In 1978, a 54-cent paint scraper fell into the torpedo launcher of the Skate-class submarine USS Swordfish (SSN-579), jamming the loading piston. The sub had to be drydocked for a week to locate and remove the scraper at a cost of $171,000. #SubSunday

Incredible quote from my friend Liza Tobin

Every day, social media teaches us that regular people hold insane opinions

I mean, he has a point.

Hey everyone, let me introduce you to Eric. He's a food critic.

AI is my dad

He's not wrong about this.

My GOD I wish this was taught to every beginning music student:

Let's give this radical innovation a name... something like "export tax" maybe.

Half of Canadians are adults, and half are seven year old girls standing in the road, stamping their feet, red faced with rage, screaming over and over again, "You're not the boss of me!”

Poor people who farm can raise their own meat, but they can't afford their own lab.

Akshually Italy is an export-oriented, high-tech manufacturing economy that even by economists' standards is larger than the UK's despite a smaller population. Italy is a major machine tool exporter. Tesla got its giga-presses from a boutique Italian firm outside of Milan.

Feels like this is every American politician these days. They're all just fronts for an army of radicalized, extremely-online 30-year-old staffers.

To quota C.S. Lewis, "courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point." Similarly, cowardice reveals the absence of all other virtues.

If anyone wants to get a grip on the concept of countries being run by networks of elites, here's a starting point.

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Democrats are doubling down on making sure J D Vance is the next President of the United States.

The "immemorial" part of "time immemorial" literally means "from a time we don't remember" and rarely extends more than about three or four generations back into the past.

She is right about this.

The other experiment we could do without is vetting entrance into elite circles by family connection. My fear is that it's still too important (I hope I'm wrong).