Rob Aitken

There are 42 states that hold bartenders accountable if the customers they over serve kill someone but 0 states that hold Judges accountable if the criminals they release kill someone. Insane.

Still can’t believe they did this.

Over the past 25 years, Germany has pursued an energy transition by phasing out nuclear power and expanding solar and wind—at a cost of around €500 billion in subsidies. The result: installed capacity has more than doubled, yet electricity generation has declined. The reason is structural. Reliable, dispatchable power was replaced by weather-dependent sources. The consequences are severe: rising energy costs, falling competitiveness, and growing pressure on energy-intensive industries. The key question remains: How do you run an industrial economy on a system that produces less when it matters most?

Canada spent $5.1 BILLION fixing a broken payroll system (Phoenix). Now we're about to spend $4.2 BILLION+ replacing it with Dayforce. I went through every lobbying record, every communication report, and every revolving-door hire to identify potential conflicts of interest. Here's what I found. 1/🧵

That’s huge In the middle of the biggest oil mass extinction event in history, Ukraine has focused on making a hopeless situation worse by increasingly attacking Russian oil export infrastructure - ~40% of export capacity affected - ~2 mbpd disrupted For context: This is roughly in line with the feared Russian supply loss in 2022...which never fully materialized but still pushed oil prices to $140 Now this is happening on top of an already massive ~10 mbpd supply shock from GCC countries, meanwhile oil is down for the day This is one for the history books