When I come to Portugal it always strikes me that mass North American immigration is affecting local identity and life more than South Asian immigration (for example beaches being privatised which goes against our strongest traditions) and yet you only hear complaints against the latter. Evidence the issue is racism, not immigration

Bom guito.

Progress in Latin, Greek. Can sense phrases, numerus, syntax.

Raymond Chandler on science fiction

BREAKING: Trump exploded and lost his temper during a security meeting, shouting and cursing out of frustration over the military options presented to him and the lack of progress toward a deal with Iran, per NBC News. A US official adds "after all this time, there is no unity" inside the administration, which is "facing a strategic defeat without clear policy guidance or a decision about where this is going." An ally close to Trump adds the president is "exasperated" and there was "not a real strategy for how long or what they should do."

All of our problems are downstream of the philosophy of science and mathematics (which is to say philosophy) being terrible. This leads to the ‘social sciences’ being terrible. This means elites have neither good analysis nor good solutions.