So, are we the kind of country that kills 150 children in a premeditated first strike with no consequences for the civilian leadership that chose the time & place of the operation with no pressure from the enemy?
Because we're already the kind of country that commits such an unforgivable atrocity.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
I'm no data center apologist, but they only use water for cooling. Their waste water is just...warm water. Where does the cancer come from?
On earth 2 this chart still holds up and this week is going very different
www.nber.org/digest/dec14...
The silver lining is that the metric system is coming in spite of it being the measure system of science.
Gasoline is only $1 per Liter. What a bargain!
NBER server 😬
Do you have any experience to compare it with .feather files? I have an ungodly ton of them and it was the best solution at the time. Individual files aren’t enormous, but there are a LOT of them, and feather compresses them super well.
There's a lot going on right now, but the US gov has acquired one of the microwave devices from the Russian mob. It was not "mass psychogenic illness." It was an attack.
This is scary as hell.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-mili...
Comparisons btw bsky and twitter usually focus on the algo. One less discussed topic is the bots & farms.
This was a dumb post, sent at 9:15PM EST on a Friday. It got massive circulation, largely by accounts like "alice35713416"
Bsky is just as rife with these ops as the others.
What would be the cost if the Canadians were all pretending to be nice to get our guard down while they were plotting a surprise invasion to give us all health care?
We must defend ourselves against demonstrably fantastical scenarios.
Dealers: “We provide an invaluable service the manufacturer can’t replicate…And that’s why we need laws preventing manufacturers from bypassing us.”
It is under-appreciated how strong and malevolent a force car dealers are in US society.
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
I’m not sure how the world survives the next distraction from the Epstein files.
Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.
Russia helps Iran track American forces.
And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.
Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
I have never been prouder of my star alliance affiliation.
Next up: public transit.
Well it's clear PoliSci is toast.
I said, "Add labels" and decided the output was good enough for bsky.
There's no glory in toppling minions.
With the possible exception of RFK Jr, Stephen Miller and Russel Vought are the only members of this administration with any agency.
Slope: ≈ 0.477, R^2: 0.228. (Again, GPT)
Here's the (chatGPT-extracted & compiled) plot of "Total Bad" vs support for that country's right-wing party. Raw data in the alt-txt.
The easiest money in political advertising today has got to be round-the-clock ads on Fox News in the Miami market with anti-Trump quotes from John Cornyn.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
EU foreign policy is a mess because the Lisbon Treaty is a mess. Hence EU “high rep” title not EU “foreign minister.” Member states want the EU to be strong and speak with one voice but hesitate to make the trade: control (sovereignty) for strength. And the end result is they get neither.
Your taxes?
I'd be willing to decimate the white collar economy if it means nuking Intuit.
Man, all the neo-cons who went through that whole charade to pretend Saddam was an existential threat must feel like they were cheated.
The constitution gives congress the authority to declare war.
But a certain brand of executive can declare a “special military operation.”
My latest with @cato.org’s Clark Packard: foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/26/t...
This article does a nice job raising the longer-run issues that are driving people away from the US: health care and housing costs, guns. I'd also include terrible urban planning that prioritizes cars.
Trump leaving doesn't fix this, and neither does Dem price controls.
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
No, that these are two completely unrelated issues:
T&D investment has been bonkers, and is rate regulated. Lowering ROE will help reign that in, and lower bills.
Lowering regulated ROE won't deter gen investment, because that's overwhelmingly deregulated. It's being held up by different forces.
Connecting some more specific comments to the main thread:
bsky.app/profile/stev...
There are *definitely* problems with generation investment--but it's mostly that generators that want to connect are being prevented from doing so.
This has *NOTHING* to do with keeping ROE high to encourage investment. Generation investment is deregulated, and it's banging to get in.
