@Mik said in Why Russia can't get along with the rest of the world: I’ll be interested in Renauda’s take on it. Schmidt was and, remains, dead on target. Bullseye.

I’ll be rooting for you guys next week…

@George-K said in The Asian Penalty: You apply to top-ranked colleges like Harvard, Brown, and Berkeley. You ultimately get rejected And ultimately the colleges will get rejected. The smart guys will establish their own institutes. The schools that favor skin color over achievement will be left with a nice skin variety and underachieving students. Harvard social engineers can look across the river into Boston to see how this happens.

Studying Chinese every day this year. Lifting weights regularly. Figure I’ll be a monster by 2024.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Things that didn't age well.: @Copper said in Things that didn't age well.: [image: 1672700428090-de3e6a78-4801-426b-9a66-aeab8f85e65e-image.png] Smartphones ≠ mobile phones. Do you think colonial glassmakers were also silly failures because we moved on to plastics? Typewriters, LOL… What a waste… Word Processors? Even worse!

@George-K maybe she was fired for the overwhelming irony of 'Virgin Islands'.

@Jolly said in NYT publishes Trump tax returns: Just a feeling, but I don't think Jack is going to produce anything actionable. 100.0% chance Trump gets prosecuted over theft of classified documents, covering it up, and lying about it.

This belongs in the Dark or Inappropriate thread.

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Should have been put out to pasture several years ago. The funding of Chinese gain of function reasearch should land his name on the eternal Roll of Infamy.

https://twitter.com/defnoodles/status/1609793743716233216

@jon-nyc said in Apologies in advance: 2050 is now closer than 1996. Based on quick math, that doesn’t happen until July 1 of this year right?

Old joke. Been around since pre-Covidian times.

They got the video, that is a clue.

It sounds like EVs are great for scoring some virtue, but not so great for practical transportation.

@Axtremus said in The "Kill Switch": Exactly. How hard would it be to cite the actual law when writing an article like this? Enjoy! ~~https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/resources/full-text-2023-omnibus-bill/~~ Looks like Barr's article is from a year ago.... https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/barr-bidens-infrastructure-bill-contains-backdoor-kill-switch-for-cars/

@taiwan_girl said in The last book?: @George-K you would be proud of me. I am reading the Harry Bosch books in order, and recently I ended with "The Narrows" I liked that one. The setting comes back in another story. And yeah, reading them in order is good.