A long-distance Katyn
04.03.2026 14:00
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A long-distance Katyn
Has everybody forgotten Operation Prosperity Guardian?
We've already established that the US Navy is incapable of keeping sea lanes open, even against a far less capable enemy.
CMA: "The chair of the competition watchdog’s cloud inquiry has quit, saying he is frustrated at the slow pace of action against Microsoft and Amazon, while also citing concerns about its wider independence" www.themorningintelligence.uk/cma-cloud-in...
Couldn't find a public version of the full paper, sadly
This article has some more details and findings, including that the rise in fatalities is higher for cars with Apple Carplay, showing that these features encourage greater phone use and driver distraction
www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/p...
On days when major new albums release in the US, music streaming increases by 40% and road deaths by 15%. Indicates that phone use and distraction are behind lots of road deaths
Paper uses an event study design and controls for lots of fixed effects to isolate the impact
www.nber.org/papers/w34866
The Conservatives really didn't campaign at all - it's hardly fertile ground for them, but seems to border on "unofficial pact" behaviour
Hawaii?
Account is fully AI
Q: Could I follow up, Mr. Secretary, on what you just said, please? In regard to Iraq weapons of mass destruction and terrorists, is there any evidence to indicate that Iraq has attempted to or is willing to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction? Because there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between Baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations. Rumsfeld: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
As an answer to the very clear and direct question he was asked though, it kinda sucks.
So many hospitals are hostile to pedestrians, with the sites accessed from dangerous main roads, and then an ocean of parking with uncontrolled crossings.
Smoking is completely banned from hospital sites, in a recognition they shouldn't be unhealthy places. They should widen that thinking.
The people in the west miss that the whole dark forest thing is actually about living in China during the cultural revolution, and nothing to do with actual aliens
It's time to end the disastrous Westphalian experiment
The polling evidence he posted in the image shows the opposite! It shows the public reject both bathroom bills and preventing K-12 social transitioning, but he chose in his post to display them all the same way.
One of my most highly prized possessions, in pride of place on my laptop.
I did initially think that it seemed quite harsh.
Yep, footpaths and bike paths too.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Also true! My read of Marx and the Labour Theory of Value is that he wasn't actually very convinced by it, he was just showing that his theory (particularly around surplus value) still holds even if you assume the LToV to be true.
Yep, Marx was actually a thoroughly orthodox economist of his time in terms of his methodology and theory. His big idea was applying it to history, sociology, political science, etc.
The most successful economics imperialist to ever live.
In Industrial Organisation there's conjectural variations - almost entirely replaced by game theory and Nash equilibria for theory, but still handy for empiricists as the single conduct parameter is convenient to estimate.
Europa Specificalis
Horrendous display of pavement parking too, along with the anti-pedestrian barrier.
The person in the screenshot seems to be angry that there aren't any black people in the video, denying them the opportunity to make that complaint
Yep, this is it. Low productivity workers are likely to be in less secure employment, so they lose their jobs first and no longer gets counted in productivity stats. Increasing productivity doesn't actually imply that anyone got more productive.
And then Google gets a substantial share of the money that has been scammed out of their users
Galaxy brain: Google is the worst website
All of the positive spillovers from transport to surrounding businesses and landowners still exist under the "European" model. It seems to me the question is whether it's better to have the cross-subsidisation occuring within a single business or via public policy.
It's not as simple as: more irradiated workers = cheaper reactors.
Cutting costs in nuclear means more delays and costs (eg the years of replacing faulty welds in Flamanville), and to increased maintenance costs and unreliability (eg in 2022 over half of France's reactors suddenly closed for a year
They work for the FBI in the 90s, everyone is a Republican
I had a work management training course which had a slide dedicated to a diagram of L Ron Hubbard's model of the reactive and analytical minds. I think the trainer had just googled up a bunch of random diagrams and put them on slides.
Immigration judges aren't real judges - they're employees of executive branch agencies who dress up like judges to make their adminstrative decisions sound more legitimate.