@Phil i rely on NOAA to protect my life and property with hurricane tracking and forecasts. it has done an amazing job.
contemporary weather forecasts are reasonably accurate out to seven days. your claim was true when i was growing up, maybe when you were too, but it has not been for some time. weather monitoring and prediction is remarkably good now, and we rely upon it for everything from tornado warnings to flight routing. https://ourworldindata.org/weather-forecasts
@Phil the issue has been very extensively studied.
@Phil have a nice flight. (replacing reliable, high bandwidth fiber with flakier, lower bandwidth starlink makes total sense.)
will that hurricane hit?
is that drug safe + effective? (it’d be better if FDA were faster. many clinical trials—including of unpatentable compounds—should be publicly funded. we need more people evaluating new pharma. more, not fewer, resources.)
enjoy giving your kid Vitamin A and hope for the best after their “study” tells us vaccines cause autism.
@Phil i think you are blind to how much you rely upon it, and how much better our world could be if we did much more with it. perhaps we’ll see.
we blame government for being inefficient when it is under-resourced, so we strip it of resources to make it more efficient.
i love canada and wish my own country hadn’t turned sociopathic.
“I think Trump is modeling himself to be our Caesar, ending the Republic and creating an Empire. He would be far better off, as would we all, if he modeled himself after Solon, the forgiver of debt.” https://econcrit.blogspot.com/2025/03/trumps-address-to-congress.html
the unfair part is, if you want to raise a lot of revenue from tariffs, it means people will have to pay a lot, and markets won't like that. surely there's a way to raise a lot of tariff revenue without making anybody pay it. back to the drawing board! where's Elon?!
this is the “You’re fired!” presidency.
@lori you’re in my reader!
the feed for blog i’m writing on most now (politics and economics-ish) is https://drafts.interfluidity.com/feed/index.rss
for all my blogs (including a tech notebook and a rarely updated “main” blog as well as drafts), it’s https://www.interfluidity.com/unify-rss/all-blogs.rss
@lori i still build my world around RSS! (you can subscribe by mail if you want.)
we are pioneering a new economic system: casino feudalism
i think all social media posts should begin with a land acknowledgment that blogs were here first and sincere expressions of contrition for colonizing the place and destroying the culture.
reagan: peace through strength
trump: peace through perfidy
this administration just DGAF about derelictions of commitments the United States had previously taken on, even when such derelictions are literally and quite immediately deadly. USAID stop-works, ending intelligence sharing with Ukraine including air defense assistance, all have body counts.
@relentless_eduardo it doesn’t use taxpayer money. it’s a private organization.
i’ve had my issues with ActBlue, but debilitating Democratic fundraising infrastructure would be an obvious “competitive authoritarian” play. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/actblue-democrat-fundraising-resignations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“If you do not recognize that mass destruction of fundamental concepts of democracy and the US Constitution happening right now, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid. I can’t put it any clearer than that.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/ ht @inthehands
i feel like if they fire me and then decide they want me back they should beg my forgiveness and lure me with a nice raise.
