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OK cool.

Can we throw all of NATO out of NATO next?

What does $7000 mean?

Well now we know why Matt Gaetz couldn’t be attorney general.

We’d for sure have those Epstein files by now…
#minds

OH YOU THINK CIRCUMCISION IS BAD!? YOU MUST THINK TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM AND THEREFORE YOU ARE DUMB!

Well poisoning

Love your daughters: "Self-esteem appeared to be influential factor for women thinking about having a family. Those w. lower self-esteem were less likely to have children, & FiF graduates tended to report lower self-esteem at age 16 than other graduates." https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/women-breaking-educational-barriers-less-likely-to-become-mothers/

Why are modernists so hostile to building anything that people would actually like? Possibly one of the most gifted young architects in the world, Swedish Nils Freckeus, won a competition in the city of Uddevalla with this plan for a new neighborhood in the traditional 19th urban style beloved all over Europe and especially in Scandinavia. Of course the Chief Modernist critic in the country went berserk in his condemnation in media.

“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.” — Russell Kirk #RussellKirkMonth

Shared by @arkuppror, a remade warehouse in siglufjörður, Iceland. Beauty is a choice.

Architectural Uprising in Lørenskog (Norway) shares this vision of what could have been. (left is reality, right is a rendering), had someone in city hall stood up for beauty instead of silent conformity.

Open borders means that you compete with the poorest of the world for jobs and the richest of the world for homes.

A one line question about music taste is often quoted as the easiest way to tell those double digit IQ crowd from the those of triple digit. I am ready submit for your consideration another one: the ability to understand aphorisms.

So I went down a rabbit hole asking ChatGPT about the knowledge it's retained on me over the course of thousands of sessions, and I've learned that it stores a bulleted list of things about you that it believes to be important enough to keep on file for long-term reference called "durable notes". This was the very first entry when I asked for the durable notes data it stores.

Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump in N.Y., is indicted on one count of bank fraud https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5569792/letitia-james-indictment-trump

“George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank, said the US would be close to a recession this year if Big Tech were not spending so heavily on building new AI data centers.

The 'AI machines' are literally saving the US economy right now, Saravelos said....'The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely'.”

https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-keeping-us-economy-together.html

a lot of people in Portland are upset for one reason or another about this meeting, mostly local residents who are mad that out of state journos got all the attention and mischaracterized what was going on but they don't seem to understand how federal politics works under Trump
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/we-found-network-ngo-not-just-soros-trump-briefed-left-wing-machine-sows-chaos

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