Plus sometimes credit scores do weird things. At one point I had a credit card with a running balance (bad idea. Don’t do that). I used it for years while I gradually caught up. No problem adding new charges all along. I finally caught up. I breathed a sigh of relief thinking I was in better shape financially ……. And they canceled the card

I picture it like “king of the Hill”. I have a smoker and I have beer. I just need some buddies to sit around saying “yep”, including one that sells propane and propane accessories

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Used to be called starting a war. It’s working for Russia but you really need to have a draft/conscription to make it succeed. The wealthy pay a doctor to say they have bone spurs and the poor go die somewhere else. As a plus some wealthy benefit from an overheated military industrial complex

But there are side effects, such as generating more poverty by killing off the main income in families

For me it was the opposite. As a married couple we had a house almost paid for. But then in the divorce we both had to get large mortgages again.

I bought out her half of the house and now have a mortgage as big as our initial starting price 20 years ago, that doesn’t get paid off until I’m like 80. So that didn’t work so well

Of course now I also have enough equity to buy a house in most of the country. So there’s definite upside

They’re trying to be open and accepting: individual units to provide the most dignity for all users ???

Hahaha ha ha aha haha aha ha haha ha aha

Think of the poor secret service agent that has to inspect them all

I wish they’d put them in front of my local elementary school, despite my kids grew past that and despite people not speeding. The problem is the fence is mangled, in a bunch of spots all along the front of the school. Somehow cars are repeatedly jumping the curb, crossing the sidewalk where kids walk to school, then colliding with the fence. wtf

It is a bubble, but ……

• a bubble is a great place to make huge gains …… as long as you get out in time
• usually a few companies survive the bubble pop. Their stock price baby also crashes but then recovers to “normal” valuation

I sit out bubbles because I recognize them but know I never know how to get out in time. But I do know some who succeed in riding the wave while still coming out the other side

Yeah we don’t spend money on road maintenance, only road creation

Assuming the phrasing is intentional, I love it. LoL

But taking it more seriously it has been really tempting. But if get one kid a car I need to get both kids a car to be fair. If each kid has a car I run out of excuses to not let them take it to college. It becomes a whole thing for a whole lot of money

A great use for the new sodium batteries, assuming they pan out as expected and can scale up quickly. While I still think the PHEV strategy is most appropriate for last decade before batteries were sufficiently developed, a cheaper, longer lasting battery can make them more compelling

Or too early. Part of the flood of bad driving since pandemic is everyone seems to cut corners now. Whether crossing lanes or the into opposing traffic on a curve, having trouble with a simple turn, or changing lanes while turning

Maybe, but if you insist on an oversized vehicle and don’t have the skill to keep it in lane, then maybe a little inconvenience is ok

They’re less ugly than a jersey barrier and do less damage to cars that can’t stay in their lane while still protecting cyclists.

But yeah, visibility is key. I wonder if they are still visible in ten years. That’s my only objection to things like raised crossings: once the paint wears off or in snow they become a lot less visible and no longer as effective. I hate that both as a driver and a cyclist

Still time to inflate more. This season is still building up to the biggest and baddest. At the start of this season we hear names like Mythos and Glasswing but they don’t mean anything. Now we’ve learned they’re a new and faster way to discover vulnerabilities in software. The foreshadowing is building. We have the date, we know the upcoming catastrophe. In July, they will make public thousands of new software vulnerabilities. The internet will panic, software companies will spend billions on ai service to handle the damage. Anthropic will have a record IPO, followed by other AI companies. It’ll be YUGE. Stay tuned for the cliff hanger

I think Tennessee took a small step in the right direction: datacenters must pay for electrical system improvements they need. In theory no impact to the existing customers. However o believe they forgot the part about adhering to energy and pollution regulations (in case red states have any). They shouldn’t be allowed to set up coal burners for example.

Just like anything else, datacenters don’t have to be a bad thing. The bad part is our economic system letting them externalize the costs onto everyone else

Not all datacenters focus on ai. Even before ai, the US had many, many datacenters

Exactly! I actually started with sci fy, alien motherships releasing clouds of fighter as my inspiration. Then quickly headed to those weird blimp concepts.

Not only can modern technology solve the problems but suicide drones can be folded to pack more in and you don’t have to worry about them coming back, unlike manned fighters. Treat them more like ammunition, smart and slow ammunition

Very informative, thanks!

But I wasnt thinking carrier like a ship, but a flying carrier, a mother ship . A drone that can loiter all day above a battlefield, then release dozens of cheap drones when needed could make a real impact. At the same time you could put money into the drone that gets there, recons, loiters, and returns, while using the advantages of cheap short range suicide drones as your expendable “ammunition”.

Why not both? A cheap disposable drone will never have much range, loitering, reconnaissance, so needs help getting to the battlefield (unless it’s your own town as in Ukraine). But even an expensive long range drone can only go so far. Think of the logistics hub as the military base only a couple hundred miles from Target, wherever there is an ocean. The loitering drone be battlefield over site and response, then cheap suicide drones as the ammunition