Malcador

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/ First, other countries can accept tariffs on their exports to the United States without retaliation, providing revenue to the U.S. Treasury to finance public goods provision. Critically, retaliation will exacerbate rather than improve the distribution of burdens and make it even more difficult for us to finance global public goods. Second, they can stop unfair and harmful trading practices by opening their markets and buying more from America; Third, they can boost defense spending and procurement from the U.S., buying more U.S.-made goods, and taking strain off our servicemembers and creating jobs here; Fourth, they can invest in and install factories in America. They won’t face tariffs if they make their stuff in this country; Fifth, they could simply write checks to Treasury that help us finance global public goods.

I played the demo way back when, maybe the resolution is too high, but weird control lag as well.

He's on right now talking a lot of bull**** about how everyone is robbing the US, or how tariffs made the US great before 1913. Or how the EU's non trade barriers like safety are crap. Apparently people believe the trade deficit caused the national debt, too.. And because the US doesn't look like an authoritarian state : https://newrepublic.com/post/193674/trump-military-parade-birthday

"The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result! Donald Trump Truth Social 04/07/25 08:59 AM" Sound mind

Done with PQ SWAT. The element leader mission is like an awful QT event, still not sure why I need to hold in some places, well and what's left or right in a given screen isn't clear. Ah well, I did try SWAT 2 but I didn't really dig it, seemed unresponsive, but maybe will retry that later. From my backlog, randomly picked Space Colony HD.

https://news.sky.com/story/idf-admits-mistakenly-identifying-gaza-aid-workers-as-threat-after-video-of-attack-showed-ambulances-were-marked-13342874 "The IDF could not explain why the ambulances were also buried." That's rich.

I just find such incompetence hilarious. Must be a coping mechanism from the experience of my work

Sort of amused I can't access any of my financial accounts due to the websites being down today.

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations Makes me miss D-E proofs But note - "The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4." and " The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. "

I reiterate my wish he was on time to work on 9/11.

I guess when all these random small nations make concessions, that'll be enough for a Victory. Also Iran got a lower tariff than ROK

Yes, but this isn't anything like those. You just follow orders, spend a lot of time watching training videos or reading materials on LAPD SWAT tactics in the 90s. Then go into some old lady's house and either take her into custody or give her a burst of 9mm to the chest. Just like PQ4 though, Gates' influence is still here, the cops talk straight from regulations

Their inability to understand sales tax is funny.

Police Quest SWAT. Brilliant copaganda, especially from the LAPD in the 90s Awful game though, amazing they shipped it with you doing the same 3 calls over and over. Well, at least SWAT 3 and 4 came from this.

Val Kilmer

The theme song to every Prod deployment

Just a look inside of who's advising Trump

That was pretty good, some day we'll get a better electoral system.

https://archive.ph/jTAcu Long read, and maybe a tad Red White and Blue tinted. Ukrainians seem overly cautious, and seems on both theirs and Allied sides there's a lot of dithering.

And finished Raptor. Kind of easy with the best weapon, but that makes sense. I guess on to Old World.

Well yeah, but certainly not the language's fault when a programmer doesn't know how to reference JAVA_HOME. So many instances where we have this crap, like our engine zips files, and it needs a WinSCP dll that's in C:\My Downloads|work stuff

Gameplay is ok, I am mindlessly causing things to explode. The boss fights require me to tank damage as I am old now. Takes me back where Ctrl is the fire button by default. Why Right Alt is the weapons toggle by default is odd (funny thing I often forget the right Alt and Ctrl exist)

1. Upgrade Java version on server 2. Service dies 3. Find out the path to the JRE is hardcoded. 4. Have to create a JRE 6 folder in some folder with a guy's name in it. 5. Start searching for new job.

Realized if you bail in missions in Raptor you get to keep loot. So repeatedly grinding missions to get loot, got the best weapon in the game. For some reason this reminds me of playing Diablo 2. 20 waves out of 27 done. Seems the version I have (the one from GOG you can't get anymore) is crippled with movement, too.