Doctor. Liberal democracy + globalism. YIMBY+LVT. Free speech+trade. Effective Altruism. Vegan runner+lifter. Systematically collected data over anecdotes.
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Racial theories of growth fail in the 3 best natural experiments. Korea, Germany, and China were split into 2 states with radically different policies. The economically free states thrived, centrally planned states failed, despite near-identical genetics.
Amused by the implication that Australians constitute a species, ie they cannot produce fertile offspring when bred with, say, New Zealanders or Canadians
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Marcus Rubius appointed proconsul of Venezuela. Gavin Newsom elected President in 2028. Marcus Rubius conquers all of South America. Newsom blocks his return to run for President in 2032. Marcus Rubius leads his legions across the Panama Canal, hereafter known as “the Rubiocon.”
Building more than the anglosphere is miserable company and pathetic when compared with our past homebuilding. If we returned to 60s build rate we'd easily outbuild our pop growth, and get to keep all the benefits of migration.
Ukraine is making military history - one of the most impactful strategic bombing campaigns ever, achieved with zero air superiority!
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In the West, you liquidate debts. In Soviet Russia, debts liquidate you
Russia is going to introduce a moratorium on bankruptcy in agriculture.
Last year, there was a 15% drop in harvest, this year Ukrainian analysts expect a further 20-25% drop.
In the Rostov and Krasnodar regions, the harvest has already fallen by 25%.
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Russian GDP PPP is probably less than half of Kremlin claims, and shrinking rapidly.
1. Inflation is at least 2.5x official figures
2. Nominal GDP growth is at least 20% overreported
UK is falling. Australia is rising. A leader among nations needs a flag of its own.
I like Justin R Smith's. The roo is vital, instantly recognizable, unique. The Southern cross is continuity. The colours distinctive, Australian, wattle leaves and flower.
This is your brain on rightism: billions must die so the UK can be 6% brown instead of 8% brown.
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Huge leap for Ukraine's strategic strike capabilities if true. At this low cost and high payload, Flamingo can follow up drone swarms that overwhelm Russian are defence and feast on Russian bridges, factories, refineries.
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Can anyone help me understand why people seem to believe Coalition lost the Iraq War?
I understand the case to call it illegal, unwise, damaging, strategically unsound, or wasteful, but a loss?
They defeated and deposed their enemy.
Objectively, Britain hasn't achieved anything since WWII. No major new cities, no megaprojects, no space program. No population growth (setting aside immigration).
We barely won a minor war in 1982 and then bandwagoned into losing two wars with America in the 2000s.
We dissolved the Commonwealth, Canada and Australia are basically unrelated to us now and rapidly filling up with foreign immigrants with no connection to The Anglosphere.
We are living in the ruins of the civilization the Victorians built.
Chart crime from Matt Canavan? He didn't link the article, possibly so no one would do what I did - used the interactive to check the month of the peak and find it was 2 months *before* Labor was elected - 21/05/22.
If you were saying that without siphoning, "it would be even more down" you would have said that, or "breed more than they would have".
You wouldn't have said "breed even more" which means an increase, on the plain meaning of words.
Does this look like breeding "even more"?
If you were saying that without siphoning, "it would be even more down" you would have said that, or "breed more than they would have".
You wouldn't have said "breed even more" which means an increase, on the plain meaning of words.
@meh8hei I made it nice and big for you. Does this look like a population that we've allowed to "breed even more"?
Moderate running is good for your joints! Recreational runners have lower rates of hip/knee arthritis (3.5%) than gen pop (10.2%). Only elites overdo it (13.3%). Well-planned progressive load on heart, lungs, muscle, bone, joint, tendon makes you stronger, less morbid/mortal
Many people seem highly motivated to pretend that intelligence is a curse. They want to believe in a just world, where IQ points come at cost of other skills, RPG style. This is plainly false. Intelligence is associated with nearly all other positive traits+outcomes.
Huge wealth may seem wrong. But clamping down on property rights, wealth, and economic activity makes you miserably poor. It just fails as policy.
Check the productivity and growth of the top 10 economically freest countries vs bottom 10.
We must stop taxing productive work to churn money into wasteful payments.
End pensions for rich homeowners, use $20bn saved to end stamp duty. Easier to downsize, inventive to rent out rooms. Atrocious we pay the rich to keep millions of bedrooms empty in a housing crisis.
