This is true, but if World War III were between Canada and the United States, the United States would also win that. x.com/TheFP/status/2…

1) Private equity and landlords aren’t responsible for the housing shortage. 2) The First Amendment applies to the government, not NBC.

Producing more food is the only response to high grocery prices or food shortages that will both lower prices and eliminate the shortage. Amazing own goal here.

thinking of this anecdote about the first McDonald’s in Russia

As bleak as our political situation is, it’s worth remembering that commerce continues to produce miracles.

HBO without Last Week Tonight? That's like a ferret wearing slippers! *Turns head towards side frame* you get out of those slippers right now Mr. Ferret!

Working two part-time jobs instead of a full-time job is a very bad situation. But it doesn't describe the average worker lived experience. Its about 1.5% of workers. Those who are working part time because they can't find full time is about 3% and it's historically low.

Get rid of inter-league play.

Pretty crazy when you realize just how flagrant the scaremongering has been about data center water usage:

The US spends, by far, more on health care than “war.”

Correct. The question I always ask is, "if this were being done to us, what would we call it?" The obvious answer is "war." We would not accept euphemisms or jargon. That doesn't mean what we're doing is wrong; it does mean that we should own it. x.com/DamonLinker/st…

1. Actually, this is Colerain, Ohio—a township with a 227-page zoning ordinance, with designations that combine with overlays to make its zoning map look like a colorful Roman mosaic. And what did all that careful planning yield? This.

Also, even leaving aside the chart crime, the idea that 1.25% of the US population is in extreme poverty while 0.0% of the Chinese population is... really makes you question the data

Germany, Japan, Italy, etc., etc., etc.

Whenever you see a contextless large number you should be pretty skeptical. My hometown of 17,000 people uses 1.5 million gallons of water per day. Enough for 21 data centers like this. If you saw someone saying that the American west cannot afford to have 17,000 more people

It's very funny to me that this policy is pretty much a mathematical guarantee that pensions will take up an increasing share of British GDP, every single year, forever, and it's politically impossible to change.

We were close to a major national YIMBY bill, one that would have made real progress. Then the dumbest people on both sides turned it into a bill that stops housing from getting built, because they're obsessed with the completely fake problem of 'big companies rent homes'

I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do

The defense of shoplifting from the left has roots in the idea that 'the personal is political' The artsy people who think it's fine to steal from Whole Foods are envious losers, downwardly mobile types who think they're owed something by society. They can't grapple honestly

Today in The Argument, Milan Singh and I do a deep dive into the data on who is ordering food delivery. theargumentmag.com/p/whos-really-…