Updating my LEGO White House

I get the point of the law. However, enforcing it for a bit of coffee while cars and trucks _constantly_ deposit carcinogenic and other pollutants on the roads to be washed down into those drains is clearly ridiculous.

This is a tremendous piece of work. Very satisfying neal.fun/space-elevat...

Vermutlich die Kommentare zu Trumps Rede in Davos www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

Huh. Gonna be an awkward day for Secretary of State-National Security Advisor-Acting Archivist Marco Rubio.

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_nicht_ lange zu halten. Arrrgh.

Und selbst wenn man das ignoriert: Friedensnobelpreis für eine unklare Rolle beim Aushandeln eines Waffenstillstandes (=! Friedensabkommen) der gerade beginnt (und beruhend auf bisherigen Erfahrungen, eine grosse Wahrscheinlichkeit hat, lange zu halten). Die Verdummung schreitet ungestoppt voran.

Man stellt sich auch die Frage, ob sich dort irgendjemand länger als 10 Minuten mit internationaler Politik oder Diplomatie beschäftigt hat. Twitter als Ersatz für Expertise?

Horses are jackasses?

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

"I fucking told you!"

(wäre fantastisch 😁)

There is probably causality. Just in the wrong direction.

„Sorry, I have to call this in“
*switches radio to Channel No 5*

The 30 Years War in 3 minutes.

just going to point out that this would in fact be an incredibly bad idea

I would add: "fine dining", "French" _and_ "good food" can exist separately.

"If you think that change can only happen in the long term, there is nothing an individual can do in the short term to change things for the better more immediately". I don't remember when this came up but I would assume that is about the theme of fatalism.

Trumpland is full of idiots who believe that economic & military capabilities fall from coconut trees. They're ignorant & arrogant people who obsess over branding & aesthetics. They think they're about hard power & machtpolitik, but they're actually doing the dumbest possible version of soft power.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Not the most important issue here but "1000 years of communism" is to history what "bringing down prices for medications by 1500%" is to math.

How can be someone so incurious and uninformed and yet make pronouncements with so much confidence.

Sometimes direct democracy delivers. Not always, but sometimes it really does. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-de...

A moment of appreciation for @mattpolprof.bsky.social and @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social for reading Ben Shapiro's latest book so we don't have to www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...