I’m surprised it wasn’t because it had cholera in it or something.

Hell Yeah

The trash can appears to say “Ideas Discovery Healthier Tomorrow”.

The big problem with this is that the promise was secretly “forign policy is uniparty. Whether it’s an” R" or a “D” our forign policy will be relatively consistent" and Trump broke that promise. Now every nation has to prepare for the eventuality that different presidents might have different policy toward their allies (and adversaries. No president before Trump would have canceled drills with South Korea on North Korea’s behalf). That will take decades of consistency to repair, and as a fellow American, I’m not certain they will get that consistency going forward with the state of politics in the US.

I can’t wait to get yelled at by democrats when i refuse to vote for this shit head in a few years.

They did this in my city, but the furthest point from school anyone lives is, like a bit more than a mile and there is reasonably functional bus transit and bike lanes. It’s been a bit of a non-issue here. I could imagine in many other cities it would be a problem.

My favorite chart from this report is the one on page ~230ish where they show science benchmark test scores for students who use AI to study, and it basically just makes you perform much worse at any level (except one data point where the AI users perform only slightly worse). I’ve kept a few print outs of the page to hand out to the AI-pilled students I work with. In one of their words “wow. This is pretty damning”.

The way I see it, either Trump is, and this guy and all his buddies in congress believe Trump is, and rationally should be way more serious about getting people prepared for potentially having to engaged in resistance to that, possibly to include armed resistance (Trump attempted a self-coup already, that would be a reasonable reaction).

Or… Trump isn’t, or isn’t doing a good enough job for it to be a legitimate threat, and consequently Raskin et al are cynically blowing things out of proportion to benefit themselves in the election, while not actually taking seriously the call to action they are implying is necessary.

In the first case, they are underreacting to an event that has the potential to end the American experiment in democracy; in the latter they delegitimizing their own position by failing to accurately explain why and how Trump’s plans are not threatening enough to rise to the level of serious resistance. In either case I do not think Democrats have properly handled the situation.

It seems like any time there’s a resolution in the UN that doesn’t totally suck the US votes against it, so, yeah. That checks out.

97% white participants and only mentions socioeconomic status while discussing possible avenues for further research.

This is my immediate thought too. I have been under the impression that, after having their infrastructure partially nationalized during the Bolivarian revolution Chevron and the like viewed Venezuelan oil as too risky to invest the absolute shitloads of money they would need to to expand their production beyond where it already is. Maybe Chevron is uniquely positioned for this because of the extent of their preexisting infrastructure, but I’m curious to see if they just slow walk the deal until Trumps out, or something?

I certainly think the possibility of Venezuelans throwing a wrench in the plans after anger with the theft of their sovereignty boils over is greater than zero, but, like, who knows what’s being said beyond public knowledge. Maybe the bad taste left by Maduro is enough where thats just not a risk? Maybe there’s some other assurances we aren’t privvy to? Maybe Chevron is just greedy enough to try regardless?

I would love to see the logic behind that belief. It’s gonna be a good read. According to the first few results on the internet, the entier oil industry is, like, 4 Trillion per year (IEA says 3.5 Trillion in 2018). What the fuck is the slop bot supposed to do to make almost an entire US GDP of money?

This statement is really weird, even for Trump because in the question asked immediately prior he clearly understands the question about whether he directed Bessant to intervene in the bond market stating.

“Not at all. No, he’s a very capable man. He wanted to do it. He’s very good at it. He is a good touch. Very good natural touch for the bonds and interest.”

Right? He understands ehats beung spoken about, or his answer at least makes it sound like he does.

Then the reporter mentions that yields came back up and asks if Trump was going to direct Bessant to do “some other type of intervention”. At this point Trump suggests military intervention.

He goes from “Bond market intervention” -> “Interest rates” (reasonable) to “Intervention” -> “I might direct the military to attack the bond market” (deranged) in, like 10 seconds. Is he just playing word association? Is he fucking with the reporter?

There’s an AP article that was published yesterday, I think, which has interviews with a few of the people who went to Ceuta. A common theme was young men who are struggling to find work in Morocco thinking that there might be better prospects in Spain, followed by the realization that there really wasn’t for them. Might be worth the read if you’re curious.

Work work.

The guy who posted this, Thinkpiece Tribe, has some fantastic videos on his YouTube.

Here’s to hoping they have a pre-programmed kill limit

What’s that saying about oil prices? “Up like a rocket, down like a feather”

Profit?

Cory Robin’s book on Thomas taught me that you can learn a lot about the supreme court justices by reading the opinions they’ve wrote. I don’t have the time to now, but if you’re genuinely curious it would be a good starting point.