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In South Korea, shipbuilding is far ahead of the U.S. 60 Minutes saw nine ships built at once with rows of robots working. cbsn.ws/4bXT8ym

History is not repeating itself, we had a 600 ship Navy for last tanker war, which is why we won it in 1987-88 ⁦@mercoglianos⁩ @cdrsalamander cnn.com/2026/03/22/mid…

Just thought I would throw this in because I just got the letter a couple of days ago. And it pisses me off. The VA is trying to reduce my benefits and they are saying I requested it. Yeah right. I called and said “you are paying me too much, and my legs might grow back.” I didn’t “request” a benefit cut, or a hearing. You can’t hate these people enough.

Visualizing the ERCOT interconnection queue. 1,880 active projects, ~415 GW in the pipeline - roughly 5x Texas peak demand. Fuzzy-matched queue entries to substations from their points-of-interconnection with fallback to county when necessary.

More evidence of Asian counties performing a LNG-to-coal fuel switch: Thailand has reactivated two coal-fired units that had been mothballed. The switch is important to put a lid on global LNG (and European gas) prices. bangkokpost.com/business/gener…

It’s a drone. Chasing another drone. Into actual clouds. And it works. The Ukrainians have built a flying angry wasp that hunts Iranian Shaheds for roughly the price of a second-hand lawnmower. Ukraine would share this. They’d teach it. They’d probably fly the damn things themselves to protect American soldiers in the Middle East. But Trump won’t ask. Because the man who could save American lives happens to be Volodymyr Zelensky. And that, apparently, is a dealbreaker. So the Shaheds fly. Unmolested. Toward Americans. Own goal. Absolutely spectacular own goal. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Hey! My colleagues at NPR made a voter registration guide. Enter your state and learn the deadlines to register in time to make your voice heard in this year’s primaries. apps.npr.org/voter-registra…

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” — Ernest Hemingway

@TimothyDSnyder @MalcolmNance We should have a 100 Super Tucanos hunting down inbound Shaheds.

Just re-upping this from a month ago.

Price of Iwo Jima was 7000 KIA and 19,000 wounded

Retired 4-star admiral and former Navy SEAL William H. McRaven—the man who oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden—delivered a blistering assessment of President Donald Trump. McRaven’s comments stood out not just for how direct they were, but for who they came from: a highly respected military leader warning about leadership, unity, and America’s standing in the world.

Simon Loos grows its electric semi truck fleet to over 200 units electrek.co/2026/03/22/sim… by @volvojo1

When hundreds of thousands of Tesla Model S and Model X customers return to shop luxury EVs, they'll have plenty of choices. insideevs.com/news/790690/lu…

BYD just unveiled an electric car that can charge from 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and all the way in nine More proof that EVs are going to dominate the future, just a question of how long it takes — and who will build them Via @WIRED wired.com/story/how-byds…

WELKER: Why are we helping fund a country that we are currently fighting a war with? BESSENT: Kristen, let’s have good facts here….We are jiu-jitsuing Iran and using their own oil against them. What?

Saudis have fixed issued at Yanbu and are now loading at peak capacity for Oil out of the west red Sea area. 14 tankers at once.

Iran’s Kharg Island as seen **today** by the @CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 satellite. Iran is loading multiple tankers, exporting oil and making $$$ — now, with the help of the White House. The idea that Trump admin is using Iranian oil barrels against Iran is simply ridiculous.

Rivian’s First Global EV, the R2, Features a Clever Cost-Saving Innovation news.teslaownersaustin.com/rivians-first-…

Nio supplying battery packs to McLaren, William Li says The deal deepens ties between the two automakers, which are both heavily backed by a new Abu Dhabi state holding company. cnev.co/ZLXhari 👇

Beautiful, true essay from @PhilKlay Money quote: "Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding." nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opi…