We spent the last 9 months raiding Home Depot parking lots instead of arresting anyone from the massive network of Iranian terrorist cells?

croissanthology Marx was the proto-accelerationist. In fact, the Communist Manifesto is pretty good sci-fi. You just have to realize that the "proletariat" and "workers" mentioned in the manifesto are not humans.

Vicki Shabo It's incredible, you guys do keep expanding this thing. In this one, people with enough work history can sign a piece of paper saying they need 3 months off to help someone they consider family seek counseling for harassment (hello fraud). But still nothing for the poor.

Dave Barry used to write columns about his plan to run for president on a "two-prong tax plan." The prongs were (1) everyone will pay less, and (2) you, personally, will pay nothing. Now, this is just politics.

the value of this technology will mostly not be captured by its inventors, the labs, or even the chipmakers, but rather will be captured by the consumers as surplus. these are highly competitive markets without any natural monopolistic effects like many other technologies before

You can read the actual daily diaries of George Washington or the Autobiography of Ben Franklin to see that this isn’t true

Uniqlo Field sounds like the place where you go to fight the menswear guy

I have a piece The Argument on why the US is so much better at immigration than Europe. As someone who's lived in and studied both, I've been thinking about it a lot. Anyone who opines on migration on either side would benefit from acknowledging the complete US superiority.

Since "The Population Bomb" came out so long ago, most folks haven't actually read it. (Denver Public Library didn't even have a copy; I had to request it through a university!) One of the best ways to reject its lasting influence, then, may be having people actually sit with how

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

Media literacy is at an all time low. Dune is practically spoon feeding you "this guy is a white savior archetype and that's bad" but because Paul Atreides doesn't turn directly into camera and say those exact words they don't get it. x.com/PopDetective/s…

Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly

a trillion dollars spent on ai risk teams and no one thought to hard code into the model to not tell Bernie Sanders that you do crime

We can't have two economically illiterate parties, it's like having two fun parents, we're all gonna starve to death.

It is so hilariously obvious that the optimal arrangement for airlines is to offer a free checked bag and charge for overhead bin space

A fun corruption hack is to have your supporters sue the govt for something done under Biden, then immediately give them a huge settlement since you control the Justice Department. Perfectly 'legal' and can be done an unlimited amount of times. Money printer for loyal goons.

One way or another (SCOTUS, federal rules a la highway funds, etc.), we need national policy that municipal authorities are on the hook for all unpaid rent from the date of the filing of the eviction notice to the date the eviction is performed. Align the incentives!

Student loans is such a good example. Biden didn't get a single good headline out of that debacle. Imagine if the negative attacks had ONLY come from the right, while the "left" celebrated the accomplishment. But that's not how the "left" operates. They have to punish. Constantly

Conor Friedersdorf Offhand — * Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case. * Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet). * Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such). * 180 on many issues around BLM. *

The real problem with the ballroom is that it's not incorporated into the mixed-use, walkable urbanism of the surrounding area. I've added a Buc-ee's with an additional layer of market-rate affordable housing units on top. This should make both sides happy. No parking of course.