My biggest shock today was that America still has post offices, like ones you can actually walk into with your stuff and package it and they help you send it out We don't have them in most of Europe anymore You have tiny little counters in dirty tobacco shop and a tiny DPD or DHL or PostNL branded counter with agressive staff that really do not want to help you, and no they don't have boxes Here's a FedEx post office we walked in today, they have envelopes, boxes, bubble wraps, everything! You'll say but FedEx is private, yes you mean like most European postal companies now that are also private? Just something as basic as this is abundance and we don't have it anymore in Europe

JP Morgan on oil prices/Strait of Hormuz: "A core assumption of our framework is that the accelerating pace of oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, one way or another. Our base case envisions the Strait reopens in June—anchored on June 1 for simplicity—following a clear and credible announcement ratified and confirmed by both sides, such as a statement from the UN Security Council."

We then failed to get word to Vice President Harris quickly enough to come and deliver the tie-breaking vote. In the 90 minutes that transpired, Senator Manchin returned first, swinging the vote in the other direction and ceding the NLRB to MAGA control two years earlier than necessary. These procedural blunders have massive implications for the American people, who deserve better from their elected officials. American workers deserve an explanation.

H5N1 not a reason to be terrified. We know a lot about zoonotic flu, have been preparing for it 20 yrs (unlike when COVID began), + we have candidate vaccines, antivirals, diagnostics Only 3 things can negate this: policy failures pandemic denialism antiscience disinformation

I care about the constitution, however, I haven’t read it. I’ll just keep being dumb.

booktok has rotted y’all’s brains cause what do you mean you can’t read a book in third person?

Europeans: Americans don’t know any history! Brits:

Israeli media keeps reporting that intel indicates Iran will strike military targets, not civilian ones. Except that cannot assuage fears considering Israel's Defense HQ is in the heart of Tel Aviv's cultural center and many other military bases are embedded in civilian areas.