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Thanks Trump. I always secretly yearned for you to stab the US economy in the back for no reason.

If you do 10M we can add Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Sweden. And Austria, Israel, and Switzerland only slightly miss out.

I get 983M lol

True.

South Carolina is sneakily heavily gerrymandered. It's very easy to draw a compact 4R-3D map, which also reflects the state's partisan makeup very well.

But it's 6R-1D in reality, and the GOP has to let that seat exist because of the VRA.

Sometimes looking at possible maps in states where Dems gave up redistricting power is painful.

In the US, coal is having whatever the opposite of a moment is. In its flop era.

911 didn't reach coverage of 50% of Americans until 1987 lol. It covered 26% in 1979. It wasn't nationally mandated until 1999.

So many facets of what I consider modernity are still so new.

USA ($89k), Germany ($73k), Australia ($72k), Canada ($66k), France ($66k), South Korea ($65k), UK ($64k), Italy ($63k), Saudi Arabia ($62k), Spain ($57k), Poland ($55k), Japan ($55k)

There are only 12 countries on Earth that have a population of 25 million or more and a GDP per capita (at PPP) of >$50,000.

Getting rich is hard. Aside from Western Europe and its offshoots, the only others to make the list are Japan, South Korea, Poland, and KSA (who cheated)

Are gay/bi/MSM men less likely to serve in the US military? This survey of 2.3M American men found no statistical difference between the groups. They serve at equal rates.

Data is from 2002-2013, a higher proportion of men identify as gay/bi now (about 6.5%, an ~50% increase)

You can make a 20D-18R Texas using 2024 data even though Democrats lost the state by 14pts.

You can also make a 32R-6D map using the same data. Gerrymandering is stupid powerful.

Thatcher came to power and the British immediately started to lose faith in God

The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis Does lead pollution increase crime? We perform the first meta-analysis of the effect of lead on crime, pooling 542 estimates from 24 studies. The effe…

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Here's a popular narrative more or less debunked by new evidence: does lead explain the huge surge in crime in the 80s and 90s?

No, not mostly. It's certainly part of it, but the effects are relatively modest.

The solution is clear: to save the birthrate, we must stop men from going to school

If you try to create a liberal or neutral LLM, it becomes a wine mom resist lib.

If you try to create a conservative bot, it starts calling itself MechaHitler.

Much to be gleaned here.

- Elon aligns AI to his liking
- Instantly starts calling itself "MechaHitler”

Well, the bill may result in 17M losing health insurance, explode borrowing costs, increase the deficit, hurt student borrowers, make energy more expensive, and cut SNAP for millions, but at least it grows the economy right?

No. It has a negative effect on GDP!

Wow, Zohran *actually* supercharged youth turnout.

Didn't think this was possible tbh.

If you just stop after Season 6 and pretend the series ends on the bold cliffhanger of Daenerys finally sailing to Westeros with her army and dragons as winter looms, Game of Thrones remains one of the best shows ever made tbh

Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.

www.nola.com/news/politic...

“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.”

They're deporting suburban grandmas who make jambalaya and dinosaur chicken nuggets now.

Will be in Seattle July 27-Aug 3. Any ideas on things to do, any oomfs wanna meet up?

What actually reduced crime in America? Does anyone have any idea? 2025 is set to be the least violent year in America's entire modern history.

Incarceration rates are falling too, so it's not like we're just locking more people up.

ngl, pretty big loss for authors in one of the first major ai fair use decisions.

Incredible, but, is it a comeback if you were never really in contention until the final moments?

I think it's just a 'come' there was no "back" to be seen lol

Medicaid covers 36% of all US children and Republicans are booting 8 million people off of it.

grindr tempting me on this hot summer day:

oops this was supposed to be a draft note lol