I feel the same way about your comment.

Hey Siri, why does Albert being a shithead make me like him more

His mentions are surprisingly dignified, given the vomitous fiery hell-take he deposited.

This article feels like getting punched in the stomach. You’re 100% dead-on about the dynamic in that room, and how the exact same dynamic is present in the culture as a whole. It’s a wake up call to reconsider each of our relationships in this light: do I treat this person as an equal partner or a prop?

All of it.

Will Leitch?

Star for the name/comment synergy

Co-signed 

Also runs into the Final Fantasy problem. What do you call the next one?

Wind->propulsion is more efficient than wind->generate electricity->propulsion

Wind->propulsion is more efficient than wind->generate electricity->propulsion

I don’t work for Maersk but my guess is the 10% number is an assumption based on average performance over a year. If 10% of the time the sails provide 100% of the power, etc.

Markets have been (and will be!) beneficial. The rest of your post is completely wrong.

“The Free Market” is fantastic, uh, marketing. It can’t exist outside of very carefully arranged social structures, including regulation, but just calling it free makes that stuff seem superfluous. 

A house divided cannot stand. We need to split the marines into Navy Water Guys and Navy Land Guys.

Running the GRU for a year costs as much as one F-35. They used Moneyball on us.

We’re all rational actors who make informed choices based on our needs!