Like if you took a single 100 level Gen-Ed intro to comparative politics class you are objectively more educated on the subject than the majority of Americans.

Congrats! Those ppl on this site, like so many other groups in 2024, got exactly what they wanted in the worst possible way.

“The national emergency is about avoiding a national emergency” feels like it should be a GWB line

What do you mean? Running lightweight express trains at 110 mph minutes apart from each other in unsignaled territory and relying only on a guy with a flag for protection could NEVER lead to a catastrophic collision!

there’s Uvaldes everywhere we look

Northeast T-Trak has a module with solar panels and a display which shows the voltage.
ttrak.wikidot.com/energy-solar...

The worst part imo is that it obscures the very idea of state violence as a totality. Not in an institutional violence/racism sense but the fundamental concept of the apparatus' authority to use force. And it does so by creating a false and misleading sensation of direct participation in it.

<looking at the stove>
"I'm pretty special though, right, I bet I don't get burned"

Rahm Emmanuel is the Andrew Cuomo of Richard Daleys.

if you're familiar with the Breendoggle in the United States, it's evident that this kind of attitude - where sexual liberation and the rape of children were confused - *can* pop up anywhere. it was just particularly bad in France.

a robot that can fold laundry is pretty damn close to a general purpose technology, that holy grain of the economics of innovation.

same as the home construction robot. at that point the economy utterly changes, in a way that specialized automation of incremental tasks does not.

inviting you to reflect upon the ways your less-preferred but equally Proper consequence differs from the most likely outcomes of a constitutional convention for a couple days. don't reply now, i won't engage with it. give it a couple sleeps and really think it through.

It obviously means they are very materially wealthy

“making content for twitter nazis” is the perfect way to put it. I was actually shocked that, in their makeshift situation room during the Maduro raid, what they were “monitoring” was twitter. Twitter!

RIP Donald Shoup

Sam, don’t you get it?