I’m wearing a bulletproof vest in airports, the only place in America without guns.

Yeah it’s getting harder to dismiss antisemitism as just over exuberant anti Zionism or whatever www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

Why would anyone AI generate an image when wading through wikimedia commons leads to such unexpected discoveries like a Late Mughal painting of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus?