That much more than the money is the reason for strictness about things like fare evasion, which can be easily enforced without violating people’s fourth amendment rights. You can see who is jumping the gates and stop them. slowboring.com/p/dc-is-right-…

The coolest people don’t invest in window dressing.

Chinese money launderers appear to have moved some $312 billion in illicit transactions through U.S. banks and other financial institutions in recent years to aid Mexican drug cartels and other criminals, the Treasury Department said on.wsj.com/3JFmXZ2

.Dr. Brahma Chellaney “the timing of Modi’s China visit could hardly be worse”, after Trump’s tariffs and China’s recent military support for Pakistan. Modi would be seen as “travelling to China with a weakened hand” as he seeks “rapprochement” with Xi, he said. Financial Times

Europeans have no idea how ridiculous their washing'n'drying situation is. Totally cooked by eco-insanity. We just got a TOP-OF-THE-LINE Miele heat-pump setup, and it's still fucking 6:20 hours to do a single wash + dry!! Would take 1.5 hours in the US on our gas/vented setup.

The Communist Party of China DID NOT DEFEAT THE JAPANESE IN WORLD WAR 2. The Chinese Nationalists -- with a huge amount of American support -- defeated the Japanese. Beijing's Sept 3 parade pretends that it's their government that won World War 2. It's not. The history is clear.

Probably because they rejected those abundo losers and saw the value of extensive community input processes

a lot of ai tech billionaires think they’re going to live wildly extended lifespans. but there’s more geopolitical impact when dictators for life start thinking that way.

Google funds Mozilla with $550 million per year to set Google as the default browser (and to keep a competitor alive so Chrome didn't look like a monopoly) Per the court order that has to stop today So Mozilla has now lost 85% of its revenue Mozilla makes Firefox

the united states needs to get this vibe back

"Left behind" implies we were in the race and lost. No, it is more idiotic/worse than that - we literally gave it away. 30 years ago, we took our best tool makers and engineers and taught everyone else how to build these components, then exited the race. Then we took all our

Steve Hou What if getting awesome entry level roles in your field was a ZIRP phenomenon and making shit money in something only tangentially related to your major is the true baseline for entry level employment.

mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 America has a power generation crisis and the government doesn't even seem to be aware of the problem.

Europeans on their way to tell Americans how they should feel about American spaceflight

Thoughts for Financial Times on #China's #green sector: “The situation has worsened dramatically… I couldn’t believe it, how fast it has deteriorated. I really don’t know how these #companies are going to survive.” ft.com/content/debdb9…

The NASA of Apollo is gone. The NASA of your childhood is gone. The NASA of your alt hist stories is gone. NASA is not what you want it to be.

It's fine to be angry about this. But we need action as well. arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/…

Overheard in the Pentagon: "I'm gonna start calling the Air Force 'the Army Air Corps' again."

Ezra Klein: “The fundamental question in politics is not whether you like a politician. It’s whether the politician likes *you* Will they back you up” And the Dems have gotten worse at visibly liking marginal Dem/swing voters vs visibly dreaming of not needing their vote anymore

Mercury France is beautiful. It’s a shame so many French live there.