2023-02-14

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Twitter is showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now
- HN comments
Elon Musk restricts access to Starlink because Zelensky could start WWIII
SpaceX rolls naked Starship prototype to test site

Finally, and most confusingly, Ship 26 has no payload bay of any kind. The end result is a smooth, featureless Starship that looks like a steel bullet, can’t return to Earth, and can’t deploy satellites. Combined, the fact it exists at all almost seems like an elaborate, multi-month mistake. But SpaceX clearly intended to build Ship 26 and is now preparing to qualify it for flight.

Why Russiagate was the media’s Vietnam Archive link

paradoxically, the media’s scorched earth campaign against Trump stirred up exactly the type of social, political and cultural chaos that Russian intelligence services attempt to sow in every American election — the very type of destabilizing effort to which, the media asserted, Trump had held open the door in 2016.
James Clapper Runs From His 2020 Election Interference, Jonathan Turley Drags Him in Response – RedState

Thanks to Covid, half of kids were below grade level in at least one subject
- Covid's fault. Not the hyperventilating of teachers unions advising fear in the face of all evidence and common sense.

Women’s underwear is taxed at higher rates than Men’s
As Mystery Objects Get Shot Down, U.S. Sets Up New Task Force on UFOs
- Biden establishing interagency team to study unidentified objects in US airspace
The Balloon Really Was a ‘Sputnik Moment’ - Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
After Train Crash 'Nuked' Ohio Town With Toxic Chemicals, Buttigieg Focuses on Bigger Threat: White Construction Workers
Republicans Renew Demands for Interviews With Ex-Intel Officials Who Discredited Hunter Biden Laptop as ‘Disinformation’
The Frozen Politics of Social Security
The State of Bidenomics

So the U.S. economy over the last six months or so have been pretty remarkable — a disinflationary boom, exactly the kind of thing we want to see, but which most macroeconomists think is a rare occurrence. One interpretation of this is that we’re seeing a positive supply shock — the beneficial effects of cheaper oil and gas — and that the Fed’s interest rate hikes haven’t yet had a chance to hit the economy, and when they do, there’s going to be a recession. Another interpretation is that disinflationary booms aren’t actually that hard to get — we got one in the late 2010s, after all — and that inflation is falling because the Fed convincingly signaled to businesses that it’s definitely going to tame inflation, and so businesses moderated their price hikes while still investing as normal.