When the China Shock hit, the consensus was that markets would dynamically reallocate displaced workers. They didn’t. Economists lied about that before, during, and after — and still lie about it to this day.

Navy E-2D Hawkeyes Appear To Be Rushing To The Middle East.

How Europe Undermined Its Own Energy Security.

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Japan's key tech workers are now cheaper than Malaysia's.

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The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere.

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms.

The 90s

It’s strange being old enough now to remember a world that not only younger generations believe did not exist, they deny that it could possibly have existed.

But what’s “impossible” now lived and breathed once. The marks of that era’s passing have like glaciers carved the landscape in which we now dwell, and the light and shadow of that time have imprinted on the future as if on film. Now we play out the end of that movie, with the actors therein not realizing they are on a stage built by others they deny were even real.

Deva

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Zero.

Hamas and Gaza got what was coming to it. If I’d been Israel, there would’ve been nothing left. They were restrained compared to the devastation I would’ve brought.

Taken

The problem is most normal people aren’t killers, even under duress. It’s just as likely that the gun gets taken away from her and then used against her. This is mostly a good thing — a society of killers looks more like Iran or “Palestine” than what we have in the US.