Would it be Two Hundred Years of Solitude or Ten Thousand Years of Solitude?

It's shockingly pervasive in western Europe. Rarely is the term used, but it's taken for granted that "everyone will have to consume less going forward" and not in the sense of "creating more with less."

Yeah, democratic establishment cover up is the alternative explanation, again conditional on there being something substantive here.

If there is anything to it, it's gotta be the single biggest failure in opposition research ever, no?

I think of how we clearly have an infinite energy source and we only use it for smoke detectors and loud children's toys

To be fair, it's hard to turn around in Croatia without ending up with Nazi sympathizer symbols

Let's see if that was the problem

If smugness bothers you, your podcast can't be fun for you.

Could have asked me, I know this for my household budget

But that would create some sort dark receptacle of disaster!

This feels new tho. I went to HS in a place where a substantial fraction had never made the 1 hour drive to "the big city" (then sub 500k) but they also never cared about what happens in cities. Just wasn't a thing that motivated them at all.

What are you talking about, McArdle is nowhere close to the actual sociopaths that have actual power more. She's annoyingly contrarian at times like this, but it gets much worse than that and you know that because you're watching it

I also enjoyed Wednesday