A Shoebox Under The Bed
Lifted from the comments, a revealing choice of words:
Also, while there is nothing wrong… Again, a revealing tone, I think.
Mr Yglesias, since you ask, is currently said to earn around $1.4 million a year, chiefly from his 18,000 Substack subscribers. It therefore seems quite likely that he has savings and investments of some sort. I wonder what it is that he thinks happens to that money while he’s terribly busy complaining about the rich.
“You can’t even afford a large pizza!”
“People used to have their own faces.”
Ah, the urbanist fantasy of the automobile-less city.
My parents rode the streetcar a lot in the 1930’s and 40’s. It was slow. It was inconvenient, especially when you had to walk a ways to a line and then wait. It was difficult to impossible when you had a lot to carry. They got a car as soon as they could afford one. And a second car when that became affordable.
There are still times when I use public transit (rail) because it is faster and cheaper than driving. But those advantages disappear when I have multiple destinations rather than a simple in-and-back. And riding the city’s light rail is dirty enough and unsafe enough that I’ll scornfully insult anyone who tells me I should use it.
Jeff Goldstein, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Would that be the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter by any chance?
So if you need to fly in a straight line at Mach 2, the F-104 is for you.
Quite the response, assuming it’s not a parody account:
Dicentra, My father flew most of the Century series. He did all kinds of things in a 104, but notably he probably holds the record for Most Flight Time With the Engine at Idle. It was used to develop the Space Shuttle landing scheme, by starting very very high, and basically falling to the runway. Controlling it in those conditions was, quote “not fun.”
Harvard graduate, expert on politics, belatedly discovers the concept of incentives.
I ask about the F-104 because it is the subject of a quasi-famous — but not good — film.
Thanks! Tuesday night viewing! Now, where’s my hallucinogens?
Pst: Wow! That linked NASA history is invaluable. Thank you very much!
A brief critique of the dishonestly propagandistic movie Hidden Figures.
And, via Charles Murray, a far longer and detailed critique.
I’m endlessly thankful that people like Charles Murray are online.
UPDATE: I knew a few self-described libertarians who were not at all bothered that Hidden Figures told lies, defaming innocent people. All that didn’t matter, because the movie served a Higher Purpose.
@Fred the Fourth Experimenting with tagging. That is all.
The guy has a kid and he has NO concept of “rewarding behavior gets you more of the same behavior”?
Oh, dear. I wonder if the kid is okay?
It’s gotten harder to spot the parodies now since actual leftists are this blatant about their totalitarian views.