Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.

Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).

There’s no compelling reason why a state a big and wealthy as Texas can’t afford to manage natural disasters on this scale.

Their state leadership simply chooses not to do so. And the state media saturated the airwaves with “Nothing to be done, government would only make things worse” which… given the leadership of the state, isn’t even an unfair critique.

That’s all red states.

From California to Mississippi, the anti-tax era got everybody. Now states don’t have domestic revenue to pay for shit, so they have to go through the Feds for everything.

Ironic, in a way, since the core of anti-tax Republicanism was supposed to be about shrinking the size of government. But here we are, beholden to whichever idiot or asshole happens to be running the executive branch at a given moment

If not for Dunmore’s Proclamation, Washington would have still been fighting for the British

The two were on good terms not two years earlier when Washington believed Dunmore would help him secure more territory in the Ohio River Valley.

This is not the United states my ancestors died for.

It literally is, though. Trump isn’t a new kind of president, he’s a return to the nation’s white nationalist authoritarian roots.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas

Would be nice if we had blue state agencies and universities willing to step up and absorb some of the shock by hiring these professionals and issuing grants to continue their projects. Instead, we’ve got institutions wasting time and resources on elaborate surveillance programs aimed at Palestine protesters

I am a professional encoder and I always put all my codes in a single big file marked EXE for faster execution.

Have a friend who was a sort-of perpetual grad student - bouncing from Sweden to Italy to Australia - over about ten years, pursuing a degree in marine biology. Along the way, she contributed thousands of hours of labor to various research teams. Eventually, she got burned out, married a neurologist, and moved to a small house in Queensland. Now she mostly just gardens and raises bunnies, which she is extraordinarily good at thanks to her education.

Was this money wasted or did the universities get exactly what they paid her for? Idk. But it seems a far better way to employ people than what we’ve done with The Pentagon or ICE.

“I graduated high school, got a good job at the Mill, married my high school sweetheart, had five kids, bought a second house with a boat, retired at 60, went insane reading Facebook memes and watching FOX News, then decided to shoot up the Harvest Music Festival in 2017. Why can’t you young people do that?”

My wife graduated law school in 2010, Summa Cum Laude, and just barely got a job at a low rent firm.

Five years later, she’s earning twice the money at a much nicer place for not much more work, because the glut of students from '08-'10 caused grads in '11-'14 to look elsewhere. Suddenly there was a huge supply gap and you could write your own ticket.

Moral of the Story: Get good at something and stick with it. Markets go up, markets go down, but skills pay the bills in the end.

Reminds me of the movie “A Serious Man”

Larry Gopnik: A divorce-what have I done! I haven’t done anything- What have I done!

Judith Gopnik: Larry, don’t be a child. You haven’t “done” anything. I haven’t “done” anything.

Larry Gopnik: Yes! Yes! We haven’t done anything! And I-I’m probably about to get tenure.

Judith Gopnik: Nevertheless, there have been problems. As you know.

Worse ways to get rolled.

Really says more about the disdain for western public transportation.

I’ll take coach seats on the Shinkansen over the driver’s seat of a Ferrari.

its gross how people were convinced millions of immigrants were here causing issues but as soon as a few thousand are exported everything is a-ok.

Media cycles have flipped from “MIGRANT CARAVAN! KUNG-FLU! TOOKER JERBS!” to “Those ICE agents are being a bit too rough, COVID is solved/not-real, AI will replace you anyway so migrants aren’t really an issue.”

oh yeah, and now we get spend hundreds of billions of dollars now not feeding people but ‘watching’…

Now that we have the eugenics focused government that the media industry lobbied for, we can pivot towards the liberal technocracy that makes the brutality cheaper and more efficient. Amazon / Facebook / Palantir will join forces to deliver a new era of Smart, AI-powered Population Management that can deliver the same gestapo-like tactics for a fraction of the price.

Just like with Clinton after Reagan/Bush and Obama after Junior and Biden after Trump, we’re going to get a new Tough On Border Crime democrat at the top of the ticket (maybe even Harris again, she was great at telling Guatemalans fleeing a civil war to go home) who will campaign on Trump’s ICE doing a bad job according to the deportation counting spreadsheets.

And we’ll get an earful about spending, too, of course. Never a bad time to take another big chunk out of the Entitlements in order to balance your books for National Security.

chinese companies are notorious for stealing IP

American companies sell the ip to China in exchange for access to capital and labor, then claim they’ve been robbed when the Chinese firms innovate and expand on the patents they’ve acquired.

The end result is a car company that produces better vehicles than anything an American or Japanese or German company can manage.

Curiously, these superior vehicles are “stolen” while the Teslas keep exploding under home grown technology.

The difference between “believable” and “logical” is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.

Mamdani’s Jihadist plan to open municipally run grocery stores will destroy NYC with Shari Onions.

NASDAQ is up 6.8% ytd and 12.7% yoy. This “drop” didn’t even bring it below the 5D low.

Very possible some HFT was in the know and did a bunch of day-trader shenanigans in the ten minutes before the announcement. Possible this was just speculation on the eve of the announcement because “Trump opens his mouth” is typically bad for the markets for a day or two. But this is a 0.59% drop that you’ve got zoomed in. It’s nothing, in the context of the 3 year Bull Run that’s doubled the NASDAQ’s valuation since the '22 low.

I mean, unironically, this is what polygraphs exist to accomplish. They aren’t reliable instruments and a lot of the “results” boil down to a technician trying to figure out if your heart rate increase or sweaty palms are a result of you lying or the AC in the room not running properly.

By the time someone’s decided to strap you into a ploygraph machine, you’re already “guilty” in their eyes. They’re just looking for an excuse to slam the book on you.