Recent content by TarHeeledTexan

You’re not wrong.

The Trump administration is doing everything to destroy US supremacy that our collective enemies over the past 80 years were incapable of doing. Or, counterpoint, Trump is the end game of a decades long process to cause the US to destroy itself. Regardless, the end result will be the same.

$5.79/dozen for organic, cage free eggs at Wegman’s in Maryland.

A true Libertarian at heart. Which means, heartless.

Liverpool wins again. Arsenal drops points again. It’s not over, but things look good Merseyside.

We’ve had our good moments, but plenty of not so hot to pretty despicable ones, too. But ours stand out a lot since we’re a big dog on the world stage.

Q2 is going to be a bit shaky compared to Q1, as we won’t be seeing the full effects of what the administration is doing. By Q3, we’ll see negative GDP growth. And the only questions will be for how many quarters will we get economic contraction and how deep will the contraction go?

My job is 90% driven by federal regulations. They haven’t been the target of any of this insanity yet (and in fact federal funding supporting the state agencies responsible for part of the regulatory oversight actually sharply increased during the first Trump administration). But adjacent regs...

No.

The company I work for does a lot of offshore wind work. SAPs, COPs, resource surveys, etc. One thing not being talked about is that the current projects in various stages of development are offshore of Blue States. New lease areas are soon to be offshore of Red states in the Atlantic and...

That account can be followed on Bluesky.

A bunch of subreddits are banning links to X.com and Twitter.com. Expect this to drive more engagement towards Bluesky.

I get that 100%. One thing that SciFi/Fantasy books can drive you crazy with, names that are too made up and distant in spelling and pronunciation from names that we use in real life. I typically just gloss over the names in those sorts of books and not worry about what I’m missing, rather just...

I read this a year or so ago and zoomed through it. I find if a book makes me read too slow, I will just abandon it.

The first paragraph is a lot like me. I can’t actually see any images in my head, but as I’ve thought about it, I have a good memory of things I’ve seen, and I can manipulate invisible items in 3D. I could draw an accurate map of my house and include lots of info about what’s where. But I...