every rich person about working from sun up to sunset is a lie
I worked at a startup once where one of the guys was honest about that. He had helped a prior startup succeed and made his money, so was not interested in working.
We paid for the name so investors would think we could succeed. He just screwed around when he actually made it in to work, but occasionally talked to investors about the great things he was doing
Don’t want to put in the effort of that many lies to that many people, that many broken contracts, that many violated morals
As an X’er not too far behind them:
On paper I look like one of those hoarders: nice income and a lot of house equity. I also have above average 401k balance
However
We’re hit by all the same excessive inflation as everyone else but we can’t downsize because mortgage rates are too high. All the missing safety nets affect us as much as everyone, except we’re out of time to recover from any catastrophe.
Given a family medical emergency, I missed 15 years of 401k contributions, and never upgraded from A “starter home”, despite what the valuation looks like, and I have a lot of major maintenance coming up
I have to say that despite a lot of things that look really good on paper, I was much better off financially in my 30’s
Exactly! I actually started with sci fy, alien motherships releasing clouds of fighter as my inspiration. Then quickly headed to those weird blimp concepts.
Not only can modern technology solve the problems but suicide drones can be folded to pack more in and you don’t have to worry about them coming back, unlike manned fighters. Treat them more like ammunition, smart and slow ammunition
Very informative, thanks!
But I wasnt thinking carrier like a ship, but a flying carrier, a mother ship . A drone that can loiter all day above a battlefield, then release dozens of cheap drones when needed could make a real impact. At the same time you could put money into the drone that gets there, recons, loiters, and returns, while using the advantages of cheap short range suicide drones as your expendable “ammunition”.
Why not both? A cheap disposable drone will never have much range, loitering, reconnaissance, so needs help getting to the battlefield (unless it’s your own town as in Ukraine). But even an expensive long range drone can only go so far. Think of the logistics hub as the military base only a couple hundred miles from Target, wherever there is an ocean. The loitering drone be battlefield over site and response, then cheap suicide drones as the ammunition
Like Denmark?
Cuba has a strong advantage over other islands, starting with education levels and a rich history
Yeah, let’s keep sanctioning them until that nasty Fidel Castro who nationalized all those businesses and drive former business owners out to Florida , dies. Well keep supporting our immigrant former business owners as long as Fidel lives! We will not show any mercy to Fidel, for harming the profits of our now citizens
Just in case, /s
I also don’t see anything about continued threats. Sure this seems textbook “stand your ground”, but maybe it’s a better argument for gun control.
While no one should be threatened or assaulted, was this a potentially deadly encounter, or was it the presence of a firearm escalating an attack into something potentially deadly. Being assaulted doesn’t justify deadly force
Instead of those ugly gray ones, imagine beautiful shiny gold
I wonder if a drone “carrier” would be a reasonable idea. It would certainly make a good movie.
Think of a big expensive reusable drone like a Reaper, able to fly in from hundreds of miles away, then loiter all day just out of range. When it sees a target, instead of launching an expensive missile, launch drones to targets. This lets you carry more and cheaper weapons, while also taking advantage of high quality reconnaissance and all day loitering
We don’t care about better EVs, we will protect our buggy whip industry at all costs to our own consumers
And yet even if that were true, where is the economic policy targeting that? You don’t throw a tantrum and tariff the world, but could do something useful with targeted penalties on one hand and incentives for your own legacy manufacturers on the other. I could be convinced by that
But reality looks a lot more like fear and xenophobia
But Nixon didn’t flout the Constitution, violate human rights, or engage in so much corruption, so blatantly.
Nixon had the moral conviction to at least try to keep it quiet and there was enough moral fortitude in Congress that there were consequences
Complete? Hell no, wait until elections come up and they start to fall behind
Agreed. That seems like the “good old days”. We had reason for hope, and change (even if that was the previous guys slogan). Government may have been slow and have way too much red tape but it generally seemed to do the right thing.
It’s not just that he’s illegally paying TotalEnergies to abandon their plan, but we in the northeast have ridiculously high electricity costs partly because these projects have already been delayed so many years. Now he’s locking us in to paying among the highest rates in the country?
For one that Trump tried to stop when it was almost done
New England ratepayers will save $500 million a year on wholesale energy costs from Revolution Wind
https://www.gtai.de/en/invest/investment-guide/incentive-programs-in-germany
For the us, there was a combination of
ChatGPT says 10-15% of the cost of a typical car is labor
a workforce that’s paid about a third
So that would give Chinese manufactured vehicles a 6-10% price advantage
We wish
It’s so weird - looking back on so many weekends, thinking “huh, I didn’t have a beer or anything “.