Zoomer Antimillenarian

being in the room to watch sober minded French protestants discover what their American counterparts have become is near the top of my list of historical moments i wish i was present for

Guy whose family has been producing fine pottery since the 19th Century and is basically his Department's only liberal (everyone else is some variety of fascist or socialist) trying to explain to Chirac what is going on.

I remember this. I am also picturing Chirac having to listen to some wacked out French Calvinists to explain this to him.

Natural and Artificial Ice - Marginal REVOLUTION Excellent Veritasium video on the 19th century ice industry. Shipping ice from America to India would hardly seem like a wise idea—it’s hard to imagine ever getting a committee to approve such a ventu...

The development of widely commercially available ice "shifted the American diet from salted and smoked provisions toward fresh food", although there was also a "moral panic over artificial ice replacing the natural kind."

Everyone wants to be SV, but nobody wants to...
Ban noncompetes
Lift regulations on early-stage ventures
Offer visas

Last seed-stage startup, my lawyer told me that if I'm planning to launch in Europe I have three choices:
1. Comply with regs and burn the seed on lawyer fees.
2. Don't comply, hope no one notices until you're big enough to afford to comply.
3. Don't launch in Europe.

:(

This morning in Tehran. It's presently raining oil, per CNN

they need to have your phone or computer play the “missile lock” noise from top gun when you hit discover

However, the market cannot remain irrational longer than *it* can remain solvent, and LMAO here we go!

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, and the market is really irrational right now because a basic bedrock assumption it needs to function is rational US policy.

I was reading that the shipping industry believed it would resolve quickly because “it would be too catastrophic to not resolve quickly” but it turns out that’s not how things resolve?? is this bad??

shake-and-bake meth in a two liter mountain dew bottle made out of lithium batteries, matchboxes and sudafed can't compete with the mass-produced walter white shit coming out of sinaloa.

this is absolutely true! julius beyer, my hometown meth kingpin, was driven out of business by cheap Mexican superlab meth doing end to end pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine synthesis.

I was in a snowed-in hotel at the grand canyon once getting slammed with my friend Mike, and the bartender told us that the Havasupai had a thriving meth operation going on at the bottom of the canyon that supplied a lot of the area.

It's absolutely amazing how dedicated Trump has been to finding and pressing "FUCK THE ECONOMY" buttons, and has finally found a button he can't un-press when he feels like TACOing.

once saw a “booktoker” proclaim that she had never had a library card, as if that was not something about which she should be deeply, deeply ashamed

I don’t know how exactly but I blame tiktok for this

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

i would understand if objections to antizionism made the ADL overindex on proxies for antisemitism but they directly ran interference for Elon Musk _when he was attacking the ADL directly and throwing Nazi salutes_, and defended the Trump administration over Leo Frank(!?!?!?!?)

as far as i can tell the ADL believes that antizionism is antisemitism, which i suppose is defensible as an overcorrection, but also that literally nothing else is antisemitism, including heiling hitler

This is also at least part of the calculus behind SCOTUS and a lot of "normie" Republicans continuing to stand behind Trump. They still, at this late stage, do not believe that he can do any fundamental damage to America or their vision for it. They still hubristically view him as a useful idiot.

we need to bring back procedurals where the characters don't care about each other as people

Compared to today, a golden age.

Man, I wonder how the Romans treated Jews and Christians in the Second Temple Period and shortly thereafter.

Surely not in accordance with views of their own religious supremacy!

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Someone's trying to remake the golden age of OK Cupid.

I was thinking something along the lines of a stone slab with a text written in English, then under that the translation into Chinese, then under that some random text from the Voynich Manuscript. Ought to keep a few future grad students in ramen for a couple years.

I have no problem with elected officials rural pandering because that’s the ball game. The offense people without votes to win take on behalf of REAL FOLKS because they’re insecure about their own cosmopolitanism is contemptible.

and the real people who find Commander Despicable the real hero *would be his henchmen if they lived in the world of the story*

If this happens I'll start believing in that apocryphal Chinese grandpa who thinks God sent Trump to destroy America.