Modern Reforms for the Modern World 🗺️
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> be obama 2008
> "we need border security"
> "marriage is between a man and a woman"
> "illegal immigration hurts american workers"
> win women by historic margins
> be conservative 2026
> say exact same things
> "far-right hate movement"
> women flee in terror
the overton window moved, not the right. modern republicans would be democrats 20 years ago and radicals 60 years ago. a decade of censorship shifted both parties leftward.
hanania, of course, is wrong. he thinks this is a messaging problem when it's an incentives problem.
two things happened:
the definition of "hateful" expanded to include positions that were mainstream democrat 15 years ago and women lean towards what *feels* less hateful
single women benefit disproportionately from expanded government. the state becomes the provider when men can't or won't
voting patterns track marital status almost perfectly. married women vote like men, single women vote for more government
the "hate" framing is downstream rationalization of economic interest
you cant message your way past incentive structures
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I'm begging people to understand these are not "protest groups", they are unregulated but very well organized militias
The DOJ needs to bring RICO charges on any organization that funnels money to them
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You could build 10 of these on the moon for the low low price of one failed Minnesota childcare program
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Now we know why nursing homes in Minnesota have such high Election Day turnout and vote 90% Democrat.
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As we discover Somalians ripping us off for billions…
What % of the population pays % of Federal Income Taxes?
White: 59% pays 70%-75%
Hispanic: 19% pays 10%-12%
Black: 13% pays 6%-8%
Asian: 6% pays 8%-10%
Other: 3% pays 4%-6%
This the “white privilege” the Left cries about?
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My sister is a former trauma surgeon and I was introduced to this fact years ago. The murder rate went down not for a lack of shootings but because we got much better at treating gunshot wounds. That's why the real question should be "what is your attempted murder rate." The answer in the U.S. is terrible.
"Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments over the past 40 years...Without this technology, there would be no less than 50,000 and as many as 115,000 homicides annually instead of an actual 15,000 to 20,000" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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you simply can't maintain a system that constantly makes honest decent people feel like they must be idiots for not defrauding their neighbors
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Liberals when your employer pays 7.65% to the government instead of giving that very real cash to you as part of your salary: “The employer contribution of FICA is not your money. It has no relation to you. You aren’t paying it. No corporate taxes ever impact you or make you poorer. How dare you. Stop complaining; you still get to keep 60% of your salary if you follow these 1000 rules of minimizing your tax burden.”
Liberals when a random business in China has to pay $5 in tariffs for a nonessential toy: “You’re paying that, you know. He’s crushing your life with those tariffs and you don’t even know it. That $5 is actually your money, right out of your pocket. Straight out of your pocket and directly into Trump’s bathtub and you don’t know it.”
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The Somali fraud in Minnesota is the same order of magnitude as the Missile Defense Agency's entire annual budget i.e. the thing that makes it so China can't turn America into a nuclear wasteland.
The Somali fraud roughly equals the requested Golden Dome funds + DARPA budget.
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Over 50% of American adults have sub 6th grade literacy. Roughly 28% are not literate at all.
It is important to remember this at all times.
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Affirmative action is *not* zero-sum redistribution. It is very negative-sum. For example, in medicine there is a ~1std gap in test scores between blacks and whites. Norwegian data suggests a 1std deviation difference in doctor quality is worth ~$9M/doctor in lost life-years.
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Can you wrap your mind around how crazy it is to see $9 Billion of Medicaid fraud in ONE STATE?
Imagine a million dollar house.
There’s enough Medicaid fraud in Minnesota to buy 9,000 of them.
Thats half the GDP of Afghanistan.
3/4 of the GDP of Somalia.
From one state.
About half or more of the roughly $18 billion in claims paid out by Medicaid to Minnesota-run programs may have been fraudulent, and at least 14 programs were likely exploited, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
cbsn.ws/4qn9k0B
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The best permitting system is no permitting system.
Most things that require permits today should not. Just build and if people break the rules, then enforce the rules.
America needs to move from a permission economy to a freedom economy.
As SpaceX eyes launching tens of thousands of new satellites for Starlink, the FCC is indicating it’s ready to open the floodgates.
Chair Brendan Carr looks to replace a 'Default to No' process with a 'Default to Yes' framework for satellite approvals.
The FCC announced a new effort to fast-track the required approvals for satellite systems that typically take a year or more to review.
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China has officially closed all exports for lithium ion materials, equipment, and high energy density batteries with >300 Wh/kg. If you buy drone batteries (2170 or pouch) reach out. Your supply chain may have just evaporated.
Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs: Export controls on items related to lithium batteries and artificial graphite anode materials
2025-10-09 05:00:44
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Today, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs issued a notice announcing the decision to implement export controls on items related to lithium batteries and artificial graphite anode materials. The contents are as follows:
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Export Control Law of the People's Republic of China, the Foreign Trade Law of the people's republic, the Customs Law of the person's republic and the Export Control Regulations for Dual-Use Items of the people, In order to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation, the State Council decided, with the approval of the State Council, to impose export controls on the following items:
I. Lithium battery related items
(1) 3A001 rechargeable and discharging lithium-ion batteries with a weight and energy density of 300 Wh / kg or more (including cells and pool groups) (Reference Tariff No.: 85076000).
(2) 3B901.a. Equipment for the manufacture of charge-discharge lithium batteries:
1. Rolling machines (reference tax column: 847799);
2. Film stacking machines (reference tax line: 847799);
3. Fluid injection machine (reference tax line: 84798999);
4. Heat presses;
5. Chemical composition systems;
6. A locker.
(iii) 3E901.a. Technology used in the production of controlled items 3A001.
II. Products related to cathode materials
(1) 3 C901.a.1. lithium iron phosphate cathode material with a compacted density of 2.5 g / cm3 or more and a gram capacity of 156 mAh or more or less (see HTP No.: 28429040).
(2) C901.a.2. Precursors related to ternary cathode materials:
A. Nickel-Cobalt-Manganese Hydroxide (ref. HS: 28539030);
B. Nickel cobalt aluminum hydroxide (cf. HS column: 28539050).
(iii) C901.a.3. Lithium-rich manganese cathode material.
(4) 3B901.b. Equipment for manufacturing cathode materials for charge-discharge lithium-ion batteries:
1. Crane kiln;
2. High speed mixers;
3. Sand milling machine;
4. Airflow crushing machine.
III. Objects related to graphite anode materials
(1) C901.b.1. Artificial graphite anode material.
(ii) 3C902.b.2. Anode material mixed with artificial graphite and natural graphite.
(3) B901.c.1. Granulation process equipment for the production of graphite anode materials:
A. Vertical pelletizers with a pelletizing capacity of 5 m3 or more;
B. A continuous pelletizing kettle with a pelletizing volume of 5 m3 or more.
(4) 3B901.c.2. Graphitization equipment for the production of graphite anode materials:
A. Box furnaces;
B. Atchison furnaces;
C. Internal string furnace;
D. Continuous graphitization furnace.
(5) B901.c.3. Coating and modification equipment for the production of graphite anode materials:
A. Fusion coating equipment with a volume greater than 300 L;
B. Spray drying equipment with a volume greater than 60 m3;
C. A chemical vapor deposition (CVD) kiln with a barrel diameter greater than 0.5 m.
(vi) 3E901.b. Processes and techniques for the production of graphite anode materials:
1. The granulation process;
2. Continuous graphitic technology;
3. Liquid packaging technology.
Export operators shall apply to the commercial authorities of the State Council for permission to export the above-mentioned items in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Export Control Law of the People's Republic of China and the Export Control Regulations on Dual-Use Items of the Peoples Republic ofChina.
Export operators should be responsible for the authenticity of commodities submitted for customs clearance and strengthen the identification of export items. If they are controlled items, they must indicate "dual use items" in the annotation column of the customs declaration and set out the export control code for dual use items; If the parameters, indicators, performance, etc. are not controlled items, they must indicate "not controlled items" in the annotation column of the customs order and fill in specific parameters and indicators. If there is doubt about the completeness, accuracy and authenticity of the above-mentioned submissions, the customs will challenge them in accordance with the law, and the export goods will not be released during the challenge period.
This notice is officially implemented from November 8, 2025. The Export Control List for Dual-Use Items of the People's Republic of China was updated simultaneously.
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this nuclear power plant cost 13 billion and was never finished. it never powered anything. had it been completed, it could have produced up to 5000 megawatts. to produce 5000 megawatts with solar would take solar panels covering an area the size of THE ENTIRETY OF SAN FRANCISCO
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The US government banning Juul, an American company, so less-regulated Chinese cos Guangdong Qisitech (Geek Bar) and Shenzhen iMiracle (Elf Bar) could own the nicotine market was so incredibly stupid.
vaping seems way more evil than cigarettes.
im treating a zoomer patient this week with fairly serious alcohol dependency/withdrawal and risk of seizures, but he really wants to leave the hospital, citing nicotine cravings. been kind of confused bc he's on maximum patch + 4mg nicotine gum as often as he wants it, he's currently racking up like 60mg of nicotine a day (equivalent to 3 packs of cigs)
turns out he's going through 1 of those disposable vapes called a geek bar every 2 days, roughly equivalent of 500-750mg of nicotine every single day. that's like nicotine equivalent of 30ish packs of cigs EVERY DAY.
no idea how you're supposed to quit in that situation. you'd probably have to taper over like...a year?
real people are being legitimately one shot by a machine with more compute than what it took to put us on the moon because it dispenses the most addictive substance in the world at quantities that would make the average SERIOUS smoker sick
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Remember this: China has floating cities visible from space sitting off the coasts of nations and stripping the ocean of all life
