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@ScottKumka It's a collector's item!

Insane prices for basic cosmetic items at the Universal resort in Florida.

@RichardHanania @ramez Thank you thank you for this. It's been insane to hear some of the ways people approach this issue.

"In 2021, the average age of a MAID recipient was 76.3 years. Almost two-thirds had cancer, 19% had cardiovascular conditions, 12% had chronic respiratory conditions, 12% had neurological conditions, and 8% had organ failure." richardhanania.com/p/canadian-eut…

@cctvincidents Needs to be 20 minutes longer

@simonsarris I'm sorry you can't appreciate!

I feel nothing. It has the mark of nothing. It looks like the start of every new building in Boston (an elevator shaft). It is simply a place that is yet to become something and would only decay. Even the soviets tried harder than that. x.com/LucreSnooker/s…

This isn't striking, it just sucks. It relies on a beautiful boat and the sea to have anything remotely good interesting it. It does nothing to its environment but steal. This happens often with modern and brutalist designs

@Bethie010 @mattyglesias Abortions in France are available on demand up to 16 weeks. After that time they're allowed if they threaten the physical or mental health of the mother, including very late in the pregnancy. In all cases abortions are fully paid for, would you support this policy for the US?

@mattyglesias Much of Europe has abortion limits. E.g. 16 weeks in France. What are you talking about??

I was talking to a center-right European about why I’m a Democrat and was trying to remind him that all Trump insanity aside, Republicans have ideas about things like health care and abortion that are way too crazy for any European party.

@TheStalwart Strategic nurdle reserve now!

Member of the Odd Lots Discord says nurdle prices already surging in China

@romanhistory1 Great quote from the richest and most powerful man of his day

Today 180AD Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies leaving his son Commodus aged 18 as sole emperor.

@fitzr1122 Classic motte and bailey…”all we said is that it may partially explain a small portion of the overall trend!” Mmm hmmm

It's undoubtedly part of it, but people make a much stronger argument

@ASong408 @tylercowen @ATabarrok Wow it's great that you never felt unsafe that's all the info I need

@ATabarrok @tylercowen Visited Cape Town in May 2025, never felt unsafe. People were friendly and had a great time. The worst part is just getting there and back.

I expressed concern to @tylercowen about him traveling to South Africa due to the high crime rate. Today, there is a bomb threat at GMU. Tyler never misses.

@shaunmmaguire @bennbuilds @Prodigal_Bro Thank you Andrew Yang

@Prodigal_Bro @bennbuilds turn the ~30% of surface area in cities that's used for cars into parks put the cars in tunnels underground on and on, let's use tech to make life awesome!

These will probably be the last street lights ever built here

@ad_mastro I haven’t visited a store like this yet, but I find the pricing structure fascinating. They get goods once a week, everything in the store is the same price, but that price goes down each day.

A store in an abandoned strip mall selling what are likely to be pallets of returns from other retailers. Maybe some decent deals pop up, but I dunno. Raritan, New Jersey.

@HowThingsWork_ What do you mean, they made it in less than a minute!

The time this must take & the detail is just mind blowing! 😲

@TheStalwart "I, I, I." --Julius Caesar

Verbs aren't really necessary are they? Here's part of Christopher Waller's speech yesterday without verbs. You'd hardly notice if you were just reading quickly.

@Noahpinion Don't even joke! Once all this filters out that's going to be a real thing.

OK my new crusade is rights for AI agents

@DylanHudlerWXII Please stop

HOUR BY HOUR: - Snow begins Friday afternoon and overnight from north to south. - Roads get covered and slick. - Snow continues Saturday. Dangerous travel. - Intensity will vary. Lighter/heavier at times. - Ending Saturday night.

@benz145 This is something I’m curious about. My instinct is the opposite, that the joy of multiplayer is not the challenge as much as knowing you’re facing a peer. But I honestly don’t know how gamers will react to better AI opponents, we shall see!

Hot take: the biggest missed opportunity in AI gaming isn’t NPC dialogue or a companion bot that gives you game tips. It’s competitive AI that can pass the “gamer Turing test” and play with behaviors that are indistinguishable from a human. With human-quality bots, every “dead” multiplayer game becomes playable forever. Matchmaking works even with tiny populations or bad regional splits. What’s stopping this today? Data scarcity? Poor cross-game generalization? Real-time decision latency?

@jdmccafferty I would not be in a smoking mood

Figures impaled as a punishment in Egypt, Jan Luyken, 1681 (Rijksmuseum) The on-stake smoking here is something else.

@CapandConflict @Noahpinion Did you just replace em dashes with semicolons?

Excellent frame by @Noahpinion on the necessity of competition. But the "Galapagos Syndrome" isn't just about software; it is about the Midstream Refining Gap. You cannot mandate "local sourcing" if the US lacks the hydrometallurgical capacity to crack and leach the oxides for motors and batteries. Without a Sovereign Midstream, Detroit isn't competing; it is just renting an adversarial supply chain. The Canada-China 6.1% deal is the real "Pattern Interrupt." Mark Carney is not just buying cars; he is plugging Canada into a Non-SWIFT Clearing Artery (mBridge) that the USD cannot touch. We are bringing a knife (20th-century tariffs) to a gun fight (21st-century Kinetic Capital war). The threat is not the car; it is the Plumbing. #CapitalAndConflict #IndustrialRealism #mBridge #SovereignArtery

@EvanSchultheis And none of this is intruding on other countries’ claims. It would be great if China used the same rationale as we do for these claims, that’s what it’s neighbors are asking for!

The US islands are natural and not man-made to fraudulently claim other countries' waters and EEZs. The international court already ruled on this.

@TheStalwart Not only that, but it was a leadership shuffle in a party that had been in power for some time! Same party leaders don’t get the same honeymoon effect to begin with.

A) the modern era started in March 2020 B) The point is that he's post his honeymoon period, and that virtually every other leader sees their popularity go into decline almost as soon as they take office