Traffic Enforcement Dwindled in the Pandemic. In Many Places, It Hasnโ€™t Come Back.

Americaโ€™s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women.

Quad foreign ministers decry dangerous South China Sea actions.

Scientists need more time to think.

How One Man Lost $740,000 to Scammers Targeting His Retirement Savings. Sorry, but what a dumbass.

We need a progressive approach to economics that doesn’t depend on a deficiency of aggregate demand. This is about 80% wrong, but the kernel is correct.

Tool Tools

It was time for something new. It’s disheartening how bad the WordPress tools have gotten, though. If there were anything better I’d use it. The whole world has moved to user-hostile applications and interfaces that everyone insists (and insists you insist) are better or you “just hate change.”

Yes, Timmy, in fact I do hate change that directly harms me. In fact I very much do.

The “block editor” is something only a complete clown could’ve developed and then imposed on the world. It’s an abomination of poor design, with an appalling interface and atrocious discoverability. An elementary school class could’ve come up with something better in an afternoon.

But what’s here is here; what was there is gone. Such as it ever was and ever will be.