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Working on a drink pacing app: https://www.trypound.app/

I lost a lot of weight on GLP-1s, and on top of that my tastes changed. Instead of IPAs, I like cocktails now, and the transition made me feel like my own internal clock was out of whack.

Also, also: these hard seltzers are totally crushable, waayyyy too easy to drink fast. So this app helps with that, too.

Foreign held debt is less than 30% of outstanding, and less than that is sovereign-owned, so I don't think devaluing or attempting to restructure foreign debt via "century bonds" will have much effect on US debt obligations.

I seriously doubt this administration understands any of this. I agree that they don't care, but I don't think they know what's going to happen. No one does.

The $8 plan is such an obvious unforced error that you have to wonder if Elon has anybody pushing back on him. This entire debacle also draws into relief the difference between a product company like Tesla, or Apple, for that matter, and Twitter. Musk can establish a vision for Tesla or SpaceX, and then it’s all about the execution. With Twitter, there’s the vision, then the execution, then the unintentional side-effects. And the personnel who have the crucial seasoning needed to anticipate the side-effects are mostly gone.

Battle Chess 7 years ago

I learned to play chess with the help of this game on an Atari ST.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that shopping mall rents have been increased sharply over the past 5-7 years for specialty food stores. Historically in specialty foods malls would target about 15% of sales for their rents. Lately that's ratcheted up to 20% of sales. It's getting harder and harder for independent (even franchised) operators to make money in the mall.