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@DaleStarkA10 The A-10 was pretty amazing but the small manpad makes it unlikely to survive in extended combat

Shocked, I tell you. I was reliably informed by the Lockheed funded military bloggers that the A-10 was outdated and irrelevant in modern warfare.

@FischerKing64 koonsfordbaltimore.com/used-Baltimore…

Apple selling cheap laptops means it’s giving up on being an aspirational brand. Means it’s run out of ideas - which has been obvious for a while with the goggles and the thicker phones and iPads. It’s like if Mercedes entered the compact truck market.

@TheMindScourge So is oil. The best markets are decaying

Hormuz is a weapon that can only be fired once No one should expect a quick resolution to the current crisis, but across the next decade, even the next 3-5 years, the choke point of Hormuz will be massively substituted for The Gulf Arab states are all very rich, with high per capita GDP - the best single measure of relative state capacity - easy access to global markets, especially financial, and have the favorable backing of the US Everyone has known about the Hormuz vulnerability for decades. The Iranians have continually hinted around closing it, but never did. Now they have, but Hormuz is a gun that cannot be reloaded. Deterrents work only up to the point of use. Once used, they have failed. The purpose of a deterrent is to *not* be used Many analysts have made this basic mistake. They think that Iran is now in a position of strength, having exercised its Hormuz option. But the opposite is true. A state is weakest after it has used its deterrent. The cost of that deterrence is now priced in. The worst having been done, the targets of the deterrent are now free to make other arrangements. Before, they were reluctant to do so because of the switching costs. Now, they have no choice; they will not allow themselves to be controlled in this way again Hormuz may never reopen. But the importance of this is a depreciating asset.

@MaryBowdenMD @HerbsandDirt @DWDrummer13 You bought a reichswagen or a pedomobile?

@HerbsandDirt @DWDrummer13 Part of the reason I just bought a Tesla.

Just paid $85 to fill up a Toyota Camry. Not a truck. Not an SUV. A freaking CAMRY. Buckle up.

@dieworkwear what do you think about anatar as a source for American made textiles?

@endofmarx @amystreasures @jonbrooks I was paying someone else’s retirement for 40 years .

Sorry, the only reason you get to retire is somebody else raised kids who will pay taxes to fund your retirement entitlements, work in health care to help you live longer and above all buy your assets so that they are worth something. Absent that, you do not get to retire. It is only right that you properly contribute to that otherwise unfunded liability.

My friends in their 30s are deciding not to have kids They’re saying two things: They don’t have the money It’s inconvenient to their lifestyle This is not good. What do we do?

@endofmarx @jonbrooks Gotta have a job to pay taxes

@jonbrooks Tax the piss out of the childless. Don’t tax those with children. Make the lifestyles level.

@jonbrooks Affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable tuition

@mistergeezy @RachelBitecofer “I’ve supported Mr trump in every election but we never thought this would come affect us”. The thinking part was the problem

They voted for Trump, and now they are dealing with the consequences of their actions.

@mattyglesias Also not enabled by fossil fuel. If you look at what @DavidOsmond8 is producing you get to about 99% on wind solar and 5 hours of battery.. you also need to define large parcels of land.

Solar progress depends on sunshine, transmission infrastructure, and the ability to obtain large parcels of land — it's not about anti-fossil fuel regulations.

@MarketPalmer_ 1-2 divorces..

Recently learned that 25% of 60-year old doctors have a net worth below $1 million. How…?

@mattyglesias 👀

@KiwiEV Trump is going to spike EV sales

Just checked out a couple of well known EV car yards and holy spuds their inventory is GONE. One dealership has SEVEN electric cars left. That's literally all they have left to offer.

@courtneyellis Inhave a concierge dr, it’s $500/ year includes one annual review and phone consultation plus he gets the cash price on LV work

My longtime family doc in Nov: Exciting news! I am moving to concierge medicine! For an annual fee of $5,000 I can remain your primary care physician. (Sick visits extra.) My longtime family doc in March: So… I still have a few open spots, in case you want one.

@Hazelkeech0918 Congrats. A masters is a significant achievement. What was it in?

@mattyglesias Generally it’s frowned on to date someone in the department. Creates conflicts of interest

Don’t really understand what the alleged impropriety here even is.

@anna_c_kramer White House national security council also fired half the staffers including the ones who had experience in Middle East crisis

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis. notus.org/trump-white-ho…

@kpertsev @wintonARK Planning helps

@wintonARK awesome. so i have a barrel of oil, a boiler, a steam turbine, a generator and i’m out of power at 3am. i know what to do. now, i have a solar panel, a micro inverter and i’m out of power at 3am. eeeeeeh, emmmm, and what do i do?

a barrel of oil can provide as much electricity as a 400W solar panel does annually. a barrel of oil runs $92 and comes with a few minor logistical complications. this year the solar panel should run less than $90; you can order online, ships in a week.

@Angry_Staffer Ha it helped in the war?

One thing this Iran operation should do is embarrass the hell out of Russia. In the opening minutes of the war, most of Iran’s leadership was dead, and their air defense was largely neutralized. Meanwhile, four years later, Zelenskyy still stands. There’s levels to this.

@rickperlstein Also half the NSC staff were sacked ina doge attack

The historical antecedent for this was all the Asia experts who lost their jobs to McCarthyism for telling the truth about Chiang Kai Shek's nationalists being unpopular, incompetent, and cruel, so were not around to advise as America slid into Vietnam. newrepublic.com/post/207857/do…