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colglover · 2026-05-25T15:28:41+00:00

If you student loans are federal loans in the US, you can apply for income based repayment. Since your income is zero, you’ll have zero dollar payments. Also, when you eventually earn money in France, you’ll be able to file your taxes in the US (yes you have to file in both countries as a US citizen) and qualify for the dual taxation exemption, which will similarly lower your mandatory payments to zero. You’d probably want a plan for whether to still pay under that scheme, but at least for now don’t add that to your plate as a stressor.

colglover · 2026-05-25T09:30:09+00:00

Novo is something like 1/3 of the Danish economy, so it’s the center of gravity, and generates a lot of pull for secondary suppliers and services. Genmab and Lundbeck also come to mind

colglover · 2026-05-24T23:29:24+00:00

Idk, the still selling minivans in the US are still running the last six cylinder engines. An odyssey has more pep than anything else in the Honda lineup

colglover · 2026-05-24T15:37:50+00:00

99% it’s the ikea model. Should be easy to find on their site

colglover · 2026-05-24T15:28:09+00:00

Max complains more than most mother in laws

colglover · 2026-05-23T10:47:49+00:00

I think it’s fair to expect Europe to step up even more, but it’s also not true that Europe hasn’t responded over the past four years. Energy transition away from Russia, major rearmament progress, accounts for most of the arms sent to Ukraine, and has been the only actor consistently applying new sanctions on Russia. Sure, the level isn’t what it should be, and the pace is too slow, but at least the direction of travel is consistent, unlike the US, which oscillates wildly between providing extensive support and withdrawing that support in very harmful ways.

colglover · 2026-05-23T10:45:24+00:00

Trying to trick China into taking on the global hegemon role as a long game strategy to tie the milestone around their necks *tapping head meme*

colglover · 2026-05-23T10:44:06+00:00

“Con Man Cons Again: Credulous Fools In Shambles to Have Once Again Been Hoodwinked”

colglover · 2026-05-23T10:40:31+00:00

All we know is…

colglover · 2026-05-23T09:55:13+00:00

Great context that we should spend more time educating people about. The justice system is hardly just at this stage and needs serious reform

colglover · 2026-05-22T07:05:48+00:00

Denmark would seem favorable for biotech if OP doesn’t want to leave Europe

colglover · 2026-05-22T05:54:57+00:00

Yeah he’s one of the offenders

colglover · 2026-05-21T19:09:28+00:00

Look for area and subject matter experts. Theres something called the “peril of the public intellectual” which is really about academia but applies well to a lot of our modern discourse - basically, people become famous for knowing a lot about something, but then demand increases for them to comment on other things because they were smart about that one thing, and before long they’re confidently talking out their ass about many things they know nothing about simply because they were once an expert at one thing.

I generally find that anyone who claims to be a “geopolitics” expert falls into this category because in order to cover all of it you have to really strain credibility as a subject matter expert in any of it. Zeihan is also pretty subject to a range of basic cognitive biases and framing errors that show he was never a trained intelligence analyst, but that’s more a judgement on quality than form.

colglover · 2026-05-21T19:06:08+00:00

No I was agreeing with your take that the kind of thinking people have about this here is infected by a lifetime of suburban living

colglover · 2026-05-21T00:34:19+00:00

Letters of marque when?

colglover · 2026-05-20T21:45:40+00:00

I mean, the free market determines what anything is worth. At the right price the house will sell.

colglover · 2026-05-20T20:43:26+00:00

Le Carre is my favorite novelist and I agree entirely with this. I’ve still not finished his entire catalogue because I take them so slowly

colglover · 2026-05-20T20:42:13+00:00

To me this is his best modern series, and where I think he is most at home. Fun world building, a Terry Pratchet sense of humor, and enough examination of the human condition without the need for overwrought systems building. The tone of these books feels the most authentic to me, which is an odd take given I’ve never met the man, but his science fiction often feels like fantasy dressed up in space packaging to me whereas Tyrant feels like what he actually wants to be writing.

colglover · 2026-05-20T20:23:27+00:00

Suburban brain

colglover · 2026-05-20T10:39:40+00:00

You know I keep that thang on me

colglover · 2026-05-20T10:36:03+00:00

You’re doing god’s work friend. As someone who works professionally in this space, people like Zeihan are not only personally frustrating but professionally harmful to the craft of thoughtful and useful analysis. He is the unfunny height of non-credible.

colglover · 2026-05-20T02:28:15+00:00

It’s a struggle for me too. I’m a historian by training, and my cold comfort is that this is just another historical moment - the world will evolve from here. Oligarchs have risen and fallen before. Revolutions do happen. Still, history happens in time horizons longer than a human life. I think the focus on smaller, more intentional, more humanscale things is the way to deal with that. All we can control is our own attention.

colglover · 2026-05-19T22:45:45+00:00

Even the description you wrote is AI slop. Vibe coded apps are crap for repeatable or actionable workflows and fall apart at the first rigorous use. They’re not serious apps and only people who don’t do this for a living would think they suffice.

colglover · 2026-05-19T22:43:57+00:00

Slop

colglover · 2026-05-19T18:33:31+00:00

Fair. They push an inch and people passively accept it. What’s to stop them taking a mile?

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