Incredible feat. Some of the orbital diagrams were shared on a handle on X[1]. I would love to understand how they came up with this - was this done by humans perfecting it by trial and error or they wrote an optimization program.
"Houthi attacks added at least $175bn to shipping costs in the ten months to October 2024. The entire global container market was worth around $122bn in the same period in 2023. Higher prices for shipping oil and gas, as well as dry bulks like wheat, make the overall bill probably bigger still. For now, shipowners are raking in profits as longer transit times soak up capacity. Maersk, a Danish shipper, reported $3.3bn in operating profit in the third quarter, up from $0.5bn a year before."
Houthi piracy is more profitable for shipping companies! Law of unintended consequences.
Not enough of it, not hooked into the right systems. It works for Elon Musk because he has a lot more and because he controls critical piece of infrastructure (starlink, SpaceX) that the defense industry needs.
Kim also subtly represents a flavor of (classical) liberal populism that is at odds with the neoliberal empire-making much of the ultra-rich engage in. Both make the bulk of their money by exploiting resources that they have a dubious claim to (from a humanistic perspective), but the people that the latter tend to exploit were instead the beneficiaries of his exploitation. Anyone who flips the script like that is going to find themselves in the crosshairs, because it seeds dangerous ideas about what the average person deserves in the way of dignity and material/cultural goods.
He's also not old money or especially supportive of old money; he's just some script kiddy who scammed his way to the top on the back of the kind of confidence that tends to only come when you're built like an NFL lineman but can also read documentation. The seethe is easy to understand.
Money alone won't buy your entry inside the elite circles of the people with real influence.
Joe Biden just pardoned his son from crimes that would have gotten you and me in jail already.
Similarly, your Clintons, Bushs, Blairs, Bidens, Trumps, none of them or their friends and family will ever see a day in jail no matter their crimes. That's influence money alone can't buy. Those are the 1% of the 1%. They can kill or pardon people, start and end wars without answering to anyone.
> How do companies like McKinsey get away with this?
Because of judiciary, regulatory and congressional capture, of course. This means you it's gotten away with unless someone like Luigi martyrs themselves.
Southern Bhutan’s Lhotshampa people, who were 100,000 mostly Hindu ethnic minority were cleansed under the “One Nation, One People” policy aimed at forced ethnic, cultural, and religious cohesion. They now live as refugees in Nepal.
Behind Bhutan's Shangrila facade is a discriminatory policies favoring Buddhists & Drukpa culture remain in place as do discriminatory citizenship laws and restrictions on civil, religious and linguistic rights.
While manu discouraged widow remarrige he advocated for a share of property for a married woman who has an extra-marital affair. The norm the world around at that time was death by stoning.
[1] https://x.com/AJ_FI/status/1883541745243181162