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what has happened to the education premium since 1970 The education premium (usually called the college wage premium)—the wage advantage of people with a college degree over those with only a high-school diploma—has gone through three distinct phases since about 1970. 1. 1970–1980: The premium...

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa?st=PZ4pHe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

So how y'all celebrating. Pisco sours for me.

cuz mqt is such a slacker leaving the hard dirty work to an immigrant...as usual

FAA announced last night they were closing the airspace over El Paso for 10 days, citing security reasons.

I wanted to learn more and asked grok: what were the emails that the Pizzagate conspiracy theorists believed used pizza for code for pedophilic activities Pizzagate conspiracy theorists (primarily active on 4chan, Reddit's r/The_Donald, and related forums in late 2016) claimed that certain...

My Dearest Eliza, I take up my pen this cold January eve, amidst the smoke and clamor of this besieged city of Minneapolis, to send thee these few lines in the hope that they may reach thee safely in our quiet home far from this unholy strife. The year 2026 has scarce begun, yet here we are...

a culture that puts SEC championships over Nobel Prizes will wallow in mediocrity I'm right about this Vivek was right about it too Hopefully he doesn't pay too high a price for speaking the truth about it a significant part of this country does in fact wallow in mediocrity the fact that...

Nick Fuentes has finally gone too far with his very poor take on Indian food.

A British man has been charged with drugging and raping his now ex-wife over 13 years, and five other men have also been charged with sexually assaulting her during that period, U.K. police said Monday. Philip Young, 49, faces 56 charges including counts of rape, administering a substance with...

Wishing a happy Solstice to all fellow pagans as well as to my non-pagan friends.

Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in the killing this week of an M.I.T. professor in Massachusetts, studied physics with the victim in the 1990s and graduated at the top of their class, according to the university. A spokesman for Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal’s premier school for...

An interesting dive into his background. https://wapo.st/4q7QLx8

Interesting column on black immigrants. https://wapo.st/4aa3Kda Half of Black immigrants in the U.S. are from the Caribbean. More than half of Black immigrants have arrived since 2000, and those from Africa are the fastest-growing cohort and the primary source of the group’s present population...

Seems to me he was just trying to stop the steal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/world/americas/cocaine-ecuador-fentanyl.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U8.mCag.gGBwUnKY1E1R&smid=url-share

Enjoy the turkey (to the extent possible) and time with your families.

Willingness to try shit. That's what separates the United States from most other countries. Moreover, it distinguishes our technology hubs from most of the rest of the country. As much as any recent article, this one in Wired captures the process...

The economy is being bolstered by a remarkable investment boom in artificial intelligence. A credible estimate suggests that A.I. capital expenditures may reach 2 percent of the gross domestic product in 2025, up from most likely less than 0.1 percent in 2022. To provide some sense of scale...