In reality the Baltics and Poland have thrived since democratization and now far surpass Russia in productivity and development. With Russian inflationary and financial crises inbound, never been more clear that liberalism is the superior economic model.

We must stop taxing productive work to churn money into wasteful payments. End pensions for rich homeowners, use $20bn saved to end stamp duty. Easier to downsize, inventive to rent out rooms. Atrocious we pay the rich to keep millions of bedrooms empty in a housing crisis.

Huge wealth may seem wrong. But clamping down on property rights, wealth, and economic activity makes you miserably poor. It just fails as policy. Check the productivity and growth of the top 10 economically freest countries vs bottom 10.

Many people seem highly motivated to pretend that intelligence is a curse. They want to believe in a just world, where IQ points come at cost of other skills, RPG style. This is plainly false. Intelligence is associated with nearly all other positive traits+outcomes.

Moderate running is good for your joints! Recreational runners have lower rates of hip/knee arthritis (3.5%) than gen pop (10.2%). Only elites overdo it (13.3%). Well-planned progressive load on heart, lungs, muscle, bone, joint, tendon makes you stronger, less morbid/mortal

Chart crime from Matt Canavan? He didn't link the article, possibly so no one would do what I did - used the interactive to check the month of the peak and find it was 2 months *before* Labor was elected - 21/05/22.

Can anyone help me understand why people seem to believe Coalition lost the Iraq War? I understand the case to call it illegal, unwise, damaging, strategically unsound, or wasteful, but a loss? They defeated and deposed their enemy.

Huge leap for Ukraine's strategic strike capabilities if true. At this low cost and high payload, Flamingo can follow up drone swarms that overwhelm Russian are defence and feast on Russian bridges, factories, refineries.

This is your brain on rightism: billions must die so the UK can be 6% brown instead of 8% brown.

Russian GDP PPP is probably less than half of Kremlin claims, and shrinking rapidly. 1. Inflation is at least 2.5x official figures 2. Nominal GDP growth is at least 20% overreported

In the West, you liquidate debts. In Soviet Russia, debts liquidate you

Ukraine is making military history - one of the most impactful strategic bombing campaigns ever, achieved with zero air superiority!

Building more than the anglosphere is miserable company and pathetic when compared with our past homebuilding. If we returned to 60s build rate we'd easily outbuild our pop growth, and get to keep all the benefits of migration.

Marcus Rubius appointed proconsul of Venezuela. Gavin Newsom elected President in 2028. Marcus Rubius conquers all of South America. Newsom blocks his return to run for President in 2032. Marcus Rubius leads his legions across the Panama Canal, hereafter known as “the Rubiocon.”

There’s an old saying in Petrograd—I know it’s in Simbirsk, probably in Petrograd—that says, There are decades, where........ where nothing happens. And there’s weeks when a lot is going on.