Sovereign Wolf

Believer in markets and good manners

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Several of JD Vance's closest friends in the US postliberal scene were on the payroll of the Hungarian government under Viktor Orban until a couple months ago.

This is a well-documented fact.

To see him complain about "foreign influence" money on Rogan is certainly something.

[Sovereign Wolf @BaileyPersonal]

@ATabarrok I would think even if the train is fine the heat of the fire could cause the tracks to expand too much

[Sovereign Wolf @BaileyPersonal]

@FriedrichHayek @grok @wwwojtekk @JonahDispatch Charlotte is nice place having lived there for a little under two years. It came to mind as a large urban center when my wife and I were looking at places, so yes it should be on the list.

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

every data center story says it uses "as much power as 100,000 homes" like that's a scandal. an aluminum smelter pulls five times that and it's why airplanes are cheap. measuring industry in homes is how you train a country to believe building things is a crime

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Aren't you the guy who fired all the staff of your socialist magazine when they tried to unionize?

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

just want to remind you one more time that significantly lowering the cost of housing would solve, overnight, almost every single problem in the country

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

it's similar logic as "100 companies responsible for 71% of emissions," which makes it seem like energy companies are just burning oil for money, as opposed to oil or coal or gas being a useful input to all sorts of processes we choose (like electricity for air conditioning)

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

Only America is told it needs to be polite lest the rest of the world have their feelings hurt.

The Chinese (who aren’t in prison or forced to live in rural poverty) think China has it all figured out.
In Russia, many (but not the conscripted dead or repressed!) think it’s the model of mankind.
In Europe, they are so confident—the ones who haven’t melted because of the heat or been silenced because of their speech—they are so confident that theirs is the path forward that they have famous rankings of how free a country is that are entirely built around the European post-war conception of freedom. I mean they literally rank you!
But if an American says “America is the country that solved it and I feel sorry for the foreigners who can’t enjoy our way of life,” then “oh no the Americans aren’t being kind enough”

[Sovereign Wolf @BaileyPersonal]

Poor kitty. Time to destroy some more Russian refineries.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

A cat has been rescued from beneath the rubble in Kyiv.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

American anti-data-center populism is a tool of the CCP.

If you’re a politician in the middle of a political fight about data centers, pick a side. Do your duty as a leader and as an American!

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

The blatant lying I'm seeing from a bunch of media organizations about those anti-fa convictions is insane. Here is what actually happened in that case.

1. People are claiming "Oh, only one guy fired shots, so this means you can now be sentenced to decades in prison if someone else at a protest gets violent." Wrong. They all knew each other, were part of the same group, arrived at the scene together, and all brought guns. There was not a single person at the "protest" who was outside of their friend group. If you're at a protest and someone else shoots a cop that is substantively different from you and 7 of your friends getting rifles, committing a bunch of felonies, and THEN one of you shooting a cop who responds to all the felonies you just committed. Yeah, in that second instance you might wind up on the hook for the shooting. Sorry you're an idiot. Have fun in prison.

2. "Antifa can't be a terrorist movement because it's a decentralized idea." Yeah, so is 21st century Al-Qaeda, but if you shoot cops after getting motivated by reading Inspire Magazine, you're still a terrorist. That's the same fact pattern as what happened here. The people involved were in a group chat together where they self-identified as a coordinated political movement seeking to change policy through violence. If you self-ID as a terrorist behind closed doors, don't be surprised when a jury decides you're a terrorist and you get hit with terrorist enhancements and spend the rest of your life behind bars.

3. "OMG, one guy got a huge amount of prison time for moving boxes." "Moving boxes" in this case refers to one of the accused getting a call from his wife when she was in prison where she asked him if there was anything at the house he needed to move. He then LOADED UP HIS TRUCK with documents and magazines containing far-left terrorist ideology and tried to drive them to another house so the feds wouldn't find the proof of his wife's connection to extremist organizations. He tried to conceal evidence from federal agents in a case involving the attempted assassination of a police officer. That means he was both an accessory after the fact and provided material support to convicted terrorists. Meanwhile fucking PBS News is talking about this like he got convicted for moving a box of items from the living room to the kitchen.

The far-left and their useful idiots in the mainstream media and Democratic establishment have spent years lying about antifa not being a movement predicated upon terrorist violence, when any rational person could tell that's exactly what it was. It turns out the second you put the question in front of a jury none of your low-IQ, echo chamber reddit propaganda means a goddamn thing because normal humans who actually touch grass are going to send you on a one-way trip to a federal penitentiary

What's that phrase again? When you're used to being privileged equality seems like oppression?

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

“Sort of amazed human beings would use technology to deal with a problem instead of wrecking their standard of living to make a small contribution to trying to change the weather in response.”

[Sovereign Wolf @BaileyPersonal]

@Nicolas_Colin @patrickc https://t.co/CiYEjYN1KG
That is such a slow reaction to warmer weather when compared somewhere like Seattle: “Census data shows just 44% of homes in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties had air conditioning in 2019. The number jumped to 53% in 2021 and 64% in 2023.”

[Sovereign Wolf @BaileyPersonal]

@Noahpinion I had to watch the video to make sure it wasn’t a sensationalized headline—and wow what an unserious person this professor is

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Oh, is that what the case was about? The Court convened, and the justices were asked whether they liked “big business” or those with “cancer,” and seven of the nine chose “big business”? Or was it about FIFRA’s preemption clause? The press’s coverage of the law is a disaster.

[Todd Myers 🐟🌲🐝 @WAPolicyGreen]

...state regulations that force utilities to switch from reliable sources of energy to unreliable sources like wind and solar.

When electricity use is highest in WA - cold days in the winter - wind and solar vanish, forcing utilities to overbuild. That is expensive. 2/3 #waleg

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

Data centers didn’t raise electric bills nationally from 2015–24. Surprise! Actually, they modestly lowered them. That's because big fixed grid costs get spread over more kilowatt-hours, and new demand can unlock economies of scale.
@arxiv

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Country Roads after a World Cup victory has to be a top tier feeling in life

USA 🇺🇸

[Sovereign Wolf @BaileyPersonal]

@bryanrbeal Setting up the machines requires work with ASML and because there are so few they’re easy to track