BenFranklin00 @BenFSaunders

Never forget Ta-Nahesi Coates writing on 9/11: ''Everyone knew someone who knew someone who was missing. But looking out upon the ruins of America, my heart was cold. I would never consider any American citizen pure. I kept thinking about how southern Manhattan had always been Ground Zero for us. They auctioned our bodies down there, in that same devastated, and rightly named, financial district. And there was once a burial ground for the auctioned there. All I knew was that Bin Laden was not the first man to bring terror to that section of the city. I never forgot that. Neither should you. In the days after, I watched the ridiculous pageantry of flags, the machismo of firemen, the overwrought slogans. Damn it all. I could see no difference between the officer who killed Prince Jones and the police who died, or the firefighters who died. They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were the menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could—with no justification—shatter my body.”

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@Noahpinion It has given a megaphone to populists. Fools, as Eco argues, are of secondary concern.

@DanFriedman81 @outrage_factory You are humorless twat who is down on his knees sucking on the orange mushroom.

@pickover The aging process in some ways.

@nickgillespie @veroderugy @reason Gen X is so screwed. Elderly entitlement reform will only happen after a good chunk of the Boomers die, and just in time for GenX retirement.

This is a trash @nature editorial in so many ways, which is too bad, because there's actually an important point that could have been made here if they were actually serious about 'deep reflection'. Because the way academic misconduct cases are handled sucks. Every aspect of the process is designed for one goal and one goal only - to protect the institution from bad PR. They are not interested in either uncovering misconduct or in treating the people accused of it fairly. And while I'm sure the systems weren't literally designed to drive people accused to suicide, you could be excused for thinking they were, and, if you think about it, this is actually the optimal outcome for the institution because it takes all the blame off of them, and it all but ensures investigations will not go any further. nature.com/articles/d4158…

The relationship between national production and health expenditures might theoretically seem like it'll level off at some point, but when you actually look, that just never happens. Countries love to spend on healthcare.

I’m an AI PhD at Oxford wanted to move to the US for years, but it never worked out. Maybe I can share why. To me, it feels like the US is making it harder and harder for Chinese talent to come or stay. First, Trump signed PP10043, which meant I couldn’t go to the US for any graduate school. That’s why I had to turn down my Stanford offer and come to Oxford. Later, I qualified for an EB-1A (the extraordinary ability green card). But because I was born in China, I’m stuck in a country-specific backlog that could take another 4–5 years. Meanwhile, on the other side, I’m getting 3–4 emails from China almost every week. They offer high salaries, free housing, generous research funding, and even offered an astonishing amount of money just for me to come back and have a conversation. I’ve always loved the American spirit. I truly believe my abilities could have a bigger impact there. But honestly, the whole process has been incredibly frustrating. All of this makes me wonder whether I should just give up. Why am I spending so much energy trying to go to a country that doesn’t seem to want me, when another country is doing everything it can to bring me back?

signüll @signulll

2 months ago

kimi’s founder & ceo got his phd at cmu. why didn’t he stay in america?!

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@BigDave @FutureFetish007 @Noahpinion Sounds like you're hoping we settle for hiring dogshit. I'm hiring the best, American or immigrant. Since Americans make up 5% of the world's population, 95% of the top talent lies outside our shores.

@anish_koka @statnews He's a hack. Good riddance.

Honestly can't be overstated how much this is true. The staffer/activist class is basically all made up of (well off) hyper-online, Bernie/Warrenites whose priorities are just completely out of touch with the average voter. Even the average Dem base voter.

Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee

5 months ago

All the Hasan stuff is downstream of the larger issue that Democrats are captured by staffers and activists that are not only ideologically out of step with the mainstream but also preoccupied with what is essentially internet stan wars.

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@RxRegA @VPrasadMDMPH He's so fucking done, that whackjob. My guess is that RFK got bored of Vinay sucking his dick.

@RxRegA Up yours you fucking toad.

@DrEricDing You stupid fuck, now you think you an Iran expert?

Hillary Clinton was asked: “Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this committee?" Her answer is amazing!

@RichardHanania Little known fact: if you grease up your balls with beef tallow, no need to do full ROM.

@5060fit The logical conclusion is that playing competitive sports is just not worth it for most people. When you’re 35, who gives a shit your high school football team won the regional championship?

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

@rabois @Badhombre What does Trump’s cock taste like Keith?

@daniel_dsj2110 A weak article. He neglects the combined effects of social media induced hyperpartisanship, and a primary system susceptible to be taken over by extremists. Not surprising at all he writes from Brussels. Europeans have not yet felt the full brunt of social media. Yet.