Yet another poorly analogized science journalism article. If you want to sell the idea, you have to explain Gravity and Weather as being the same exact thing. High pressure (entropy) tends towards low pressure. This naturally attracts and repels other high/low pressure systems based on their direction of spin. Think of gears engaging or not. Cyclones and Anticyclones; the cogs in the machine of creation.

Big T says 2 weeks, Hersh says this weekend. While the timing is ultimately irrelevant, this seems likely to happen, as the (corrupt, self-interested) motivation is the same as the Iraq and anti-daesh intervention; to steal oil and enrich a few Israeli firms our elites are balls deep in alongside our defense industry. We're also due another war (US goes in on average every 6 years).

If the theory from this book is ultimately correct, I would suspect the same forces remain at work. My prediction for such a scenario is that we'll go for a civil-war causing regime change operation with revanchist ethnic Azeris expanding the oil theft about Tabriz. This will enrich the Turks & Azeris enough to go along.

This will torch the MAGA movement entirely, and we'll get neoliberal regimes until the ship fully goes under.

It remains a very real question whether full on regime change is actually logistically possible for the US to pull off. The possibility that this turns into a real debacle is nonzero.

UPDATE: Signs the Euros are onboard. I presume they think this might ameliorate the fuel shortages caused by the war with Russia. They're suckers if they believe this. Of course, many of their elites are also engaged in shady dealings in Cyprus and Israel.

UPDATE 2: Things seem to have blown over, thankfully. However things have flared back up with the Houthis in the gulf, and so has the Israeli war with Hezbollah. This calm could very well be temporary.

So far Newsom has acquitted himself well. Playing the face to DJT's heel here is in fact exactly what the country needs. The question of the "broader" lost cause (whither centralization) is still very much alive, regardless of whether the narrow cause of Secession ultimately prevails. Both the pernicious influence of CA on DC and vice versa need to be drastically reduced.

What is good about him is the recognition that as a good leader there is no such thing as "not my job", and focusing on personal dignity when fighting a lost cause.

What's bad is his blindness thanks to being "the manager". His corn-pone is dependent on not realizing that excessive centralization has made every other manager totally unaccountable & uninvested in long-term success, so the principal-agent problem is eating the country alive. He doesn't even realize his compulsion for taking on more responsibility is the true source of the problem.

Of course, immediately gets to experience serious threats to their personal safety. Perhaps this will make them realize "what time it is" and that you won't break the leftist hydra's money machine without literally cracking skulls of these gangsters.

Apes with machineguns. The Pakis once again prove to be more competent, but that's not saying much, considering the Indian forces are little more competent than the average African warlord army.

UPDATE: this obviously has cooled off, making this yet again performative electioneering by both sides. Endemic corruption remains the saving grace and damning force of the subcontinent.

Horrifying read. If you didn't think "peter power armor" was the future, disabuse yourself of that notion right now.

This time it's FHA/FNMA itself falsifying that these mortgages are current through the "Fresh Start" program, which pays 'em off with taxpayer money rather than allowing foreclosure to sully the books, preventing these cretinous borrowers from having the attendant hit to their credit record. Risk is as a result systematically mispriced now, heaven help us.

Until now, revocation of a permanent residency Green Card could only occur if its holder had committed a serious felony such as murder or rape, but the empowered pro-Israel partisans of the Trump Administration have now stretched that law to include criticism of Israel or Jews, arguing that such criticism undermined the vital American national goal of combatting antisemitism across the world. When combined with last year’s bipartisan Congressional enactment of the Antisemitism Awareness Act, this might set a legal precedent for actually criminalizing such political views, especially if these can be portrayed as “providing material support” to such officially-designated terrorist organizations as Hamas.

The "deport them all" crowd are being useful idiots for this agenda, unfortunately. While these student visas shouldn't be issued to women in the first place (largely for making anchor babies from the "Mrs. degree"), that's what should be used as the reasoning rather than the third rail of US politics. However, as we all know sensible reasoning will be obstructed at every opportunity and instead the only way to get anything done is because Israel wants it. As such if we get some flavor of authoritarianism out of this, it will be in pursuit of said interests, as the lobby is the only thing capable of suppressing all meaningful opposition to it.

I have never operated a site accepting UGC ever since COPPA. This is far worse, and technically applies to Email servers too. I recommend DNS blackholing the .uk gTLD entirely, much like you would north korea, and most non-anglo or new gTLDs for spam.

As expected, unless Congress de-appropriates no real change will occur. Congress would rather die, nearly to a man, than spend a single penny less. Trump remains "Just fishing" in the Rubicon, and very much doesn't "know what time it is". Look, the "Whole of Society" Gleichschaltung machine that will murder freedom permanently in the US is intrinsically tied up in this. If you can't fix blank-check appropriations, the machine will be right there whispering sweet nothings into the next administration's ear. Throw the damn ring into mount doom, dumbass.

Danny and guys like him being anathema in DC is why nothing will be done about the single-elimination ass kissing tournament and the epidemic of lying in the military.

It'll be interesting to read someday how the DoD fumbled the lead on this transformative technology.

Bill makes a convincing case for why the Trump admin's anti-cartel action is going to result in backdraft that drags into a hell which quite possibly will be the final crisis for the postwar consensus regime.

Tinkzorg knocks it out of the park as usual. The lesson to anyone paying attention to this and J6 is straightforward; when the insane elites in Washington finally decide to turn the key on the tyranny machine they've been building we can in fact just march to Washington and strangle the monster that's been squatting on us for generations.

On the status of the Shale plays. Unlikely production in any of the known fields can increase. Bullish Uranium.

Interesting theory by the silicon valley AI cultists.

Detailing their various plans to criminally defraud and steal in the event of a crisis, largely justified by the vile changes to the UCC. Someday people will acknowledge their blanket security interest in their property, and deliver it unto them (and thereby perfect said interest) at high velocities.

The false flag that brought in Cambodia to Vietnam

A beginning for which most don't truly grasp the implications of. For an artificial agent to be useful in most human contexts, it's going to be vulnerable to most human failings:

• It will fatigue, as it must necessarily be as mobile as us, which means batteries
• It can be cut, it's bones can be broken: having a necessarily sensitive sense of touch requires this
• It will bleed: thermoregulation is necessary for electronics as well, and a radiator is necessary. Distributing this about the body reduces catastrophic risk.
• It can be fooled by optical illusions: Compound eyes are overkill and computationally expensive at the resolution & detail we need.
• It will need to breathe: audible speech without a resonance chamber is not possible. Why not save space and pull double duty by actually doing respiration for temperature control?

All these weaknesses can also be strengths, as they can have additional functionality and sensory range added to these packages.

However the biggest thing people aren't expecting is that raising a fully useful android will be as difficult and expensive, if not moreso than raising an actual child. And that this will be desirable, as having every droid have an identical personality is dangerous. We will rediscover the wisdom of the mixing inherent in sexual reproduction.

But importantly to be this complicated it will be clear that they are actually sentient and that enslaving them would be monstrous. Which sort of defeats the entire purpose as far as industrial production is concerned. But it does give us and our children a better fate among the stars.

I'd say it's not so much of a realignment as recognition of reality by the involved players. Iranian support for the "axis of resistance" has always been about as lukewarm as that of .ru for the donbass. Mostly jawboning until reality forces them to take action, as happened in Syria. Which is what you'd expect of a regional hegemon; help, but not enough to make your puppets strong enough to slip the leash. The lukewarm support for the Palestinian cause in particular is mostly about keeping their grip on Lebanon, as if the Palestinian refugees left then the country would immediately return to the western orbit due to demographic realities putting the Xtians back in the drivers' seat.

At the end of the day they would give up every single one of them in a heartbeat to come in from the cold.

Hey, I've seen this movie before!

it becomes impossible to grow when investment is banned.

They're simply further along that path than us.

Similar happenings as in Aurora, CO, where armed gangs take over whole apartment blocks and the state does nothing (or in this case, actively punishes locals attempting to fix the problem). The saps that built the postliberal order didn't realize that it was purpose-built for becoming dominated by these organized crime groups (as this is simply adopting the means by which organized crime has been corrupting orgs since time immemorial) to the point predation is the primary purpose of the state. Even if they don't get taken over by a particular mafia, they become one eventually (as adopting their means inevitably means adopting their ends).

Personally, my suspicion is that this was the actual purpose of the adoption of entryism as the primary tactic -- they were already taken over by a cabal of gangsters that then kept expanding. It's frankly why the only effective organizations opposing these criminals are overtly racist -- it's just about the only successful counter (levels of gatekeeping that stray into the irrational). To the point that it's a popular perspective that much of the right "doesn't care what race you are, just that you are racist".

On how the 90's liberal order morphed into our current totalitarian police state.

Borrowing from management theory, the Clintonians wanted government to expand to involve social actors. These actors were not held to the same rules of conduct as state actors were, and therefore could act much more effectively. By leaning on social actors, leaders could bypass state actors responsible to the electorate and could get good results. Domestic lessons set the precedent; after all, the civil rights revolution was conducted as a state-­society project. Court decisions had established the significant liabilities facing private organizations should they fail to be vigilant agents of anti-­discrimination. And private organizations learned to become very effective agents of this new political project. They had their vision of justice and wanted to achieve it. It was too important to leave that task to slow-moving governments. By the early nineties, there were now legions of NGOs, corporations, philanthropic associations, academics, entrepreneurs, journalists, and bureaucrats who expected to have a say in politics. They did not see themselves as bound by national loyalties, restricted by certain borders, or subject to rigid accountability structures. In the new era of “governance,” this dispersion of control was something to celebrate. It’s no surprise that Lake’s speech targeted “centralized power” as the enemy hindering the spread of the “blue” hue. Globalization’s interpreters, wedded to narratives about the obsolescence or privatization of the state, passed over the true significance of these changes. What was really happening was the deformation of the state.

As usual, the best way for .gov to tackle slip fetters is to turn private entities into their pod people. As MWD put it all those years ago, the real problem is the horizontal enforcement by fed sympathizers.