Matt Schrader

Was mostly just living up my reply guy promise. Was the show bad? I heard some folks make nice sounding noises about it

Lived in Beijing about a decade through some of the worst Airpocalypses and this is the God's honest truth

The book was better

Are there any reporters in the Netherlands who have done a good job following this story, that you know of? No worries if not and no worries if it's in Dutch!

I would love any additional insight you could provide, if I'm being honest. Have not found a lot of good intel on this subject in some casual browsing and asking around. Is movement on asml impossible while govt in limbo?

Trump’s retreat on China chip ban triggers policy spat Democratic lawmakers expressed “grave concern” to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after the administration approved Nvidia’s exporting chips to China, loosening controls imposed on national security...

The Netherlands surely watching this closely. If the Trump admin continues to loosen controls it could endanger the tacit US/Holland deal that keeps ASML's highest end gear out of China. Keeping that embargo intact is quite literally the whole ballgame. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

definitely worth a spin if you still fire up pc games anymore. @samuelwa.de do you think you need to play FS1 to get FS2? in my recollection some of the story beats probably land harder if you know FS1 but I don't think it's necessarily mandatory

Fantastic Four is bad. Save your money.

Really disappointed at all the likes

Here for the 0 likes

Is it a technical

Was literally gonna be like BUTBUTBUTFREESPACE2

Fyi my guy this is about you. No one is impressed. You're a cliche, literally an archetype. Go find other ways to contribute that are actually useful. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Saw this "and you're surprised?" today in another thread. No, no one's surprised at the horror. You're not impressing anyone with this observation. Go waste someone else's time

Ok

honestly, it's just fine (the book and your confession both).

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All of us at CDT are touched and fortified by the outpouring of support we saw in our recent fundraising campaign. We are now extending the campaign to help support our translation work. The funding cuts have hit every aspect of our work and we are grateful for every person who is able to help.

sourcing recs like this is one place where Facebook groups have (for me at least) actually been useful

Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding

absolutely brutal read www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

😂

You must be a lot of fun at parties

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Just another afternoon on Planet Manhattan

Morphing into my final form as world's least appealing niche replyguy

The only correct answer to this is My Own Worst Enemy by Lit

Disrespectfully and uncollegialy disagree

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show | CNN Politics Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” in retali...

Trump claims in 2024 fundraiser tapes he told Xi "if you go into Taiwan I'm going to bomb the shit out of Beijing". - CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/07/08/p...

respectfully and collegially disagree!

Well that's another few grams of despair to throw on the pile