Ignatenko et al., 2025 found the 2025 tariffs could yield modest U.S. welfare gains through improved terms of trade if partners don't retaliate. Concrete data shows $236 billion in revenue, a 25% drop in Chinese imports, and $1.7 trillion in announced manufacturing investments. So the debate isn't who pays (both sides agree Americans do), but whether reshoring and revenue gains justify the cost.

Sorely needed app. Amazing how inconsiderate and shameless many people are these days: airport, bus, train, even the gym sauna just blasting random tiktok feeds.

There's a clear difference in the premises behind the thinking of the "right" vs. the "left". One side sees "evil officers acting too aggressively towards fellow humans", and the other side sees "patriotic police catching criminal aliens, and leftists attacking the police".

Those are the two ways of thinking I've noticed.

To the eventual detriment of the latter, I expect. There are plenty of people currently on the "evil officers" side who would be much more willing to support the mass deportation effort if the ICE officers were calm, unmasked, not using violent SWAT tactics just to apprehend an undocumented immigrant. This intentional violence turns away a lot of people who'd otherwise be sympathetic to the goals.

My level of trust for data:

1) Claude

2) OpenAI

3) Grok

4) Gemini

Imagine the size of those weights.

Someone else who's not a big, american vampire corp feeding on VC money can worry about that for me...

Any planned security mitigations for allowing telegram to execute terminal commands?

I rely on Telegram authentication (when you setup it, your telegram user ID is saved in a config file and any message not from your user ID is ignored).

Each person setup will be different, but in my case my telegram account is more important than my computer. I have important info and messages there, and on the other side, for any dangerous action on my computer, you will need OTP codes, passwords which I keep secure in Proton Pass, etc.

Hilarious. A post I'd upvote in 2035: "Microsoft Windows 14 now requires a daily blood sacrifice to disable telemetry."

The UVB portion of sunlight indirectly increases dopamine levels. You find it mainly near noon-day sunlight, and tanning beds. So the feel-good effects may encourage users to come back for more.

Frequent tanning bed users all have this addict level rationalization for using them when everyone knows it's harmful.

Serum levels of THC do not correlate with degree of impairment. It's not linear, like alcohol.

I thought this was common knowledge among physicians who have studied the subject.

And we keep getting them elected. Imagine an election where candidates are liable for the veracity of every claim they make, with immediate penalties to their candidacy, and only verified facts are allowed in ads.

> Imagine an election where candidates are liable for the veracity of every claim they make, with immediate penalties to their candidacy, and only verified facts are allowed in ads

You cease to have a democracy. The real power sits with the verifier in that system.

Important point.