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Not only that, but also, unassimilated Jewish communities in Eastern Europe were the likeliest to be exterminated - easiest for locals to hate, easiest to catch. Polish Jews couldn't fake being Christian because they didn't even know the holidays, and the few who did used that to survive.

It's all vibeflation.

Shapiro is good (except for his discount Obama shtick), Walz is very good, Buttigieg did good things at USDOT. Any would be a good nominee, or if not then a VP or senior member of the cabinet. Farming politicians to the cabinet as Biden did with Buttigieg is good and the US should do that more.

I like governors with good government and progressive achievements. These tend to be in purple states, and often their star fades because they failed to perform hashtag-resistance in a certain way (I'm thinking of Whitmer right now). If it ends up being Pritzker I at this point wouldn't mind it.

Not only should your country replace the rule of vibes with the Grundgesetz and the EU Acquis, but also it should learn to play football properly, with youth league feeders, a promotion and relegation system, and no university-athletics links.

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Speak for yourself, I'm a Newsom hater, I was happy with Harris in 2024 in part because it would foreclose VP Newsom, and I think Buttigieg should be president, VP, or SecState come 2029. Walz and the Khan are good too; Shapiro has a good track record but I'm souring on his discount Obama book tour.

Everyone else in the US benchmarks their costs to Caltrain - and in places with rolling programs for other things, like LA subway construction, costs are horrifically high too.

"These conservatives are starting a new trend: having four children." (Interview with like three tradwife influencers.)

I thought the counterparties are also doing real life activism? They just think setting barrels on fire is activism.

Technically your crime is "disagreeing with the alt-left in public." But yes. Wear the three arrows with pride.

The most unrealistic thing about #Starfleet Academy is that San Francisco and Sausalito will have changed their anti-tall building policies by the 32th century.

The NIMBYs are going to be anti-density and anti-skyscrapers in perpetuity

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Yeah, they've gotten more domestically anti-Arab, but UTJ and Shas tried to internally push for a ceasefire deal, they just weren't willing to break the coalition over it whereas in the opposite direction the Kahanists did (and Bibi himself leaned against in the first place).

(This included long digressions about war crimes and Habad's support therefor from a distance - they're still not going to serve in the IDF but they like the wars, whereas the Lithuanians dgaf and would withdraw from the Territories, they just don't want to risk their alliance with Bibi.)

I mean, on Friday I had to spend like an hour explaining the difference between Hasids and Lithuanians to a gentile friend who was trying to understand what a gay American Jewish friend who had been in Habad meant when talking about Habad's acceptance of gay members.

Did you tell him about Sasha Gusev's work?

I thought the extreme amounts of compute resources required were a moat? Evidently the models that aren't Claude or Gemini (or decreasingly ChatGPT) aren't as good?

Why not? Microsoft did for office suite software.

Microsoft Excel and related management improvements based on IT are the difference between successful economies like the US or Northern Europe and ones stuck in the late 20th century like Italy or Japan. If LLMs achieve that then the investors' money will have been well spent.

(The other thing is, housing in New York is atypically non-marketized - not just in the sense of rent stabilization but also in that of submarkets only available for people of specific ethnic or immigrant networks. Said grad student, without these networks, also has atypically small living space.)

New York has expensive groceries and some cheap fast food, but it's not *that* cheap and it scales poorly. So eating $10 bodega heroes every day works if you're a grad student on $42,000/year but not if you're a retail worker with a household size >1 earning the same total income.

What I make of everything the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Andreas Malm writes is to scroll past it. The idiot thinks Zionism was a British conspiracy to control Gulf oil and cheers every murder of Jews.

If deportation is good enough for a Green Card holder, it's good enough for these people.

I'm not ignoring what he did! I'm celebrating it. He defunded a so-called treatment for autism that's actually conversion therapy.

What the toffs who celebrate downward mobility and laziness don't get is, universal health care systems are run by people with Thompson's background, not Mangione's.

No, in his case it actually is virtue. Academic success to get into college and then MBA, then business success, in which the worst the toff class Mangione comes from has found on him is that he came into conflict with some rent-seeking pension fund. In contrast, Mangione is a murderer.

>barely 10%
>upper class

Okay, great, I'm going to walk into West London, declare that I'm in the top 10% of the population by income and education, and tell everyone to treat me like I'm upper class. I can even drop my Rs.

Classist? His father was a grain elevator worker; Mangione's family have their names on buildings in Baltimore, they're so wealthy.

And excuse me, but "he cheated on his wife" is what a cop who just shot an unarmed man says. Ditto "he was named in a lawsuit by retired firefighters."

Does Bangladesh have less elite migration? Or does it just have more non-elite migration because of the refugee crisis in 1971? The UK has 3 times as many Indians as Bangladeshis so it's about 1/3 per capita.

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