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I'm 5 months behind on my podcasts so I'm now listening to all the coverage and analysis of the Maduro kidnapping. Everybody was saying that with how cheap oil is, it doesn't make sense to try to take Venezuelan oil which is heavy and requires a lot of refinement. In that context shutting down the Strait of Hormuz makes perfect sense.

Go get a PhD and an academic position. The pay is shit but nobody will care whether you show up or not.

It was so frustrating seeing the press and attention he got 2016 and onward, when he had been the butt of every joke and a symbol of everything trashy about NYC since the 1980s.

For sure, but the growth rate is rapidly decreasing in the developing world too. If that continues eventually there will be nobody left to run the machines.

I'd love to watch these geniuses try to "innovate" their way out of cleaning toilets.

The irony is that this causes birth rates to plummet, which eliminates the future workforce for the very companies forcing childcare to be untenable. One of the major contradictions of capitalism is that it does not reproduce its own labor force. I guess the resolution is to replace human workers with AI.

I live in Prague. It's full of Americans who come to do IVF becauee they would rather pay $3,000 than $30,000 for it. They get a nice European vacation too.

Ok? Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer all do this.

Now, instead of paying a subscription, they charge a one-time several thousand dollar fee to the researcher for open access. Problem solved! Everybody knows those fat cat grad students and post docs have plenty of money to throw away on oat milk lattes.

That's fine. Now sieze his assets and force him into a nursing home.

Insomnia quiche