“California’s first-in-the-nation law banning the sale of new gas-powered mowers and blowers also targets a machine that has become increasingly popular with consumers in recent years — portable generators. As people face power blackouts — in areas where utilities have cut power to curb wildfire threats, for example — many have turned to generators as a backup energy source. The new law, AB 1346 by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Palo Alto), was signed Oct. 9 by Gov. Newsom. Berman’s bill requires the sale of new small off-road engines to be zero-emission by 2024, or when the Air Resources Board says the cutoff is feasible, whichever is later. ‘Small’ means less than 25 horsepower, and portable gas-powered generators typically have half that level, or less. Portable gas-powered generators would be phased out by 2028.”

Couple this with shutting down Diablo Canyon, the provider of 1/5 it's base load with no plan whatsoever will work great.

Why it's all bullshit, and bad for ya

Turkish stock market collapses, trading halted.

So, he's a mercantilist who doesn't want to get vassalized via IMF debt bondage. As such he is instead executing the "economic hitman" gameplan on his country but to enrich his own faction focused on exports.

...Or, yanno, his government could have just stopped spending so so much money that they need to constantly hit Ctrl+P in order to keep the government solvent. Don't need an IMF loan if you don't run deficits to the tune of 3% GDP every year. Also, if you are just gonna default via inflation to avoid IMF debt bondage, why not just default on the already considerable debt load they have?

Oh wait, because that version of the farce doesn't wind up with big E in power. Instead the people would benefit by shaking the sickness out of the system. Can't have that.

Q1 gettin raped

Things have come a long way since the bartendro.

This is the best idea coming out of bipedal robotics. Would be life changing for paraplegics.

More or less total defeat of the administration. Turns out forcibly abolishing peoples' social lives is unpopular, who'da thunkt.

CPI-W now at 7.5%. Dems are cooked in '22. Bond markets still don't give AF. Crash flag flying as high as it can.

Nobody will care, just like nobody cares about the men who self-immolate after being ruined by family court for frivolous reasons.

Uncle Satan becomes less relevant by the day

Missile Crisis 2: Electric Boogaloo sadly

Criminal negligence and conflict of interest by the woke. Par for the course with these Weltverbesserers.

Phrenology, but with irises. Amazing.

Huge Development, likely fatal to the EU. Germany remains delusional and does not realize their former masters still lust for their territory and have huge debts that can't be paid any other way. If they don't wise up soon and re-arm, they are in for a rude awakening.

I of course don't expect them to go to SCOTUS, as that might touch the third rail of why EOs, PDDs and administrative law is considered lawful in the first place. We shall see.

Yet more deflationary signs. I too expect J-Pow to unload the toxic waste on FED balance sheets, but not hike ever.

Nice

At this point I am cynical enough to buy the idea that even the coddling of criminals by dem DAs is just them talking the book of party elites who want everything to be ordered from big tech

I remember reading about a few of these when they happened. I hope he doesn't get too much more of "the treatment" back in his homeland.

Very concerning in light of the point Ron Unz makes regarding what historically happens after literati purges in the USA.

Moar like "concerned about dem prospects in 2022". Regardless, FED actions guaranteed to be either too much or too little because that's how central economic planning works.

Tax farming for fun and profit

This is one of the most important essays I've read in quite some time. The author's how to think real good explains exactly why a praxeological approach is required to achieve real AI. This has made me realize praxeology is the first metacognitive model -- it's synthesis of methodological dualism in response to Mises' brother's monism was my bridge to metarationality. His thoughts on boomeritis really hit home for me. The passage therein is quite apt:

Our actions are called forth spontaneously by the situation we find ourselves in—not rationally planned in advance.

The impossibility of socialist planning is simply a specific case of the impossibility of the frame problem. Which means prices are the solution to AI too. Rather than attempt to find a closed form solution, build an ordinal mapping of preferences and rank (prices).

Action is driven by perception, not plans.

This is literally the action axiom.

Great Essay. Sturgeon's Law is really just an observation of this effect rather than a cause.