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Passed by a German bakery in Japan that sold churros and I think that's beautiful

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lack of understanding of marginal tax rates isn't just a right-wing thing in my experience it's a general low-social trust/lack of education thing

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Reupping this for people who are fans of sensible technology integration across tax-payer funded services. AI optimism risks wasting £100s of million public funds; it doesn't have to be like that.

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submitted 14 days ago • 161 comments

wrote about ULEZ, which is good

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Oh for fucks sake arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 11 days ago • 156 comments

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Ah yes. The reform to end all reforms again.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

A small, inconsequential, but telling example of what an aging population country looks like. A church designed by Tadao Ando is suspending tours because all the previous volunteers it had are too old or ill to hold the tours.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

One odd thing about all this is that that those who shout about wanting "de-regulation" are also clapping and cheering at tariffs, the one of the oldest forms of, well, regulating trade. Words are detached from concepts, no connections are being made. Muddled (lack of) thinking instead of policy.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 14 days ago • 621 comments

we're at the "Elon trying to get specific organizers targeted" phase of Elon being mad

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.

submitted 21 days ago • 62 comments

The last remnants of the ZIRP era are being undone. All that remains is the tech broligarchy that needs dismantling.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A flawless work of art. Oh to be coming to it fresh again…

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

this is all stuff I faintly remember reading about at the time but reading about Zelenskyy's election campaign now feels entirely absurd, he really was just a comedian who ran mostly via YouTube and stand-up, as a bit, and he's now the west's greatest 21st century wartime leader

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

The embrace and protection of Andrew Tate at the highest level of US government tells you everything you need to know about this rotten administration. They worship at the altar of abusing women and girls. Their version of morality supports sex trafficking under the guise of camming

submitted 25 days ago • 319 comments

Has anyone written anything bridging @adamtooze.bsky.social's theory of a three-way class war in the U.S. with Turchin's elite overproduction?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This, by @martinsandbu.ft.com is probably the best reading of what MAGA's assault on Europe means and what our takeaway should be. I hope UK leaders learn this and understand that aligning themselves with Europe is the right (morally AND strategically) move here.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Cordon sanitaires have been around in Europe since 1945 so if Nick is concerned about democracy now he may need to revisit his view of whether it existed at all since WWII.

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Just looking at the latest YouGov poll - the Tories are on 9% with people under 50. It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.

submitted 31 days ago • 115 comments

As I’ve said before, nowhere is doing social housing as good as Spain 11 social housing apartments in Mallorca, by Carles Enrich Studio Simple finishes. Dual aspect homes with cross ventilation. Adaptive shading. So much to appreciate.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Spiegel writes that by now Europeans should have realised that they are alone. The EU needs to brace for an end of the US defence shield. This means boosting national military spending and coming up with new financial mechanisms to fund joint projects.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 32 days ago • 108 comments

However true it might have been in the past that our economic model generates the best or even the most economically productive use of resources, the idea it still does now is clearly bullshit.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

“Movies you’ve watched more than six times, GIFs only”

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I loooooove this website baby

submitted 35 days ago • 184 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 35 days ago • 757 comments

If 🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 & 🇨🇭 & every other 🇪🇺 country were more serious & strategic, they would be doing this on a massive scale. Alas, the only thing more certain than the needless idiocy of our self-destruction of 🇺🇸 higher education/research is that these countries are not going to do this on a massive scale.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

Here’s a question for @jasonfurman.bsky.social & other partisans of cost-benefit analysis: in computing the optimal staffing level for the FAA, how do you value the economic cost/benefit of people being afraid of flying/unafraid to fly?

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

The absolute worst timeline. Hope the Romanian judicial system and political class grow a spine and stand up to these bullies.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Quite Orwellian to appropriate this term - which obviously has very little to do with free speech - and use it now, in the middle of a chaotic coup in the US, a peripheral part of which is Trump surrogates trying to destabilise the UK and other countries over the same issue.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Here’s the thing. Most people don’t know how to do math and have absolutely no idea how big budgets are.

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 39 days ago • 121 comments

In a last ditch attempt at fixing American-European relations, I'm going to camp out like John Cusack on the White House front lawn blasting Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I think people - despite people taking it very seriously! - underestimate how the 2007-8 financial crisis changed things, both in the difficulty of accumulating wealth and the death of the ability for people to follow the path of "finish school go to college get job buy house"

submitted 40 days ago • 33 comments

www.digi24.ro/stiri/actual... The day Lasconi became presidentx 🫡

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 42 days ago • 406 comments

On the plus side, looks like the the cryptobros are getting that trustless society they have be hankering for.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment