Sólionath We must terraform Australia. 🇦🇺 Make Australia Great Again.

we're nowhere near chips independence, but a few years ago the very notion was considered hopelessly naive. since then, the belief that we are simply incapable of reshoring has quietly faded from the conversation. now we talk timelines. that itself is a huge win.

In Japan, many are employed for life at the firm level rather than the occupation level Firms retrain people, so don't view robots as displacing Firms pride themselves on getting workers away from the "3K": kitsui, or "hard"; kitanai, or "dirty"; and kiken, or "dangerous" jobs

This is Shuzo Matsuoka, a former Professional Tennis Player. He’s notorious in Japan for his incredible motivational speeches

Bessent talks a lot about balance in the economy. He means it in terms of balance between production and consumption. An imbalanced economy is the driver of wealth disparity. Imbalance in either direction achieves the same results. The imbalanced economy driven towards

Manhattan, 1931. A city without skyscrapers, save for a handful in the Financial District and the brand new Empire State. A city of 3-5 story buildings. Yet more people lived there in 1931 than today.

NYC in Winter: drab hellscape. Humans were never meant to live in cities. The West has fallen. In Spring: greatest city ever built. A testament to human achievement. Everyone is beautiful.

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The most powerful passage from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius:

This year, the US will run a deficit of about 7.5% of GDP. If we don’t cut that to 3% of GDP, we’re likely to face a significant debt crisis in the next few years. This is not an issue that can wait. We need to do these cutbacks and adjustments while things are relatively

Ever wonder why sedans disappeared and every car is huge now? "Thanks, Obama!" His administration changed fuel economy standards in a way that had the perverse impact of making cars even bigger. Here are all the vehicles for sale by the 3 largest US automakers. 62 vehicles,

AI Doomerism is a thin wrapper around Socialist or Communist objectives. It's the Green Movement all over again. Amygdala hacking and weaponizing class ressentiment only to put a corrupt few in power and slow down technological progress, hurting everyone. This isn't the way.

The difference in power is massive

Power seems to have gone out in all of Portugal and most of Spain The West is becoming the Third World, we need to be able to talk about this

Spain three years ago:

POWERFUL PROGRESS: Nuclear is off to a fast start under the Trump Administration. Here are 11 key accomplishments from President Trump's first 100 days. 🧵 (1/12)

The 21-year-old drinking age had widespread and extremely negative consequences that have nothing at all to do with alcohol. It effectively shifted the American age of adulthood forward 3 full years. With effects on marriage, work, travel, everything.

A truism of CS is that you need to understand at least one level of abstraction below where you operate. - OS devs -> hardware - systems devs-> OS - app devs-> systems Vibe coding is no exception.

Why isn’t there more art like this? Venerating strength and civilization. Classic and modern symbolism. Golden art deco.