Do we have anyone here who works in US customs, or whichever agency is in charge of applying these tariffs?
How do you guys even keep track of what to charge when tariffs change daily?

It’s easy to see how someone might fall into an anti-immigrant pipeline with news like this.

• Thousands of immigrants are willing to risk death to reach the UK which they see as a promised land
• I live in the UK and see nothing of this promised land, on the contrary my life is quite shitty, I’m barely making the ends meet
• Therefore the good life opportunities are taken by the immigrants

Of course what’s missing is the first-hand insight in the immigrant life, which is far from comfortable.

Which makes me think what is driving those people to see specifically the UK as a promised land. Rather than any other country. Mass hysteria/cultural phenomenon? An extreme case of FOMO?

Change imposed by force never works. Iranian people need to overwhelmingly decide to do it. Providing help is fine, but bombing them into “freedom” never works. It actually has the opposite effect, when you feel in danger (because for example bombs are falling around you) you’ll less likely to start a revolution.

People from some cultures (typically those where Islam is dominant, but not exclusively) are more prone to behavior like this. Probably due to a system of values they have adopted in their environment and upbringing.
Call it Islamophobia or something else it does lend itself to the idea that some people should be regarded with more default suspicion than others, based on their origins. As long as each individual is treated as just that - individual, and not blamed for the crimes of others, a higher base level of suspicion is unfortunate but a normal human reaction that shouldn’t be treated as some kind of horrible sin.

Is Jesus half-human half-god, or full-human and full-god at the same time? And in the second case is his humanity and divinity separate in one person or one thing that is inseparable? Careful the wrong answer will cost you your life …

Um, why would they attack a prison? People locked up there are presumably not friends with the Iranian government, and it’s not a likely place to keep any military supplies.

How long until he says it’s antisemitic to vote against him

Yes but he did it the wrong way South America -> Polynesia.

Turns out it actually happened the other way around Asia -> Polynesia -> South America. Most likely, still a lot to be determined.

Giving sone Last Starfighter vibes. You’re good at playing games? And you can do a short sprint if needed? Off to the military with you, you’re going to be flying drones remotely. The running is there for when Ukrainians figure out your location.

A couple of years old, but in the early days they didn’t care about sanitizing non-English content. Leading to pearls like this:

PhD overproduction (and subsequently devaluation) is a real thing. The intention of PhDs was to reward and recognize major original contributions to a specific field of science. It turned into another academic “level” that you have to grind towards by producing a large quantity of articles. Even before AI the academic slop was a real thing.

Sound like a standard case of misaligned incentives in a planned economy. As far as those go this is quite benign.

Central government sets targets for selling cars domestically, so of course every car is going to be sold domestically. Even those sold internationally.

Part of it makes sense. We live longer and longer, retirement age is something that needs to be adjusted with the human lifespan.

The problem is that our idea of what “work” should be is so awful that people look forward to retiring, and logically complain if they are denied the opportunity.

I’ve seen claims both ways, and it’s too much debate about semantics.

Those facilities are damaged enough to be useless in the short term (few months at least). In the long term Iran can build new facilities regardless if these ones are completely destroyed or merely damaged.

The headline is somewhat misleading. Iran said US personnel are legitimate targets (meaning those employed by the US government. Not all US citizens.

Although if I were American I would not risk depending on the judgment of a random Iranian soldier.

Milei understands money. He might fail to understand many other things, he might cause more harm than good in other ways, but he understands money. If you want to stop inflation, Milei is your man.

I feel like a Cassandra since I was warning about this for years now.

The gender equality narrative got too focused on excluding men specifically, instead of including the less represented gender in each profession. Somehow the idea was that men are privileged in the system and women oppressed, while the truth is that both men and women are oppressed.

Divide and conquer was a small step away from that point.

Usually, the word “democracy” is reduced to the word “elections” and here the field where the autocrats like to play.

That’s the problem. For a functional country, or “democracy” for short, you need mechanisms to prevent a collapse into autocracy. And general participation of citizens in decision making, which is related to my second point.

What I mean by “slave mentality” is better described as “rejection of personhood”. People supporting authoritarian governments reject their own status as a person, by rejecting their own (and everybody else’s) political agency. Usually by looking for some great leader to be a saviour, as long as you keep your head down and obey.
Political rights are what makes you a full person in a society.

But it is a lack of democracy institutions development. “Slave mentality” too, although I prefer different phrasing.