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Mid-Week Tabs

Steven L. Taylor
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https://twitter.com/shmr50/status/1896777270846689787
  • The fun part is watching Bartiromo slowly spin up from not knowing what to say to saying utterly ridiculous (and contradictory) things about F-150s in India and Europe.

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26 responses to “Mid-Week Tabs”

  1. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    As someone who works around a lot of ag professionals, I cannot overstate how much ag technology assumes the existence of NOAA and its reporting and forecasting services. NOAA’s daily output is built into most of crop science, crop planning, futures forecasting. This is one of those places where things are going to break hard against core Trump constituencies.

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  2. gVOR10 Avatar
    gVOR10

    In the Bartiromo clip, the car dealer talks about the auto industry having spent a lot of money adapting to the existing trade agreement. One should note the existing agreement is Trump’s USMCA, minor changes to NAFTA, that Trump touted as “The USMCA is the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law. It’s the best agreement we’ve ever made …”

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  3. gVOR10 Avatar
    gVOR10

    In the Bartiromo clip, the car dealer talks about the auto industry having spent a lot of money adapting to the existing trade agreement. One should note the existing agreement is Trump’s USMCA, minor changes to NAFTA, that Trump touted as “The USMCA is the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law. It’s the best agreement we’ve ever made …”

  4. steve Avatar
    steve

    The SEC dropping the charges came after Sun bought $75 million dollars worth of Trumpcoin. The article notes that translates into $50 million for Trump. The real cherry on the top, essential in all dealings with Trump, is Sun now posting positive (groveling) posts on Twitter about Trump making claims like every dollar he ever earned (maybe earned should be in parentheses?) he woes to Trump. OTOH I just dont understand people being able to lower themselves to constantly having to praise Trump so they get whatever they want, but OTOH it does make things easy for them. Beats having to actually work for a living.

    Steve

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  5. Mister Bluster Avatar
    Mister Bluster

    Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

    And if you live in the city and don’t have a backyard you can raise them on the rooftops
    just like pigeons.

  6. Mister Bluster Avatar
    Mister Bluster

    Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

    And if you live in the city and don’t have a backyard you can raise them on the rooftops
    just like pigeons.

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  7. Mister Bluster Avatar
    Mister Bluster

    Moderation?

  8. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    @steve:

    Updating old anecdotes:

    Aristippus: Ah, Diogenes. If you would flatter the felon, you wouldn’t have to be satisfied with eating lentils.

    Diogenes: Ah, Aristippus. If you could but learn to be satisfied with a bowl of lentils, you wouldn’t have to eat the felon’s orange sh*t.

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  9. Neil Hudelson Avatar
    Neil Hudelson

    @Mister Bluster:

    What’s with your constant “test” messages and the like? Are you getting messages that you are in moderation? We see your posts man.

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  10. Mister Bluster Avatar
    Mister Bluster

    @Neil Hudelson:..your constant “test” messages…

    You mean the one last week? And the one that says “Moderation?” in this thread. That would be two this year so far.

    I submitted a comment about “backyard chickens” earlier in this thread and I was informed it went to moderation so I submitted the same comment using a different email address and it posted without delay.
    Thank you for your concern about my posting habits. You can direct your complaints to the moderators.

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  11. Kurtz Avatar
    Kurtz

    Pretty sure privatizing the functions of NOAA have been a goal of some private weather firms. If memory serves, also the subject of a chapter in the P2025 document.

    I need to dig it up, but I recently read somewhere that NOAA produces better forecasts than the private firms. The latter use their own models with NOAA data as inputs.

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  12. Mr. Prosser Avatar
    Mr. Prosser

    @Mister Bluster: 15 years ago Sue Lowden running for US Senate in Nevada said we can barter chickens for health care. So I’ll take Rollins’s advice and yours and raise chickens on my apartment roof for eggs and health barter. Should work just fine.

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  13. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    @Kurtz:

    I need to dig it up, but I recently read somewhere that NOAA produces better forecasts than the private firms. The latter use their own models with NOAA data as inputs.

    I’m pretty sure Michael Lewis mentions this in one of his books. Also that NOAA does not charge for weather data. If so, I’m stumped as to why private forecasters would want to spend their money to get data they currently get for free.

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  14. Scott Avatar
    Scott

    @Mister Bluster: @Mr. Prosser: I’m waiting for the HOA fight that the chicken raisers will say that the President and Sec Ag overrule the HOA covenants that forbid chickens.

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  15. Mister Bluster Avatar
    Mister Bluster

    @Scott:..

    Why did the chicken cross the road?
    To show the armadillo it was possible.

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  16. inhumans99 Avatar
    inhumans99

    Maria Bartiromo, aka The Money Honey. I always thought she got that name because it was kind-of unusual back in the day to have a woman reporting on money stuff who looked very photogenic and had a brain in her.

    Seeing her turn into a President Trump sycophant several years back who would believe him if he said 1+10 =s 110 is rather sad. Honestly, there was a time when she did not come off as one of the most clueless ladies on planet earth.

    I just get the general vibe that the GOP/MAGA still feels they can get away with being sore losers for quite a bit more time, but there is going to be a point at which folks calmly tell their Congress-Critters that hey dude/dudette, you won…our team controls the White House and pretty much all of Congress, so please start to get your shit together and stop saying Biden this, witch hunt this, to everyone with functioning ears, we won and all the folks who helped you win need to see you actually making the trains run on time, if you hear what we are saying.

    The big question is how long it takes for this fantastical scene that I have just laid out above to occur, maybe never, but something in me feels that MAGA wants to see the stock market achieve record highs again and putting up with a couple years of pain (per Elon Musk) is way too long a wait.

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  17. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @gVOR10: Two points:
    1) That was then; this is now.
    2). In between, Biden turned it into a dog’s dinner of chaos and crookedness undoing all the great work Trump had done negotiating it.

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  18. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @Kathy: I think the goal is to sell their data to the government and charge users for phone weather apps that they currently have to offer for free because the NWS-based weather app doesn’t charge.

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  19. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @inhumans99: That’s interesting. “Photogenic” is not an adjective I’ve ever associated with Bartiromo.

  20. Kingdaddy Avatar
    Kingdaddy

    @just nutha: Except that weather prediction requires a large, expensive infrastructure of equipment and communications, including satellite components, on top of the highly skilled scientific and technical labor force, the computing facilities, and other essential components. Not something easily reproduced in the private sector, any time soon, in any way profitable. But again, people like Musk and Trump don’t think these things through.

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  21. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @Kingdaddy: I’m not saying the goal is góod, wise, or feasible. During the years I worked in industry, a lot of people had a lot of stupid ideas. 🙁

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  22. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    @Kingdaddy:
    @just nutha:

    I read somewhere that the chief nazi wants to replace several NOAA operated weather satellites with Xtarlink sats.

    I had to stop reading there. People do NOT understand satellites. You can’t just use an internet satellite for recording winds, temperature, currents, and whatever else weather sats do. Beyond that, they aren’t even in the same type of orbit. It’s like thinking you can use a Ford plant in Detroit to make and bottle Ketchup in San Diego*.

    The nazi in chief might want to replace NOAA’s satellites with ones made by XpaceX that he owns. But it won’t be Xtarlink sats.

    *I bet Ford’s equipment isn’t even rated for handling food safely and lacks HACCP certification.

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  23. Gustopher Avatar
    Gustopher

    Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

    I think that during a massive wave of Bird Flu in our wild and domestic bird populations, increasing the number of human-avian cross contamination possibilities is a great idea, particularly when the CDC is gutted and semifunctional. Guidelines for safe handling don’t need to be updated.

    On the plus side, this has the potential to realign housing demand with housing supply. And that’s been one of my pet peeves for a while.

    Not sure if it will impact net carbon emissions.

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  24. Gustopher Avatar
    Gustopher

    @Neil Hudelson: I’ve always assumed this was an Mr. Bluster giving us opportunities to practice restraint and tolerance. It’s slightly annoying, but it’s not actually bad. Impossible to ignore, but easy to forbear.

    Have there really been only a handful this year? I’ve definitely just gotten so used to them that I think I always see one or two when I come here.

    Huh. And here I was thinking I was doing good mental health wise because they weren’t annoying me these days. I think I’ve been literally using them as an informal metric.

    I hate to say it, but more random “test” posts please. At least three a week.

  25. Flat Earth Luddite Avatar
    Flat Earth Luddite

    @just nutha:

    Gold medal level of snark!!!!!!!!

    Or just channeling your late mom, or my still living BIL, who both believe(d) that shirt

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  26. Flat Earth Luddite Avatar
    Flat Earth Luddite

    @Gustopher:

    Weeeellll, having plucked chickens & other fowl (along with butchering moose, elk, deer, and cows) ain’t no way Luddite’s gonna get back into livestock. I fully support my local meat purveyors!

    ETA although it’d be nice if the housing didn’t all wind up in our oligarchy’$ portfolios, eh?

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