> Xi arrests the entire TFR China team > Immediately turns around and arrests the guy who canonically coups him in the mod if he loses the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

conquest's 3rd law operating on the international stage for everyone to see. starmer fired the guy who publicly admitted that he realized that the deep state/permanent bureaucracy is in control; the PM is reduced to a mere proxy for the creatures who worked on this "achievement".

one of the great things about llms is the almost all the documents that your colleagues send you are much better now

How are you supposed to physically build stuff if the prices for inputs like this keep going up vs overseas competition? How can a country where every input costs 50% more reindustrialize?

in a personal mini-disaster, i switched to chrome-based browsers some time ago not knowing they all delete history after 90 days... can't even trust browsers anymore.

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georgism? not a bad label if i had to pick one. guess radical centrism isn't on the menu of this political compass either

at first i thought, "ok military ops, but atleast they're very limited and short", but it looks like trump is stringing together one op after another in a desperate search for making history. this is expensive, and too many ops in short succession will lead to errors.

Italy with it's chill, laidback culture and a fertility rate of 1.2. Japan with it's intense, workaholic culture and a fertility rate of 1.2.

it would be super funny if germany build nuclear bombs while refraining from using nuclear power plants. imo more likely there will be a nordic nuclear bomb, because there's more political will. supposedly that's why sweden makes the gripen, to have its own delivery option.

this is an incredible episode. people say there are no more frontiers in today's world - but try working abroad for a multinational firm in dysfunctional countries, where the office is literally a first-world outpost where employees feel saver than at home. *you* are the outpost.

life comes at you fast

i wonder if anyone in canada is smart enough to use this opening for a killshot along the lines of "we don't want another boeing 747 MAX"

ever decreasing share of PV panel costs of total solar costs (especially in US with 2-3x higher installation costs than elsewhere) means building domestic PV panels is the obvious play for both US and EU. elon is doing it for the US; in europe ???

Out with the Erdos number, in with the Epstein number. How many inboxes of separation between your inbox and Jeffrey Epstein's? Mine is 4.

according to this calculation, germany roughly doubled its share of muslim population within 10 years from 5% to 10%, with a clearly visible break and acceleration from a slower long term growth trend taking place in 2015