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“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition 1/
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What makes the Covidian lesbian bar story so appealing is its quintessentially American and specifically New England character: a remote sect of true believers trying to preserve the old faith, but consumed by vicious factional conflicts over how to live up to its strictures…
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More to the point: In a country with a permanent current account deficit, -everybody- is on the foreign take, because every pool of money is tied to the sale of assets to foreign investors.
And furthermore: Once somebody else has the military upper hand, they can and will play your factions off each other.
The 1853 Pattern Enfield was either the first or second most commonly issued infantry weapon in the Civil War…in both armies.
Follow-the-money conspiratorial journalism is dead. Everyone can do it to everyone else, and no one is any wiser.
It has been useful communicating the scale of the phenomenon EA, which is vast ($1.5 billion and counting), but the money isn’t what makes EA uniquely dangerous. For that you need the anthropology and the whacky human-hostile beliefs. How and why they want power.
Here an EA tries to do it on “all the enemies of EA” but all it shows is how few lines there are, and how distant the nodes are apart. It’s just a list of EA enemies.
Are they going to do a $cientology and start filming their critics?
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Yesterday marked the end of my time as an Editorial Fellow at The Free Press. I’m incredibly grateful to @ollywiseman, @RubensteinAdam, and @bariweiss for the opportunity.
Over the past year, I had the privilege of working alongside some of the best journalists in the business and contributing to @TheFP’s fearless coverage during a period of profound political, social, and theological upheaval. It was an honor to be a small part of it.
Excited to announce the new gig soon! 📝
Onward!
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Britain was actually -initially- quite selective in which colonies it went for - most of its empire clustered around straits, capes, and river mouths.
Its African policy - in which it eventually did engage in a giant land grab - was a case of mission creep stemming from its desire to control - of all things - Egypt and the Red Sea.
Book to read is Alice Denny, Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher, -Africa And The Victorians-. It’s actually a cautionary tale of how a sea hegemon can wash up on land.
What made the British Empire the dominate naval and commercial force in the world was not controlling all the land masses on the globe, but controlling the key maritime chokepoints.
English Channel, Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Cape of Good Hope, Aden, Hormuz & Singapore.
We are learning that lesson again today, as maritime chokepoints are now being contested.
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It’s amazing what enforcing the law does for people
Even if you generally vote Democrat, consider voting for Republican attorneys general!
“We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths."
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Even if you generally vote Democrat, consider voting for Republican attorneys general!
“We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths."
Do we expect any attorney general positions to flip this year?
Georgia might theoretically, but downballot lag + Jackson's strong campaign could prevent it. WI/MI/NV/AZ are probably potential flips, but it's a very blue year. Ellison in MN would be in trouble in a redder year.
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Again, I make a political claim about the fact that the State Department doesn’t exist to give business the labor market it would prefer exists, this guy goes nuts. I continually tell him that political questions aren’t exhaustively determined by reference to economics and and says he refuted me on economic grounds.
I’m glad he read Hazlitt, Or Mises. Maybe try history. Or politics.
And I was not addressing any political judgment. You made a very dumb claim about the economics of H-1Bs, and I corrected you on your economics. If you are going to cry about being corrected on a subject, you should avoid that subject.
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And yet we are told they are the key to Beating China.
This game is lost for all positions: If they’re right, they’re Bond villains; if they’re wrong, they’re loony. If the machine god cometh, we all die; if not, we dumped trillions in investment into an End Times prophecy.
And regardless, we’ve instituted information communism, flooded the internet with bots, and wrecked the education system. If that works, we’re all dumber; if it doesn’t…we’re all dumber.
And China gets to keep the patents regardless.
Well done all - this was edifying.
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Yup. Akin to the old engineering joke about having a kid in one month by getting nine women pregnant. Some things you can’t force.
The conceit of the AI project is that you can fast-track this by inventing not-yet-existing technology to run robots that do the job. It’s rather questionable whether that takes less time. Not least because to be any good, the robots will require human trainers.
We’re back to human training pipelines.
my unions pipefitter apprenticeship is 5 years and most honest guys will tell you it took 10 years until they knew what they were doing
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Nearer 50-60 in fact. The US became a net steel importer under Bretton Woods (!). This was also when the car companies started having trouble.
Reserve currency status -even- under a neutral reserve asset is brutal. You can’t foot the bill for the whole party without incurring debts that result in assets being sold; you can’t have your currency be in demand without your workers ceasing to be.
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I, too, am a fan of The Hu
Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le revealed that Valve boss Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing at Valve HQ that staff started closing their office doors to escape the noise. bit.ly/4ygq2Dh
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Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le revealed that Valve boss Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing at Valve HQ that staff started closing their office doors to escape the noise. bit.ly/4ygq2Dh
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A nine year old can understand ideology, that’s why any serious though about governance is flattened into your sloganeering.
I’m in the free men and free labor tradition, i think programs that legally encumber foreign labor are bad for the character of a republic, and the abuse of this program has been documented over and over again.
When you point to the abuse, the ideologues will always praise it as some hedonic advantage anyway.
"I will never understand the free market, and I will not try." The absence of perfect freedom doesn't mean that more freedom would be bad. There is no perfect free market. The sole argument is that H-1Bs are bad for US workers, which is ridiculous and false on so many levels.
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Yes, because the American labor market is the *American* labor market. The American economy is the *American* economy.
Any state that actively puts its people in competition with foreigners to whom the state owes no allegiance is doing its people a disservice.
What a bizarre argument. It's the State Department intervening in the free market when it denies people the right to travel and work here. Also, H-1B workers have changed jobs 1.1 million times since 2005
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This is unwittingly a video about the way in which gambling addiction can poison relationships.
To make it more realistic, the girlfriend would need to steal his money to feed her habit. But it's directionally correct.
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Liberal arts colleges have a duty to be custodians of history, philosophy, and culture of the spaces they inhabit. Chasing national rankings divorces colleges from a local mission they have even as they teach timeless things.
The saddest aspect of the US' cultural decline is the death of local pride. Midcentury historical societies flourished in small towns throughout the country, with the help of local gentry and profs from local colleges. The death of local pride is the death of broader republic.
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