War on the Rocks@WarOnTheRocks
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In Denial About Denial: Why Ukraine’s Air Success Should Worry the West - War on the Rocks
10:00 PM · Jun 18, 2022
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This article is long, but the title says it all, air supremacy may no longer be possible.
Swear Trek@swear_trek
5:00 PM · Jun 20, 2022
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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.
Robert Wiblin@robertwiblin
Active shooter drills are very bad for mental health, costs almost certainly exceed the benefits:
nature.com/articles/s4159…
4:42 PM · Jun 10, 2022
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Wow! Suddenly I'm thinking about finding out if I need to be starting a campaign against these drills in local schools.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
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!
5:51 PM · Jun 20, 2022
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I think I only watched blockbusters in theaters before the pandemic, but I guess now that's everyone?
Chris Pope@CPopeHC
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…
5:56 PM · Jun 20, 2022
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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.
Shane Phillips@ShaneDPhillips
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
trying to make the price of housing go up over time instead of down is one of the most destructive policies i can imagine, and makes ~everything worse.
so many things would get better if we could get this one thing right.
11:40 PM · Jun 20, 2022
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Do I even need to bring up Georgism again?