It's the first thing, the very very first thing they did when coming into the building. Usually, this stuff gets analysed as "what this absolute primary priority of the new admin tells us about ...", but in this case, no one wants to say it out loud, I guess

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

I don't know about knowing one got played (there are so many layers there, and a good proportion probably wanted all of this), but we are definitely somewhere close to that point of the movie

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a live situation ...

This reminds me of that old classic: 'why is there no WAACP then?'

Death, taxes and Bill Ackman forcefully talking up his illiquid concentrated holdings into the closing days of what must have been a pretty shitty quarter

Go get your own oil!

Short term career path management is a helluva drug

Hopefully safe to say now (fingers crossed) but there was always something unpleasant about 'of course he's going to Saudi next' Mo Salah speculation. Him getting released on a free kind of hints that's not at all what he wants.

These two posts are 14 hours apart. This is the mass psychology we are dealing with here.

More of a bookmark for myself than anything else, but quite unnerved by the number of people who I'd think would know better being lured into the "gotta hand it to Tucker Carlson" trap

all of us watching the news like

All of this for what, really?

Agreed. If the shock lasts long enough for them think about hiking, they'll be hiking in a very different growth environment to the one that exists today.

Movie review: PROJECT HAIL MARY. Very big, very silly entertainment that yada yada's half of the details of its world-building, and that becomes a bit heavy handed in its last third. And yet, so, so much fun. Very 1990s in a way.

lol

It's almost becoming an iron rule of posting hygiene that you cannot repost anything (except jokes) from anyone you're not already mutuals with.

Alex puts it well, and it's probably worth saying more broadly, even if that puts one at risk of being accused of bsky-luddism: everything will keep getting worse as long as Conehead & Co are the unencumbered dominant economic faction syncretica.substack.com/p/coercing-r...

Coercing the US to end this

This match had more endings than the Lord of the Rings closer

We go live to the AFCON final

Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game

A lot of the elite became very online for the first time in the pandemic and it’s hit them like smallpox in the Americas

Seems in most places lots of storage does a better job of ensuring gas does not set the price - you need renewables too of course but evening peaks are a gas-or-batteries thing.

Another reminder that this would be a stronger site if it was able to attract more language communities from outsiden the US and Europe

Not saying anything revolutionary here but it's really worth repeating how 'standard republican president' the whole Trump terms have been in the end. Delivered on abortion, delivered on taxes, total deregulation of the winning sector, insulting European partners, and stupid war in the Middle East

RETVRN

Lessons learned from Liberation Day (last in a series of such V shape event trajectories) is that sitting out or being alarmed is a lot more costly than the alternative.

Its probably not great when one of the 2 partners is openly going for failstate, and the other is just bored and up for whatever

in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.

Just saw the clip of that US Senator joining the brawl against that protesting veteran, and it remains incredible to me how little we discuss that a lot of these people exhibit all the signs of being on massive amounts of gear (with all the attendant behaviour side effects)

Gonna get a lot of use out of this

One suspects the "It's different, and actually good, when you do it to a very very bad guy" rationale may have ramifications that are not going to be universally enjoyable

"We'll fund your football clubs and take in some of the greediest adventurers you have (the type who'd have gone make bank in the colonies back when you had them). What do you mean, what do we want in exchange? Nothing 😇, you'll get us a round next time"

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

The dubai expat very vocal about the shittiness of the metropole* really is one hell of a textbook example of "I DIDN'T REALISE I WAS SELLING A PUT!", maybe the cleanest one in recent memory.

As everyone points out in the replies and in the QTs, this is a lot harder that you would expect when first hearing the prompt question

"the rule of law is vastly underpriced by those who benefit most" - nihoncassandra.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-...

The best descriptor for this era is 'vandalism'. These people have decided to break stuff, just because

new term “post facto strike”, as in a strike you always wanted to do and find a justification for it after you’ve decided

how it started / how it's going

Imagine my surprise when I realised Franz Ferdinand were neither Austrian, nor Hungarian.

There's going to be a lot of forceful lectures about Labour misreading the directional balance of risks in their coalition, from the very same people who contributed massively to (cynics might even say, cheered on) that misreading

In that sense, their doubling down on American right wingnut behaviour "we woz cheated by them muslims and the gays" should probably be flagged up more by their opponents, because... there's decent evidence that the median British voter isn't down with that kind of talk?

Same strain of disease as with the US: in that imagination, there are no working class women. In fact, definitionally, working class is when men.

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

Good morning

Iron rule of UK politics commentary: only one segment of the electorate is allowed to have 'legitimate concerns'