@GregAbbott_TX Houston has 10X the murders of SF.
Dallas’ murder rate is nearly DOUBLE LA’s.
Texas’ homicide rate overall is 39% HIGHER than California’s.
Would focus on your lawless state, Greg, before sending troops to ours.
California is the fourth largest economy in the WORLD.
We contribute $83 BILLION to the federal government while Texas takes $71 BILLION.
Nice flags, though.
“Ruination Day”: The new Economist cover amid Trump’s tariff war.
Trump has launched a global trade war, calling it a “Liberation Day.” As an economist, I know a thing or two about tariffs. So here are some predictions of what we should expect if this tariff war continues.
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Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
The stuff in the White House today between Trump and Zelinski and Vance is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in American politics. I don't even know how to process it. "Bullying" seems a weird adjective to use when talking about a president...but that's what it was.
When picking among the 9 AI models that are now available from OpenAI, the rules are easy:
1) The model with the biggest number is mostly not the best
2) Mini means worse, except for the mini that is the second best
3) o1 pro beats o3-mini-high beats o1 beats o3-mini, naturally