Hyperloops are just a popularization of an older sci-fi concept, Evacuated Transport Tubes. There are places where they could work and be amazing - essentially bridging two cities together to seem like they're a short subway's ride apart. Think cities in the midwest. Crossing the Atlantic via bored tunnel is not one of those places, at least not until far far future....

So...given that cold deaths usually an order of magnitude worse than heat deaths, shouldn't this headline read that less people died from climate than usual, due to warming?

"AirBnB drives up housing costs" is first order thinking.

It does - but only because there's existing market conditions that are out of whack for whatever reason - usually some combination of geographical and bureaucratic. Anyone blaming AirBnB for high prices is essentially shooting the messenger.

I didn't forget about that. I'm entirely in favor of judicious use of that as an additional way to reign in agencies taking interpretations into their own hands.

The largest bloat of our federal government is federal agencies taking vaguely worded laws and inventing entire bureaucracies to enforce their arbitrary interpretations of what those laws actually mean. This puts the appeal of the legality of those laws back into the courts, which is where we're supposed to be able to seek redress when we disagree with our government.

The strongest arguments against Net Neutrality at this point is how all of the doom and gloom prophecies about what would happen without it have failed to happen.

And who's going to counter all of the domestic misinformation they spam us with, such as "The vaccines are safe and 100% effective", "You can't transmit the virus if you're vaccinated", "masks are effective", "double masking makes a difference", "staying indoors will help protect people", "the great Barrington declaration needs to be taken down", "people should socially distance 6 feet", "the unvaccinated face a winter of severe illness and death", "the virus wasn't man made", "Fauci didn't have Ecohealth Alliance fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology"... Oh wait, those are all the sorts of things that our government considers foreign government disinformation, aren't they?

It's incredible how this entire writeup can go without mentioning what we've learned from Missouri v Biden and from the Twitter Files about just how much censorship and suppression was being done, yes, by private companies - but at the explicit request of government officials. Censorship by proxy.

I'm curious if this will stop the necessary forest thinning that many western forests need to prevent larger wildfires. Is this just enshrining California's bad forest management policies at a national scale?

It's amazing how clear and definitive the science becomes when all opposing viewpoints are censored and blacklisted.

AirBnB has been so successful because it revealed a fundamental gap in the market in many areas. Places like Manhattan or other tourism hotspots don't like what it does to the housing market so they try and ban it while offering no alternative to actually fix the market gap that makes AirBnB so popular.

Exactly. None of this publisher when they want to make editorial decisions, platforms when they want to claim immunity.

Yes, we knew all this. Ukrainian funds, unaudited, were redirected to uniparty politicians in D.C. But if you called for accountability in our war spending you were smeared as a Russian stooge.

They certainly increase the happiness of the bureaucrats and cronies who can bloat and feed off of infrastructure projects.

The solution for decades now has always been in front of us. Nuclear power + desalination plants. Just have to get past nimbyism and fearmongering...