Most of the « expats » in UAE are labourers and professionals from south Asian countries.

The AI productivity boom is not here (yet) Artificial intelligence is improving fast. Its effect on output, not so much

« Much of America’s productivity revival in the 1990s came not from Silicon Valley itself but from retail, where computers transformed logistics and inventory management. »

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

They’re also accidentally making the point that Indian immigrants in Canada (and especially their kids) assimilate really fast and are genuinely upset by Canada losing a hockey game.

I really want Canada to win but your Littlest Hobo reference made me smile so you get my like.

With the Patriots luck so far this season both NFC teams should be bubble wrapping their players as soon as they show any sign of a possible win.

I’m sure yelling "I’ve got a gun!" every time you see a cop would lead to lots of fun situations.

‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US

Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Gentrifiction is an appropriate typo.

reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set

Let me guess, the last guy did own a car and forced Seattle residents to pay for « free » roads and other goodies.

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

But also, "I think I’ll eventually choose to get married" is not the same thing as "I want to get married".

I’ve got a crazy idea. How about instead of letting in a bunch of rich illegal immigrants who buy up all the houses you instead let in poor immigrants who work disproportionately in the construction industry and make home building much cheaper than it would otherwise be? Is that even possible?

He’s been "implicated" in plenty of wrongdoing. He hasn’t yet been convicted of his most recently implicated wrongdoing.

🗺️ The true size of the world's countries.

👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.

Kevin O’Leary with negative $2800 in Jeopardy!

In Kevin O’Leary’s case, he was dumb to go on air and prove that he knows nothing. smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost...

Republicans are so anti-war that they want to undo the Civil War and the American Revolution.

Close. HR is Croatia and SL is Slovenia.

He’s real life Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson.

Timeline cleanse

Exactly what I was thinking! Although he’s probably ignorant enough to think Scotch-Irish means all Scottish people and Irish people.

The masked, paid protesters disrespecting the local police that Republicans have warned us about have finally arrived.

BREAKING: Source reports that Maxwell said she saw no worse behaviour than Epstein by Trump in conversation with Blanche

I always use a baseball analogy. If you disagreed with the designated batter rule, it didn’t mean you were being unfair or hypocritical by not sending your pitcher up to bat. You’re just playing with the rules that exist while working to get them changed.

One of the most entertaining things to watch in a soccer game is the inevitable crowd shot after an offside goal with the mix of fans celebrating madly over the goal and the heartbroken fans who paid attention to the flag.

Even among the brutal ranks of the transnational gang called MS-13, Vladimir Arévalo Chávez stands out as a highly effective manager of murder, prosecutors say. Known as "Vampiro," he has been accused of overseeing killings in at least three countries: of migrants in Mexico, rivals in El Salvador and his own compatriots in the United States. His arrest in February 2023 was a major triumph for American investigators, who only months earlier had accused him and 12 other gang leaders of terrorism, bloodshed and corruption in a wide-ranging federal indictment on Long Island

But the Trump administration has not acknowledged another reason Mr. Bukele would want them back: U.S. prosecutors have amassed substantial evidence of a corrupt pact between the Salvadoran government and some high-ranking MS-13 leaders, who they say agreed to drive down violence and bolster Mr. Bukele politically in exchange for cash and perks in jail, a New York Times investigation found.| The deal with El Salvador heralded by Mr. Trump as a crackdown on crime is actually undermining a longstanding U.S. inquiry into the gang, according to multiple people with knowledge of the initiative. Two major ongoing cases against some of the gang's highest-

The dealh also undercut Mr. Trump’s own repeated pledges to dismantle MS-13, a central plank of his tough-on-crime brand. Earlier this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an internal memo calling for the "total elimination" of the gang, which the White House has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. In his first term, Mr. Trump established a group of prosecutors and investigators known as Task Force Vulcan that brought expansive cases against the gang's leadership. Some who were part of that effort are now alarmed by the deal with Mr. Bukele, and worry that he wants the gang leaders back to prevent them from revealing damaging information about his government

His name was Osiris Luna Meza, and he was a top Bukele aide who ran the Salvadoran prison system. Although Mr. Bukele has long denied having corrupt ties with his country's gangs, Mr. Luna — one of Mr. Bukele's closest confidants - told U.S. diplomats that just such a pact existed between the Salvadoran government and MS-13, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Times Confessing his "discomfort at the government's interactions" with the gang, the Sept. 10, 2020, cable said, Mr. Luna showed officials at the embassy a security camera screenshot of several masked men entering one of the prisons he oversaw.

🚨Explosive story🚨
The Trump administration is dropping charges against MS-13 gang leaders after they agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support President Bukele’s policies in El Salvador. Remember when Reagan sold missiles to Iran? It’s that bad. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

The book is completely different but just as fantastic.

Usually, but not always. The big chain grocery store in my walkable neighbourhood made many promises about separate entrances for individual shops within the store at rezoning time but gradually closed them all so we now have a full city block that’s just a blank wall.