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Might have been performative in part but net migration was negative for the first time in 50 years which will have a long term negative impact on our economy in many ways given the demographic bubble we are in as well as general brain drain tend we are seeing.

White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Friday night that Trump “reversed course on Joe Biden’s costly green energy agenda that gave preferential treatment to intermittent, unreliable energy sources and instead is aggressively unleashing reliable and affordable energy sources to lower energy bills, improve our grid stability and protect our national security.” Rogers added in a statement to AP that the administration “looks forward to ultimate victory on this issue.”

Orsted said that at a time of growing energy demand, Revolution Wind will provide price certainty and stability, citing a preliminary analysis by the state of Connecticut that estimates it will lower wholesale energy costs by about $500 million per year by 2028.

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Orsted began construction in 2024 about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of the Rhode Island coast. The wind farm has 65 of the 11-megawatt Siemens Gamesa turbines, and more than 1,000 people have been working on it.

And this: https://cupblog.org/2026/03/02/trump-plays-directly-into-chinas-version-of-reality-thomas-colley-and-martin-moore/ which is a whole different argument.

And China, even withwirh their downturn is the player the US should be focused on. Fuck Iran. If anyone remember that old adage that Yamamoto was worried about with the US, being an industrial might capable of pivoting faster than Japan could even imagine. This is now China and not the US. We can build one carrier at a time, they have built 3 in a similar time. They have built an entire interstate and high-speed rail system in twenty years or so. Their military isn’t the professional capability of the US, but they keep stealing plans and buying trainers so they might be in a few years, and they are massive.

Oh and they want Taiwan. As in Xi has said we will invade Taiwan to get it back.

So why the fuck is the US playing with Iran when it was self-destructing? Grrrr.

This is a great question and one that is worth diving into a bit, but not necessarily by me. There are a plethora of answers here with some insightful and some less so backgrounds. I suggest that you dig into some outside sources and potentially you can work through the complexity of the answer, as history often is.

I’m sure others have some great references as well, but given this crowd I’d suggest some youtube videos. I also suggest some recently written long form articles in foreign affairs which is always good for understanding context, as well as a few books.

RealLifeLore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kSGH4I8Ps - Why Iran Regime is Failing (Water, economics, and more.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3l5bCGjqLE - Why It’s So Hard to Defeat Iran Militarily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmvB7KW7WJA - How The US & Iran Became Arch-Enemies

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytfhLUy0Fg - How Israel Checkmated Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuFGyFLehNw - Why Russia’s New Axis is Way Dumber Than You Think

Also Foreign Affairs has some good long form pieces: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/why-iran-will-escalate https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/trump-iran-gamble-vaez https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/what-it-will-take-change-regime-iran https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/americas-best-chance-transform-iran-trump

Book wise I recommend:

Worlds Apart: A Documentary History of US-Iranian Relations, 1978–2018 by Malcolm Byrne and Kian Byrne - offers a meticulously curated collection of declassified documents tracing pivotal moments in bilateral tensions, including the Iranian Revolution and nuclear negotiations

Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari - examines America’s Cold War hegemony, the shah’s regime, the 1979 Revolution, and Trump-era escalations, including the 2025 US-Israel attempt at regime change in Tehran

Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons by David Albright - uses Mossad-seized Iranian documents to detail clandestine weapons efforts, assassinations of scientists, and cyberwarfare like Stuxnet

I empathize with your off-topic comments, but I think it has much to do with the context of information today. Trump himself is trying to drive any comments of Epstein away by distraction and events. This is one paper on the topic. So many people are throwing the references in as an eye to defiance, anger, frustration, and as part of a trend. If the idiocy in charge wants to distract us, then more than ever we need to stay focused on why he wants to distract us.

That being said, it does have unintended consequences and is not necessarily the best way to handle this. However this new generation hasn’t really had a civil rights, suffrage, British tea party, or even just Arab Spring event to use as a baseline to make change in this entirely digital world now. People are still trying to figure out how to push, have a phone that causes attention distraction, live pay check to pay check, etc. Which is to say organization and protesting is still figuring itself out, so you get ‘release the files’ as a call to arms everywhere.

Going to guess this is a Windows question and you are thinking GUI. In that case I’d suggest the older https://checksumcompare.sanktuaire.com/downloads-en as it’ll do what you ask for visually.

There are a plethora of ways to do this in Linux on the CLI, TUI, and GUI, which is what most answers will likely lean towards given this community. If your apt toward that then start with https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/330933/diffing-two-directories-recursively-based-on-checksums

Ah, https://github.com/IsThisMeta/zagreus interesting. Looks like it’s in a similar state as the OP, but worth tracking.