I am not a lawyer but this seems to me to be Not Good Morally and Presumably Against Some Federal Laws but it also seems like There Will Obviously Not Be Consequences For This so we probably shouldn’t set the expectations bar too high.

Chicago Pope uses hometown mob tactics to convert believers, circa 2025.

Things don't have to be pareto improvements to be improvements.

A large part of `the economy' operates this way. We transfer so much of productive people's money to the unproductive that the surplus--even after shelter, cars, obesity-sustaining food quantities, "education", healthcare--is enough to generate new & carnivalesque markets

Schu Overeducated Gibbon Yeah, but that’s a problem better solved through unemployment insurance or some other kind of redistribution on the back end. In other words, as a matter of nationwide industrial policy, it’s much better to let innovation happen and deal with the consequences later than trying

The meta story is why, with all of their resources and journalistic know-how, the New York Times got out-scooped on one of the the biggest fraud scams in memory (operating in plain sight btw), by Powerline Blog and Chris Rufo? But you already know the answer to that.

God bless 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

Friendly reminder. International law is a fake concept.

North Korean army marching into South Korea in 2050

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Andy really deserves to go viral for this one

No one remembers the December-March era of early covid An interesting question, though, is whether things had to play out the way they did. Could the left, hypothetically, have stayed the nonchalant side? While the right embraced lockdowns and border controls? I think maybe…

I think Japan should just own Taiwan again. And Sakhalin. And all the Kuril islands. Aesthetically pleasing island chain. Real countries have curves

Fun fact: 95% of jobs that do require a college degree don’t actually require a college degree, we just made it illegal to test job applicants for intelligence, so companies use diplomas as a proxy.

“We see from a historical analysis of ancient English, that, second to the Shakespeare-Egregore, Emperor Trump I was the largest statistical contributor to English idioms common in the years 2030-2075. Indeed, some of his linguistic coinage survives to the present day, three

Another reason why, long term, it is better for Japan to be the Hegemon of Asia rather than China. Unfortunately, the Japanese don’t fuck.

Law school changed my habits. For example, after I read UCC §1-201 in Professor Baird’s class, I stopped signing my full name to documents. My mother gets so annoyed when the cashier asks me to electronically sign for my credit card and I draw a loop and a sine wave.

There is a reason flood myths are a basic ingredient of every society. You find them everywhere. They’re practically the oldest thing we have. In the beginning, God divided the waters.

We must energy mine Yellowstone (from a safe distance from the park) as an act of manifest destiny and also to sap energy from the caldera to try and stop the boom boom. This is just as important as asteroid strike prevention.