The brilliant Russell Crowe leads Team USA to an absolute masterclass of a surprise underdog victory in a blindingly close match against The Well-Oiled Machine that was Team Paraguay, who some consider The Great Villain Of The World. What a feel-good match, well done to the lads
The sheer scale of a billion dollars can be hard to understand. Let me put it in perspective for you. You would have to earn a dollar a day for a billion days straight to have that much money.
I don't think we should expect the welfare state to reduce pre-transfer poverty (that is to say, poverty before taking into account welfare), and we shouldn't be particularly bothered by that. To get at why, it's helpful to take a look at who is in pre-transfer poverty (thread)
Tank parades and reviews are deeply un-American. The only acceptable display of our military's technological prowess is a tasteful flyover by several of our stealth nuclear bombers, ideally at an extremely low-stakes college football game.
My stance on pilot mental health: it’s important for pilots to have a decent life waiting for them on the ground so that they have a reason to land. But they can’t be so attached to the ground that they lose their desire to take off