Most of us are interested in complex systems, and the economy is a very complex system, and discussing the outcome of some of the most significant blunt changes to this system counts as "intellectually satisfying"?

Also, it's going to affect all our lives somehow, even if we're not watching from the inside.

Thanks for this response. This is 100% what I was going for. I try to understand the world that I live in and share my observations with others, and use this to help others when I can

I thought this was all history, but:

> Develop and deploy global MISSILE DEFENSES to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world.

> Control the new “international commons” of space and “cyberspace,” and pave the way for the creation of a new military service - U.S. Space Forces - with the mission of space control.

They really just kept at it, huh. Although this part is interesting:

> The Joint Strike Fighter, with limited capabilities and significant technical risk, is a roadblock to future transformation and a sink-hole for needed defense funds.

Wonder why it wasn't cancelled then? Change of mind, or just too many greased palms?

Meanwhile, they outsourced manufacturing to China, which is kind of insane. China builds 100x ships then the US. Add drones, steel, telecommunication, batteries, renewable to it...

Re: joint strike fighter: the money pit is essentially a subsidy for many sitting congressmens’ re election campaigns.

> The new framework will also require vaccine makers to conduct a randomized controlled trial before the agency signs off on a coronavirus shot for healthy people between the ages of 6 months and 64 years. When possible, the agency will “encourage manufacturers” to complete such trials after they get the agency’s approval for a vaccine for high risk groups, a potentially expensive endeavor.

I wonder about this part. Will they have time to do this if they have to release an updated vaccine annually, like the Flu?

I wish it supported a local LLM, like running deepseek locally or in a docker container or something.

Edit: Sorry, apparently this is supported. I'll give it a go!

Imagine if they used this power for good and also identified the adults in these childrens lives who cared & would make a difference, and shared this with them. Ensuring those teens get help & support.

Or even just altered their algorithmic feeds to show much more positive messages, suggest hobbies & push them towards more positive social circles, or something for these teens?

But no, we can target them with ads instead.

> You'll have access to scenario-based, AI-supported tools designed to help you prepare for constructive or challenging conversations by practicing in an interactive environment.

This just sounds really ominious to me. It's like they're training empathy out of their management team by letting them practice on an AI that begs for it's life just like a real human.....

This makes too much sense to be the real reason, if you ask me.

I think it’s being reversed because it cratered global oil prices and that would be a terrible horrible very bad thing _for Russia_.

They need a Snow-IOS too.

- Ever since I've updated to the latest iOS 18, my watch complications(weather doodad) stop working randomly because they just lose the location services permission. Then in settings, the location services permission list acts like the weather app isn't installed.

- The new Mail app now automatically classifies your email, but still gives you the "All Mail" option. But the unread count badge on the app only works off of what they classify as your "Priority" mail. There's a setting to change that, so that it shows you the unread count of ALL mail, not just priority mail, but when you change that setting nothing changes. This is my biggest problem with new iOS.

- Keyboard sometimes doesn't get out the way any more when it should.

These are just off the top of my head. It used to be such a nice, polished experience. Their competition was just outclassed. Now, when my phone dies I'm going to have a good look at all the other options.

> - Keyboard sometimes doesn't get out the way any more when it should.

Depends on where you were seeing this of course, but this could very well be an app problem instead of a system problem.

Native UIKit/SwiftUI do a little bit of keyboard management for “free”, but there are many circumstances where it falls on the developer’s shoulders to do this. For cross platform frameworks, some do keyboard management others don’t even try. For web apps it’s a coin toss and depends on which of the gazillion ways the dev built their app.

It’s not actually that hard, usually just a matter of making sure that your scrolling content either resizes to match the keyboard-shrunken viewport or adding bottom padding equivalent to the height of the keyboard and then and adjusting scroll position accordingly, but it’s not unusual to see this partially or fully absent, especially on poorly built cheapest-bidder-contracted apps.

In modern UIKit it's as simple as constraining to the keyboard layout guide. That gives you full animation support for free as well, no more need to listen for the notification and manually set up animations with the same timing and curve. On iPads the keyboard guide can even help you avoid the split keyboard, it's really nice.

Of course SwiftUI gives you almost none of this control, forcing you to hope the magic automatic support works how you expect.

But then neither help you with any of the other interactions, like any background dimming you may want, or tapping away from the keyboard to dismiss. That has to be done manually.

Permissions needs a complete rewrite. Layers and layers of permissions screens. To get anything done takes 4-5 forward and reverse UI stack traversals

Absolutely. And turning off Siri's "Learn from this app" should not require the user to navigate to every single app's menu, when Siri has a top level page in Settings.

The division of per-app vs app list in general is bad.

I think they should just throw in the towel and duplicate settings. Meaning, we can turn off Siri learning from an app or from the Siri page. Or we can turn off banners from the app or the notifications page.

The recent Photos app update was a major regression.

my iPhone gets into a state lately where a pane will suddenly lose the the ability to _scroll_. it can happen in any app, but I see it a lot in Safari. Like, what is even happening, this is a fundamental UI interaction. The only way to fix it is to close the tab or force-quit the app. Super weird.

> President Donald Trump appears set to broaden his attack on global economic integration by imposing new multimillion-dollar fees on the Chinese container ships that bring many foreign goods to the United States’ shores.

> By charging Chinese-owned or -built vessels each time they dock at a U.S. port, the administration hopes to discourage ocean carriers from buying more ships from China

> U.S. exporters also would be required to meet targets for shipping their goods on U.S.-flagged vessels, rising from almost nothing to 15 percent of the total in seven years.

In addition to all the tariffs?

I feel like the USA is going to instead be isolated from global trade as countries work overtime to remove trade barriers between each other and source their stuff from Not-America. Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the great depression?

> Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the great depression?

Isn't this kind of what happened in the run up to the World War II?

> Zeldin said he and President Donald Trump support rewriting the agency’s 2009 finding that planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Obama-era determination under the Clean Air Act is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources.

> The EPA also will take aim at rules restricting industrial pollution of mercury and other air toxins, as well as separate rules on soot pollution

While this sucks for Climate Change, it also sucks for peoples health.

It's really moving costs from companies complying with regulations on pollution to people dealing with the health effects of pollution, and with the American health care funding model, it's basically another move to tax poor people and let wealthy people off.

Agreed, this is a tax on the future health of our most vulnerable populations, which pays out to the richest corporations.

Look at asthma rates vs. air quality. It gas disproportionately effected lower income communities for decades. So many other factors too.