So many, including a large percentage of influential elites, came to believe that relative peace and stability with thriving commerce is the natural order of things.
Fools. Naive, complacent, often selfish fools. Peace and stability take immense work to create and maintain. And not much to disrupt.
Newspaper excerpt from a Friday evening Seattle Times story: "Arozarena felt disrespected when Raleigh wouldn’t shake his hand prior to his first at-bat in WBC pool play. Per multiple sources, Raleigh had made it clear to Arozarena that he couldn’t shake hands, following a Team USA philosophy agreed upon by the players. But Arozarena attempted a . . . "
So, per the Seattle Times, it's apparently not just Raleigh, it's a team-wide decision to not shake hands. Out of UNITY and SERIOUSNESS. Which is rich given (a) none of Raleigh's teammates came forward to defend him; and (b) his manager is mailing in games because he doesn't know they count. LMFAO
Oh, you mean the Trump Admin handed a huge victory to a chief geopolitical rival, one it is now begging to send warships to the Persian gulf to help extricate itself from a self-inflicted political catastrophe?
there is a reason you rarely see op-eds from people who actually grew up around MAGA folks and in deep-red america *unless the angle is to chide liberal readers for a lack of empathy or understanding etc*
they don’t want pieces that say: i know these ppl. i lived with these ppl. they’re fash.
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
Jeff D’Onofrio, the company’s chief financial officer, whom Mr. Bezos named as Mr. Lewis’s replacement as chief executive, bluntly described the company’s situation at another meeting that month with a line that could have been pulled from an Amazon strategy memo. “Increased costs and decreases in output,” Mr. D’Onofrio said, according to the recording, “that’s resulted in a doubling of costs for story-units since 2020.”
This detail, in a story about the ongoing destruction of the Washington Post, is a perfect example of corporate vultures using "data" to justify cutting staff.
How many "story-units" was Watergate?
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New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...
I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.
My very first serious academic work was a study of how U.S. military and civilian defense officials simply refused to treat their Vietnamese counterparts as strategic actors that made rational decisions in their own interests, attuned to their own geography and survival.
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ICE agents in Oregon testified under oath that they used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods and people to target & had daily arrest quotas they sought to meet during operations
✏️ @theguardian.com
"We’ve seen numerous examples - of Trump’s mendacity and malevolence. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans will never see him that way. There are those who adore him unconditionally, but beyond these dead-enders, there are others who know he’s not a good person but aren’t all that bothered by it."
I keep pushing Marvin Miller's "A Whole Different Ballgame" as it's essentially the genesis of sports labor as we know it and Miller really gets into the nuts and bolts of union organization and negotiating with very hostile opposition. One of my favorite sports books ever.
the DOGE bros should be made fun of for the rest of their lives (in addition to being charged for their crimes)
WSJ: The likelihood of Iran closing the strait was discussed, Gen Caine predicted it, and Trump decided “Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait — and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.”
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it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
We are learning the hard way why nobody until Trump and Netanyahu was dumb enough to start this war. It is layer upon layer of multivariable mutual assured destruction.
If this logic were to hold up the Jaguars, Bucs, and Dolphins would be perennial powerhouses!
BROKERING THE DEAL is when my brain melted, if you want to know.
Reportedly, Travis Kalanick is planning or threatening to get back into the autonomous vehicle business with Anthony Levandowski no less.
Happy Friday the 13th.
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Back in the 80s there were still alfalfa fields in north San Jose close to our semiconductor fab. During a drought year our fab installed a water recycling system, then our CEO would brag that we used less water than the alfalfa field. Our revenue was 10s of millions, the field earned about $10K
Adapted from Axelsson et al. 2013 Fig 2c: Histogram showing the distribution of diploid amylase copy number in wolf (n=35, blue) and dog (n=136, red). Dogs carry more copies of the starch-digesting gene AMY2B than wolves. Additional copies make dogs better than wolves at digesting starchy foods like grains & vegetables.
Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM
It’s truly hurt my local baseball team, the Los Angeles Do—*taps earpiece* wait what
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...
Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:
This is a good explainer. As he says, Iran does not have to win a naval battle against the United States. It just needs to pose enough of a threat that insurers are not willing to insure vessels going through it.
We are not going to destroy Iran’s capacity to do that in the near term, if ever.
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
By holding oil prices hostage Iran shows Trump that regime change can go both ways. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Understanding why Y Combinator dorks are like this involves understanding how one is selected for such things, how one crawls inside Funding World to become Founder.
You get into YC by answering a long series of dumb challenges exactly like this (“how would you get oil around a shipping blockade”).
So yes, the reason why every tech thing doesn’t work, the reason why every big tech mogul is Like That, is that they’ve all convinced each other mutually that Impatient Engineer Brain is a business skill. Because that’s now all the equities market invests in. It must be business skill!
