This was one of the most striking things to me about the US the first time I went there. As a country it's incredibly diverse, but it's a diverse collection of little mono-cultures. That sa… (View Post)

Apparently the Nevada population has loads of churn at the best of times, and then during covid a huge proportion of people working in casinos and hotels got laid off, so lots of people left and diff… (View Post)

Trending ineluctably towards the cursed ratio (View Post)

If the US is simultaneously backing out of Nato, the financial cost of letting Ukraine go sounds much worse, because now the EU needs an army to keep victorious Russia out of the rest of ex-Soviet Eu… (View Post)

The following tab (and lists) worked for me for a bit but the changes Elon made to the reply ordering basically killed it, because for me the value of Twitter was always the conversations and regardl… (View Post)