There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is

From the maryland community on Reddit: My high school physics teacher is running for state senate and his intro video is amazing Explore this post and more from the maryland community

High school physics teacher Gary Foote is running for Maryland state senate, representing Carroll County
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I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

that's what this was about! there's two fields you need to set in a record representing a reply, one for the post at the root of the thread and one for the post being replied to, and ai spambots screw this up every time for reasons i don't understand

This is very well said 🎯

I did enjoy Dan Pfeiffer this week describing JD Vance as “politically maladroit, a blundering oaf.” Maladroit. Try to use it in a sentence today

Welfare is good, actually. We should aspire to having the best welfare system in the world

JAMIE: As a pretentious midwit, I love making my points through stories where flat characters have fake debates. Is that not brilliant, o Richard?

RICHARD:

idk if it occurred to anyone to go back and watch the old shit and find out what made the good episodes good but it def wasnt money. most great episodes did not have explosions or lens flares or big space battles. it had like a 55 year old man pretending to play the flute using someone elses arms

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Add to this the baumol effect, costly health tech, and the fact that many human services (health, education), largely provided by the government, are luxury goods. That is, as our incomes rise, we want a larger share to go on these goods. But that means a larger share of our income must go to tax.

1. One of my biggest frustrations is the #auspol discourse about tax & spending ignores that regardless of what we do costs are going to increase because of structural factors (geopolitics, climate change & demography). The choice is how we distribute the cost, not whether we can avoid paying for it

Take a median income location, have grid reliability problems, along with cheap solar and adoption skyrockets. Watch as this pattern replicates in multiple Asian countries because of LNG shortages.

Interesting post, thank you! Anxiety about the obsolescence of junior apprentice-like jobs is widespread across sectors. I wonder how accountants (one of the earliest professions to have their typical workday tasks totally transformed by computerisation) navigated that

Liam Hogan Thought has a prepared red line and consequence for American attacks

This is good.

Hence my puzzlement

Are you comparing J K Rowling to Ezra Pound?

Built in grinder, yes. I came here to say the Breville Barista Express too. Ours has lasted a decade and the coffee quality is great.

the left nimby program in a nutshell

1: "decommodify housing"
2: sadly, no new housing is built
3: i inherit my parents' house

Billionaire Dial A Dump founder Ian Malouf is a vocal critic, slamming the state-based levy as no more than a “tax on the rich”.

I, too, would like to slam the state-based levy. Land tax is no more than a “tax on the rich”. That’s right. It merely “funds public services” by “redistributing money from people who can afford it”, and it’s “fair” and “good”,

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The preservation of pure self-interest • Frank Bongiorno Five years later, does the future of Australian universities in the post-Covid era look any rosier?

My contribution - on universities - to a retrospective series at the excellent Inside Story: The preservation of pure self-interest, on Inside Story

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A Day in the Pre-Internet World, as Understood by Someone Born in 2002 ​When clock radios, film cameras, and the Yellow Pages ruled the world.

“Shouts and Murmurs” has published something funny, which, like SNL having a funny skit, is a once-in-a-decade event. Rejoice www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ LOS ANGELES—Facing fierce backlash for remarks deemed deeply ignorant by devoted fans, actor Timothée Chalamet came under fire Monday for dismissive comments about traditional Japanese bunraku puppetr...

“I never want to end up in a position where I’m one of the Ningyōzukai manipulating the arms and legs of this puppet that frankly hasn’t been relevant since the early 17th century,” said the Marty Supreme star

I reckon that in a utopian university, Claude Opus would mark undergraduate essays, with human tutors available to discuss the output and overrule it whenever the students wanted

Graeber very much specialised in extremely shoddy and tendentious books that succeeded because they made the reader feel clever and daring without any effort. The main difference between him and Gladwell is Gladwell is very much conscious he is a charlatan but Graeber managed to trick himself too

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Australia supports the war.

Is it lawful?

Not our problem! Also, we support the war. No further questions!