That website is cool but it's not really convincing, since the presentation gives a much higher precision and confidence than their data actually allows.

Other estimates say more oil is flowing through the strait now than before the war. Of course, that isn't the same as the strait being open, but for most of us, it's what we care about. Ships filled with iPhone shipments to Kuwait don't affect us much.

"Real Capitalism" isn't a real thing. It's a strawman used as a rhetorical device to make communism look good.

IF you want to talk about capitalism from a scientific/academic standpoint, you should use well-defined terms, like "Free markets" or "private investment."

Ebay is right up the street from here.

Just as a standing too close to a microwave oven will.

It's amazing that in a computer world that had still had paper tape, and real Control Data Computers--they thought up the Forbin Project.
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I am usually able to find a place faster on agoda.com than on airbnb fwiw.

It makes sense, hotels are almost always a better experience than an AirBnB, unless you have a special location like this one or an area without enough hotels.

Why stay at a sketchy house that makes you clean, when you can stay at a hotel that cleans for you?

This.

They aren't going to use the beam on illegal immigrants, they are talking about making a plan to potentially use it. Enough to get headlines, not enough to do anything.

Here is some footage of the device in action. It was originally thought to be lethal because of the water, but that was mistaken understanding.

It's not always harmless.

The thing that worries me isn't "new" weapons, those are a perpetual problem of humanity.

The thing that worries me is that now people/countries have an understandable incentive to intentionally induce Kessler syndrome.

Point taken, but it only takes one good ICBM to ruin your day. Russia doesn't like Golden Dome, but China is the one on the warpath towards America (in both the Philippines and Taiwan).

Golden Dome is an escalation.

That's what the billionaires are working toward, the wolf you feed.

There's no part of the merger that's good for America because Space-X enjoys government protection, and nearly holds a monopoly in orbital transportation systems, currently--and Tesla nearly holds a monopoly in electric cars. Generally monopolies should be broken up--not allowed to coalesce.

In studying American manufacturing, when we had it, those who filled a need with government and military supply were give special breaks that their American competitors were not, and that advantage stifled competition and created laziness and complacency in American companies--which in turn, left us open for the onslaught of foreign manufacturing, first from Japan, and then from China. If it weren't for the tilted playing field, perhaps we would have more manufacturing here.