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Mass migration has provoked political opposition primarily because of the ethno-cultural alienation it has brought in its wake, but it's more uncomfortable to talk about this particularly in a country where acknowledging ethnic Germanness is beyond the pale and may open politicians to legal risk. So, it's safer to talk about crime, and while nobody would say these complaints are illegitimate (every crime committed by a migrant is a totally avoidable and unnecessary crime), I think many on the right end up overestimating the political potential of this specific critique.

55% of Democrats said there is another country they would rather live in than the United States today, according to an Elon University/YouGov poll.

you're not moving us up the Kardashev scale, you're building a surveillance panopticon for the deep state

.@tylercowen on why AI creates more jobs than it destroys: "One of the neatest properties of current AI models is they allow a small number of individuals working with AI to really do a lot more work than was possible previously." "This will mean more companies, more projects, more nonprofits, just more ventures." "One area is generally energy, electricity, the grid... It's completely screwed up. It will take twenty years, thirty years, forty years to fix... The AIs cannot do that on their own." "The biomedical sector and medical trials, there will be many, many, many more ideas to test. AIs will help with the testing, but I don't think pure testing by simulation will be possible anytime soon." "Simply care for the elderly. There will be robots, personal companions. We have this already. But the elderly also will want human care. It wouldn't surprise me if in the future, fifteen, twenty percent of all jobs were elderly care." "Luis Garicano had an excellent online essay. He referred to what he called 'messy jobs': jobs where it's hard to explain exactly what the job is, but on a given day you're doing eleven different things, and it requires coordination and figuring out what you ought to do next and getting other people to help you... There's a real future in messy jobs." Tyler Cowen with @dataWyatt

I don’t care how old you are. You don’t call the police because you lost a fight. Fighting is a gamble. You should be pretty sure you can win before you start

I would adopt a Down syndrome baby tomorrow. Hoping I get that opportunity some day. This is too sad for me to even wrap my mind around.

Quick opinions from last vacation: Italy sucks. Sorry. Just a very unpleasant place. I expected as much, but what I *didn’t* expect was for Bolzano to be the worst of Italy and the worst of Germany in one package. Very unpleasant but for the Alps. In sum: Italians are PoC.

The greatest weakness of Civic Nationalism is that it has thus far done essentially nothing to defend the civics that it claims defines the nation. Real Civic Nationalism would entail expelling those from the nation who reject the proposition itself. After all, if nationality is now determined by belief rather than ancestry, then ideologically incompatible views would necessarily be just as alien to the polis as foreign tribes, ethnicities, religions, and ancestries did in the past, wouldn’t it? And yet, can anyone point to a Civic Nationalist who endorses dissolving the Democratic Party and deporting not only its politicians, but its voters as well? Of course not. Most of them would say that violates the civic they’re trying to uphold! Well, when you define membership within a nation to merely upholding abstract and universalist values, do not be surprised when those values subsequently turn around and dissolve your nation.

‼️ HOMAN TO CBS NEWS: There are ongoing discussions between Trump and Cabinet about granting legal status to law abiding illegals and dreamers. Pushback and civic action by the American people has clearly pushed Trump admin to change immigration tactics and policy.

And we're back.

PISS PLANET FOUND JWST discovered Epsilon Indi Ab — a Jupiter-sized beast 7.6x Jupiter’s mass with an ammonia-rich atmosphere that literally smells like piss.

This is weird to me because when *I* read about, for example, Yahweh referenced as a lower god in the Canaanite pantheon this suggests to me instead that the current religion du jour is just hodgepodged together.

🚨 What if both parties went all-in on gerrymandering every single state, maxed out for whichever party controls it? The House would end up with 262 Republican seats to 173 Democratic seats. That’s not spin. It’s the outcome from FiveThirtyEight’s most aggressive redistricting simulation. Republicans control more state governments with multiple districts, and Democratic voters cluster in dense cities — making it easier to “pack” blue votes into fewer districts when the map-drawers want to. Even in a full-throttle, both-sides-do-it scenario, the math delivers a clear national edge. Fair maps matter. Independent redistricting commissions anyone? What do you think fixes this? 🇺🇸