this is the stupidest fucking engineering decision i have ever heard of. elon musk is literally of below-average intelligence.

Folks are responding, now, with “how dare you boycott Hillel. It’s antisemitic to do so.” Nope! Can’t have it both ways. Either “go start your own Jewish org, leave us alone” is the move or “we are Jewish life. Boycotting us is boycotting Jewish life entirely.” Can’t be both.

🚨 SCOOP from Axios Barak Ravid: Biden administration puts hold on ammo shipment to Israel

•Serious concern in Israeli gov't
•First time since 10/7 the US has stopped a weapons shipment intended for Israeli military
•US fears Israel will invade Rafah axios.com/2024/05/05/isr…

Prior to the TCPA in 1947 private enterprise regularly built far far more homes than at any period after. 3% of stock annually would be around 810 thousand homes annually in the Uk. Build rates of 2% or ~ 600k homes annually is the norm in France and Austria.

The CIA has been “quiet quitting” for years and we now have all these Middle East proxy states that won’t just do what we want. Gotta bring back the good coup guys.

Cannot believe I am doing this but…any podcast recommendations?

No talking about generic news, politics, pop culture. Niche topics and deep dives, edutainment would be great, but I also enjoy comedy/storytelling if it’s good. When I watch YouTube I enjoy Veritasium

Lin Manuel Miranda

The accusations that the US military is weak and effeminate were not effective, now the criticism is that they are too... masculine and confident?

Articles 143 & 144 of the Constitution of the Republic of China (1947)

Now this is another fun angle

If craft services ever served us this on a film set the crew would riot

This is Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, built in the 1920s.

Why so grand? Because Hollywood was making 800 films per year and 75% of the American population went to the movies weekly.

What were they watching? Well, 1920s cinema was much stranger than you realise...

Did bidet sales during the pandemic toilet paper shortage permanently affect toilet paper consumption in the US?

I think this is the funniest use of AI. just making imaginary hot guys to represent you and the other 62 year olds you’re friends with on the computer. it’s like fursonas for guys of a certain age

As a million Ukrainians were forced to wait for weapons that never arrived or were severely and deliberately delayed by the West, instead of quickly liberating poorly defended Russian-occupied territories, Russia began mobilizing several hundred thousand troops. 11/n

Hope this clears everything up!

I like this kind of visual data representation