I have an iPhone, and I use it to pay for Subway. An Apple update occurred a few weeks ago, and since then, I have been unable to use Apple Pay without Face ID. The problem was that the update made my default card to pay for transit go to None and I needed to …
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Prime Minister Starmer
Congratulations, Britain, on defeating the Tories. They are genuinely the worst party of the bunch. Now you can have Labour, a party whose leader: Supports Brexit, despite 65% of Labour voters voting to Remain back in 2015. Opposes proportional representation Supports the Israeli military’s operations in Gaza He equivocates criticism of policies of Netanyahu as …
America is rich, why talk about civil war?
The discussion of civil war primarily comes from groups like Project 2025, which has received considerable press attention over the last couple of years. The issue is, does Project 2025 exist because America is a failed state or because Project 2025 is a profoundly anti-American psyops operation? State of The United States of America The …
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Allen Lichtman’s research
Allen Lichtman’s 13 Keys to the White House is a monumental study that correctly predicts the electoral college in every election since 1984 except 2000. He predicts Biden will win the election this year, with only 2-4 false keys. How can we use this research to dictate policy, both internal party politics and national policy, …
Trends in economic data
I gathered some data on US states. This is not longitudinal yet, but I still think it has some interesting trends. To start, states which vote more democratically have the following trends: more bachelor’s degrees higher incomes both before and after taxes live longer more people have health insurance. Fewer people smoke tobacco. The one …
How to crash your society, or not
Here are policies that are most likely to destroy your country: Nationalized agriculture will quickly cure overpopulation. Concentrate your economy in the hands of a handful of mega-corporations. The rich and powerful get significant benefits paid for by the working class. Increase the cost of housing. If a condo is less than 20 times the …
How to reduce the price of oil
You can reduce the price of a good or service in two ways: Reduce demand Increase supply Now, from the perspective of the United States, while we have one of the largest oil reserves, most of those reserves are shale. Shale oil is expensive to refine and particularly dirty compared to other sources of oil. …
Biden report card
This is a summary of everything I have written over the last 3 and a half years Domestic Social: A He supports the progress that was made under the Obama administration, abortion rights, gay marriage, trans rights, etc. Biden is a fantastic president on domestic social policy. He has not eroded American civil liberties; his …
How Biden can still win
Stop sending arms to Israel. Send arms to Ukraine with no restrictions beyond the Geneva conventions so they win the war this summer. The truth is that Joe Biden is one of only two American presidents who lost a war; the other is Gerald Ford, who lost Vietnam. Biden’s approval rating plummeted after we abandoned …
Ukraine is not Israel
It’s 1938 Czechoslovakia. Here’s why. UN status Russia and Ukraine are both UN member states. Israel is a UN member state, but Palestine is not. Civilian deaths Over 30,000 civilians have been killed in the ongoing war in Gaza, almost all by Israel. Around 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, basically only by Russia. …