I'm sorry but "Peter Magyar" sounds like the one Hungarian kid at hogwarts. Not a real person. Sorry. Might as well vote for Janos Goulash. Laszlo Paprika. Jozsef Budapest. ...
Three (OK, four, but I'm deferring one for its own post) illusions that have been killed off for good by the disastrous Iran debacle, and musings on society as a gray market casino where cheating is encouraged because the bettors are only ripping one another off.
If you've been on the fence about subscribing, this is a good one to take the plunge on. It's all of $2, half the cost of a PBR. ...
Even if the strait reopened, which it hasn't, and the war ended, which it hasn't, there's a backlog of 1000+ ships waiting to get through Hormuz, major damage to oil and gas infrastructure, and a supply chain disruption (especially for fertilizer) that will take months to unravel in the best case scenario.
Today's big "market rally" was just hopium, poor reading comprehension, and shorts covering in a trench coat. It won't last the week. ...
We won’t really feel the satisfaction of a complete narrative arc until we see tomorrow morning’s inevitable story about a new Polymarket account called “whitepwr_wifeleftme69” who signed up at 4 PM today and made $6 million ...
Chat, what happens when the boy who cries wolf is also the wolf ...
Matthew says:
This post is hardly of a broad, sweeping, or intentionally provocative nature at all! Just more news. Good luck getting 13 comments on today's post, Ed!
JDryden says:
The Manhattan Project has been so thoroughly documented in a library shelve's worth of history books that, yeah, I think it's safe to say that the genie's out of the bottle on this one. A nuke is actually fairly easy to put together–it's the ingredients (well, *ingredient*) that're really, really, really, really–and thank God there are so many "really"s–hard to come by. But even there, every third-year physics major knows how to make them. It's simply not that tricky. Just time-consuming and hellaciously expensive and you really can't do it in secret in the age of satellite imagery. Which is plenty good for us. But for Bush to frame this as a matter of ignorance rather than inopportunity is just…well, I suppose I'd call it hubristic, in the sense that he thinks we can control what other people can learn/know. Which is like thinking that we can control the weather. But I'm sure that he thinks we can do that, too, which is why he's still not sure why Katrina happened.
Ed says:
This really is a terrible form of negative reinforcement – people only comment when I say things that are poorly thought out and belligerent.
More of that to come, I guess. Huzzah!