Favorites June 21st 2022
" a harrowing glimpse into the future of air warfare," one in which medium-sized powers can deny the U.S. Air Force access to air space
This article is long, but the title says it all, air supremacy may no longer be possible.
The US military will have to rethink a bunch about what kinds of forces are most useful, and it hasn't started yet. So a bunch of our stuff may be much less useful than we thought.
Active shooter drills are very bad for mental health, costs almost certainly exceed the benefits:
nature.com/articles/s4159…
Wow! Suddenly I'm thinking about finding out if I need to be starting a campaign against these drills in local schools.
The 2022 movie tickets sales graph is notable for two reasons
1. Box office has actually *exceeded* 2016-19 average for at least four weeks.
2. Film industry has never been more hits dependent. Look at those spikes!
I think I only watched blockbusters in theaters before the pandemic, but I guess now that's everyone?
Private healthcare consumption has risen as a share of GDP, but it's public spending on healthcare that's really soared: ssa.gov/policy/docs/ss…
Our problem is that prices are too high, making throwing government money at it so expensive that voters aren't willing to accept the taxes required.
Every dollar your home goes up in value, excepting direct improvements, is a transfer from some other person in the future. It's not "creating" wealth, it's just moving it around. Home values should be stable so we can invest our money in things that actually make us all richer.
Sam Altman @sama
Do I even need to bring up Georgism again?