Jeff Mosenkis

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

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The Illiquidity of Water Markets, by Javier D Donna & José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez

Solid title, I respect it @joshua-goodman.com
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There must be online betting markets?

I heat my home with propane (delivered by truck to tanks), they usually let me do a bulk buy in the fall where I commit to buy a certain amount during the coming winter months at a guaranteed price (some variations involve payment up front). Thankfully for them this happened in spring

I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways

Hang on, new port needs a few more minutes

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Regression Colonoscopy

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Sigmoid probit

Another great job recommendation from LinkedIn

Classic case of Letter of the Law vs Spirit Halloween Store, Open Till 7PM on Route 46 Would You Like a Map to It

how do you not do this before launching a war on iran

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I believe someone called that the passive exonerative tense

Mid-20’s to Early 30’s Man’s War tester better with key demographics

Can’t he issue an executive order nullifying them?

Does anyone here know any historians or political scientists who study wartime propaganda? Bonus points if they specialize in the American context specifically, but not necessary

Flexport's Ryan Petersen says we're seeing weird, second-order effects in freight disruption -- like a 55% increase in shipping rates this week "in the Vietnam-US sea lane, of all things."

@cnbc.com

I was just thinking, this is what happens when you fire the professionals and keep only yes men around

Surely the military has gamed this out many many times and had a plan written down somewhere??

John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.

First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

In a flurry of spending before the fiscal year ran out, in one month the DoD spent more than the annual budget of USAID, whom this administration had accused of waste that never materialized

They had to have run this for the hate clicks, right?

Don, you're genius is only rivaled by the algorithm that gave me an ad above that article for a memory foam pillow

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Liberia fact of the the day.

Look, the novel infections disease understanders and tariff impact knowers must move to new areas when they are needed

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

Corpus Christi is in trouble in terms of water supplies for refineries and has wasted years trying to unsuccessfully build desalination plants. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

Sturgill Simpson - Call To Arms [Live on SNL] YouTube video by Johnny Blue Skies

For a change the algorithm did its job a picked the right time to bring up maybe the best modern SNL musical performance

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