[at my thiel capital interview] peter: what important truth do very few people agree with you on? me: [answers earnestly] p: i agree. try again. this goes on for an hour until i say that i think bingo was the name of the farmer not the dog and then i get eric weinsteins job

i asked a RW female friend (who had spent years in DC for a Republican senator) to guess how many legal immigrants America accepts per year she guessed 25K

we are so back. he is risen.

channeling this energy for the next 40 days. be well, friends.

frame mogged

if you took someone from 2014 and brought them to a chipotle in 2026, they’d think the united states lost a major war.

what

greek dark ages after the bronze age collapse saw a loss of writing that lasted 400 years. when pausanius, a greek writer, came across myceanean ruins from pre-collapse, he thought that they must've been built by cyclopes bc there was no way they could build anything as massive.

it’s crazy that “slop” as a term didn’t take off until recently. scrolling thru the stuff that’s on cable television is absolutely insane like 95% the sloppiest garbage

some books on russia that i enjoyed this year. i had forgotten how much better it is to group my reading on a similar subject.

I've checked it twice Marty. I can't look at it again.

rewatching it's a wonderful life. in george bailey's famous speech, he makes the point about how expensive homes are and says "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000!?"

send her this and say “us”

insane to not include this