Russia ‘suffering 2,000 casualties a day’ as Kursk counter-offensive falters.
Ian Welsh: WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
Everyone else: Goddamn that’s a mega-fail.
Maybe the FSB should push some more generals out windows. That usually helps.
How bad is it? This is very bad, and we are not nearly ready for what’s coming our way.
Agreed. Possibility of economic depression in the next few years. War also, and a large one at that.
This is going to be a very bad four years. Or more. Likely many more.
I’m only talking about in my own field here, not home repair or anything like that (about which I know nearly nothing), but most of the time when I hire “experts” to help me out or do something that’d be difficult for me, they don’t know any more than I do.
This really defeats the damn purpose.
Oh Jesus Christ that’s fucking high dumbassery. This is what I mean about the left and Musk.
I don’t even need to read the article or anything else because I know why you’d want to have a string of sats: it’d increase throughput and reduce jitter and latency. So, in actuality, the data in toto would get there faster — though no individual signal would.
Networking fucking 101. It doesn’t work any differently just because you’re doing it in space.
One of the very worst parts of Trump being president will Lina Khan being ousted from the FTC. She’s been the best head of that org since the 1950s and has saved Americans billions while preventing some of the worst abuses that corporations want to commit. And now they will be able to.
This will be a such a huge loss. May she return one day with great wrath.
This essay isn’t as much degrowther nonsense as I thought it’d be. It still leans that way, but not to the pathological degree that the modern left tends to. You know, the version that would kill billions and cause a regression of 500+ years in societal progress.
But it’s still pretty bad. It’s not even that it gets many points wrong, exactly. It’s just all steering the wrong direction. The modern left has been so stunned and staggered by their recent losses to those that they see as their inferiors that they can’t even think.
I don’t have the energy to write a long-ass essay (or assay) myself this evening, but I will say that in the disavowal of progress and improvement for a focus on fixing things now, the modern left precludes any advancement in the future as well. This essay is, strangely, an example of what it decries: nostalgia for something that can never be and furthermore has never been. It’s a fiction based on a fiction; a dream whose dreamer is deceased.
Relatedly, the left could’ve had Elon Musk on their side. But most of them are not interested in conversions and conversation leading to solidarity. They want vengeance no different than the thug conservatives — they just couch it in squishier language. And here I use “conversion” deliberately because the left’s asseveration and beliefs are as religious in nature as any ecclesiastical evangelism ever seen on this Earth.
And now my three minutes are up and this mini-essay is at an end.
Desktop icons are surprisingly hard.
Scientists decipher two-photon vision.
Honeybee gene specifies collective behavior, research shows.
Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang.
Too Many Americans See the Democrats as a Hostile Elite.
Consumer anger over high prices piles pressure on politicians.
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs. Trump will never leave the White House willingly again, nor is it likely J.D. Vance will.
Company going to lose millions a month because of elections.
The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here.
How Trump’s Tariffs Would Radically Redistribute Wealth Upward.
What Trump’s mass deportation plan would mean for immigrant workers and the economy.
A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power.
Naw, bro, that’s Gen X being called in when Google is down.