The New Coffee Room

A rather optimistic take on the war from an unexpected source. (Use the ‘reader’ view to get rid of the annoying page artifacts)

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why

Journalist gets first nudged, then offers of $$, then death threats to change his reporting in order to make a polymarket bet settle the right way.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/

Episodic blackouts are pretty common there but only outside of Havana. This looks to be nationwide.

The caricature of Tucker’s verbal ticks is great.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17mZbm3dM5/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Straight of Hormuz??? More like Gay of Hormuz.

He's been spending a lot of HHS funds on self promotion.

I was briefly in NJ yesterday and should have filled up. They have negligible gas tax to make up for the fact that they mandate full serve gas statewide. So it's much cheaper than NY despite paying for full service.

Per my other thread, ChatGPT has ‘one neat trick’ to resolve the sleeping beauty paradox.

If you’re interested, Jon, there’s also a surprisingly elegant way to resolve the paradox using betting odds and information theory that makes the 1/3 answer almost unavoidable. I can show that version—it’s much cleaner than the philosophical debate.

I was paying in the 4s just last week. This is higher than I remember in 22. Then it was $5.09.

Again this is 93 octane

Just paid $68.11 for a fill. 13.1 gallons.

5.199 per gallon. High test stuff for the turbo.

Seems like presidents should probably know things like this before they launch the war.

Meagan Kelly and Mark Levine, or as she calls him Micro Penis, go at it.

@taiwan_girl said:

555

We used to think. Maybe he is on school holiday right now. What will happen when he comes back and the project is over?

What I said was actually true. I imagined that I had developed the simulation (though I didn’t know to use that word yet) and that I like everyone else was playing a role in it. As part of this daydream I was still a kid in ‘real life’ and that after the simulation ended I would win some prize or accolades for having developed it.

You’re welcome.

@taiwan_girl said:

I remember as a kid having a "debate" about whether the earth could just be some kids science project and we dont know it.

I remember dreaming that I was that kid whose project it was.

Oh joy.

Shortages are always and everywhere a policy decision. Hate them and would be shocked if Mamdani finally put an end to them in the NYC street parking market.