While attempting to wrap my head around why Ezra doesn’t land as well as I’d hoped, lolbrooks was exactly what came to mind… lol. A new king is crowned. Thanks for the rabbithole on income share versus union membership of top 1% (seriously). I have a reading list on the opening up of China starting with the Carter Admin and I’ll keep this graph in mind with as I start looking more seriously at the policy transitions from Carter to Reagan to Clinton (plus where NAFTA plays into it). Will be a bit to catch up, ‘cos only reading non-fiction at any given time is a bore. Shout-out to Scott Lynch for getting me through the Gilded Age reading so far. The fights in court as Zeldin’s EPA tries to wrangle back already-dispensed funds under the allegations of criminal wrongdoing on the side of the last administration (lol?) is one hell of a way to try and stop further progress by a government back initiative like CHIPS. Everyone my algos are tuned to are trying to read the tea leaves on what percentage make-up of 1890s, 1930s or 1960s our future holds, but it all looks like these labor-first policies will be on hold until who knows when (read: if a rebuke gains any traction… as tired as that sounds). Re: other ways to do it that was meant for the people whose government purpose built/funded abundance for them. As for the PWA, I love this statement from the Wiki: Specifically due to the implication of pivoting from deploying local labor for installation/long-term maintenance of fiber to launching more satellites. Why put money in pockets of people across the nation while promoting general welfare with secure underground lines when you could just launch more satellites from a concentrated supply-chain? Something something... atmospheric cooling and Kessler syndrome or whatever… The PWA spent over $7 billion on contracts with private construction firms that did the actual work. It created an infrastructure that generated national and local pride in the 1930s and is still vital nine decades later.
Post some shit dawg because I made the mistake of grinding through the Fleet of Worlds books which required me to acknowledge that there are actually like four books set on Ringworld and while I knew the second one was bad I am absolutely gobsmacked by how horrible the third and fourth one are. The thing that strikes me about every move by the Trump administration so far is they're amateurish. They presume that if they kick the table the leg will fall. There's no greater strategy than "through executive privilege we will dismantle the government for we have Supremes supporting the Unitary Executive Theory." They make a lot of headlines and they're ruining a lot of shit... but they're ruining the shit people like. A whole goddamn country gets to learn what USAID does besides providing the CIA cover. Discover that their tax dollars really do empty the outhouse at Funacres National Park. Find out how much worse Social Security workers are when there are fewer of them. It's an impressively self-determined punitive civics lesson. sigh Look. It annoys me to do this. This book pisses me off the same way my vulnerability to homeopathic remedies does. it is without rigor. Among its examples it literally goes 'oops our model misses the Civil War.' But there are aspects of sociology to it that I haven't seen anywhere else. And if nothing else, it'll show you where Steve Bannon and the rest of the accelerationists are coming from. Will be a bit to catch up, ‘cos only reading non-fiction at any given time is a bore. Shout-out to Scott Lynch for getting me through the Gilded Age reading so far.
The fights in court as Zeldin’s EPA tries to wrangle back already-dispensed funds under the allegations of criminal wrongdoing on the side of the last administration (lol?) is one hell of a way to try and stop further progress by a government back initiative like CHIPS.
Everyone my algos are tuned to are trying to read the tea leaves on what percentage make-up of 1890s, 1930s or 1960s our future holds, but it all looks like these labor-first policies will be on hold until who knows when (read: if a rebuke gains any traction… as tired as that sounds).
