Ian Myers

Watters: Canada… the fact that they don't want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.

Microsoft has never made a good product. Windows is absolutely dogshit - its only use case is to play video games but even then just get a playstation. Github is kinda cool but they didn't make that. HoloLens sucked. At one point, Microsoft did sponsor me and sent me their best laptop + headphones. They fucking sucked. Also who uses Azure?

Emmanuel Todd - probably the greatest living French intellectual - absolutely spot on as usual: "Elon Musk is an astonishing character. He's the richest man in the world and so he has no filter. So he says things that seem absurd to us. I mean, he interferes in German politics, he basically craps on the Germans. He interferes in English politics, he craps on the English. He's just saying it out loud, but the truth is that when you read American geopolitical experts, this is what Americans think of us! Meaning he talks to Europeans the way Americans think. Americans despise us for our servility. And Musk is just the guy who says it. So we're shocked."

As Donald Trump prepares to pardon people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it's worth looking at what leading Republicans said in the immediate aftermath of that day's violence. A thread:

Reupping this video of Bob Dole's 1996 Republican nomination acceptance speech. "A family from Mexico [who] arrives this morning legally has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of founding fathers."

Why doesn't Japan need immigration to excel? Why is it only Western countries we hear this about?