It’s pop culture common knowledge at this point but it’s very funny how upbeat this song is for the subject matter being human extinction as a result of nuclear false alsrm

Ugh the share timestamp didn’t work. It’s at 1:13

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All

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They say “oo-fo,” it’s said a few times in 99 luftballons

It was very amusing because no one really understood that basically all database technology can create read only databases

Wolfram’s been good at math homework for a very long time now yeah

Tbh also The Single Growth Industry right now is subject to all sorts of tariff exceptions because Trump likes it when S&P 500 go up

For me it’s that Japan supposedly has some of the highest national iqs in the world while struggling to match Italy on labor productivity

Tbh anglophone suburbs are bad by the standards of developed world suburbs, but American suburbs are bad even by anglophone standards. Australian/Canadian suburbs can support decent bus service in a way American ones can’t!

Oh wow, thank you for the in depth answer!!!

The much bigger problem is that their population drop is gonna be gigantic relative to the population of the world. Even if they wanted to fix their problems with immigration, there’s just not enough people that exist, period!

I want to be sympathetic, obviously they went through something extremely painful and traumatic, and I think Trump’s anti-establishment rhetoric would be appealing with such experiences, but same time, his relationship with Epstein wasn’t some sort of state secret!

AI is already woke because it’s trained on text and conservatives don’t read anymore

Recently I saw a stat that most cars being sold in Denmark right now are electric, which is great, but then I saw the list and they’re all crossover SUVs. Sucks that the car mind virus has spread so far! Seems like one day the small practical hatchback will be seen as a Japanese oddity

Every other Noah smith retweet right now is a “scientific” racist lol

Torasu Rizu speedrun

Tbh if you’re repurposing freight lines from the 1800’s I think you’re doing something different from a metro lol.

Yeah, the lack of high quality mainline rail in Chinese cities is really bad.

Tbh for that, it’s because FRA standards are pretty excessive. The r211 weighs 30% more than the class 345 they use on the lizzie line