treadful

Lame

Nobody has ever been surprised by flood waters before. Paths of travel in low lying areas have never been cut off unexpectedly before. It must just be these dumb workers fault they drowned. /s

We have the hindsight with full knowledge of the risk they were taking. I'd bet they only thought they were risking their next paycheck, not their lives.

Looking forward to the USCSB video on this one.

Would you rent your kids to a Republican? Seems dangerous.

Only if they rent my wife as part of the package? What kind of logic is that.

So I'm looking at this chart in the article on sea level rise by location:

I feel like I'm lacking some key knowledge here. How can the sea level rise be different in different parts of the coast? Shouldn't the average sea level rise be roughly equal worldwide?

Even if there's like a new strong current constantly pushing water into Galveston I'd expect it to average out over time. What am I missing?

In exchange for the bribes, Adams took actions that appeared to benefit Turkey’s leaders, including expediting the fire safety inspection at a consulate building and not releasing a statement on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, according to the indictment.

I'm kind of shocked that a (friendly) foreign government would buy a mayor for these seemingly trivial things.

Of course, they completely ignored how things went when hurricane Irene knocked out power to the region. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t fun but folks were generally okay.

Reminds me of that big NYC blackout. The news was covering it like the whole city was going to fall into chaos with neighbors attacking each other and everything. Mostly it was just people chilling in the dark hoping to get their power back as soon as possible.

Unlike the Steele Dossier, which was both fraudulent and discredited...

What? IIRC, the author only clarified that a bunch of it was likely rumor. How does that make it fraudulent?

Time for a rewatch of The Century Of Self.

Ferrari? More like the passenger train of computers.

We (the US) off-shored our manufacturing labor to China because of cheap labor. We were able to continue to reap much of the benefits of this production with our intellectual property (trade secrets, patents, etc).

China will inevitably catch up in the IP game and have been quickly doing so, often through corporate espionage, sending students to study in Western schools, and just from experience building most of these physical goods.

It's IP theft and seen as cheating. And will erode the US IP dominance faster than we'd like.

I'm pretty on the fence over it as an American personally. IP laws in general are kind of bullshit but also, we're on our back foot economically because we have no infrastructure to build anymore. And if we no longer have the IP dominance, we have zero economic leverage.

And all that's ignoring all the governmental and civic espionage that has other uncomfortable implications.