I always explain it as when you buy an EV, instead of a gas card for $1500 off (an incentive I’ve seen a few times for trucks and SUVs) the EV comes with a magical elf who every night takes your car to the gas station for you, and fills it up, and puts it back in the garage. This elf gets a great deal on gas and it only costs you about $5 a tank. Is that something you might be interested in?
No testing on dairy. Bleached chicken.
Don’t forget the antibiotics in antibiotic free beef!
That was my initial reaction, thinking China MUST hold more treasury bonds than anyone else, right? Turns out that’s typically Japan ($1 trillion), and the UK has generally held roughly the same number as China (both in the $700B range). Maybe the US anticipated and had contingencies ready if it was just China doing the selling, but when the other big holders started a slow bleed, it might’ve given them pause? Dunno.
We also don’t know who held what more recently than January and I don’t know if the data gap is the usual lag or if the the people who do this work at the Treasury department got “DOGE’d”.
Bottom line, it’s been fun to think about but I don’t think we should put too much stock in conspiracy theories originating on Substack.
There’s a theory being batted around without too much evidence (hold tight, Snopes is on it) that Mark Carney talked European and Japanese leaders into accumulating US Treasury bonds, and then slow-selling them to make Trump squirm once he imposed the broad-brush tariffs to spook the T-bill market.
The theory sounds mostly plausible in that Carney was in Europe for closed door meetings with European leaders shortly after being designated PM, and that Trump backed off so quickly and used the language of “the bond market is tricky” to justify the change in direction. Dropping demand for T-bills leads the Fed to increase yields to keep the borrowing taps on, means expensive borrowing for them, means no money for tax cuts for billionaires.
On the other hand, the story originates from a twice-fired shock-jock’s Substack.
But it sounds like something a wicked smart Harvard/Oxford educated economist would dream up and pull off…
¯(ツ)/¯
The deceased girl’s father insisted that measles helps build up a person’s immune system.
So here’s the thing…and I know that everyone here knows this, but it doesn’t.
Measles causes immune amnesia.
It’s pretty sneaky - integrating into respiratory tract macrophages, and avoiding destructive phagocytosis by binding directly to certain membrane receptors, and then being transported to lymph nodes where B and T cells get infected by the measles virus too. These memory B and T cells contain the memory of past infections, and when they’re destroyed (because they’re infected), you no longer have the ability to quickly ramp up a response to past infections and you get to start all over from the start.
So even if their other kids survived, their chances of dying from another infection goes up. It takes somewhere between 2.5 and 5 years for that risk to come back to baseline.
The infection itself might not have been “that bad” (despite killing one of their children) but the mortality risk isn’t over by a long shot.
I like these ones below. While I consider Star Trek the utopian ideal, and as a Canadian could use some Picard daddy energy in my life right now, this whole shitstorm feels more like a resistance, so went with Star Wars.
I really don’t dig the “I bought this before…” versions because they’re face saving, wordy, and somewhat defensive.
To paraphrase Office Space, “Why should I apologize, he’s the one who sucks!”
Literally wearing this shirt right now!
Just a friendly reminder that no conservative premier in Alberta has served a full term, nor even stood for reelection since Ralph Klein. It’s how they keep the brand fresh.
One other devastating reason to vaccinate, particularly against measles: measles can give your immune system amnesia. All that precious “natural immunity” that these ghouls profess? You can just fucking LOSE it and have to relearn how to fight off previous infections. It’s a goddamned factory reset to day one, but without mommy’s antibodies you got in utero, nor from breast milk. Unless you’re Robin Arryn of the Vale from Game of Thrones.
Their charging network’s handshake speed is just so far ahead of everyone else, as is their reliability.
Conversely, their vehicles’ fast charging curves are comparatively dog shit.
Absolutely. Cars are solar ovens and windows down isn’t going to help my sweaty back. But if you’re not in an enclosed space, it’s a bit better.
So the thing for me isn’t the temperature nor the depth of the snow. It’s sharing space with cars and contending with the very real possibility of falling and getting my head crushed like a grape.
I quite liked using my fat bike in the park through the snow. But on a road with cars on ice? There’s a reason I sold it.
Also, I would literally sweat going downhill on that thing.
Electric bikes work quite nicely in this scenario. Beautiful cooling breeze with minimal, if any, effort.
But did you solve your own problem?
The National Film Board is totally free, and you can watch the Log Driver’s Waltz anytime you please!
Yeah, I did a graph series on this once upon a time for my 2018 Model 3 LR RWD on Reddit and that’s pretty much what I found. However, this vintage has a resistive PTC heater not a heat pump, which isn’t great for efficiency.
Karma doesn’t always ripen in this life, but upon reincarnation.
One third of Americans (non voters) were happy to watch whilst another third (MAGAts) attempts to murder the other third everyone.
The tariffs are being explicitly selected to avoid harm to Canadian consumers (e.g. on items for which there are available and suitably priced alternatives) and on items which create the most effective political pressure.