Negative prices aren’t necessarily a good thing because they tend to curb investments. A Reddit comment explains it well: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1didv4q/comment/l938q2a/
Edit—I forgot the most important bit: Obviously that doesn’t mean that we should invest less in renewables, but that we should invest in large-scale battery research like yesterday.
Man, this is just maddening. The comment OP highlighted is terrible, but the reply to another just drips condescension.
I used to respect the NYT. But between the Trump coverage and their viewpoint on the war in Ukraine, they can go kiss me where the sun don’t shine. (What I’m trying to say is, both are ass.)
Read it last night. What I think is notable (besides the awesome-in-the-original-sense sum of money) is that Judge Engoron has retracted his previous order to lump-dissolve the Trump businesses. Because the Trump entities are going to be under supervision by not one, but two independent monitors, Engoron has decided to decide those on a case-by-case basis. Given how widespread the fraud in the Trump ecosystem appears to be, I expect this judgment to be the gift that keeps on giving.
In any case, massive props to Engoron for a) taking this important step into the societal dark, and b) keeping a cool head in the face of the defense’s shenanigans.
Fiiiiiinally! 🎉
You’ve made your bed, now go lie in it.
Habeck and his Green party have been scapegoating and criminalizing Muslims for supporting Palestine.
Wait for it…
They’ve changed their immigration policy to align with European fascists.
Any minute now…
They’ve sent weapons to Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Ah, there it is. Downvote.
pot, kettle, black, etc, etc
Man they gon be so tasty when we finally get to eat them
I hereby coin Hanlon’s Inverted Anticapitalist Razor:
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greed.
Most of the hit will be taken by wealthy individual investors, so we don’t see the state stepping in this time around
I’m not seeing much of a fucking problem here
You’re acting like it’s a bad thing to call this out. Is it?
…I’ll be in my bunk.
Exactly my reaction :)
I’m not an American, but I’m assuming you’re referring to this, right? It seems the administration kept fighting to get railroad workers sick days after that, so that half a year later, the railroad workers got their sick days:
This is a big deal, said Railroad Department Director Al Russo, because the paid-sick-days issue, which nearly caused a nationwide shutdown of freight rail just before Christmas, had consistently been rejected by the carriers. It was not part of last December’s congressionally implemented update of the national collective bargaining agreement between the freight lines and the IBEW and 11 other railroad-related unions.
“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.
Man, that ruling is scathing. Judge has had it with these two-bit lawyers.
In response to both OAG’s request for a preliminary injunction and to defendants’ motions to dismiss, this Court rejected every one of the aforementioned arguments. In rejecting such arguments for the second time, this Court cautioned that “sophisticated counsel should have known better.” (The court even went so far as to caution that the “arguments were borderline frivolous even the first time defendants made them.” […]) […] However, the Court declined to impose sanctions, believing it had “made its point.”
Apparently, the point was not received.
One would not know from reading defendants’ papers that this Court has already twice ruled against these arguments, called them frivolous, and twice been affirmed by the first department.
This just goes on and on. The judge devotes like eight pages to taking apart defendants’ counsel. The next section is, amusingly, titled “Arguments Defendants Raise for the First Time.”
I can think about a few cellmates, too, so he won’t get too lonely.
I swear, like half of them are this close to screaming for a literal crusade against the Saracens.
I can tolerate ads, but I still wish we had a better financing model for content on the internet at large. Ad tech has a tendency to creep into places where it doesn’t belong. Like task bars, or explorers.