I've heard and seen the remains of a squirrel that crossed just a standard 7.2KV distribution line. Substation is a whole nuther level. Blew the fuse and the squirrel. Saw the remains on the ground the next day. Juice back in an hour, new fuse. Sounded like a small cannon going off though. Critters can cause problems.

One correction, that is 40T not 40B. And yes Bessent and others in the dump administration complained how Biden's treasury dept was doing mainly short term debt not longer 10/30 year debt. The "mix" of debt offerings had moved towards short. Dumpie's back then cried bad fiscal management. Well there was a reason and they are finding out themselves. Buyers of T-debt want a substantial premium for longer duration debt. And that turns out to be a problem for debt cost. 30 year is around 5.25 now I think, and headed higher. The other problem (short term, as you say longer term issue is the "wtf we aren't the reserve currency anymore") is Warsh was an advocate for reducing the fed's balance sheet. ie, buying less government debt. Well if the fed won't buy up the debt and real money wants more return, that 10/30 year has to offer an even higher rate. That is unless Warsh adapts the TACO approach and eats his words.

I got a B, I tested out of the first year and had a full professor teaching a class of around 20 of "me"s only some a level smarter than me. It was quite the surprise. I'd never before in my life been "mid-pack" in math. Ever. Like I said, eye opening. But in many ways, good. A bit of a reset in terms of how smart you think you are.

Class size was a thing. Chem was huge, physics was huge. Weirdly, I was in an advanced English class with a full prof with around 30. Mistake though, I wasn't that good in English and the guy thought we were all wanting to be the next great writer. I got a D I think. I didn't care. I got A's in the CS, Chem and physics. I would have liked an A in math, that I cared about.

I was kind of surprised that Rogan a complete suckup actually complained about the paid access to the tweets. Several R's have, also a bit of a surprise. I guess they are pissed they did not get free access. I mean they wanted this right?

I think this. As I mentioned above, back in the day there were flunk out courses to weed out the low performers. I had a chem class that shot for around 30% dropout to cull the engineer wanna be's. The math class too, but lesser cull rate, probably 10-20%. The chem-e's were required to take this even more difficult freshman chem class. I think it had a 50% cull rate. The school knew organic chem(2nd year) was a bitch and why wait a year to find out they couldn't handle it. Cull early.

Maybe these days, but way back when, many of those freshman classes were to weed people out. I took one easy English class. The others were calc, physics, chem, CS. Many had high drop/flunk rates. I would agree it was a year of challenges for me. And it should be. I knew several who did not see 2nd semester.

Yep, the IRS upgrades and ATC ones allocated money always seems to get redirected. I just saw trump redirected almost a bil for WH renovations. Congress didn't fund it so the king opted to move other monies for some gold plating. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pol... Its almost like he thinks he is staying.

I think the ugly reality is the AV's fitted with a myriad of cameras is the real worry. Those AV's are roving surveillance equipment. I don't think anyone could believe if Flock or some other org offered to pay even a buck a day for access to those camera feeds, the AV suppliers wouldn't nod yes immediately. There is no going back from the current availability of cheap cameras, cheap storage and cheap compute. The framers couldn't have envisioned this. Even I as a older techie still find the magnitude of the storage capabilities available today as a bit surreal. RAM sizes that dwarf persistent storage of just 2 decades ago.

I think this is the way. Give the CEO 24 hour "police security" which records every legal infraction he commits from spitting on the sidewalk to making any and I mean any traffic violation. Did he "California roll" a stop sign? is he impeding traffic in the left lane?, ... After awhile I expect the flock leader will get the idea that 24x7 surveillance is not a good thing after a few thousand citations in a week.

I think the amount of officers using the system to scrape data about ex's is under-reported. I expect most access that is caught gets handled internally. And I expect not uncommon. People in love/lust do crazy things. And the fact those cameras are there and easy to access is just a little too tempting. One little peek, who is going to know?

Start tracking the government officials down to the minute and watch how quickly they change their tune. I mean how will they be able to visit their drug dealer, their bookie, their hooker, their bribers, ... now? That guy is genius. Suddenly the 4th amendment will be the most important thing.