These are hard times, and more are coming. And I don’t exactly remember the quote, but it’s along the lines of:

“When a run-away team of horses is headed off a cliff, the driver can sometime be seen encouraging them on, presumably, since he knows he cannot stop them, he at least feels some sense of control over the situation.”

I hope you’ve made it out of russia, things are getting nuts there. I wouldn’t even be in georgia now if I was you.

Now this is a Noncredible Defense.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/noncredibledefense

Best turrets in space, gotta give them that.

He sounds credible, don’t be so defensive.

Timmy has a competing lemonade stand with your kid, and he charges $1 for a glass and you charge $3 for a glass. Rather than lowering your prices, you place a $2.50 tariff on any lemonade from Timmy in your neighborhood. Now everyone pays $3.50 for his lemonade, and it only makes sense for your kid to charge $3.50 as well, because Timmy’s lemonade has to get to your neighborhood while yours is local, so why not pocket that 50 cents.

In this scenario, Timmy cannot sell his cheaper lemonade to your neighborhood at a cheaper price. Everyone in your neighborhood must pay the new inflated price. People in other neighborhoods will go to Timmy, so only your neighborhood buys your lemonade, although some people will try to circumvent the tariffs by buying Timmy’s same lemonade for $2 in a neighboring area.

Populism is fairly simple, you just parrot the following talking points:

The system isn’t working. I am fighting the system. Elect me and I’ll take the fight to them.

What isn’t working should be as vague as possible, so the voter believes it is the thing they’re angry about. When elected, the candidate should continue to complain about the system and crow about how hard they’re fighting for you, so you keep voting for them.

Unfortunately, this eventually leads to you actually passing legislation that makes everything much, much worse than it was. You can keep blaming the other side, but eventually, the jig is up.

If Security through Obscurity isn’t working, consider Security through Stupidity, I guess.

I worked with some oilfield SCADS folks in the early 2000’s who used open IP for their valves, who were very convinced no one would use their equipment because “no one knew they were there.” At some point, it’s no longer trust in good actors.

Compliments to the authors, someone owes these guys challenge coins.

Undeleted?

Did you find an email from Ali and her sister?

I flew business class international on united and there were ads before every movie. Their business class product used to be great, and now it’s a joke.

I have worse news, it’s for next year’s christmas.

Ah yes, a Soylent White Cabernet.

Blue states and blue ball states.

Damp and cool from shasta on up, you guys stay safe!

At this point I feel even Japan will admit their whale skin fighter technology is just a poor attempt to support their whaling industry.

Has anyone here ever had sex in a canoe? I can only imagine the logistics of laying down enough life preservers to make it comfortable, and any sidewards motions should be right out unless you want to turn this into skinny dipping. I guess you could use the momentum to your advantage to get some good thrusts in, but really, has the bottom of a canoe ever smelled sexy?

Just something to think about.

I mean, every excuse to keep the road crews from working on those amazing roads.

Go home, Texas, you’re drunk.

Australia got huge in that picture.

Better buy one now before they’re subscription only.