Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[WingsFan]

[WingsFan]

Started watching Tucker again - good stuff

Fox News hit its highest-rated year in prime time since it was launched 22 years ago, with 2.47 million total viewers. Hannity come out on top as America's number one news program

[Dr. Strangelove]

Started watching Tucker again - good stuff

Fox News hit its highest-rated year in prime time since it was launched 22 years ago, with 2.47 million total viewers. Hannity come out on top as America's number one news program

Congrats to Fox on those very impressive ratings. Anyone who is young and influential watches cable news obsessively and loves that shit.

Tucker Nailed it!!! = the Victor Davis Hanson nailed it!!! of our day (old reference, you wouldn't understand).

[hack]

We're gonna get some utter silliness with the question of allowing minors to vote -- idea floated in the UK jut to be provocative was suffrage from age 6. But it comes from a reasonable place: young people have a legit beef with the idea of old people voting based on short-term considerations. Newish problems bring crude answers, until we've had some time to think it out fuller. But I completely agree that young people shouldn't be screwed over by old people who can't get their heads around climate change. Serious challenge.

[Kapture1]

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[Dr. Strangelove]

Congrats to crash on his new job writing DHS press releases!

DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly. We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.

FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built wall that high.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/12/12/walls-work

[hack]

Wall have many good feature and strength properly. Wall holes meaningful. Not mistake or too much money costing. Not fence. Is wall.

[iam416]

PDJT should sell the wall as a Keynesian bullshit busywork project to create working class jobs. It's certainly as "valuable" as, heh, the "high speed" train that will never get built in California.

[hack]

So, $1.375 billion for 84 miles. Is that representative of the overall? If so, it's only going to cost $31.7 billion to build. But that's before you factor in Cards Against Humanity. If you're like me, you subscribed last year to the Cards Against Humaniy Hannukah gift series, and are now, as a result, the part owner of a piece of land owned by everyone else who subscribed. The nusiance lawsuit we'll file to challenge eminent domain is going to push up costs by a bit. It could end up actually costing $31.70000001bn.

[iam416]

Stimulus

[hack]

PDJT should sell the wall as a Keynesian bullshit busywork project to create working class jobs. It's certainly as "valuable" as, heh, the "high speed" train that will never get built in California.

True. People could use the wall to move back and forth between two powerful economic clusters in a way that is reliable and maximizes productivity. Although there's nothing in economic history that suggests this kind of thing is linked to economic growth.

[iam416]

Meanwhile on climate change, I'm certain of two things and one conclusion:

(1) The IPCC report says that there will be catastrophic climate change unless emissions are reduced by 45% from 2010 levels AND done so by 2030 (by some estimates, 60% from today's emissions).
(2) There is absolutely no political way in hell that is going to happen. End of story.

So, the conclusion has to be that we're going to experience catastrophic climate change. Done deal at this point, if the IPCC is correct.

[iam416]

I've heard Obama sycophants complain that the stimulus would have worked even better if they could have spent more than the $800B or whatever that they had in the bill. An extra $30B, while only increasing the spending by 3.75% would have helped. And while I'm not exactly sure what value a giant wall has, putting money into people's hands definitely has a multiplier effect in the Keynesian World, so economic development spurred.

[hack]

It's going to be something of a rebalancing of land use. Some won't be usable. Some won't be controllable by sovereigns. You have half the world's population crammed into a quadrant of the globe with tons of low-lying areas. They'll go somewhere. From a realpolitic standpoint, this will be mostly China's problem, and not America's. Not like we're going to co back to walled cities whose gates lock at night, and outside them chaos, but it'll shift in that direction especially in Asia.

Which brings us back to walls. Make no mistake -- some are going to be built. Here in the US:

In FY18, Congress provided $1.375B for border wall construction which equates to approximately 84 miles of border wall in multiple locations across the Southwest border, including:

• $251M for secondary border wall in the San Diego Sector
• $445M to construct new levee wall system in the Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $196M to construct new steel bollard wall system in Rio Grande Valley Sector
• $445M for primary pedestrian wall in San Diego, El Centro, Yuma and Tucson Sectors

So, in other words, it's unclear how much funding they have, maybe that initial estimate of $16.4m/mile is too low, based on those figures above. Maybe more like $23.1m/mile. So perhaps the cost would actually be $44.7bn.


This document is astonishing, considering the source of it is the US government.

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU