"Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish." […]
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This review of Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything accuses them of attacking strawman arguments but the strawperson on page 252 is Jared Diamond (that is the page they quote his explicit argument that farming didn't expand faster because it couldn't) […]
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One second the accusation is that the Davids "neglect of the role of crop attributes in mediating development" the next "they concede that only cereal farming and storage made bureaucratic empires possible."
Like minds are welcome to agree to agree in the form of a disagreement, I suppose, but […]
Kamala could go on tour with Dick Cheney's daughter but only Trump could turn US foreign policy back to Dick Cheney's common sense support for Iran's nuclear program during the Ford administration.
https://newrepublic.com/post/212003/trump-iran-right-nuclear-program
“There's no amount of press coverage that could ever fully document the scale of the ripple effect of trauma that this has on the city of Minneapolis,” one resident told HRW. “And when these cameras go away, we’re still going to be here grieving and traumatized.” Calls to local suicide hotlines […]
I cannot for the life of me comprehend how so many liberal hawks imagine they have any grounds let alone means to stop Iran's perfectly legal and perfectly real ballistic missile program. Like they're going to reach any agreement of any kind under the long shadow of American perfidy without Iran […]
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"more than 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node"
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"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining a little so you can have more of it." --"as Michael said?"
Who is Michael?
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Meta's entire budget is $200 billion a year in ads. Journalism was a byproduct of the local advertising markets that Facebook replaced; now you just get slop and viral conspiracy theorists.
Here they violated a basic election transparency […]
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President Trump said Wednesday that Iran could have its own nuclear program.
“It is a little hard that when you say that somebody wants it, other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you’re not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that. It’s always a little tough. You have to use a little common sense,” Trump said at the G7 summit in France, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
> Trump leaves door open to Iran enriching: "It's a little hard when other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that. You have to use a little common sense." pic.twitter.com/oVfBz4nuI8
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> — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2026
It seems to be a sharp departure from Trump’s previous claims during the war. After months of insisting that the purpose of the war was to get rid of any nuclear capability, demanding “zero enrichment,” Trump is now saying that the country can use nuclear power for electricity.
One wonders what Republicans in Congress—let alone the international community—will think of Trump’s latest concession. If a final peace deal between Iran and the U.S. doesn’t have any restrictions on the country’s nuclear program, it will be effectively worse than the 2015 JCPOA agreement with Iran.
That agreement was drafted not only between the U.S. and Iran, but the other members of the U.N. Security Council, including China, Russia, the U.K., and the European Union. This deal was negotiated without Congress even being aware of the details. Iran will likely be receiving $300 billion in reconstruction funds, and now they might have a nuclear program too. What did the Trump administration accomplish?
