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In 2007, the standards of living in the United States and Western Europe were similar, and most people don’t realize how much things have diverged since the US boomed after the global financial crisis and Europe didn’t. They don’t fully understand how we’re living and we don’t fully understand how they’re living; even when we visit Europe as tourists, we don’t see their tiny, sad flats and their depressing grocery stores. That is why Europeans visiting for the World Cup are going to, like, a Waffle House or a Taco Bell and losing their minds. Stuff we don’t even like or care about is wildly superior to everything everywhere else. We have no idea how rich we are.

HOW TO WRITE A GIRLBOSS STORY ARC IN 2026: GIRLBOSS arrives on the project site. They’re building a skyscraper or installing a drilling platform or making software or something — it doesn’t matter. She is the GIRLBOSS and she is dressed to the nines and she runs this shit. GIRLBOSS claps her hands. The men gather around her. “Here’s what we’re going to do,” GIRLBOSS dictates. WHITE MAN says: “Excuse me, Ma’am, you don’t want to do that.” GIRLBOSS: “Who the hell are you?” WHITE MAN: “I’m the long-suffering, plain-spoken white man who has kept this ramshackle operation afloat through various woke management debacles. And I’m telling you, you don’t want to do that.” GIRLBOSS: “I wrote my thesis on this. At Yale. Did you go to Yale?” WHITE MAN: “No, ma’am. But…” GIRLBOSS: “Then don’t explain to me the thing I wrote my thesis about. Let’s do this!” WHITE MAN: “All right, boys, let’s do what the lady says.” EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY GOES WRONG. GIRLBOSS WEEPS AS SHE WATCHES AMBULANCES CARRYING AWAY THE VICTIMS OF HER HUBRIS. GIRLBOSS: I don’t understand what I did wrong. THE WHITE MAN EXPLAINS IT TO HER. SHE TURNS AND LOOKS AT HIM. ALL HER CLOTHES SPONTANEOUSLY FLY OFF. HE GRABS HER ROUGHLY. GIRLBOSS: You know, you’re old enough to be my father. WHITE MAN: Did your daddy ever spank you? GIRLBOSS: Of course not. WHITE MAN: Well, that’s where he went wrong. But don’t worry. I ain’t gonna make that mistake. THEY KISS. FADE TO BLACK. A TAYLOR SHERIDAN PRODUCTION

A lot of critics fail to understand the problem with "Masters of the Universe: Revelation." It's not, on it's face, a terrible idea to take a setting like "Masters of the Universe," remove the all-powerful hero from the equation, and then see how the other characters deal with his absence and the problems he would ordinarily solve. The issue is that this wasn't a story arc in a long-running established show, this was a revival of a beloved property that had been moribund for decades. Everybody who was interested in this was interested because they wanted to see He-Man, and Smith decided to kill him off in the first episode. The fans experienced it as a rug pull. You have to earn the audience's trust before you can take them on a journey like this. You have to deliver the 'member-berries before you can deconstruct and reassess the property. Whatever the merits the series had -- I enjoyed Mark Hamill as Skeletor -- were totally overwhelmed by the initial wave of disappointment. People never gave Smith a chance after that. This is why the Super Mario movies make a billion dollars. By any ordinary assessment, they are bad movies. They don't tell a good story. They don't establish strong characters. They just deliver dopamine hits to fans of the Super Mario games. The people who make those movies aren't rolling their eyes at the Super Mario stuff. They're just as excited about it as the audience is. They built a major set piece around the Tanooki Suit and the Tanooki Suit was really, really cool. It seems like someone could have a lot of success with a franchise movie if they could bring the level of enthusiasm the Super Mario movies have for the property while also making a good movie. I feel like this is what the early MCU, and particularly Joss Whedon's 2012 "Avengers" accomplished, as did Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings." If you want to make a hit out of one of these properties, you need to find a visionary creative who understands what the fans want because he is one of them.

Larry has expanded his Super Bowl crypto commercial into an entire show.

This is how things turn out with literally every foreign aid project that tries to improve things in the developing world.

You can easily find real-world examples of how the effects of dedication and effort run up against IQ limitations, because there are 90 IQ people who have dedicated thousands of hours over many years to the moderately g-loaded task of playing video games. They're still bad at video games.

Few things have done more damage to the reputation of elite universities than having professors and representatives of places like Harvard repeatedly showing us on social media how intellectually dishonest and unimpressive they actually are

Some people say law professors aren’t always especially persuasive, but this is the most powerful argument against affirmative action that I have ever seen.

Can you imagine how stupid the students in their classes have to be for the woke faculty of the University of California to beg the UC Academic Senate to bring the SAT back?

This is an absolutely insane claim. If there were 600,000 unexpected marginal deaths in one year, then the dismantling of USAid would be having an effect similar to the peak of COVID in the places where aid had been cut. We would see the mass graves in satellite images. There would be villages where all the children had died. There would be very real, very visible widespread human carnage instead of these widely cited and entirely ridiculous estimates based on questionable statistical analysis. If 600,000 people are dead because of Elon Musk, what are their names? Where are their stories?

The federal government spends $7 trillion a year failing to solve all the problems Khanna claims would be solved if they could confiscate Elon’s $1 trillion, strip his companies for parts and use the proceeds to fund handouts to their cronies. While spending far more money, the federal government hasn’t made as much as progress as Elon Musk has toward ending carbon dependency, providing satellite internet to places that cannot be reached by terrestrial infrastructure, or developing reusable rockets. So I think Elon Musk is probably a better steward of Elon Musk’s money than Ro Khanna, who is very wealthy and is more than welcome to give all of his own money to the federal government, if he thinks they will do such a good job of spending it.

In honor of Austin Metcalf, I think President Trump should change Martin Luther King Day to be a more inclusive holiday honoring all victims of political violence and violent crime.

In the late 2000s, when progressives emerged from Tumblr and academia onto nascent Twitter and first started accusing everyone of being racist, a lot of white people’s reflexive response was: “I’m not racist, some of my best friends are black.” Progressives responded with contempt; personal friendships with individual black people did not absolve you of racism, because racism was not about interpersonal relationships, it was about systems; systems that ensured your white comfort which needed to be dismantled. “Some of my best friends are black,” is a way of signaling a kind of conditional openness — I want to make my country, my community, my neighborhood or my workplace welcoming and accessible to people from different kinds of backgrounds, provided they share my values — to people who are my friends. And that condition is what progressives argue makes you a racist. Your support and allyship must not be conditional on friendship or common values; you must be an ally and supporter of black people who are not your friends. You must support black criminals. You must support black people who hate you. You must open your country and your community to people who do despise everything you believe in. You should tolerate the violation every norm. People who are different shouldn’t have to assimilate to your culture; your culture must give way to glorious diversity. And this is the end result. So I say, everything to my friends, of every color and creed, who want to build the kind of world I want to live in; people who are comfortable under systems that make me comfortable. And to Karmelo Anthony’s supporters: Get the hell out of my neighborhood, or I will call the cops.

I think it is because I have posted in opposition to Canada’s policy of euthanasia that my algorithmic feed keeps serving me counterarguments, which I will admit I cannot rebut.

If Charlie Kirk would have had your exact politics, how come his widow and the team he assembled at TPUSA don’t share your politics? Why are you constantly attacking those people?

Elon Musk became a trillionaire by setting out to solve the world's problems. A major thing you can do to improve the lives of people in the developing world is to give people access to the internet. But that has always been logistically challenging, because many parts of the world don't have functioning governments that are interested in or capable of acting in the best interests of the people with any kind of efficiency. A lot of progressives seem to believe that the way a billionaire can give internet access to poor people in developing countries is to walk up to a guy sitting on a throne of human skulls, stroking a solid gold Kalashnikov, hand him a big sack of money, and say: "One internet, please. For the people." The truth is, if you want to lay cable or put up cell towers in these parts of the world, a huge percentage of your budget will go to bribes, regulatory waste and other transaction costs. You've got to pay an outlandish fee for a fake regulatory review from the corrupt national government, give jobs to the extended family of the provincial governor, and pay off the local warlord so he won't tear down your towers for scrap or murder your workers. And then the maintenance of your infrastructure in these places will be incredibly costly because there is no local capacity, and any time you want to do anything, all these rent-seekers are going to want to wet their beaks. Elon Musk looked at this problem and said: "What if instead of doing all that, we put all the infrastructure in space, and beamed the internet to the people without engaging with the corrupt governments of failed states?" And, of course, there were many reasons not to do that, most of them involving various immutable laws of physics. But Musk bet billions of dollars that the technical and financial problems of putting the infrastructure for global internet access in space would be easier to solve than the human problems associated with building infrastructure on the ground. Because SpaceX exists, people can access the internet in places where local capacity to build and support infrastructure does not exist. People can access the internet in places where repressive governments try to deny people internet access. And people paying a high cost for the luxury of having internet access on their private jets and yachts are subsidizing the cost of poor people in the developing world having internet access. By building this infrastructure, Musk has both created a huge amount of value that has enriched him tremendously and materially improved the lives of millions of poor people. This is how you make the world a better place.