Hippy Steve

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esoteric thinker, egg chair philosopher, permaculture advocate, pattern literate human being. The clock is ticking for all life on this planet. we need change. landscape designer.

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2026-09-01 00:51:15 GMT

Pro Tip: If you kill someone, don't write a memoir about it.
NYTimes: A jury convicted Duane Keith Davis, 63, in the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Mr. Shakur, a rapper at the height of his popularity. Prosecutors cited portions of Mr. Davis’s disavowed memoir.

2026-07-25 22:36:54 GMT

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There are 3 separate things to consider along with their lags, interactions with each other, and various feedback loops:
1. Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere
2. Heat in the planet's systems (air, land, water)
3. Climate impacts.
As far as the atmosphere goes, the bulk of the human CO2 buildup is going to last for 300-1000yrs after we stop emitting without hacking the carbon cycle for active drawdown. That's one lag.
As long as the excess greenhouse gasses remain, heat is being actively trapped/added to the planetary system. Much of that heat goes into the oceans. (as does much of the CO2) but with deleterious impact of it's own: acidification, ecosystem impacts, weather & climate impacts, etc. So stopping emissions doesn't stop global warming. That's another lag.
And since the heat continues to build up - especially in the oceans (which will take a long time to be undone), climate impacts will continue to worsen. Another lag.
Then there's the interactions between all of those. for example, far too many people are unaware of the hard temperature limits of photosynthesis - the principle means by which plants draw down CO2 from the atmosphere. The laws of physics and chemistry mean that photosynthesis stops working once the ambient cell temperature reaches 100-110F in many plants (including most food crops).
And then there are the feedback loops. e.g. excessive heat evaporates water resulting in water vapor in the atmosphere. Water vapor is itself a very potent greenhouse gas resulting in more heat buildup in the terrestial system. Or rising global temperatures mean less snow and ice, so the albedo changes resulting in more heat absorbed by the planet, which is why arctic regions are warming 2.5x faster than equatorial regions.
All of these then impact the climate and weather in ever increasing and unpredictable ways like the ocean currents and jet stream slowing causing ever more drastic impacts.
While all this sounds dire, I do have hope and will now talk about things we can be doing that will have significant impacts on atmospheric CO2 levels which need to be reduced before anything can get better...

2026-02-27 02:04:43 GMT

I'm not sure how Weight Watchers survived past the 70s with recipes like this...
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2026-02-01 20:52:52 GMT

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The judge released the petitioners. Made it abundantly clear that administrative warrants are insufficient. Then severely chastised the government agents involved with fiery rhetoric based on foundational documents specifically oriented to reach 'patriots' who have not connected the dots between what's happening and the tyranny that lead to the revolutionary war in the first place.
What the hell would do you want or expect? For the judge to take of his robe and take up arms to march into the street and start shooting ICE agents?

2026-02-01 04:11:36 GMT

Sure. let's put a water tank/heater right above all of your electronics. what could possibly go wrong?
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2026-02-01 02:31:33 GMT

The judge's order to release bunny hat boy and his father is 🔥FIRE🔥
It's a mic drop smack down history lesson.
The judge pulls no punches when referring to this regime and ICE: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency."
Never seen this signature line before:
"With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, it is so ORDERED."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492.9.0.pdf

2026-01-31 04:55:50 GMT

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How do you get the level/balance just right on the bench itself so it doesn't wobble at all under different weight positions? Do you wind up using shims? Are the protruding support stones still adjustable when it's placed?
Fantastic work!

2026-01-29 20:11:13 GMT

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And the meat of the article to tie into the headline:
The federal surge into Minneapolis reflects a series of mistaken MAGA assumptions. The first is the belief that diverse communities aren’t possible: “Social bonds form among people who have something in common,” Vance said in a speech last July. “If you stop importing millions of foreigners into the country, you allow social cohesion to form naturally.” Vance’s remarks are the antithesis to the neighborism of the Twin Cities, whose people do not share the narcissism of being capable of loving only those who are exactly like them.
A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling. White liberals might put a sign in their front yard saying IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, but they will abandon those immigrants at the first sensation of sustained pressure.
And in Trump’s defense, this has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life.
The MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong. Consider Miller’s bizarre meltdown while addressing Memphis police in October. “The gangbangers that you deal with—they think that they’re ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they’re tough? They have no idea how tough we are,” Miller said. “They think they’re hard-core? We are so much more hard-core than they are.” Around this time, Miller moved his family onto a military base—for safety reasons.
The federal agents sent to Minnesota wear body armor and masks, and bear long guns and sidearms. But their skittishness and brutality are qualities associated with fear, not resolve. It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester.
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

2026-01-29 19:49:57 GMT

The Atlantic has had some good #Minnesota pieces recently. This is their latest.
MINNESOTA PROVED MAGA WRONG
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. (gift article) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=6qi1zpVjfanikscENJ8rz00xy4yJQvyhvh6q6llygfc
Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle or code name out of fear of government retaliation. Their concerns are justified: A number of people working as volunteers or observers told me that they had been trailed home by ICE agents, and some of their communications have already been infiltrated, screenshotted, and posted online, forcing them to use new text chains and code names. One urgent question among observers, as the videos of Pretti’s killing spread, was what his handle might have been.
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.
“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,

2026-01-23 00:39:33 GMT

Omg. lol
The Onion: ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

2026-01-21 04:38:07 GMT

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trump saw something he didn’t like on the socials and flushed his phone down the toilet

2026-01-20 00:04:38 GMT

NOAA: An S4 severe solar radiation storm is now in progress - this is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years. The last time S4 levels were observed was in October, 2003. Potential effects are mainly limited to space launch, aviation, and satellite operations.

2026-01-15 01:01:37 GMT

F Searchlight Institute right in the nose.
There's a memo circulating amongst Democrats in Washington warning them that an "Abolish ICE" stance is "politically toxic"
Turns out Searchlight Institute is behind it. Curious as to who they are ...
The Latest Democratic Idea: Having Fewer Ideas
Can you imagine a Democratic Party that stood for even less? The Searchlight Institute can! https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-latest-democratic-idea-having-fewer-ideas

2026-01-15 00:13:17 GMT

They finally found the 4 Oglala men who ICE abducted. They are being held in Ft. Snelling - the concentration camp their ancestors were held in during the Indian Wars and where the Dakota 38 were held before being executed.
If anyone belongs on Turtle Island, it's Native Americans - not the ICE thugs that abducted them.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/south-dakota-tribe-oglala-sioux-demands-release-of-lakota-men-in-minneapolis-detained-by-ice

2026-01-13 23:57:32 GMT

So many people in #VanLife groups putting their lives at risk with their #Solar systems. The problem is inverter size vs system voltage. People are running 3500W and even higher wattage inverters on a 12V battery bank. That's 300A of current!! Not only do the wires need to be massive, expensive, and hard to negotiate around curves, but at those current levels you'd need to constantly monitor the torque on the connections and any heat build up in the wires.
Every connection is going to have some resistance. The higher the current the greater the voltage drop/heat build up through that resistance. This then causes thermal expansion/contraction which will loosen those connections resulting in even higher resistance and heat. Note the positive feedback loop. There's very little room for error at such high current levels. the same process can happen with a poor crimp.
12V is fine up to 2kW. 24V to 4kW. Anything above that and you should just go 48V.

2026-01-13 04:22:44 GMT

LOL. FIFA - who infamously awarded Trump a made-up Peace Prize, is in the throes of FAFO: "Tens of thousands of fans cancelled their tickets to the 2026 World Cup over the weekend amid safety fears, political protests, and human rights concerns in the U.S., leading FIFA to schedule an emergency meeting this week." https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/

2026-01-13 02:50:06 GMT

Holy Shit. "one of ours. all of yours". on a government podium?!?
That's serious fascism stuff. It's the approach taken by the Nazis when Reinhard Heydrich, a prime architect of the holocaust, was assassinated by the resistance.
The assassins were mistakenly believed to be from the town of Lidice in occupied Czechoslovakia. So the Nazi's rounded up all the men and boys and killed them, and sent all the women to concentration camps. wiped the town off the map.
THAT is what's being evoked by that phrase on the puppy killer's podium.
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2026-01-10 07:20:33 GMT

Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/feds-pay-125k-after-border-patrol-agent-pointed-gun-at-portland-hotel-worker.html
The federal government Friday agreed to pay $125,000 after a judge found a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent liable for civil assault for pointing a gun at a hotel maintenance man who came to the agent’s room to unclog a toilet.
Jones was staying in Room 428 at the Residence Inn by Marriott in North Portland and had called down to the front desk to report a malfunctioning toilet.
Christopher Frison, a chief maintenance engineer at the hotel, arrived at Jones’ room about 5 p.m. on July 27, 2020, and knocked several times. Frison also called out “maintenance,” gave his name and waited, holding a plunger, he testified in court.
That’s when “Jones opened the door ready to defend himself and his room,” according to U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson’s 22-page opinion.
According to Frison, Jones was wearing a sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head when he “swung” the hotel door open, reached with his right hand behind his back and suddenly pointed a handgun at Frison’s chest. He said Jones held his gun in two hands, both arms outstretched.
“What the hell are you doing? What is going on?” Frison said he screamed. “All I could see was the white of his eyes. I could see the anger in his face. I wasn’t there as a threat. I was there as a maintenance worker.”
Frison testified that Jones pointed the gun at him for four to five seconds before uttering twice that he “f----- up.”
The judge found that Frison’s lawyers didn’t need to prove that Jones intended to shoot Frison or cause him physical injury. It didn’t matter if the gun was loaded or not, according to her opinion. It was clear Jones “intended” to place Frison in fear of imminent harm, she ruled.
“Simply put, that Jones opened the door quickly and pointed a gun at plaintiff is sufficient to establish defendant’s liability for civil assault,” Nelson wrote.

2026-01-08 00:54:04 GMT

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It's a weird parallel command structure. The actual state national guard units are supposed to primarily be under the governors main control though https://publicintelligence.net/usarmy-dsca-july-2019/
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2026-01-08 00:45:12 GMT

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no idea. haven't seen a potential showdown between state and federal forces since... well... about 1861.

2026-01-08 00:21:59 GMT

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5677541-walz-minnesota-national-guard-ice-shooting/
In response to the governor’s warning order, Schaefer said the agency has begun preparations in the event the guard is activated, including equipment checks and notifying service members.
“To Minnesotans, on the National Guard, they’re there to protect you and protect your constitutional rights,” Walz said. “These are our neighbors. They don’t wear masks. They don’t bust in from somewhere else. They’re not here to cause hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy.”
“From here on, I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government,” Walz said. “To Donald Trump and [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”

2026-01-08 00:17:52 GMT

Whoa. If I understand his words correctly, Gov Tim Walz has issued a 'warning order' which is like a 'prepare for but don't execute yet' order for the National Guard to be prepared to kick ICE agents out of Minnesota if necessary.
um. wow.

2026-01-07 01:00:59 GMT

This never received the attention it should have. Trump paid for the riot - no, not 'paid for' as in he was held accountable. Paid for as in it was an astroturf operation.
Trump Campaign Paid More Than $4.3 Million to Jan. 6 Event Organizers https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-paid-more-43-million-jan-6-event-organizers-1624359

2025-12-31 22:01:55 GMT

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Car Wash Mode. lol.
"These precautions include engaging the Car Wash Mode, avoiding hot water and detergents, checking with the car wash staff to find out if the soap they use has a pH above 13, and not washing in direct sunlight."
pH above 13?!? That's bloody Drano levels of alkalinity. Do they even understand pH??

2025-12-26 19:19:00 GMT

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As soon as I read "I'm back after a 3-day suspension" I screamed "but why???" why go back?
It's just "Thank you sir may I have another."

2025-12-25 19:29:04 GMT

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2025-12-24 04:38:09 GMT

I’ve entered the electric age with a shiny new induction stove hob.
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2025-12-12 16:50:41 GMT

If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.
King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.
https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff

2025-12-08 23:54:09 GMT

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Like much of ancient history, it’s hard to separate legends from facts, but that’s at least one story I’ve heard of the origin as linked to Christmas.

2025-12-08 23:46:37 GMT

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People can do what they want - especially if they have kids. We’ve got bigger carbon fish to fry. I personally just find the tradition a little vulgar now that I’m steeped in native culture and spirituality, where all life is sacred and there should be good cause to take one. Coupled with its beginning as a means for the church to halt earth based traditions by cutting down the living trees druids would have ceremony with and dragging them into the church.

2025-12-08 00:51:25 GMT

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I wonder if anyone has done the calculations. Carbon from a fake tree used for 20yrs vs the draw down/sequestering from 20 trees allowed to live a full life cycle.

2025-12-08 00:34:48 GMT

This the season of murdered tree carcasses strapped to car roofs.

2025-12-07 01:23:59 GMT

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They do become hydrophobic once dried, so you don’t want a thick layer - at least not all around a plant.
Also omg that site is loaded with ads and pop-ups. And the suggestions go off the rails after the first 4 or 5. lol

2025-12-01 21:05:05 GMT

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And the block side
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2025-12-01 21:03:48 GMT

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Head is now off. A little concerned that I don’t see an obvious issue with the gasket. Worried that may mean the head warped. But if that was the failure mode I’d expect oil and coolant to be mixed. It isn’t. Oil came out clean. All I know for sure is that coolant shouldn’t be in the cylinders
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2025-12-01 19:28:27 GMT

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Valve cover off and spark plugs removed. Plugs look pretty good. A little bit of carbon on # 1, the worst of the coolant leak is # 4
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2025-12-01 04:32:21 GMT

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If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside.
The next steps will expose the engine internals. And the dew has been heavy, so will do the rest inside.
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2025-12-01 01:10:45 GMT

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Got the intake and exhaust manifolds off. Evidence of coolant in cylinder 4 of the exhaust, and cylinders 2, 3, & 4 of the intake
#engineRemoval
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2025-11-30 21:22:37 GMT

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Well into the no fun job of cleaning 32 years of dirt, grease, and oil off the engine.
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2025-11-30 18:16:00 GMT

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The heart has been removed from the patient.
#engineRemoval
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2025-11-29 20:52:33 GMT

Woot! Both axles came out easily on the spare car. A couple minutes each. That took nearly two days last time.
#engineRemoval

2025-11-22 05:06:10 GMT

WHOA.
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of #Iran, the country’s president has said. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move/
The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“We no longer have a choice,” said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.
Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to the country’s southern coast. But experts say the proposal does not change the reality for the nearly 10 million people who live in Tehran and are now suffering the consequences of a decades-long decline in water supply.
Since at least 2008, scientists have warned that unchecked groundwater pumping for the city and for agriculture was rapidly draining the country’s aquifers. The overuse did not just deplete underground reserves—it destroyed them, as the land compressed and sank irreversibly. One recent study found that Iran’s central plateau, where most of the country’s aquifers are located, is sinking by more than 35 centimeters each year. As a result, the aquifers lose about 1.7 billion cubic meters of water annually as the ground is permanently crushed, leaving no space for underground water storage to recover.
#ClimateEmergency

2025-11-18 05:06:42 GMT

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Say it neighn't so.

2025-11-18 05:05:13 GMT

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A celebrity horse?!? 😂

2025-11-18 04:59:24 GMT

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I've only seen Mint in news results relatively recently. And haven't had time to research them, so decided against sharing until I knew more about them. Have they been around long? Associated with any other orgs of note?

2025-11-18 04:47:50 GMT

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Donica Lewinsky 🤣
Also, come to think of it, Blowing Bubba would be a great band name. #ShoeGazer probably or maybe Desert Stone Rock.
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2025-11-18 03:54:47 GMT

Amusing myself with the realization that Bubba was impeached for getting, um... serviced while in the White House, and yet the current resident of the White House may have himself... serviced Bubba.

2025-11-17 02:35:45 GMT

Ruh-roh.
Buy Now, Pay Later services have ballooned to 91 million users in the US. 25% of them use it to buy groceries. And the default rate is growing fast. This problem is largely hidden because it's a 'phantom debt' crisis not reported to credit bureaus. “In a world where, if I’m a buy-now-pay-later provider, and I’m not checking bureau data, I’m not feeding bureau data, I am oblivious to the fact that Nigel may have taken out 10 of these things in the last week,” Morris explained. “[That’s] absolutely true.” https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/bnpl-is-expanding-fast-and-that-should-worry-everyone/

2025-11-02 00:49:18 GMT

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. The Boston Fire Department Arson Unit responded to the incident and determined the explosion to be intentional. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/2/explosion-longwood/
The explosion took place on an area of the fourth floor of Goldenson, a Harvard Medical School building on the school’s main quad. An officer who responded shortly before 3 a.m. observed two individuals fleeing the building, according to the email sent by HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano this afternoon. HUPD sent a subsequent email to Harvard affiliates shortly after 5 p.m. asking for assistance identifying two men, who they described as suspects. The images were captured on security footage. Both men are shown wearing sweatshirts with hoods and ski masks.
The Boston Police Department performed a sweep of the building and determined there were no additional devices in the building. No injuries were reported in relation to the incident.

2025-11-01 03:42:05 GMT

A new study published in the journal Science reveals black garden ants (Lasius niger) modify their nest architecture to slow an outbreak – an insect version of social distancing built into the walls. https://newatlas.com/biology/ants-social-distancing-pandemic/
...ants exposed to fungal spores made increased layout modifications. Entrances ended up, on average, about 6 mm farther from one another. This increased spacing between the entrance area meant fewer crowding points at the surface.
The exposed colonies also constructed chambers with longer and winding routes in less central locations. Ants even dug multiple tunnels, likely alternative routes of transport to avoid contact. The study also recorded the increased surface activity from the pathogen-exposed workers, which likely reflects self-isolation and social distancing.

2025-10-29 05:03:34 GMT

SoCal Edison CEO admits their equipment likely caused the deadly #EatonFire
https://abc7.com/post/socal-edison-equipment-cause-eaton-fire-altadena-ceo-says/18082954/

2025-10-19 23:04:26 GMT

If Alt Natl Parks is to be believed there were no reported arrests of protestors yesterday (at least for aggressive behavior - there is the penis costume lady tho. lol), but there were 22 arrests of MAGA folk incensed enough to draw guns or engage in other aggressive behavior.

2025-10-19 05:00:22 GMT

Consumer Reports: Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times. “It’s concerning that these results are even worse than the last time we tested,” said Tunde Akinleye, the CR food safety researcher who led the testing project.
Nearly all the plant-based products CR tested had elevated lead levels, but some were particularly concerning. Two had so much lead that CR’s experts caution against using them at all. A single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600 percent of CR’s level of concern for lead, which is 0.5 micrograms per day. Two others had between 400 and 600 percent of that level per daily serving.
The lead levels in plant-based products were, on average, nine times the amount found in those made with dairy proteins like whey, and twice as great as beef-based ones. Dairy-based protein powders and shakes generally had the lowest amounts of lead, but half of the products we tested still had high enough levels of contamination that CR’s experts advise against daily use.

2025-10-19 03:10:11 GMT

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as an interesting aside, the first movie to have Lakota spoken with subtitles was Dances with Wolves. But Costner was an ass to the native actors, so in some of the scenes the subtitles don't match with what's being spoken. Instead, they're ratting him out with stuff like "He makes us eat in a separate tent from the other actors" and "He hasn't paid us in 3 weeks."

2025-10-19 03:04:40 GMT

Since giving up on ST:BNW, I've settled on watching Dark Winds. Nice that there's a lot of Diné spoken. One of our community members is Diné, and I've been trying to get "thank you" down. It's kind of a yeh-heh with accent on the 2nd syllable but more gutteral/clicky
I'm horrible with other languages, but try to get "hello" and "thank you" down if I can to honor the effort ESL speakers went through to be able to communicate with my lame ass. lol.

2025-10-18 06:16:29 GMT

Bookmarking this one from The New Republic documenting some of the corruption that has resulted in Trump going from a reported $2.6B net worth minus hundreds of millions of civil penalties being owed just 19 month ago, to $7.1B and the penalties tossed out. "Nobody gets that rich that fast in real estate." And the grift is a family affair. https://newrepublic.com/article/201913/trump-family-expanding-portfolio-corruption

2025-10-18 00:53:18 GMT

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Future Space Trash would be a great band name.

2025-10-16 21:18:00 GMT

Is that his neck or a Georgia O'Keefe painting? lol.
(image marked sensitive in case you don't want to see a photo of trump - even if it's the cover of Time and he has called it "the worst of all time"
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2025-10-16 21:06:56 GMT

How to Secure Your Phone for the #NoKings Protest
A complete, practical guide to protecting yourself and your community from digital tracking and surveillance.
https://www.yourtimestartsnow.ch/p/how-to-secure-your-phone-for-the
(You might get a subscribe pop-up, but it's easy to close and read the rather informative article)
#opsec #infosec

2025-10-16 20:13:25 GMT

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Not especially old, but hard to find analog multimeters these days. Looks like it was made in 1983.
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2025-10-16 05:37:43 GMT

Teslarati: Tesla launched its fastest Full Self-Driving Speed Profile with the v14.1.2 Software Update on Wednesday, as “Mad Max” mode has overtaken “Hurry” as the most spirited travel option on FSD. The release notes state that:
“Introduced new speed profile MAD MAX, which comes with higher speeds and more frequent lane changes than Hurry.”
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I can't wait for the Thelma & Louise profile - at least that will be less dangerous to other drivers.

2025-09-29 04:48:34 GMT

Lovely...
Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests
The review of more than 60 scientific articles showed that microplastics, among other effects, can stimulate the formation of osteoclasts, cells specialized in degrading bone tissue. https://www.wired.com/story/microplastics-could-be-weakening-your-bones-research-suggests-osteoporosis/
The study also found that, in relation to bones, plastic particles can reduce the viability of cells, induce premature cellular aging, modify gene expression, and trigger inflammatory responses. The combination of these effects generates an imbalance in which osteoclasts destroy more bone tissue than is regenerated, causing an accelerated weakening of bone structure.
#MicroPlastics

2025-09-24 16:34:48 GMT

Perhaps lost in all the attention Jimmy Kimmel has received...
1200 people detained at Alligator Auschwitz are now missing.
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2025-09-22 01:50:21 GMT

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Here in California we have earthquakes all the time and rarely is there a boom. Makes me wonder if the boom was large enough to register as an earthquake instead of the other way around.

2025-09-10 21:43:52 GMT

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Pine nut foraging haul.
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2025-09-10 18:35:21 GMT

Looks like it’s a pine nut year. Our last big one was about 5 years ago. I might spend some time foraging today before all the ground squirrels and other critters get them.

2025-09-07 04:47:01 GMT

Latest data point leaves no doubt about it anymore. #LosAngeles is at the start of another #Covid wave.
Mask up. And otherwise take precautions to avoid this latest version. Also note, no other viruses are present in our wastewater currently, so if someone is sick, it's almost certainly covid.
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2025-08-24 01:44:55 GMT

So those “fire retardant” tarps we got when the Gifford fire was headed our way? They’re junk. A lighter under it immediately burns through. A lit cigarette dropped on it melts a hole through in about 1 second.
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2025-07-25 22:09:29 GMT

This cactus dreams of being a cowboy.
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2025-06-25 00:23:01 GMT

Today in #SmallCarLoadposting 2 sheets of 4x8 plywood, 2 sheets of 4x8 1” foam insulation, all cut in half. A bunch of 8’ 2x2s uncut. A giant tool box, 4’ step ladder. Oh, and a pitchfork for good measure.
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2025-06-20 23:09:23 GMT

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was there a flame thrower guitar player?

2025-06-11 22:59:33 GMT

😂 ChatGPT using gargantuan amounts of power, water, and other resources is absolutely trounced in chess by the lowly Atari2600 from 1977 using maybe 60w to powere its 8bit processor and 128 bytes of RAM
https://futurism.com/atari-beats-chatgpt-chess

2025-06-06 03:33:19 GMT

AP: After Trump threatened to cut government contracts given to Musk’s SpaceX rocket company and his Starlink internet satellite services, Musk responded via X that SpaceX “will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.”
It’s unclear how serious Musk’s threat was. But the capsule, developed with the help of government contracts, is an important part of keeping the space station running. NASA also relies heavily on SpaceX for other programs including launching science missions and, later this decade, returning astronauts to the surface of the moon.
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This is why privatization of space (and military matters) is a really bad idea. And why the military and NASA need to disengage from any reliance on Musk companies. And why emotionally stunted toddlers should not be allowed anywhere near the reins of power.

2025-06-04 20:13:12 GMT

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That is absolute fucking nonsense. The half life of nuclear waste ranges from 10,000 years to 1 million years. The HALF life. It is deadly without active containment requiring human intervention.
When climate change collapses our systems, who is going to maintain that active containment??? If humanity manages to survive, how are they to deal with it with far less resources? Will they even know what it is?
The time scale of this ticking bomb is so staggering that the Department of Energy had to develop a task force to try and figure out how to warn future generations. There was no written language 5,000 years ago. 1 million years ago, Neanderthals walked the earth.
If humanity and even other forms of life manage to survive the climate crisis, they will likely be wiped out by this ill-fated ineffectual attempt to mitigate it - currently every bit of nuclear energy that comes online immediately goes to new consumption by data centers hosting AI craziness.
Meanwhile, abandoned solar panels or wind turbines pose absolutely no danger to any life form. It's problematic, but solvable. Nuclear waste is not, and it's shortsighted to continue pursuing nuclear power until there is a solution to its millennia spanning waste problem.

2025-06-04 03:55:18 GMT

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I'm a hard no with current technologies and reactors.
Prohibitively expensive, with decommissioning/waste costs too often offloaded onto taxpayers after the utility has pocketed all the up front incentives and profits.
And the waste is a ticking time bomb bequeathed to future generations potentially every bit as damaging as the carbon time bomb prior generations bequeathed to us which nuclear advocates claim requires us to use it.
If viable and cost effective Thorium reactors become available that can use traditional nuclear waste as fuel to get rid of it, I may reconsider.

2025-05-10 15:58:27 GMT

Hey #SoCal. Remember today's scorching temps if the Marine Layer decides to show up this year and grace us with a couple months of gray skies every morning into mid afternoon if we're lucky.
It's not 'gloom' it's a 'boon'

2025-04-26 04:19:45 GMT

NYTimes: A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process” and against the wishes of her father.

2025-04-24 20:32:18 GMT

TIL. A few years back researchers in Japan painted zebra stripes on cows and proved it significantly hindered fly attacks. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zebra-stripes-on-cows-could-save-agriculture-industry-millions-experiment-japan-shows-deters-flies/
The white-striped cows sustained only half as many bug attacks as either of the other groups. (Paint fumes apparently were not enough to deter flies, since black-striped cows were bitten just as often as the control group.) Animals protected by their white stripes were also less stressed, exhibiting fewer head shakes, foot stomping, and other insect-avoidant behavior.

2025-04-22 02:05:20 GMT

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That's just it. Sodium Carbonate is the 6th most abundant element on earth 2.6% of the earth's crust. It's a very low impact to mine or extract - even from seawater. And the batteries can be made without copper or other rare, expensive, or toxic materials.
The lack of toxic materials means it's much cheaper & easier to recycle (although maybe the financial incentives won't be there - at least initially)
Compare that to rare, environmentally costly to mine lithium which is only 0.0017% of the earth's crust. Battery-grade lithium carbonate costs range from $10,000 - $11,000 per metric ton vs. $600 - $650 per metric ton of battery grade sodium carbonate. Lithium batteries are quite flammable leaving behind a toxic mess. Sodium ion batteries are quite stable and have a much wider operating temperature range. No more EVs petering out in cold temps.

2025-04-22 01:26:23 GMT

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NBC: A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk.
The scientist, the 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport in mid-February. She is now being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana, and fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.

2025-04-22 01:05:11 GMT

They really buried the lede on this one...
FinancialTimes: CATL has unveiled upgraded battery cells it claims can offer faster charging for electric vehicles than its rival BYD, putting the two Chinese groups ahead of competitors in the race to overcome a major barrier to the shift away from petrol vehicles. The world’s biggest electric vehicle battery maker said on Monday that a new version of its flagship Shenxing battery cell could offer a 520km range from just five minutes of charging time.
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But then way down the page after a 'read more' button comes this nugget: "CATL also unveiled its new sodium-ion battery, which it said would go into mass production in December. The battery brand called Naxtra is able to give a range of about 200km for a hybrid vehicle and 500km for an electric vehicle, according to Huan."
A sodium-ion battery in an EV?!? that's huge!

2025-04-21 19:12:32 GMT

Pope Francis died after a cerebral stroke, the Vatican announced Monday. The episode put him into a coma and led to irreversible heart failure, Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, the head of the Vatican’s health department, said in a death certificate released Monday.

2025-04-21 18:49:15 GMT

There's some optics for ya. The White House used 30,000 real eggs for Easter during a (industry greed induced) shortage and unaffordable egg prices for most Americans.

2025-04-18 18:04:04 GMT

DHS tells US citizen and immigration advocate to leave the country https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/dhs-us-citizen-immigration-leave-country/3806750/
“You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security paroled you into the United States for a limited period. DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate seven days from the date of this notice. If you do not depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States.“
“I was born in National City, California," Martinez said. "I was never paroled, I was never admitted into this country, I am no type of parole." Although he was born in the U.S., Martinez said he is still worried, since he has been helping the undocumented community for years.

2025-04-18 06:00:09 GMT

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media [and Wired] obtained via public records requests. https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/
Massive Blue, the New York-based company that is selling police departments this technology, calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.” According to a presentation obtained by 404 Media, Massive Blue is offering cops these virtual personas that can be deployed across the internet with the express purpose of interacting with suspects over text messages and social media.

2025-04-17 00:38:41 GMT

A feel-good story in the news today...
Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one
The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.
“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”
Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.

2025-04-12 01:03:10 GMT

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And here are a few links for grocery store fruits that can be tried for guerilla gardening. A lot of fruit trees - like citrus are grafted onto hardier root stocks, these are the bare root varieties you get at nurseries.
So there's no guarantee a store fruit will result in a good tree. But these are the best bets supposedly. https://brightside.me/articles/8-fruit-trees-you-can-grow-from-the-seeds-and-pits-of-your-own-fruit-498010/
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/vegetable/fruit/how-do-i-plant-seeds-from-grocery-store-apples/
A search will reveal many similar instructional articles for various fruits.

2025-04-12 00:52:47 GMT

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A number of cities nationwide should have free tree programs, and sometimes those include fruit trees. I'm only familiar with Los Angeles where we have:
https://lacity.gov/highlights/get-free-trees-planted-your-home-or-business
https://archive.is/oN9Eb (LA Times paywall busted sources for LA & Orange Counties)
Last I looked into it, LA's program really limited the number of fruit trees though, which is rather sad. I think it was one per household.

2025-04-12 00:37:12 GMT

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Might I suggest the various crowdsourced fruit maps be shared when you address Guerilla Gardening. They're not it per se, but do tend to go hand in hand. And will be helpful for the most vulnerable as they suffer from inflation and the other ills of this regime.
https://fallingfruit.org/
https://fallenfruit.org/projects/public-fruit-maps/

2025-04-10 16:05:46 GMT

NYTimes: Stocks slipped in early trading, as investors assessed the economic impact of the trade war with China. The European Union paused its retaliatory tariffs and said it wanted to give talks with President Trump a chance.
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Don't do it Europe! Just look at the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement of 2020 then look at Trumps stance with Canada today. Give a bully your lunch money today, and they'll be back for more tomorrow.

2025-04-10 15:30:06 GMT

Wed Morning, a few minutes after the stock market opens, Trump posts on Truth Social, "IT'S TIME TO BUY." A few hours later he announces a 90 day suspension of tariffs. The markets go way up from the significant low his tariffs brought them to.
Late Wednesday White House communications adviser Margo Martin posts a video on X showing Trump receiving Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of Schwab asset management, in the Oval Office.
"This is Charles Schwab," Trump said, introducing the 87-year-old billionaire to champion car racers. "He's not just a company, he's actually an individual! And he made $2.5 billion today," Then he points to a guy next to Schwab & says, "and he made $900 million."
#InsiderTrading

2025-04-09 15:47:35 GMT

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A friend had told me 90% of Tesla parts were sourced in china and I had done a google search and seen a number of links confirming that. But while looking again to share one with you like ...
https://alsettevs.com/over-90-of-tesla-model-3-and-model-y-parts-now-sourced-from-china/
https://www.gizchina.com/2022/02/25/tesla-cars-and-components-are-almost-entirely-made-in-china/
I realize I didn't read closely enough. Those articles are talking about the Teslas that are made and sold in China.
Teslas models made in North America range from 60-75% parts made in the US or Canada. This has a content breakdown for most car models: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2024-10/MY2025-AALA-Alphabetical-10.30.24.pdf

2025-04-08 21:02:58 GMT

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With good reason. 90% of the parts that go into Teslas that Trump hawked on the White House lawn a month ago are sourced from China. 104% tariffs would be a death knell for the company.

2025-04-07 21:48:04 GMT

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It’s ok to water some during the heatwave, but just a light watering early in the morning. This is less about giving water to the roots and more about evaporative cooling.
Avocado trees will need more frequent watering because of their shallow roots. And maybe a sheet or shade cloth if they have lots of new growth to protect

2025-04-07 21:39:02 GMT

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This #socal #heatwave that is coming by Friday is way too early and as such will be really hard on some plants. Succulents will be fine, but any woody plant with new growth will lose a lot of water to transpiration. Heatwaves aren’t supposed to come until the new growth has barked over to keep water in.
Give thes plants and trees a deep watering NLT Wednesday or Thursday. Like 5 gal each. Enough to sink deep and remain available as surface moisture evaporates. Mulch will help too. When the leaves start wilting it’s already too late. But if they’ve been prewatered they’ll recover.
#landscaping

2025-04-07 20:32:52 GMT

Doing spring cleanup at one property… cut out last year’s Mexican sage stalks. Trim any white sage gearing to throw bloom stalks into the walkway (and make sage wands out of the cuttings). Thin a lot of the succulents. Remove lower leaves from foxtail agave and candelabra aloe. Give it a deep watering ahead of the coming early heatwave.
Oddly, there’s a lot of grass coming up. This property has been grass free since the first sheet mulching 5 years ago. Wonder what’s different this year. Too overgrown to sheet mulch again. Maybe I could add another 3-6” of mulch though.

2025-04-06 20:47:13 GMT

The unintended consequences of this regime's actions are delightfully ironic.
Reduced consumption and a crashed economy may very well result in the US finally meeting Paris Climate Agreement carbon emission goals.
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2025-04-06 20:33:40 GMT

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It is unclear if this is the entirety of FOIA, or just those offices related to HHS...
NYTimes: A nonpartisan government watchdog, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, also known as CREW, has sued the Trump administration for dismantling the Freedom of Information Act office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a complaint filed on Friday, the CREW lawyers called the action “arbitrary and capricious,” citing emails from the agency that read, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gutted many of the department offices that communicate with the public.
And Rolling Stone (paywall busted) https://archive.is/v6JuG

2025-04-06 20:27:15 GMT

R.I.P. Freedom of Information Act.
“Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails."

2025-04-03 18:58:28 GMT

Wow. Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board gets what's going on...
"A bigger Washington swamp. Tariffs impose costs that businesses will want to avoid. They will thus be a windfall for Beltway lobbyists as companies and countries seek exemptions from this or that border tax.
"Mr. Trump is saying there will be no tariff exemptions. But watch that promise vanish as politicians, including Mr. Trump, see exemptions as a way to leverage campaign contributions from business. Liberation Day is Buy Another Yacht Day for the swamp."
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it's possible they even made the editorial paywall free... https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-protectionism-82d0aa3a
but just in case: https://archive.is/b6GAj