When societies can't solve their internal problems internally they tend to turn outward for solutions.

Everybody could see the long string of preventable phenomena leading up to this: financial deregulation, decline of civic institutions, high levels of deaths of despair, rampant individualism, unchecked commerce, rising internal violence, rising inequality, rotten media landscape, open political corruption (not in this order).

My only hope at this point is the minimization of violence when the US resets.

The ECB is not diffusely controlled.

Silver lining: We will answer Einstein's question about what weapons will fight WW3 in detail. /s

Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining?

I meant there's autonomous drones and space warfare now, and Einstein didn't know about those. It's a really terrible silver lining, I know.

The chicken is trying to become the egg.

You may be vastly overestimating average media competence. This is one of those things where I'm glad my relatives are so timid about the digital world.

Stretch jeans shrink, even in a heat pump dryer set to a gentle program. Yes, they really do :(

Stretch jeans suck in general. Rather quickly the elastane will give up and the fabric rips. Thankfully, non stretch wide/straight jeans are back in trend.

And this where the (independent!) physical store shines. I wish we had more discerning tradesmen these days. Something important went with the brick and mortar stores.

Some of these exist now in the form of (maybe) physical store (or online-only) plus youtube personality, of course.

This is part of the work that lead to Aristotle, the system that performed at Gold level at IMO: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01346

Isn't it funny/shocking how efficiently the US free market creates both the problems and their "solutions" in a neverending self-escalating game of subjecting the consumers to their will (here: food vs pharma)?

Ozempic is not a product of US though

You're right and AFAIK it wasn't primarily developed for weight-loss either. Still, there's something not quite right with the way this band-aid would be required at non-trivial scale in the first place. I guess there really is a level of commerce that is too excessive.

Ruling by oppression does not make you friends until eventually you may find yourself alone. The US government and hyperscalers may think that in the coming decades they can take on the rest of the world on their own, and I'm not looking forward to that future materializing.