I remain convinced that a well rounded Great Books course could inoculate the world against 95% of TikTok slopulism.

It took about ten at this end. Consider it a long term investment, at the very least eventually she'll start humoring you.

The trick is to just watch it around Christmas time every year for a decade. At some point someone else will say “hey we didn’t watch Die Hard yet this year”, at which your mission is accomplished.

Yes yes this has been established repeatedly over the last decade or so.

The west should be fully supportive of the millennia-long Chinese struggle to finally tame the barbarians that have so vexed their frontiers.

Increasingly coming around to the idea that the key to dealing with Russia is to treat them like steppe nomads and not a putative European country with ✨western values✨.

If I’m going to live in an autocracy I want to live in the fully automated luxury variety please and thank you.

The wild thing is that people are still doing "and then everyone stood up and clapped" style posting over on Threads. It's a natural replacement for Twitter circa 2020, I have no idea why more people aren't looking to colonize it.

Remember when the Hatch Act was a thing.

To be fair, nothing of value was lost in the process.

The Nazis imposed a 25% wealth tax on all emigrating Jews. If a refugee figured out a way to spirit his or her assets out of Germany without paying this tax, the government had a legal claim to that tax revenue.

Does that odious claim convey to successor states?

I gotta watch this with my girls.

A sustained 20% market tantrum fixes Trump.