Germany began automatically granting birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born after 1/1/00. Study finds that "immigrant youth who acquired citizenship at birth are substantially less likely to engage in criminal activity, with estimates indicating a 70% reduction in crime."
a) it's unalloyed good news that the redistricting in Virginia is nearly certain to pass
b) the fact that the margin looks like it'll run ~10 points behind Spanberger 2025 points to the limitations of political maximalism -- Virginia is blue enough we can do this, thank god, but it's not popular
we all know I have no life, so:
We should not underestimate the extent to which what this is really about is (and I’ve seen screencaps of the other side actually saying this in the past week) “it’s gay to be penetrated, including by a vaccine needle”
“Democrats are mom, Republicans are dad” is the synthesis of “everything is gender” and “everyone is 12”.
As someone else put it, he's a color & feeling that fights other colorful feelings.
THE POKEMON WORLD. MAY, 1945:
SOVIET CONSCRIPT 1: Holy shit. It’s Hitler’s dog!
SOVIET CONSCRIPT 2: How can you tell?
HITLER’S DOG: Hitlersdog. Hit-Hit. Hitlersdog.
SOVIET CONSCRIPT 2: Oh. Right.
I thought that was from the same episode.
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
incredible exchange here, this website has the juice
Yes. I like the Prequels so I'd say watch them, but even many people who don't like them enjoy tearing into them.
You mean J(ar Jar). D. Vance?
I think my measuring stick for how far off track our timeline has diverged is the extent to which history has justified George Lucas decisions about the original trilogy.
Tim Curry plays poker with John Goodman in his most iconic role.
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry, best known for his work on the fifth season of Roseanne.
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
Seeing them pivot from attacking that game for the bear scene, to having to justify why it was no longer irredeemably woke was fun.
Dustborn, Concord, Highguard, The Last of Us Part 2, Spider-man 2, and Relooted also get used.
the Romans would have loved cocaine but I can't decide if the empire would have fallen 200 years later or lasted 200 years longer as a result
A red indicator icon on the side of the screen of a civ 7 game. I am mousing over it which caused a text box to appear. It reads" "Benjamin Franklin has joined Fascism"
No, Ben! No!
But will there be an all Terminator remake of Friends?
the idea that taxing billionaires will give us a bright new socialist future is nonsense, the reason to have a tax code that treats them with maximal hostility is because their wealth is a threat to democracy and stability
I'd heard that. I think he wanted to explore the tension between free will and fate, as well as go more into the need to balance the light and dark side, since Lucas thought you need some selfishness in order to be healthy.
I thought they were just a reference to the theory of symbiogenesis, and the real movers and shakers were the Whills.
What bothers me about that is I see the author's hand in it. He wanted to have the dramatic twist of Luke not actually being at the big fight but still wanted to kill him off so he either dies from using the Force too much or just will himself to death because the plot demands it.
It is funny to contrast complaints about Padme losing the will to live not making any scientific sense with complaints about how Midichlorians de-mystified the Force.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." is there to tell you watch you're watching is a story of a story. I think at one point the idea was that all the movies were being told to someone by R2-D2.
I think there is something to finding a way to lower prices without also triggering the negative effects of deflation, or the downsides of things like price controls, given how much higher prices seemed to drive voters towards Trump. I just don't know what it is.
It seems to lead to a socialism of inaction though, instead of one that tries to actively address peoples' problems.
Sounds like austerity. Ending deficit spending and incurring allegedly-short term pain in exchange for promised future benefit.
I wasn't aware the gold standard was socialist monetary policy.