Who called it the Kims and not the nuclear family?

“Who wants to revitalize American industry?” *hands go up* “Who wants to repress the American working man at the behest of international capital?” *hands go down*

"The right is about finding external enemies to explain internal failures" is often uncharitable, but sometimes it's too on the nose.

People on Twitter polls: just jump in the blender, it’s a simple coordination problem. People in the subway as a deranged guy hassles someone half a car down: *studiously engrossed in their phones.*

“When a [university] is well governed, poverty and obscurity are things to be ashamed of. When a [university] is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of."

I think they’re bad because of all the dying.

"The international rules-based order, which neither follows rules, nor is based, nor produces order."

Problem: we have one uncontrolled company pursuing unaligned AI Solution: now we have two

It is an open question how much of the economy is capitalism vs. custom. In 2022, gov't spending alone was 37% of U.S. GDP. Adding the guilds and cults, perhaps as low as only 10-20% of the U.S. economy is free markets. A very different economy from the one we are presented!

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Impossible to ignore how in the Western media, China only exists as a Jungian foil and a distraction from domestically generated QoL failures. "We need to invest in better urbanism and transportation" >To improve quality of life for our citizens, right? "Nah, to own the Chicoms"

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Everyone hated the civil war map so I made my own

Can’t get away from plagiarism these days sfstandard.com/2024/01/14/chi…

It’s just the “it’s just the flu, bro” bro, bro

In the modern dispensation, it's disempowerment for a woman to serve a man, but the height of empowerment to serve The Man.

Remarkable how much "what you want for your kids" has changed among wealthy parents. I went to school with some pretty rich kids and they had the same anxieties and strove for the same McKinsey/tech/academia careers as the rest of us. Starting over from square one.

On the other side of the fertility collapse, the assumption of a nuclear family structure for the Atreides will seem as charmingly antiquated as slide rules on spaceships.