'My Brilliant Friend' by Elena Ferrante

Especially appreciate the callout on the *wrong* people being hired into a *broken* culture.

Yep. The surface crypto-aristocracy of LOTR is catnip to conservatives who always assume that *they, the hidden king* will be on the side of light - and great power seduces them every time. IMHO they dismiss out of hand cautionary tales of corruption Tolkien leaves strewn everywhere.

FWIW I thought this comment from Neel Kashkari was probably one of the most interesting ones — and one that we should still be thinking about today.

They are selling because the number of fast DC chargers on US 2 between Minot ND and Whitefish MT is zero. Should be a minimum of 10 - for towing.

The blame is on red state legislatures, and the voters that put them there.

A great read. I fear that a demonstration area will be needed to get the political will to orchestrate the transition in the remainders - assuming there are such and there is time for the build out of the replacement renewable infrastructure.

Will need a safe harbor for Fed career employees to have been paid legally. Having all the political appointees liable for payroll taken fraudulently would be a different level of delicious.

I think there's a pretty big genetic component to serum LDL, as I recall pubMed had some articles on this - and as always - the OEM hardware is not *supposed* to last forever