This is beautiful.

Stupid theory imo. If your risk tolerance is that low why do rapid response at all? It's like deciding not to climb K2 because there's a car trip without seatbelts to get there. ICE can easily ID most ppl they see.

Because they constantly make arrest threats, and they haven't been able to successfully charge or hold anyone. You can either run in blind terror or you can realize it's a bluff and call it.

Yeah. People are used to pooh-poohing procedural reforms, but there are procedural reforms that (a) sound entirely like standard uncontroversial things in other contexts, and (b) would make the deportation machine grind to a halt.

Ok I lied one more for the night. This one took me six times down in the ground and back up and I got to tell you my knees don't like that. So even though I could never get the perfect shot with the bird lined up, I think the edit turned out pretty damn good. 🪶

The pre-modern data collection GDP figures are always kind of dubious imo, unless there's good data on e.g. industrial output. I wonder how a chart of staple calories/weekly wage would look? That might miss some things given the level of urbanization in Holland, however.

Is there any casual explanation? 50% is gigantic.

It's honestly the simplest explanation for him, I kind of believe it at this point.

You think vaccine mandates are authoritarian and appear to be an ICE apologist. You wake up and choose evil.

He was a high school history teacher no? I think he's fairly deliberate, and his voice hitches when he says it. With that said it's a fairly well known reference, so you can easily read it metaphorically.

you can read it here it's so stupid substack.com/@johnpaulbra...

I thought it was a thermal image of one at first!

Your blog post with Cleopatra's family tree is one of the most cursed things I have ever seen.