Day: October 6, 2025, 4:56 PM

Pother

Chill Evil

I think that gloss is basically correct. To be fair, the left has more than a few good proposals. This alliance, though, was fucking atrociously terrible, will probably ruin Europe for 300 years, and has significantly harmed the US too.

So, fail, and kind of negates all their other decent ideas.

Obtain

Chill Clowns, Evil

Agreed. Both sides have basically gone insane. As I’ve said many times before, we needed New Minds and did not get them.

That’ll mean war, calamity and mass death before we do.

Bubble Pop

Chill Annoying, Clowns

The housing market bubble is about to burst as badly as the Internet bubble.

It’s fascinating to read these comments from 2004, about a year-and-a-half before the housing bubble did in fact burst. Mostly to avoid legal prosecution, a successful propaganda operation was launched post hoc claiming that no one could have know there was a bubble, etc., so now the fact that tons of people (including me) knew in advance has been memory-holed.

About half the people in the comments are claiming that a housing bubble does not exist or that it was impossible to even have a bubble while the other half are claiming — correctly — that the market was a bubble ready to pop.

The level of denial in some is interesting:

And a refusal to believe that bubbles can even exist (common in clownish econ types too):

Chill Links

Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems.

Should We Let Public Transit Die?

Low-income Americans slash spending, a worrying sign for the economy.

As America fumbles, China races ahead.

Russia’s Hybrid War Against NATO Ramping Up: Danish Intelligence.

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power.

How the Democrats Could Stage a Comeback, According to History. Not being vapid weak losers would be a good start.

NIRS fire destroys government’s cloud storage system, no backups available. If you’d hired me, that would not have happened.