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You can't be bitter because Europe squandered technological and capital market parity with the US in just 20 years.

Krugman so badly wants this to be true. But handwaving away massive difference in IT innovation and in practical data like housing size and vastly greater American consumption does not make it true. Just 20% of European homes even have air conditioning. European industrial energy costs are more than 2x the U.S. Don't ignore the data. Europe is behind and falling behind at an ever-faster clip. And the strategic issues of continued vast unskilled migration into Europe and the need to re-arm in a post-NATO world are further economic burdens that will tip most of Europe into middle-income status.

Piketty is just a marxist flailing around, backfilling data to fit his belief that communism is the solution for every problem. He's been spectacularly wrong in his predictions so far, for example he said Milei would be "devastating" for Argentina and the opposite is the case.

This is the real issue:

"Uber received over 400,000 sexual assault and misconduct reports between 2017 and 2022"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/uber-liable-pay-8-5-million-...

Also interesting is that the US didn't need the base and was able to operate command and control from South Carolina.

In the UK the establishment is generally unsettled by the display of the English flag.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/uk/st-george-flag-england...

Mississippi is one of the recent education success stories though.

The change was in fact designed to make the scores jump. The purpose is compressing the top scores to allow universities to be more subjective and still have high averages

Part of the replacement is declaring white Americans don't have a culture. Would you say the same about black Americans?

The center has already shifted to Musk, SpaceX is 83% of global lift capacity. Artemis is flying an obsolete rocket at insane cost, and higher risk.

Maybe more people should listen to Musk's political message. The Biden Administration was playing nasty games, blocking progress on both SpaceX and AI generally.

No the downvote is from smearing an individual for the political activities of his grandfather.

While this leak may or may not have happened, for this type of exposure there should be criminal liability for developers and executives. Criminal negligence and prison time.

either you allow a democratically elected government to do everything they want that is legal, or you insert private corporate decision-making into every government decision which is untenable

Your take is a call for civil war. You're obviously wrong about "treason" since even larger majorities voted for Trump in 2024.

It's almost like the democratically elected government gets to decide the name, not Google!

Don't deadname the Gulf!

He also elected the guy who did a 180 on AI regulations and stopped FAA harassment of SpaceX.

A big driver in increasing entrepreneurs in the US has been DEI and H1-B driven racism against white men. For example in 2021 only 6% of all the people hired by major US companies were white. An entire generation was locked out of traditional corporate career paths, and turned to startups and crypto.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/major-us-companies-g...

Plenty of Americans are ready and able to do the work if the conditions and wages are at the market rate. We're addicted to abusing the illegal immigrant underclass. Returning undocumented people to their homes is the moral issue of our time; Trump is ending a system of neo-slavery.

Import substitution has failed consistently as an economic strategy.

EV have far more tire wear because they are heavier and also probably from regenerative braking

That was Best store in the 1980s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products

I agree but the argument is better framed as Mary Beard is a modern scholar with a rigid intersectional world view that is highly moralistic and highly judgmental from the perspective of modern norms around violence, feminism and racism. She sneers down on Roman notions of virtue and patriarchy.

I doubled my bitcoin profit and got out at $1,000!

The US military physically occupied and restructured the governments of Japan and Germany. A better example might be Vietnam, which has become a US partner but it took a couple generations.

That may be the greatest understatement ever written!

Both Russia and Germany engaged in scorched earth destruction when on the retreat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCGhqhKK-8

The intergovernmental holdings are accounting placeholders representing the Congressional raid on past Social Security surpluses. It's absolutely meaningful because those obligations are coming due as the program runs increasingly in the red. As legal obligations, they aren't binding the way public debt is, but current Social Security retirees have been promised these funds, and the government is already borrowing more from capital markets to meet these obligations. The current pace is $4.1 trillion in new borrowing by 2033 according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Basically the intergovernmental holdings are getting converted to more public debt.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/social-security-trust-f...

Its funny we don't have "legal" euthanasia but hospice stopping feeding and fluids, or overdosing painkillers, is a more horrible form of it.