Idk if I have anything in the way of technical critique, but I feel like anyone who’s consistent in claiming The End Is Near is wrong until they’re not; we know we’re on an unsustainable trajectory, but answering the question of how far away the canyon floor is is difficult. The economy survived the oil embargo and the COVID slowdown and it might be possible to rebuild if this doesn’t drag out. But if it does? Idk, man, the US produces a huge calorie surplus but it depends so much on imports; a global shipping interruption could end up being pretty chaotic. Buy gourd futures.

The whole marrying up/marrying down and saying farming is “more advanced” is some weird post-hoc teleology. Research suggests that hunter-gatherers had better diets and were taller and more robust than their early agrarian counterparts. Agriculture likely ended up “winning” from a combination of factors, including a changing climate, the extinction or reduction in population of the megafauna, and the greater specialization afforded to sedentary populations, but it makes sense that hunter-gatherer men would’ve been the more attractive option while they were around.

Pot-meets-kettle moment as sitting senator complains about profiting off the death of Iranian leadership

But how much can you accessorize a horse?

Congrats!

Jim Cramer’s Gollum alter ego is buying a shitton of oil futures right now.

Sounds like you need to have a conversation with your kittens about their recent foreign policy decisions.

I feel like there was an attempt at a narrative what with the bin Laden thing and the uranium thing and the “we don’t want to have a smoking gun be a mushroom cloud” allusion to a hypothetical Iraqi first strike. Was it all disprovable lies? Sure, but it wasn’t this atemporal “we gotta attack them to prevent the counterattack that would result from our attacking them to prevent the counterattack” ourobouros propaganda.

Can’t build something better until the parasites finally bite it, but that’s going to be messy.

“We knew they were going to counterattack us.” So you’re agree that there was no threat unless you landed the first punch, right?

Having grown up during the Iraq war, which featured some pretty dumb propaganda, I am going nuts seeing how much lower the floor has gotten.

I’m not totally clear on what constitutes legal and what constitutes illegal during a conflict, but “sinking the vessel of a country yours just attacked unprovoked and which was at its position under an assumed banner of peace and then not granting quarter to the survivors of the attack, who, it needs to be stressed, were totally unarmed at the time of that attack” should definitely be a war crime if it isn’t one currently. Hope everyone on that submarine lands in front of a tribunal.

I’m behind the one guy who must think To the Lighthouse was about a young man’s coming of age during the twilight of the Qajar dynasty.

My meteor got impounded because it didn’t have a muffler >:(

Doing so would be making light of them experiencing the consequences of their own aggression!

God what a depressing margin.

Props to Brian McGinnis for landing on the right side of the issue, but it does kinda suck that the only way to be perceived as credibly anti-war in this country and not just a naive hippie is to first serve in the military.

Good thing Congress acted swiftly to prevent the executive branch from unilaterally starting a war.

Olivier De Schutter was a UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and wrote a takedown of the belief that global economic growth will eventually eliminate poverty, a position promoted by the World Bank, among others.

There are plenty of people out there with good ideas, they just seem to never break into the political mainstream

Gippity-piloted targeting systems hate this one weird trick!