Bim Jean

Sorry man, this has just dissolved into third-worldist slop. China has always expanded to the maximal extent possible throughout history. Ask Tibet. Ask the Vietnamese. Ask the Uighurs. And there’s nothing about building an empire that requires diluting your native population. Spain ruled South America for 300 years without becoming Mayan. Britain ruled India for 200 years without becoming Indian. And your whole argument has now shifted from “I will use the power of the Internet to create sovereign states for tech people” to “Maybe China will let me build a Bitcoin city!”

I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office. I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.

"A man's library is a sort of harem." Ralph Waldo Emerson b. 25 May 1803

Men only started wearing wedding rings in the 1940s, to a broader point so much of modern culture even what is considered “trad” is made up consumerist nonsense from the 20th century, not any sort of actual tradition

Thomas Massie lost a congressional primary this week, and most Americans will never hear the real story because the official version is too small for what actually happened. They’ll be told a retired Navy SEAL beat an incumbent in a tough race. They’ll hear the usual consultant language about messaging, turnout, coalition shifts, and changing demographics. What they will not hear is why one Kentucky congressman drew a tidal wave of outside money large enough to blot out the sun, why organizations tied explicitly to Israeli interests treated a rural Republican primary like a geopolitical emergency, or why Washington reacts with almost supernatural hostility toward anyone who consistently questions foreign aid, lobbying power, or the nature of America’s relationship with Israel. The names change every decade, but the pattern never does. And once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere. For almost eighty years, the same sequence has repeated itself with the reliability of a ritual. An elected leader notices that American policy toward Israel operates under a different set of political laws than virtually any other subject in Washington. He happens to mention it, or maybe even complain about it, on the grounds that the United States should actually be the country in charge of the United States. The man is rebranded as unstable, hateful, reckless, or “dangerous.” Then, they throw a pile of money toward his opponent to take him out, or they wind up in one way or another ruined or dead. Then, when the next guy notices this and says something, Israel’s army of informal ambassadors all act as if they’ve never heard of anyone criticizing Israel before, swear they must be a lunatic, and the process repeats. *Read the full article at our website by using the link in my bio.

the elites don't want you to know this but we've already achieved AGI - the labs know - the government knows the reason you're still getting "impressive but not quite there" announcements is because nobody has figured out what happens to markets, jobs, and governments the day the world actually believes it so we're in a managed disclosure buying time Anthropic please!

Dow Chemical is putting a nuclear reactor on a petrochemical plant. First industrial-scale advanced nuclear deployment in North America. X-energy's Xe-100 at Dow's Seadrift, Texas facility: → 4 units × 80 MWe = 320 MW electricity → 200 MW of high-temperature steam per unit for industrial processes → Baseload power + industrial heat...Simultaneously. This is the capability gap no one talks about. Solar and wind generate electricity. They can't deliver the high-pressure, high-temperature steam that chemicals, refining, and heavy industry run on. Nuclear can and Long Mott is the first proof of concept at industrial scale. AI data centers get all the nuclear headlines. But industrial heat is 20% of global energy demand with almost no clean alternatives. If this works at Seadrift, the replication opportunity across petrochemicals, steel, and refining is enormous. Dow didn't sign a clean power certificate. It put a reactor on its own site.

Played Witcher 3 for 45 minutes now, does this game ever actually start or am I watching a movie here? (Grumble grumble grumble)

1976 Coca-Cola ad is being taken as proof of the decline of patriotism just as that 1980s Gillette ad was taken as proof of the death of masculinity. We can't even interpret our decline except through pop culture and commercial advertisements.