In the 2010s, regulators in both the European Union and the United Kingdom stopped requiring companies to report quarterly results, moving to six-month reporting periods instead.

It also has precedence, real world demonstration.

In 2018, Trump urged the SEC to study moving to a six-month reporting system to “allow greater flexibility & save money.

And it’s even something he’s thought about for a while rather than a momentary impulse or reaction. I wonder what the results of that study were.

The US stock market is fairly strong at encouraging innovation, new companies, growth. My employer is one of many that moved its headquarters here to take advantage of that innovation economy. I don’t like this one proposal on the grounds that it erodes yet another US advantage. We’ll be worse off for it.

But we do have examples of it working so it’s not the end of the world. This seems far less destructive than most of his actions

I believe there were many “low information” voters who only knew they wanted change.

Where those voters might have wanted Biden Harris initiatives, those tended toward long term investments that people were not patient for or were not trumpeted as loudly. Improvements were neither visible nor immediate. Building is boring. Too many people never paid attention, wanted instant gratification or only heard the loudest voices.

I hear diy law enforcement is now ok. Just modify the bill to let any concerned citizen file suit. Let the gestapo deal with millions of pesky lawsuits

In this case apparently it’s “liberal violence” before there’s any indication of the murder motives or affiliation

I never paid attention to the guy in life so was surprised that this is becoming a thing, but on reading his wikipedias entry …. I’d say he deserves partial credit for political violence becoming normalized

But also consider human development. Someone always argues that China has also been building more coal power plant. However it’s reasonable when you’re bringing more of your population out of poverty. China has developed into a modern economy/society far faster than any other country in history and that’s a positive thing even if they rapidly increased energy consumption.

More importantly all indications are China passing peak carbon emissions in the next year or two, far sooner than they committed to. How is everyone else doing on their commitments?

I’m no fan of the abuses of their authoritarianism, but give credit where it’s due: they made some great decisions with renewable energy and followed through aggressively to all of our benefit

I recently watched a video with an interesting point on fracking ……

Graphing wells by cost and longevity of production, new oil wells are not only more expensive but also don’t supply as much or last as long. Each time we pay more to get less and ends sooner.

Technology might continue to make additional mineral resources newly exploitable but the math is not on the side of it continuing to be feasible

He could go out “weekend at Bernie’s” style if he wanted to be most memorable

I can’t blame them for wanting it, but let’s not go there.

Reducing the number of countries with nukes was and still is a good idea. Everyone seems to think that MAD was a reasonable strategy because we muddled through without ending civilization. It is not. It is not foregone. It is not likely. It is way too big a risk for all of civilization.

Politics. Over the years there have been quite a few UN votes where only Israel stands by the us. Supposedly clandestine operations that the us wanted to stand apart from. The alternative would be having to think about why the rest of the world opposed

Wow, what pieces of shit. I had often wondered if it was just pride and sunk cost fallacy, but they’re pieces of shit

Maybe I’m naive but I bought into it at first. Israel did suffer a horrible terrorist attack, their citizens were kidnapped, and terrorists were hiding among Palestinians, so a military response could be expected. But there’s got to be a point where they recognize the harm to innocent civilians, where enough is enough and they’ve long past it for most people. Yet still trying to justify it?

I most don’t get the part at the end about sabotaging port facilities. For this and other renewables there’s some consistency in fighting this weird vendetta. But I don’t get the parts about closing off the possibility of American manufacturing. This seems so contrary to the claimed premise of bringing manufacturing back to this country. This is where they contradict not just reality but also themselves

We’ve hollowed out our economy with decades of outsourcing and it’s valid to do something about it (like with the chips act and infrastructure bills). And MAGAts claim they are. But how is actively sabotaging new manufacturing helping this goal?

Aside from how thin skinned he is, I often wonder if the taco is in the camp of “any publicity is good publicity”. He needs to be talking at people and doesn’t seem aware or to care what he says or what impression he gives. I think his legacy is locked and he will go down in history as the most known, most studied president ever. He may not like the reason though.

Regardless of whether the Trump- Epstein files are released

But that’s not cheap as in frugal, it’s cheap as in contract fraud

I have “good” dental coverage that claims to pay a decent percentage of costs, but it’s of “reasonable and customary costs”. We live in a high cost of living state and it’s just not reasonable. They never seem to include the bus ticket to Mississippi to find someone willing to do it that cheaply.

…… as a parent paying for yet another set of braces where insurance covers “up to 50% of reasonable costs” or more realistically about 20%

This hits me especially hard. My little one had a medical crisis as a baby: Harvard sponsored research over a couple decades turned his condition from 70% fatal to 90% survival. My baby is alive and going to college this year because of this research. How dare they play games with this?

Be tempted to look south my man

It’s not just that: I have a brother who’s not even that conservative but seems to sincerely believe the Gaza protests on college campuses are terrorism and Trump is justified in cutting medical research associated with those colleges

I really hate upvoting such a tragedy but this really needs more attention

I’m reasonably sure my company doesn’t pay attention to websites we click to as long as it doesn’t trigger any alerts but 100% it’s there in case they want to”reasons”

One of my ex-co-workers did get fires with that as the reason, but wtf, don’t you have a phone? Why would you ever do personal stuff on company equipment. Even worse, we sell security software that does this! Did you really think we weren’t using it ourselves?