Nathaniel William Horadam

Ah well, nevertheless.

Okay but counterpoint, in Georgia we now get to watch Burt Jones and Rick Jackson fling poo at each other through July.

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uh.

How I arrived on Bluesky

cc: Keisha Lance Bottoms, who has still yet to do any campaigning in Georgia

I've seen enough: James Talarico (D) wins the #TXSEN Dem primary.

No.

Massive dodged bullet for Dems in Texas. Still an uphill battle with a long way to go, but they’re marching into November with their strongest soldier.

Yes, because Congress has authorized the agency to execute such transactions and appropriated credit subsidy to those ends.

But again, that’s why you can’t do this by fiat. There’s an actuarial assessment on each “project” (in this case, each carrier) to calculate risk and use appropriated subsidy.

Literal Michael Scott declaring "bankruptcy"

You cannot do blanket coverage by fiat. DFC can underwrite risk insurance but will need to be on a carrier by carrier basis and will come with a risk subsidy calculation.

No serious shipper will take “trust me bro, this is legal” when they’ve got crews and hundreds of millions in cargo endangered.

Javier Blas already did it in today’s column.

And before you say “but nobody cares about illegal anymore,” I’m here to tell you no, they do. Everything is a risk calculus.

Nobody is going to do DFC's "take our word for it” insurance racket with 9- or 10-figure cargoes on their ships.

DFC can provide foreign risk insurance, but can’t just offer blanket coverage by fiat.

You have to underwrite that shit like anything else, and there’s a credit subsidy allocation associated with it.

Doing otherwise would be highly illegal.

If you want smoking gun evidence we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into here, this is it. JFC.

I literally finished reading it yesterday. Such an absurd book.

But he also handwaves technical limitations to building most of those things. Even a late-19th C engineer wouldn’t know how to harvest and beneficiate the materials needed to manufacture electro-mechanical inputs with Dark Ages tech.

Alternatively, send me back 600 years and I’m just running to Publix and filling two bags with everything I can fit in them from the spice aisle.

Look I don’t *want* to steal anything, but an hour isn’t enough time to get prescriptions filled.

You have an hour before being transported on a one-way journey to 1826.

You, idiot: *runs to the bookstore and grabs several books on mechanical and electrical engineering*

Me, genius: *runs to the pharmacy and robs it for as many antibiotics as I can get my hands on*

When someone says “Millennial music” the first song that comes to mind is “Young Blood”

I’m sorry but what were you expecting from a State Department now staffed by graduates of Liberty and Wheaton.

lot of you refuse to give trump credit for his tireless effort to get dubai bombed

Must be a weekday that ends in y

Good thing all the US automakers haven’t spent the past year scrapping EV models and throttling production capacity…

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Look man, it’s the Underpants Gnomes’ world now and we’re just living in it.

Step 1: Waymo dials up aggressiveness to compete with human ridehail drivers.
Step 2: Waymo puts human ridehail drivers out of work.
Step 3: Regulators tell Waymo it needs to obey traffic laws, including speed limits, to a T, or lose its license to operate.
Step 4:

I know this is as futile as Milton Friedman trying to reclaim the word “liberal” back in the day…but for the love of G-d these are not conservatives. They’re revanchists, reactionaries, and Christian nationalists.

They’re not trying to conserve anything.