A serious problem with single party rule and nationalized politics is that local candidate quality, no longer relevant for a win, falls off. And it will continue to decrease since the voter feedback loop is broken. At steady state, it approaches zero, as shown here:

fascinating that the two best technology shows are one that does 8 episodes per year and one that does 260 episodes per year

Jared Isaacman’s NASA Administrator nomination reportedly may be revived - huge if true. Jared has huge support across the American space industry, previously 28 former NASA Astronauts signed a letter to members of the Senate in support of his position of NASA Administrator.

Inefficient education and health care spending are a much bigger problem for the US than most realize, with huge second order effects. Together they represent nearly 25% of GDP, and they’re a huge part of the reason US labor costs are uncompetitive.

If you read Marxists you’ll find that they love feminism, not because they have any care for women’s rights, but because they believe it destroys the family Destroying the family destroys the nation and hastens the coming of the globalist communist utopia

we could probably crash healthcare spending with one simple trick

This man (and others like him) are we don't have this.

Wow, it’s almost like making unlimited federal loans available for universities allowed them to continually raise prices with no responsibility

HUGE: Republicans have traded MTG for John Fetterman and a mid-sized city mayor to be named later, per Adam Schefter.

It's not trendy anymore.

Lots of people ruined their lives over a fad. Sad.

“Just be kind.” Feminization made the West acutely better but chronically worse. For each time we favored kind lies over unkind truths, we functioned momentarily better by sparing feelings but permanently worse by weaving lies into the fabric of social reality

America: we are in an existential race with China for economic world dominance Also America: every po-dunk village shall have a golden veto over any critical infrastructure project. azbex.com/planning-devel…

"things don't last as long as they used to"

The plan? All the people that assault bus drivers for $2.90, we let them sit next to you for free.

It feels like there is a broader lesson here

Here's another example of overprotection in the real world: banning peanuts from schools caused kids antifragile immune systems to develop improperly, leading to peanut allergies, as Greg Lukianoff and I wrote about. (Meanwhile no protections online)

The cancer is metastatic and requires radical chemotherapy

Thread with excerpts from Gail Heriot's "Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal". The argument is very simple: everything has disparate impact; therefore disparate impact doctrine gives the EEOC effectively unlimited arbitrary power.