🔗 They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions - The American Prospect:
Trump believes that every relationship is zero-sum and transactional. There are no win-win arrangements with allies. They have to suffer for us to win. And if a deal is made, it must be made from a position of strength. From Trump’s perspective, he just gained leverage on every country in the world, even the ones only inhabited by penguins.
The problem with this “logic” is that America is not indispensable and other countries have just as much ability to retaliate, forcing the whole world into recession and making it very clear who started it.
This album is pretty fun while it is playing, but I am fairly sure that I will completely forget it roughly five minutes after I finish listening to it.
Some good riffs, though. It’s channeling some strong Death Angel vibes, and the vocals remind me a bit of Venom.
I feel like one of the big flaws in this whole cassette comeback thing is that sooner or later (probably sooner), the supply of new old-stock blank tapes is going to dry up and only a few weirdo companies are still producing new ones. Already, the price of Type-II high-bias tapes like TDK SA90s or Maxell XLII 90s is routinely up around $15 per tape on eBay and Amazon.
We must stop relying on scientific infrastructure provided by one nation or organization. Any single point of failure makes science fragile. Instead, we need multiple organizations across as many countries as possible, collectively providing access to overlapping data and services, so that the loss of any one or several of these doesn’t stop us from doing science.