It's happening.

The generations of service members before mine refused to get seen for injuries. These guys would literally break bones and try to walk it off. When they went to get out there was no documentation and getting disability compensation, that they earned, became difficult. Those

You can't justify the statement "video games are a waste of time" without attacking the entire concept of recreation itself. Being "unproductive" is the point of hobbies. If you're doing something with the intent to "be productive" then it's not a hobby, by definition.

In 2010, Europe accidentally ran history's greatest macroeconomic experiment. Greece got the full Keynesian stimulus treatment—massive spending, money printing, bailouts galore. Meanwhile, Estonia chose the Austrian path: brutal budget cuts, no bailouts, and actual austerity.

If you are unreasonably excited about this we can be friends. If you will monopolize a conversation ranting about why it matters geopolitically, we can be best friends.

This hits the target with wit and inflicts critical damage.

Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a “regulatory clean slate.” Minor corrections to laws are not sufficient. We need to systematically review the whole set of existing EU legislation.

I sent this to my entire team, to read.

head of anthropic’s safeguards research just quit and said “the world is in peril” and that he’s moving to the UK to write poetry and “become invisible”. other safety researchers and senior staff left over the last 2 weeks as well... probably nothing.

SSGT Bellavia blessed us with one of the hardest lines of all time during his induction speech

This would be a good thing, actually. It would keep U.S. Senators from running 6-year reelection campaigns and refocus public attention on local-level elections. The framers were right the first time, and the 17th Amendment was detrimental to our republican form of government.

Waking up every morning and saying “I’m so lucky to be the guy on the left” is the only way to ensure you’ll never be the guy in the center.

The first culturally significant AI-generated it girl did not emerge as a digital starlet crafted in the laboratories of the corporate entertainment complex, but is instead an open source racist Athena summoned from the collective unconscious by a global secret society of

The peacetime science fair is over.

The real problem, as with slavery, is not actually in the material condition of the slave which can be better or worse than average, but in the enduring moral truth that some things ought not to be for sale.

Happy Birthday the sultan of Sword & Sorcery, Robert E. Howard!

WOW. This goes hard, and is the best kind of parody.

we really don't talk enough about how good frieren is

Watch as 1,700+ vessels move in the East China Sea (23–28 Dec). @nytimes reports this as a "quietly mobilized" barrier. Starboard Maritime Intelligence provided the data verification behind this analysis. 🧵

10/ In some smaller cities, clashes are more militarized. In a town half hr from Shiraz civilians reportedly possess hunting weapons—and in rare cases, military rifles—changing the nature of confrontations.