I liked this part: "...work proceeded in 1964 when a general envisioned a scheme to incapacitate an entire trawler with aerosolized BZ; this effort was dubbed Project DORK.[17]"

Traditionalists prefer "War Profiteers".

...and sell them a tool to remove jammed quarters.

I wonder if they're pulling resources from this to more profitable programs (which are also probably overdue).

Heh. Reminds me of when I inherited my parent's late-sixties Olds 98. Helluva tank to drive around in the nineties, until SUVs took over. It was just old and beat up enough that I found other drivers remarkably polite.

Bad idea, over longer distances, flying is cleaner than driving. In some cases flying is cleaner than taking the train (e.g. high speed trains powered by coal-fired plants). Take-off and landing burns a crapload of fuel, but airplanes are surprisingly economical when cruising.

Deflation is not automatically bad, China is seeing deflation now, and that's actually the plan. To do it though you need competent leadership, which we in the west are sadly lacking.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Chinese deflation is a result of powerful supply-side forces that have the opposite effect: China’s economy continues to grow at solid rates, while rent-seeking profits are extinguished at the company level by high competition.

So what did the US do? Cut off China's access to advanced lithography equipment, prompting China to create its own litho industry. While they're not yet to the level of cutting edge chips from TSMC the new Huawai phones boast chips with their own design as good as the ones in iToys of just a few years ago.

The GOP has been this way for four decades, the difference is that now it's saying what it's doing instead of blaming Democrats for its actions.

You've never lived with hyperinflation. Know how I can tell? The thought of printing unlimited money based on nothing doesn't send chills down your spine.

The experiment has been done many times, it always ends in failure. Always, and without exception.

You think that Africans and Arabs are going to be effective fighters at -40 in waist deep snow dealing with drone warfare they've never seen before? You're funny.

People around here do know dick about the situation, that's why znrt had to explain the above.

Ukraine gave up nukes that 1) had no triggers (the USSR had removed them before withdrawing), and 2) they had no launch codes for. Essentially they gave up nuclear waste.

They're both cheaper than fossil fuels, the main problem with nuclear has been that it can't be built in time to help with global warming and so can serve as a distraction that ties up resources that could've gone into renewables. A mad scramble to build them for the AI bubble could fix that, at least temporarily.

This gave me the idea to make something like a Shodan search engine for US healthcare but it looks like it's already been done:

https://www.hospitalpricingfil...