More kudos to Rufo here, pushing back on yet another major magtard account. https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2026020122901782532?s=46

I haven’t been to Mexico since hurricane Odile washed away most of the resort I loved so much in Cabo. Then came the overpass hangings in 2017 and I think also 2019. News of missing people, other gruesome violence pretty sealed my decision to never return.

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I know I’m not a colonist. But as Canuck, I still apologize. That’s almost genetic. UBC is a fine university. Good nurses and doctors graduate from there. I’d rather do medicine there or see a doctor who graduated from there than Toronto. B.C. is expensive though. We’ve a saying, “B.C.” -> “Bring Cash” .

@89th said in Move to the upper midwest: They were hit with a double hurricane in November 2024, I wonder if that is related? According to my TARS, it's also because of a perfect storm (no pun intended) of inventory surplus, spikes in insurance rates, and fizzling migrations post-COVID. All that and it's also because of the Surfside Condo collapse near Miami in 2021. It made almost the entire inventory of high rise condos in Florida worthless. They were almost all poorly engineered, inspected and maintained and now the cost of fixing them is equal to the price of the condo itself.

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TNCR could learn so much from the USA men’s hockey team. Link to video

@Mik said in SCOTUS blocks Trump tariffs under IEEPA: Is the US effectively governable under the current restrictions? Can we function with the painfully slow deliberative process in a world that moves ever faster? Is the world really moving faster, though? With regards to scientific progress and technological innovations, probably. With regards to changing geopolitical risks caused by foreign powers, no worse than before. With regards to international trade? The “moving faster” seems self-inflicted.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260223-britain-s-former-us-ambassador-peter-mandelson-arrested-amid-epstein-revelations Former British ambassador to the ​US Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, following revelations over his ties to convicted ​sex ‌offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, 72, was fired from ⁠the most prestigious posting in Britain's diplomatic service in September, when the depth ‌of his friendship with Epstein started to become clear. Police earlier ⁠this month began a criminal investigation into Mandelson after Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government passed on communications between the ​former ambassador and Epstein.

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: Interesting except I don’t think there’s any meaningful sense in which China is still communist. Agree. And I would say that DPRK is "probably" more communist at now than China, at least when looking at state control of industrial and retail things. For some reason, they disappear from being communist between 1992 and 2009. #shrug

The plausible mechanism pathway. That would be awesome for us but it’s only for ultra-rare, which has no formal definition but probably would exclude us. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-launches-framework-accelerating-development-individualized-therapies-ultra-rare-diseases

Ha

Yep, those too.

I wonder if the easiest legislation to pass, should the AI job apocalypse come about, would be to make it more difficult for private companies to lay people off.

@AndyD said in Chopin on a Bosendorfer: Yes very. Also interesting she has her Bosie upright angled away from the wall to properly allow the sound out. Also note that her lamp isn't at a funny angle.

If I had to weigh in on the fact that ICE and Border Patrol are wearing masks, I’d say it’s an unfortunate but entirely understandable conceit to the moral panic cosplay of Minneapolis agitator types behind their keyboards. As for the overreaches of ICE and broad characterizations of them kidnapping citizens and non citizens alike, I’m impressed that a those stories appear to be concentrated in Minneapolis while places like TX with 10x the ICE activity don’t seem to be generating any kidnapping stories. I take it all with a grain of salt. But then I’m not tribally motivated to fan the moral panic flames.

Yikes. Thanks, I just shared your link with some of my cyber IT buddies.

@xenon said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: Trump has spent the last couple of hours making multiple posts how the bombs obliterated everything.... which probably means they didn't... sigh... Steve Witkoff yesterday: “Iran is probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.”

Oh so people whose apartments are in the same building as a UPS store don’t have a residence address. Only a UPS box. How interesting. Gosh Matt got to the bottom of that.