'Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One that the two leaders had “talked a lot about Taiwan”.... “I’ll be making decisions,” he said of the deal, without setting out a clear timeline. “But you know, I think the last thing we need right now is a war that’s 9,500 miles away.”'

Hydro-Québec's rates, especially the heritage pool, are artificially low and act against its own climate goals. They should actually charge market rates domestically, which would increase local energy efficiency and displace even more oil heating and gas-fired electricity in New England and NY.

GameStop shouldn't put an offer in to buy eBay. They should just click the "Buy It Now" button.

There is no compelling reason for the government to bail out Spirit Airlines. It has no assets that couldn't be put to work by another airline and only 7,500 employees. We'd never bail out a struggling retailer, but A&P and Rite Aid both had 4x as many employees when they folded. Why save Spirit?

I dunno. That sounds like quite the escalation to me.

I don't think it's possible for the extra VMTs induced by AVs to offset the safety improvement, as @davidzipper.bsky.social worries. Overall VMTs need to increase many times over to negate the per-VMT safety benefit vs regular cars—even if all transit disappears. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/22/w...

A two-way street can't handle a subway station. You need at least a five-way street, if not a six-way street.

Comrades, rejoice! Due to the great free market Spirit of our President, we will all now share in the prosperity of the People's airline! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Finally, a way to get conservatives to oppose new parking.

Only 36 hours until the American people is liberated from the tyranny of tax preparation ads.

Has anyone asked the Pope what he thinks about land use? Is the Pope weak on building codes? Does Pope Leo believe you can have a single stair to heaven?

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? We can't afford Pope Leo's weak on crime policies. Pope Leo. Wrong for the Vatican. Wrong for America. PAID FOR BY CATHOLICS FOR JD VANCE.

"I had a guy in Oakland that me and all my friends would go to for auto glass after smash and grabs." "That is the most Oakland thing I've ever heard."

Speaking as an involuntary Intel shareholder, it seems pretty clear to me that the President does not at all believe in unregulated capitalism.

I feel like a very easy law to pass would be to not allow delivery and ridehail platforms to offer jobs to drivers while they're in motion, which based on my observations of driver behaviour and humans in general is obviously dangerous.

Losing the war with Iran sets a bad precedent.

I can think of no better argument against a candidate than the candidate having negotiated the taxpayer-fleecing union contracts in Nassau County, New York.

Someone needs to do a study measuring how inflation outrage correlates with proximity to a Dollar Tree. They didn't even have items above $1 until 2021. Now items that were $1 are $1.25, $1.50 and sometimes even $3—and they're already covering the new $1.50 labels to add products that are $3.75.

Something I've been informally following for the past year is the comments section on Fox News articles, and things seem to have taken a pretty sharp turn with Iran. Other actions people here found outrageous were welcomed and cheered (except perhaps Alex Pretti) but anti-war comments now dominate.

Maybe the entire purpose of the war in Iran is Trump's deep desire to enact revenge on John Bolton, who finds himself outside looking in as all the dreams he had for his life come true.

Happy Infrastructure Week to all, even the haters and losers and ayatollahs!

The President seems rather, dare I say, sleepy?

Old people: "Kids these days have no manners!" Also old people: [PLAY VIDEOS ON THEIR PHONES IN PUBLIC AT FULL VOLUME]

What country do you think Trump is going to bomb after Macron gets the peace prize?

(Notably, this is how many DA offices actually work. DAs are generally much more willing than the Feds generally to try to take a marginal case to trial.)

To think that just under six years ago, we were all watching the WTI crude oil April settlement price go negative. It was a simpler, more innocent, more carefree time.

It's so nice to wake up on a weekend morning, stretch, make coffee and turn on the death screen to see what the Mad King is up to now.

Lying on the procedure table and listening to the medical staff talk about how the issue with Raleigh is that the shops and restaurants don't have enough parking, I think to myself "It's a good thing I'm sedated."

I'm just a down-to-earth guy whose grandfather has a 1000+ word page article about his interior design work.

The Money Stuff podcast now has LEGO ads, and, while they say it's for the audience's kids, I'm not convinced it's not really meant for the audience itself.

Some personal news:

Our retirement plan automatically invests at the end of each month, so I would prefer that the President stop doing things that crash the stock market in the first week of the month (fentanyl tariffs, Liberation Day, bombing Iran) and start doing things that crash it in the last week of the month.

There should be a FIFA Economics Price, the same way that there's the FIFA Peace Prize. But the FIFA Economics Prize should be awarded by UEFA and officially be called the UEFA Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of FIFA.

SOTU comes from an alternate universe where Temporary Protected Status for Venezeualns wasn't revoked and the United States didn't deport Venezuelans directly back to the brutal communist regime they escaped, as well as to third countries like El Salvador, where they were arbitrarily detained.

(This is measured in USD, so a weakening dollar is doing a lot of the work.)

Sure, studies, data, yada yada yada, but this firefighter and union boss says PEOPLE WILL DIE. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Just hours? Wow. AI is already working at a higher level than graduate students. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/s...

There is, in fact, no longer a road test for new drivers in the State of Mississippi. Given the overall quality of driver licensure in the United States, I'm not even sure if this matters for safety.

With TrumpRx, you can now pay $200/month for medicine instead of $140/year. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR MAKING LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE!!!

When is Trump going to tariff Heated Rivalry? I'm tired of being asked about it. Canada must pay.

I am frequently told that licensure and registration violations are "victimless" "paper" crimes, when these people are not paying the taxes everyone else has to pay and do not have insurance for the harm they do to others, and there's often a reason they cannot be licensed or should not be driving.

S&P futures and foreign markets up, US dollar down a fifth of one percent on news of the erosion of rule of law and end of central bank independence in the United States.

What is law?

If your hotel tells you "we upgraded your room" but they do not specify how (eg, "to a suite"), you have almost certainly not received a real upgrade.

One of the alternatives being used to "distract" him is another strike on Iran.

"Ma'am please stop using your speakerphone." "I ain't on speakerphone. I'm on FaceTime." That's me shown then.

Wow, that Minnesota fraud must be out of control.

I pointed this out once in a room full of US airport and airline managers talking about the curb congestion issue, but I did so knowing that everyone would roll their eyes because the opinion stateside is still "no way".