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every fucking time (Der Spiegel broke this, we had a coordinated follow-up ready to go, of course the NYT doesn't credit any earlier reporting because it never does - foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/16/c...)

That's it exactly. People sometimes parse this as "brave contrarianism", but that is exactly wrong. Rather, it is a comfortable lie, telling people that the untrue things they believe are true after all.

Wait, wasn't this a William Hurt movie?

Confounded factors substack.com/@slavamalamu...

People are always surprised by this. But most government spending is on things that provide measurable benefits to individual households (pensions and other transfers, healthcare, education etc.) and this is mostly funded by taxes paid by households. What should we expect the figure to be?

And what is this business "community" of which you speak. As if airport expansion would help businesses generally, rather than, you know, the specific businesses that would execute the expansion.

His knowledge excludes multitudes

#Move 🚴! #Lift 💪 Study: Long-term resistance training with all-cause and cause-specific mortality: bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/1... "...moderate long-term resistance training was associated with lower all-cause mortality, with lowest risks plateauing at around ≥120 min/week of resistance training."

Shes really good at this

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TIL that there is a tag for pareidolia. I checked, but the apophenia tag is not so good.

* episode, not style

I haven't listened to this style. The house style of Campbell & Stewart is to not push too hard during the interview and save the tough questions for themselves afterwards. Understandable - they want repeat business - but irritating.

Why blaming Jimmy Carter for the Iran War is bad news for Joe Biden.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

What, isn't that an F-3553 "Janus"?

It's also worth noting that that the fundamental reason for selling stuff to America is to get US dollars to buy stuff from America. No dollars, no purchases of American products.

The media always reports this as "Trump hits Canada with new tariffs" but the reality is "Trump hits America".

OK, that is the most amazeballs finish on the Champs that I have ever seen.