maybe we could have a strategic sportsbets reserve too.

drain the swamp.

screenshot from thread beginning https://xcancel.com/ustreasury/status/1896348155522039985

[new draft post] Meeting Starter https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/02/meeting-starter/index.html

so any progress in, you know, the US Congress, the branch that controls the money, on funding a US Crypto Reserve?

(genuinely asking! it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this craven caucus included it in a budget in deference to dear leader.)

@john you are a generous man.

do you ever wonder what the kompromat is on Rubio?

waiting for the Trump Administration to 💡: "hey, what if we replaced the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with a strategic reserve of petroleum *stocks* (we could buy up in advance!)"

10 Observations About Tokyo by #QuicoToro https://www.persuasion.community/p/10-observations-about-tokyo ht @SteveRoth

hear me out: #eggcoin

a thing i find odd about people into (bad, ugly) Mearsheimer-ish "offensive realism", great-power spheres of influence, etc is the presumption that Russia is or would be a great power in such a world, rather than a vassal either of China or Europe, or site of conflict for resources between them.

so obviously a pump. who got to say, and who got to know, which cryptocurrencies Trump would name?

i’m sure he named Cardano because Trump is just really into a Haskell foundation and claims of provably correct proof-of-stake.

will it end in meaningful purchase, or just the usual dump? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s not inflation. Trump has upgraded eggs into the category of luxury goods. Enjoy!

More upgrades to come!

You could be earning double points.

if March 4 was chosen as the date the tariffs take effect in order to let March 3 be the day of frantic negotiations to postpone them, does Trump/Vance outraging trading partners on Friday render it harder for them to deliver the pretend victories that Trump demands as pretext for postponement?

the difficulty is, Zelensky is not #pathetic.

@w7voa i am so grateful for your work.

( if you want to chat, weekly interfluidity office hours starts in 5 mins, on the half hour, https://www.interfluidity.com/office-hours/ )

just what Florida needs, a royal dynasty. https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/114082839670131684

@realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn "the government seeking to limit the feedback that they receive" is precisely the kind of "efficiency" i am criticizing.

(it's not a real efficiency, taking into account all of our interests, but it's an efficiency from the perspective of the organization that is supposed to actually read and react to feedback.)

I'm accelerating the pace at which I'm sending letters to my Congressional delegation.

Here's today's, "DOGE massacre at NOAA / NWS threatens Floridians" https://notes.interfluidity.com/vyQHxyjgRairBncH_6NkRg

(I distrust their shitty webforms, so I'm trying docupost.com to conveniently send by postal mail.)