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The most far-fetched part of Project Hail Mary, a science fiction story about teaming up with an alien at Tau Ceti to save Earth from star-eating bacteria, is the idea that Earth governments would unite to rapidly and competently address a global threat

Being an elite lawyer automatically blackpills you w/r/t healthcare. You spend your entire professional life horrified by the mediocre nonsense the median, even 75%-ile lawyer shills, of course you're going to see the median doctor as a ticking timebomb of incompetence.

Economics: The optimal level of tax evasion, govt waste, crime, and even voter fraud is often *above* zero. (Because getting to literal zero usually requires imposing dramatically higher costs & burdens on everyone else to ensure prevention of those last, few, toughest cases.)

Canada really has dealt well this past year.

Zelensky has been dragged through the mud by innumerable people, all the while he's kept plugging away to turn into one of the most consequential politicians of the decade.

⚡️SCOOP: Putin gathered oligarchs behind closed doors and asked them to pitch in for the war in Ukraine Today Putin held a closed-door meeting with Russia’s largest businessmen. The contents of such meetings are typically not disclosed, and since the war began even the list of attendees has been classified. But The Bell has learned that Putin discussed the continuation of the war and its financing with the oligarchs 1/6

Nick Timothy, a leading Conservative MP, thinks that it's somehow an outrage that an envelope has some Bengali writing on it. A bit like how countries like Spain publish many things in English for people whose Spanish isn't perfect.