It's telling that the USA isn't interested in friendly competition of this sort.

Oh noes, they explode, better ban 'em! You'll have to ban laptops, electric cars, etc too, since they all have the same possible weakness with their batteries.

That this even needs to be said boggles the mind.

I suspect an alternative form of proof may be made now that definitive analysis of the pattern can be made, having the exhaustive set available for analysis.

Trump IS an authoritarian, and nothing Jones says can change that. Good on Ron for sticking to his guns, unlike Trump, Hillary or Bernie.

Interesting. I'm a bit more of the mind that this is more about the fed being painted into a corner due to this flattening (and always lowering) yield curve being needed to finance the forever war. Ed is right that rising rates would likely actually stimulate the economy at this point, but he neglects the impact that would have on government financing (and the subsequent chimpout that would cause).

50 Years ago. It's moved into a far more disgustingly depressing direction since then.

... because Trump. Riiiight, as if that won't make men inclined to use that more radicalized, just as with every black market activity. Considering the last polling showed a majority of men admitted to enjoying porn, this would be an extremely unpopular measure, moreso than perhaps even the drug war.

They hit the nail on the head there.

He's almost figured it out. It IS a gigantic corvee scam.

Right where they belong.

Great. All the better to oppress you, I'm guessing?

Spec ops guys found ~40m out from Raqqa.

It's how the brain fights infection. Over age, the blood-brain barrier weakens, and eventually infections overwhelm it.

neat story.

As with the last ones, it's actually a bailout of EZ banks.

LOL. Enjoy your heroes, gov worshippers.

What a dirtbag.

4,300 is a small number considering how many are locked up, but it is still a travesty.

Guess they are getting revenge for how much the Russians rolled back their earlier gains.

If so, would be a pretty big win for the YPG.

The orcs are truly disgusting.

On coproaches and their high suicide rate. It must be stressful for them to have a conscience; clearly they need to screen better to hire sociopaths so that the kop suicide rate goes down.

A good read for those just figuring out how bad the situation really is, and sort of freaking out. Look, if we retreat into a remnant, we're actually in a much worse position to influence what comes next. When people ask their libertarian neighbors who invested in their defense how they knew, we will be in a very influential position. Nothing wins an argument like success.

Of course, you always have to worry about whether you need to resist being rounded up; but if we are using our quiet influence in the black market rather than rioting and demonstrating, the state will be too busy to remove us; furthermore we will be too useful to remove.

In the meantime, just keep working harder to secretly increase the standards of living of yourself and your family. It's the only way forward. If we can't reverse the capital depletion, we are doomed as a society.