Be careful, Mark. Luckily you live in a very solid house.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-worse-shape-than-moscow-says-report-eu-shows-2025-05-13/ The report, prepared for talks of European Union finance ministers, said that while still relatively stable, the Russian economy was only superficially resilient and that underlying imbalances and structural weaknesses were growing. "The fiscal stimulus of the war economy has kept the economy afloat in the short term, but the reliance on opaque financing, distortionary resource allocation, and shrinking fiscal buffers makes it unsustainable in the long term. Contrary to Kremlin narratives, time is not on Russia's side," it said.

@Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread: @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread: Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along. For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate. I'm sure he loves it when people underestimate him.

So, the new Air Force 1 is racing neck and neck with all those new factories. Which gets completed first in the breakneck, edge of your seat race that'll last 10 years?

Definitely seems like "creative accounting"

@Mik That is a good point. I remember hearing a CEO who said, "the only decisions I SHOULD make are those that nobody else CAN make."

He frequently contradicts himself, essentially meaning you can't believe he means anything he says.

Sure, but that assumes the common man and the higher income folks both have similar intuitions that tariffs are going to harm them economically in the immediate future.

I'm a guitar play but I'm no peep of this guy. He's way over anything I can contemplate. I want that guitar/lute though. It's cool.

Me too, honestly, as regards Weiss. I think things changed a bit when her funders took a very public pro-Trump stance. But I hold out hope she might be turning it around. She was criticized by people such as Claire Lehman and Andrew Sullivan, whom she surely imagines as part of her 'tribe'. Also the tariff stuff is probably not so popular in her circles. We'll see.

lol

At least they can use them most of the year. What I don’t get is people who put them in up here.

Thanks. That worked.

Brain worms.

@taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal: @Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not. She didn't know, beyond waiting enough time for them to hatch, which is a month. But she sat on them for a month. She only knew after they didn't hatch.