Europeans didnโ€™t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices.

A brief history of instant coffee.

Fake deliveries, then guns: How a โ€˜wrench attackโ€™ crime ring chased crypto millions from S.F. to L.A.

Jury trials aren't only failing because of ethnic tribalism.

Beyond Teleportation.

We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies. The relationship is stronger for trust in neighbors and when ethnic diversity is measured more locally.

A Downed Airman, a Mountain Hideout and a High-Risk Rescue in Iran.

Boomers inherited an economy designed to reward time invested, while millennials and Gen Z are navigating one that rewards attention captured, and the skill sets donโ€™t translate.

Thereโ€™s a Good Reason You Canโ€™t Concentrate. Hmm, wonder what that article is about. Couldn’t finish it.

The Trajectory of the Artemis II Moon Mission Is a Feat of Engineering.

If you complain about permissiveness of low grade criminality and social disorder to libs they will roll their eyes at you but the failure to enforce order actually represents a huge technocratic failing, one that I consider to be disqualifying.

Drop Ship

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Yeah, I would have believed them. Because this all started in earnest with the Charlie Hebdo massacre back in 2015 — where liberals betrayed their own civilizations en masse — but it’s gotten vastly worse since then.

All of them need to be shipped to Somalia.

No Soar

Accounting for inflation changes the picture a lot from this senationalism of “soared.” Nothing “soared” so far:


FY Nominal Real (2025 $) Real YoY change
2015 $582B $791B โ€”
2016 $584B $783B -0.9%
2017 $590B $775B -1.1%
2018 $623B $799B +3.1%
2019 $676B $851B +6.6%
2020 $714B $888B +4.3%
2021 $742B $882B -0.7%
2022 $751B $826B -6.3%
2023 $805B $851B +3.0%
2024 $850B $872B +2.6%
2025 $893B $893B +2.4%
2026* $962B $936B +4.8%
2027* $1.5T $1.425T +52.3%

* Projection-based rows.

If the 2027 rise occurs, though, that will be “soared.” Motherfuckers do not do their homework. And they should.

Torchplane

The European (et al.) disdain for the rescue vs. the American, “Of course we’d torch a buncha planes to rescue someone, like, I mean what else would you do?” is really telling.

And mostly it reveals very diseased things about the European outlook and spirit.

German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function.

How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one.

A shortage of transformers is causing delays to power projects everywhere, holding trillion-dollar industries hostageโ€”and that was before tariffs.

The Oxygen Apocalypse.

The busiest place youโ€™ve never seen. What life looks like on the worldโ€™s most remote inhabited island.

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish.

The hidden mental cost of emotional rigidity in young adults. Oh, all of Gen Z then?

Tech companies are trying to neuter Coloradoโ€™s landmark right-to-repair law.

Why Trump Thinks He Can Walk Away From the Strait of Hormuz.

America is heading for a recession โ€” and it may be the worst yet.

Churchill’s “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech was delivered to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940. Were his words spoken by an MP today, they would likely attract the attention of Parliament’s Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS), created in 2018 โ€“ the speech might invite sanction.

Imagine being Iran’s leadership right now.

Foreign Visas and American Decay. This is now a common version of Bozo Explosion.

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