“You must mean Base 22”

Wait for the bankruptcies

Literally a punchline

In fairness, Expelliarmus has a higher success rate

America doesn’t just do this domestically.

They do. It’s just tied up in the private sector. Tons of quackery on American TV and in news journals. Everything from “Head On, Apply Directly to The Forehead” to Dr Oz shilling ginseng as a panacea to the social media conspiracies about MedBeds that Trump himself retweeted.

The CIA undermined polio vaccination programs in Pakistan when global eradication actually seemed possible.

Can’t let the wrong kind of people benefit

deleting my account

When the 25lb bag is mostly weavels?

90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects

Collapsing industry so houses can’t continue to be built

Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday showed that nationwide residential housing starts fell 19.9% year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2025 to 392 million square meters, while new home sales dropped 8.1% to 658 million square meters.

So demand is off it’s peak, but they’re still building about half a Cleveland’s worth of homes this year.

I wouldn’t consider that an economy which has forgotten how to build housing.

Violating other countries sea borders isn’t undefined.

Whose borders?

Yes, monsters when they kidnap dissidents and call them terrorists.

Does murdering your pregnant girlfriend make you a dissident?

I think what the antivaxers are incapable of understanding and expressing is that they are not actually questioning the science, they are questioning the health care industry and the systems meant to keep them honest.

A lot of the opposition to vaccination reads like fad diets and self-help trends from 20 or 30 years ago. You can prevent autism by fumbles around playing Motzart to your baby in utero? Meditating during Yoga? Eating chocolate? Pick your Oprah-sponsored poison.

But, like, why are we seeing a fixation on a proven medical treatment and not some generic “don’t let your kids eat jelly beans” or “do headstands to get the blood flowing to the brain” hookum?

I think that’s where you get to people really running afoul of an increasingly dysfunctional health media ecosystem. One whose reputation is bloated with empty promises about The Perfect Cancer / Alzheimer’s Cure or Living Forever With Blood Transfusions. And then it’s colliding with an actual system that just seems to throw enormous bills at you for pain killers and palliative care.

On the one end, there’s supposed to be a recipe for perfect health if you have enough money. On the other, I can get a flu shot and still get the flu? How unfair.

I’ve found the best way to deal with a fear of needles is to scream slurs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study#Public_trust

There’s been a systematic undermining of public trust in health and safety instructions going on for decades.

Some of this distrust is earned as with Tuskegee, the bungled Anthrax vaccine, the Reagan Era response to the AIDS epidemic, scandals with weight loss drugs like Fen-phen and Redux, Oxycodone, etc.

Some of it is purely manufactured, with the CIA-sponsored agitation against the Chinese COVID vaccine being a major font of modern day anti-vax Truther Lore.

But to no-sell skepticism as just “you’re a little baby who is scared of needles” really under plays the shift in attitude nationally. We used to be a country that whole heartedly embraced a preventative for small pox, polio, and influenza. Now we’re more terrified of kids getting the shot that gives you bad grades in school than getting measels.

Success

Why China’s property crash must be kept top secret

Cheap Housing… Bad?

Peaceful?

This analysis contends that China’s aggressive actions represent a deliberate violation of international maritime law and the South China Sea Code of Conduct.

A South China Sea code of conduct has been under discussion for over two decades.

You broke a set of rules we haven’t even defined yet!

Not doing terrible things to their citizens?

China signs police patrol agreements with nations

In 2016, an Italian police official told NPR that joint policing would “lead to a wider international cooperation, exchange of information and sharing resources to combat the criminal and terrorist groups that afflict our countries.”

Those monsters.

Wait till you find out about Cam girls

Roman Pagans were famously awful for women’s rights. And the New Atheist movement is full of sex pests on both sides of the Atlantic.

Toxic Masculinity exists independently of religious doctrine

Requires a fully funded and staffed public postal service in a county that’s dismantling, privatizing, and outsourcing core components of public sector package shipping

A recision is when your neighbors lose their jobs

A depression is when you lose yours.

Seems like I touched a nerve

Going to gouge all the midstream businesses in the long run. Hardware retailers, PC assemblers, all those little companies selling custom cases and overclock kits and fancy cooling appliances.

The lack of cheap but crucial components will have some ugly coat tails for the rest of the industry.

I’ve heard “unrecoverable” for decades. I don’t see unsolvable problems, I see intractable people.