Ground invasion of Lebanon incoming. Believe it was @yairwallach.bsky.social who noted that this has gone poorly for every Israeli politician who tried it

Reads like you probably should have learned them.

Realistically, the US does report this. It's the U6 rate.

Just found some "China's economy is way better than the US" cope in the wild here. Good sign to close this tab.

I was telling a friend of mine that one of my many lifestyle changes is moving more away from "I need to know everything about this" to "I enjoy this but don't need to have an emotional response to it." Football was an example I used: If I watch it and it's good, great! If it sucks? Quit!

I've got a very broad Twitter TL, politically speaking, and it's got perfect symmetry rn. Left-wing accounts insisting the government won't rescue western NC bc it spent all the $ on Israel, right-wing accounts insisting the government won't rescue western NC bc it spent all the $ on Ukraine.

Many of these people have an understanding of politics that was created by conservative talk radio and passed through to them indirectly by their parents/grandparents/etc. They're incapable of seeing how much their "radical beliefs" are derived from what they were exposed to.

"but I can...." you can, yes. will someone else? probably not. so. here we are.

"why are young men the way they are?" is a question that isn't nearly as difficult to answer as some would like but for which actual, functional interventions are pretty difficult to imagine

thing about dooming is it’s an excuse to check out. if you think things only get worse, if you only accept information that supports that, you absolve yourself of the capacity (and responsibility) to make things better. that’s why it goes hand in hand with lack of empathy; they both let you detach