Correctly realizing the US can't protect them, they are either looking for a better patron or, failing that, to become convincingly neutral. The administration has no cards left to play other than massive escalation, which will not go well.

UPDATE: WSJ reports that Saudi and Co. are back with the program. Who knows if that will last, or what if any kind of deal falls out of this.

Much digital ink is spilled upon the subject of why so many are romantically frustrated. If they would but think on the math, they would immediately understand there is no fix to the problem within their lifetime.

We have an inverted population pyramid, where less and less new women are available in new generations. Women always prefer to pair with older men, as they have more resources and therefore time with which to woo them. This means that a larger pool of older men will be competing for a smaller pool of younger women. It is mathematically impossible for every man therefore to successfully reproduce, no matter how much they game or looksmaxx.

I remember hearing decades ago about China's "excess male" problem thanks to the one-child policy. The entire developed world has this problem now (save Russia and Ukraine thanks to liquidating their excess males in war), and has not yet realized this. Even in societies with a normal population pyramid, expatriates looking for love will make this a problem for the locals by solving their own reproductive problem. "Unrealistic" female expectations of their mate is simply downstream of them being spoiled for choice. Young males will be frustrated until they become established older males, and in many cases not even then. There is nothing whatsoever that can fix this other than the succeeding generations becoming larger than that which preceedeth.

The only coping strategy that is viable in the meantime is temporally displaced polyandry as embodied by the dual mating strategy of single mothers. That, or take the TFM strategy of unapologetic pursuit of substitutes. In more extreme cases this will simply result in war. This will not change during the lifetime of anyone currently living. Most of politics will be downstream of these simple mathematical ratios for the forseeable future. It's not black-pilling to simply recognize facts.

Good essay by Saifedean, though it's been said many times before. Property rights are always the path to peace.

As a result, more U.S. biotech firms are beginning to move parts of their clinical development to China. A Time magazine headline from May 2025 captures what many industry experts have been warning for years: “The US can’t afford to lose the biotech race with China.” This is no longer a hypothetical concern. Data is backing this fear up: US early-stage funding is deteriorating: dropping from $2.6 billion in Q1 to just $900 million in Q2 2025 — the lowest level in five quarters. If this trend continues, it could gradually shift the center of gravity for biomedical innovation abroad. In the long run, this poses risks not only to U.S. biotech competitiveness but also to biosecurity, much like the earlier offshoring of manufacturing supply chains created strategic vulnerabilities.

I'm sure they're still gonna be sitting around with their heads up their asses up in DC whenever even the defense industry regulatory arbitrages itself out of the country.

There's apparently an effort out now to release the FDA's data on the drugs they've blocked over the years, which they keep as a tightly guarded secret. This would be very useful for training AIs, but the FDA rightly fears what will happen when people figure out how many transformative drugs have been denied for bullshit reasons.

Under no circumstances does anyone "have to hand it to them", but it's at least refreshing that they aren't even trying to offer up plausible justifications this go round. It is nevertheless working up to be a tragedy of epic proportions, given 1 Ton bombs are being dropped on Tehran, likely with many more to come. The only sure thing is first class tickets straight to hell for nefarious rascals on all sides.

Dr Livci out once again with great Soviet history unknown in the west. How the children of the Nomenklatura became the oligarchs of today.

Voith props on two axes. Three axes are necessary for fully fluid manouvering. I find it interesting that they went with a traditional looking airframe when you can eschew many of the normal forms with these; e.g. you could put all three axes atop a passenger/cargo gondola easily.

Popular author on Twitter/Substack "CatGirlKulak" makes the incoherent argument that the problem is actually the Js, but then engages in hasbara at the end by implying straussian zionism actually works, when it's produced a country that is a fucking dump and economic basket case which will never ever be sovereign. Nobody who gets traction ever admits the problem is that the state/ngo complex are a bunch of parasitic gangsters who should be liquidated, and the "Founding Lawyers" of our country were very much guilty of being precisely this. If all jewish transnational organized crime hoods were reverse-raptured to hell tomorrow, people would quickly figure out these people are sharks' teeth. Knock them out and a new set will grow in within a month if you don't change the underlying incentive structure.

Still moribund bailout queens that exist solely to rape their contributors and enrich mafia parasites and the only opportunity to reform it is when bailout time comes around, except for congress are slaves of the supermob

Leveraging existing logistics hubs to begin the industrial scale movement of populations.

Neocolonialism, which is to say run cover for international criminals even more blatantly than is done now. Looks like Cuba is first on the block, likely to be followed up with African Shenanigans if this is anything more than talk. Seems more credible than the Iran mongering, quite likely the Mothership is behind Rubio's mouth noises here.

Can't be won thanks to crippling corruption, same as usual. Stuff like this keeps happening as such. Dr. Livci here also has a great post on how it all came about in the USSR.

If we can grasp that those being killed are being killed because they are enemies of the state, then the logical thing for us to ask ourselves is this: is there any chance that we or anyone we care about could ever under any circumstances be considered an enemy of the state? That question should not be very difficult to answer.
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Before I was banned, many accused me of being some kind of stooge, purposefully pushing outrageous speech in a way that would justify censorship. I considered it, of course. As one does when he is accused of such things. However, I ultimately decided that it was necessary for someone to push the envelope on freedom of speech in order to demonstrate whether it was actually something that existed in real life. It turned out that no, it did not, and it was only a few short years before everyone found that out.

With the anti-ICE protesters, it’s a bit different and a bit the same. The feds need outrageous people to attack them in order for them to justify implementing these new standards of murdering people who resist whatever it is they are doing. I have zero doubt that the feds themselves are the ones organizing these groups to attack, and I resent the fact that people on the right are acting as though “the left” is a serious ideological movement.

I keep telling people this is predictive programming, getting us ready for the loving conscription squads which are coming soon to a theater near you.

An extraordinarily good essay / book review. The authors make a habit of doing so, and are worth subscribing to.

The same way the most energy dense fuel (uranium) did.

The perennial problem of empires. Basically the same problem as the Russians and Americans. Everyone pretends there is no problem until stuff like the battle of the Java Sea or the SMO happens. The question here is whether the Chinese military purges here are what you expect - further cementing corruption - or actually rooting out the rot. I suppose we'll find out when Taiwan finally kicks off.

Rulemaking is already braindead, so it'll be hard to tell any difference.

It will of course fail and be a massive giveaway to currency speculators, as always happens. The Japanese get to enjoy another 1/3 of their living standard being lopped off.

Hiring connected people, as is always the case with the Just Us system. Good on him. Propublica, so as you might expect it's dripping with performative cruelty towards taxpayer scum.

The fun part is that this panopticon already exists, they just poke a million little holes in it for protected interests and will not stop doing so anytime soon.

Great article from a Canadian in the COVID days, guy is clear thinking on their politics in general. If you don't see politics as the competition of rent-seeking gangs, you are just a schmuck. His point that the only way to avoid becoming a failed state is finding some way to politically integrate the underworld into the elite is the most important part. It's why Mexico and Brazil remain basket cases versus the US which chooses amnesty and looking the other way every single time. Of course in the long run every state that chooses this collapses due to rent-seeking hoods pressing the "bust out" button on the fiscus, but the state is not a fundamentally stable organization.

“We believe the suit has no merit,” a bank spokesperson said. “JPMC does not close accounts for political or religious reasons. We do close accounts because they create legal or regulatory risk for the company.”

Fish: what's water?

Stockman on the moronic agitation against Greenland. It's so obviously retarded that it is hard to conclude the whole affair is anything but smokescreen for other nefarious activity.

Striker on the Venezuela situation. The bit about the Deltas that did the op themselves being a Drug cartel tells you essentially what's actually going on.

The primary threat here is that it's been used as an excuse to sieze Russian shipping. In one case (supposedly?) doing so when actively escorted by .ru warships, which if true, is an incredible humiliation that will have unpredictable consequences.

I've been considering throwing the fucking phone in the woods for some time now, and this will be the last straw that forces me onto SIP devices fully.