Toby Young, dead. https://t.co/jeAAILZd3O

— Disappointed Optimist (@disappoptimism) May 6, 2019

It's worth noting that without long run decreasing marginal costs, there would have been no industrial revolution. It's why metaphor of a "takeoff" makes sense.

— JW Mason (@JWMason1) May 6, 2019

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— saeen (@saeen90_) May 7, 2019



Initially, Hatari hoping to represent Iceland at Eurovision went largely ignored by the rest of the world. All that changed when in February the band issued a statement, in English, in which they challenged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a bout of glíma--that is, a form of traditional Icelandic wrestling.

In characteristic style, the statement offered high stakes: if the band were to win, "Hatari reserve the right to settle within your borders establishing the first ever Hatari sponsored liberal BDSM colony on the Mediterranean coast." If Netanyahu were to win, "the Israeli government will be given full political and economic control of South-Icelandic Island municipality Vestmannaeyjar [The Westman Islands]. Members of Hatari will ensure the successful removal of the islands current inhabitants."

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the future of high-revenue video games is, and has been for a long time, giving players compulsive disorders and charging them to act them out.  the future of high-revenue informational media is reshaping your audience until they can't function outside of the world you define

— Chaos (@chaosprime) May 12, 2019

Will Gen Z voters moderate their views after they enter the labor force? Probably not. Irving Kristol once joked that conservatives are liberals who have been "mugged by reality." But the data don't support this hypothesis. Most Millennials have already been mugged by reality: competing in the job market, paying taxes, and--for those 26 and older--taking responsibility for their own health care. In the process, they have lurched left, not right. On questions of political philosophy, Millennials are far closer to their juniors in Gen Z than to their elders in Gen X.

Even young Republicans have been caught up in this philosophical leftward drift. Gen Z Republicans are four times as likely as Silent Generation Republicans to believe that government should do more to solve problems. And only 60 percent of Gen Z Republicans approve of Trump's job performance, while his approval among all Republicans hovers around 90 percent.

In short, Ocasio-Cortez is neither an aberration nor a radical. She is close to the political center of America's younger generations.

The guy running a taxi company in my home town just answers the phone while driving. That's most of the green and blue parts.

It's important to counter the narrative that 2015 was a "crisis" that led to a "backlash" against refugees. Both Pegida and AfD, and their racism, predate 2015; it's them who construed the crisis narrative, together with the claim that Merkel had "opened" the border. https://t.co/dUKW1QQYNn

— Robert Heinze (@bdunruhe) 14. Mai 2019

A meme for anyone who tells you that Venezuela's economy collapsed because oil prices fell: pic.twitter.com/FaGx4tMr7J

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) 7. Februar 2019

noah can you please help me with this. i am not good at economy, when the big numbers become small is that good or bad pic.twitter.com/phu8e2IZFT

— frank furtschool (@osamabishounen) 8. Februar 2019

Mueller certainly provides substantial evidence that Russians attempted to meddle in various ways in the U.S. election, including by hacking the DNC and Podesta and through Facebook posts and tweets. There is, however, no real evidence that Putin himself ordered this, as was claimed since mid-2016. But that Russia had done such things has been unsurprising from the start, given how common it is for the U.S. and Russia to meddle in everyone's affairs, including one another's, but the scope and size of it continues to be minute in the context of overall election spending:

Which is a curious statement. I read through the Russian Interference part of the Mueller Report™, a fast read since most of it is blacked out, and there is no actual evidence there that the hackers were GRU. So as to not make it a complete waste of time, I also read the wikileaks part and they take the fact that Guccifer 2.0 had a link and password to a section of the dncleaks.com website as strong evidence that those two groups were strongly linked(p 43). Yet everything before that part is written as if the actor behind those accounts (the GRU) had been identified without any doubt. Then you have the Guccifer Twitter account communicating with the DCLeaks account for them to establish communications with WL. But then everyone involved in the leaking game would know that Twitter DMs are hardly secure communications.

The Infinite Trolley pic.twitter.com/nooPTc15TB

— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) 18. Mai 2019

Every night, several times a night, Uber and Lyft drivers at Reagan National Airport simultaneously turn off their ride share apps for a minute or two to trick the app into thinking there are no drivers available---creating a price surge. When the fare goes high enough, the drivers turn their apps back on and lock into the higher fare.

If he doesn't make it, he could try for something else: He could run for president of the United States. He was born in New York City, so he is clearly a natural-born citizen. One complication, however, is that he renounced his American citizenship in 2016. The Constitution doesn't say anything about whether a person who is unambiguously a natural-born citizen and then renounced his citizenship is eligible to be president. It just says "natural-born citizen," whatever that means.

Yes, her too, but mostly the month. Harrowing, fun too, but the election has left me with a huge backlog of urgent stuff on all fronts.

Oh and I get a party weekend with my daughter in Glasgow to round it off. So looking forward to that.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}