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@mattyglesias You got the European face down

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I’m at Patriot Place in “Boston” for the Scotland-Morocco game tonight, eating lunch at the Olive Garden and going to browse the Bass Pro Shop that’s next door. Thinking of making a video about it like a European tourist.

@TheGlobal_Index Obvious AI slop, I can spot many errors

Largest European ancestry by country in the United States 🇺🇸

@SidKhurana3607 I didn't know Massachusetts was a hub for Moroccoan Americans🇲🇦🇺🇸 but after checking my app it looks like there are a bunch in the northern suburbs including Revere. For Scottish ancestry Appalachia has millions who don't know they are Scottish and just say American for ancestry.

Here are the top cities (min. 50k) by Moroccan ancestry: Revere, MA (2.4%) West Haven, CT (1.3%) Alexandria, VA (1.0%) Kissimmee, FL (0.8%) And the leaders for Scottish ancestry: Pocatello, ID (5.0%) South Jordan, UT (4.8%) Sandy, UT (4.8%) Greenville, SC (4.6%)

@SidKhurana3607 Brazilian 🇧🇷 vs Haitian 🇭🇹 immigrants in Miami. Brazilians tend to be in the wealthier beach areas along the coast while Haitians are in the lower income inland areas.

Here's Brazilian vs. Haitian descent in the US + Canada: In the US, 1.1M claim Haitian descent to 567K for Brazilian. In Canada, 179K for Haitian to 72K for Brazilian.

Data on Airport Traffic in North America from the World Bank. Music Used: Star Spangled Banner - Cooper Cannell

@ZhouJaron The base of the Republican party is areas where marriage is a social default but a college degree isn't. The vast majority of rural America falls into this category but not a single neighborhood in DC does.

Still surprising the degree to which DC is the most liberal big city in the U.S. In 2024 it was a full 20 points to the left of San Francisco, the poster child of urban liberalism.

@Noahpinion Colonizer is just a slur at this point

This stuff is the Dems' answer to MAGA, and it's just as insane

@jawwwn_ I started making Android apps in high school. Were they successful? Absolutely not. Was it an important experience to gain early in life? Hell yeah it was. I now am making more successful apps in my mid 20s when most people would just be getting started.

Peter Thiel: Europe will never have massive tech companies because they fear success. "In Silicon Valley, there's this pornography of failure. You talk about all your failures, and this somehow means you're going to succeed." "In the social democratic European societies, it's acceptable to be moderately successful, it's not acceptable to be wildly successful. If you have a successful company that's starting to grow, it will get short-circuited, and you'll sell the company. You'll never get to an enormous company if you sell it along the way." "The single most important decision in the history of Facebook— summer of 2006. It was two years into the company. We got an acquisition offer for $1B from Yahoo to buy the company. There were three of us on the board— Mark Zuckerberg, myself, and another VC. We had a meeting to decide if we should take the $1B." "The two of us thought it was a lot of money, we should maybe take it. Mark started the board meeting— 'this is a pro forma thing, we're just going to talk about this for 10 minutes. Obviously we're not taking it.'" "Any super big tech company is one where you've been offered multiple times for people to buy it, and you've chosen never to sell it. You're not that afraid of success." "In Europe, the answer is to check out sooner rather than later and go back to the decade-long vacation that people are on in Europe."

@Noahpinion Here's my detailed map of the terf war between same sex couples and information technology workers. I don't have census data on fentanyl zombies but it's fair to assume anywhere in orange has them.

There are three groups of weirdos in SF that all hate and fear each other: techies, queerdos, and fentanyl zombies All three together are outnumbered by the normies, who try to ignore all three groups (and are ignored by them in turn)

@johnloeber Idk if Waymos will go Lake Tahoe anytime soon but I expect Los Angeles and San Diego to be part of the same Waymo coverage blob by the end of the decade

I am often surprised by what is possible. Going from SF to Tahoe feels like a big deal. It’s a 200 mile drive, you have to get a rental car, etc. And you assume that no Uber driver would want such a far trip. Turns out: you can totally just take an Uber. Some drivers want these! 3.5 hour drive, a straight shot in the summer. Much less stressful than the entire rental car rigamarole. I was surprised by how easy and viable this is. The inevitable next thought is when Waymos will be able to handle this drive. Certainly for summer weather, it feels within reach.

@crwiley1962 Usually Europeans only visit these specific parts of New York that are full of self hating transplants. Now they are getting to see the real America.

The reason why so many Europeans here for the World Cup want to stay is because they’re not the Europeans we normally get. Those Europeans hang out in New York City with Americans who wish they weren’t Americans. What appears to be happening instead with the World Cup is regular Europeans are experiencing regular America and regular Americans.

@chi_urbanist It looks like the areas where Hillary did well are the working class places where marriage is a social default but a college degree isn't

The 2008 Illinois Democratic Presidential Primary in Chicago

@HistoryBoomer Marriage as a social default is the main divide between the working class dependant on blue collar jobs and the underclass dependant on the state. Bronx is primarily underclass while Queens and Staten Island are primarily working class. Brooklyn has both and gentrification too.

That's the Soundview section of The Bronx. It's 80% Hispanic, but at least one of the men shot was from Jamaica. Median household income in that census tract is $35,600. Only 9% of those aged 25+ have a bachelor's degree. This is worlds away from my middle/working class area. Median household income in my tract is $116,000. 32% have a bachelor's degree. The tract across the street is poorer, $53,500, although 33% have a bachelor's degree. Both tracts are also majority Hispanic. And we're not in the rich areas! The Upper East Side tract outside my beloved Metropolitan Museum of Art has a $250,000+ median household income, with 95% having a bachelor's degree or higher. New York has some stark economic divides.

@Empty_America The county I live in has a lower life expectancy that Bangladesh lol, although I used county level data from just after Covid to make this vs 2024 Bangladesh data so that might be why. It takes a while for local life expectancy data to come out.

Bangladesh has a life expectancy of 75 (higher than WV or MS), fertility rate of 1.9, and youth literacy of 95%. It's pretty much "there" as far as reaching what appears to be the end state of countries that develop in the 21st century.

@AzizSunderji That map is extremely misleading, while Hyde Park technically has a low median income it is home to the University of Chicago and is the highest socioeconomic status part of the South Side of Chicago

Location of the Obama Presidential Center—one of the lowest income zip codes in Chicago…

@realMaalouf The American religious landscape will be very different by the 2040s, Muslims will outnumber Jews and what is left of the Jewish community will be very Orthodox. Orthodox Jews and Amish will start taking over counties in the 2040s.

The U.S. is quite literally the last Western country where the Jewish population still outnumbers the Muslim population. I don’t think most people fully grasp how radically different America will become once Muslims surpass Jews.

@Smirkley Canada will be such a weird place by the 2040s when the boomers die out and the children of the Trudeau migration boom become adults

Canada naturalized 374,832 people in 2024. Japan naturalized 8,863. Adjust for population & Canada’s rate is 127x Japan’s. Here are all the G7 rates for 2024:

@simongerman600 There will need to be a pension funding financial crisis in order to force governments to re calibrate social spending, as an American I hope this happens first in France, Italy, etc to give our leaders cover to make the changes needed before it happens to us

This is US data but the same is the case across Europe and Australia: 89% of senior citizens support raising taxes on younger workers to maintain their benefits. The median primary voter is 65 in the US. That puts the current parties in a pickle: either lose the elections now when making policies for young people or sign the death warrant of your party as the young people will never forgive you. I’m predicting a mass extinction of established parties. They could save themselves but seem too thick headed.

@MacroJason "America bad beacuse more brown" 😂😂 Newsflash buddy, Latino Americans have a very high rate of intermarriage and very low rate of terrorism while Muslims in Britian have a very low rate of intermarriage and a very high rate of supporting extremist groups

US demographics is even worse than the UK's. Latino population is projected to grow significantly to the point where Whites will be a minority in 20 years. In the UK, whites are projected to be a minority in 50 years - assuming nothing changes. Change is slightly more plausible in the UK as there's much less of a deep state as well as pro establishment lobbyists and PACs.

@Noahpinion It's the BLM for white people mindset that has taken off on the online right

Anti-Indianism is an almost perfect predictor of bad takes. If you see a guy go all-in on Indian-bashing, you just know he's about to come out with stupid takes on other subjects.