2017 Video from Guadalupe River Authority warning of flash flood risk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTsJ...

My coffee jumped 15% in cost for a 2.5 lbs bag. I can't wait for them to move coffee "manufacturing" to the USA.

They are trying to kill us. open.substack.com/pub/michaelr...

Romania gets a brilliant mathematician. Mexico gets a PhD in engineering. Canada gets a PhD in Econ from Oxford who ran the Bank of Canada and Bank of England. We get the "they're eating the dogs and cats" guy.

The value of everything we import from China is about equal to what the Chinese spend in weddings. (About $400B each)

our president wanted to be Pope. Seems like we would be better off with the new pope as our president.

I have no interest in a residential humanoid robot that can hold a knife.

Tariffs - regressive. Federal Budget Cuts - regressive. Tax cuts - regressive. Need a new symphony: "Requiem for the Common Man"

Got to listen to voices outside USA. Here is Canadian Broadcast tweezing out the phrasing China uses its press releases. Latest includes the word: "extortion". www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuO-...

I'm so upset with my local grocery store. I buy and buy from them all the time but they have NEVER bought anything from me! Not one chess app subscription. Not one ticket to my play performed a thousand miles away. Tariff time!!

“How long will I be here?” “I don’t know your case,” the man said. “Could be days. Could be weeks. But I’m telling you right now – you need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”

I'll believe crypto is "real" when somebody is willing to write a 30 year fixed-rate mortgage in bitcoin.

Worth the long read braveneweurope.com/jeffrey-sach...

The Canadians aren't happy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

If you really wanted to save americans $2T/year -- and make them healthier -- just be like everyone else instead of so f*ing "exceptional". (Graph from FT is health care cost vs life expectancy)

Good to see Parkinson's Law still works. "genAI expands to fill the GPUs available."

I thought genAI stocks would crash when somebody figured out the crap wasn't worthwhile. But no, they're crashing because somebody can make the crap cheaper. highlandscurrent.org/2023/10/27/d...

I thought this was a painting when I first saw it in an article about the last migrant caravans before the felon returns to office. www.nytimes.com/card/2025/01...

Greenland's SEAL team SIX