Graph of Canada's population vs worker productivity from FT.

Unsurprisingly, if you rapidly expand your population by importing millions of third worlders, per-worker productivity will go down.

The fact is we're not all equal. Canada's population is significantly smarter than the world average. Importing the rest of the world en-mass will inevitably degrade that advantage.

Making IQ tests a requirement for immigration would be a good start.

Storing museum art amongst radioactive waste.

“This is, actually, a place of honor.”

Missile strike on the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia. Based on the video/sound recordings it's believed this strike was made with an extended range version of the Ukrainian built Neptune cruise missile, which normally has a 150kg warhead. Zelensky confirmed it has entered combat use, without confirming which targets.

A far more effective type of sanction than trying to apply AML/KYC to Bitcoin wallets...

A FOIA'd conversation between Clinton and Russian president Yeltsin, from 1999:

Psychopathic culture.

It's impressive how rapidly Elon Musk is fucking up his businesses with absurd Putin supporting nonsense. The rumors of him abusing drugs may very well be true. These are ridiculous fights to pick.

SMBC comics parts ways with their ad provider, leaving them without any income.

I really wish I could just pay with lightning to see content. Are there any easy to use lightning paywalls? Surely someone could write some simple JavaScript to do this. It doesn't need to be completely secure.

Neat video of Starship Flight 8 just after the upper stage exploded. It's sufficiently high and fast that we see the explosion quickly moving across the sky with no appreciable air resistance.

Interesting service: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/fully-bootstrapping-java-from-source-in-wolfi

The most important thing I ever bought with #Bitcoin was my and my wife's time.