Fw mins ago, 🇬🇪 ruling party officially became a Russian regime. After all the violence, brutal crackdowns, beating people in their homes, & finally passing the Russian law, we’re back on the streets, & our message is clear:“They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.”

Unions against progress, supermarket robots edition

“Our forefathers had to carry water in pails; chop their own firewood to keep themselves warm; hew their own homesteads out of wilderness; walk miles to the nearest neighbor to borrow books.” (1928)

Great way to ensure housing prices rise by roughly $400/month

Again: It is so very unserious that lawmakers who claim to advocate for freedom are literally creating a black market for lab-grown meat so they can protect their friends & donors in the meat industry from competition.

If you think this is actually about safety, you've been had.

It is my very controversial opinion that armed agents of the government should not be spending time & taxpayer resources cracking down on people selling fruit without a license. Somehow I don’t feel safer.

Probably never. But TaylorLorenz.Substack.com may prove me wrong…

This plot speaks for itself, but see the full article thehill.com/opinion/techno…

Subscribe to reason. I can't think of a better magazine to spank someone with than a libertarian one.

Only in the age of social media could RFK Jr. get so much amplificatio... (2005)

Holy shit

If raising tariffs on imports from China was the solution to anything, wouldn't six years of higher tariffs on imports from China have accomplished something already?

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I Will Not Eat Bugs.
I Will Not Eat Lab Grown Meat.
I Will Not Put Artificial Ice in My Water.

My latest Capitolism @TheDispatch examines how, even with high & politically-charged US grocery prices, nobody in DC is actually trying to lower them (and some are even pushing for increases):

'Political Sacred Cows Inflate American Grocery Prices'
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It’d be cool if ‘pro-science’ also means pro the application of science

It is, in fact, fantastic. Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans, and they start businesses that employ thousands of Americans and stimulate the economy. Immigration is truly an American superpower.

'California bill could remove self checkout at grocers, certain retailers' foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/cali…
Anyone wanna bet this is more about labor than theft?

Florida's protectionist ban on cultivated meat sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything. reason.com/2024/05/08/ron…

Why should AI companies trust the U.K. government to keep their model data safe?

This is genuinely great news. Panic & bloodshed sell, so this trend has mostly flown under the radar. But we’re seeing a steep drop in murders that could put the US below pre-COVID levels. I wrote about it: