The latest effort at gaming the system is a circumvention filing by Auxin Solar to the Department of Commerce. Their filing claims that certain solar panel parts originate from countries that should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on their importation. A very similar claim was made and rejected last year, but as long as the system entertains these claims, they will keep coming.
The country in question is Communist China, so there’s likely a very good case to be made that there’s dumping going on.
Regardless, the authors warn that “if the complainant is successful, solar energy will become as much as two to three times more expensive than it was just one year ago.”
And it isn’t like solar was exactly cheap last year.
"The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed," Russia's Sergei Shoigu said, according to TASS. The degraded conditions of Ukraine's military would "allow us to focus our main attention and efforts on achieving the main goal — the liberation of Donbas."
The Russian military seems quite degraded, too.
vxbush
3/29/2022 5:55:15 AM
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In #3 Kosh's Shadow said: The degraded conditions of Ukraine's military would "allow us to focus our main attention and efforts on achieving the main goal — the liberation of Donbas."
Will anyone call them on it, though?
Morning, campers. JCM, I still can't see your #1 image.
Occasional Reader
3/29/2022 5:55:18 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:
now is the time for Ukraine to launch a counteroffensive, and conquer Russia…
Kosh's Shadow
3/29/2022 5:56:31 AM
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In #4 vxbush said: JCM, I still can't see your #1 image.
It is an embedded youtube video. Not sure why that doesn't work for you.
vxbush
3/29/2022 6:31:40 AM
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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: It is an embedded youtube video. Not sure why that doesn't work for you.
I'm on a Mac, and lately YouTube doesn't want to play nicely with embeds.
Pet peeve: Overuse/abuse of the phrase "in real time".
I just had a voicemail from a colleague, in which she asks that we speak "in real time". Well... sure. All my in-person telephone conversations happen "in real time".
JCM
3/29/2022 8:49:09 AM
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Biden's $5.8 Trillion budget only enforces my opinion that the economic destruction by the Biden puppeteers is intentional.
Kosh's Shadow
3/29/2022 8:58:16 AM
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In #11 JCM said: Biden's $5.8 Trillion budget only enforces my opinion that the economic destruction by the Biden puppeteers is intentional.
It was obvious by the two blathering idiot candidates that the goal was destruction of the US.
buzzsawmonkey
3/29/2022 9:07:58 AM
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Reply to JCM in 1:
Only facile fools fight fossil fuels.
vxbush
3/29/2022 9:35:53 AM
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In #9 JCM said: Safari or Chrome? I'm on a Mac too.
Safari.
Occasional Reader
3/29/2022 9:55:30 AM
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In #14 vxbush said: Safari
"One morning I downloaded an elephant in my pajamas..."
to two studies commonly cited by advocates to justify the measure, claiming
the research shows that ethnic studies courses “boost student
achievement over the long run—especially among students of color.” The
studies—one from 2017 by Thomas Dee of Stanford University and Emily Penner of University of California, Irvine, the other a follow-up from 2021
by Dee, Penner, and Sade Bonilla of the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst—purport to show that ninth-grade students who took an ethnic
studies course in San Francisco public schools experienced dramatic
short-term and long-term academic benefits. The studies also make the
stunning claim that the ethnic studies course causes an average increase
of 1.4 GPA points, miraculously turning C students into B+ students.
But the experiment on which these conclusions are based is so muddled, and the data reported is so ambiguous, that in fact they
support no conclusion, either positive or negative, about the effects
of this particular ethnic studies course in these particular schools and
times. Indeed, not even the lead author claims that the studies provide a basis for establishing ethnic studies mandates for all students.
Second, the articles are shrouded in a great deal of highly technical jargon. The methods employed appear
to be highly sophisticated, but the results are cherry-picked, model
checks aren’t made, and the fundamental absurdity of reporting such
large effect size is ignored. One needs to read closely, and to be
familiar with how regression discontinuity analysis is properly done, to readily see the authors’ sudden jumps in logic, and their errors of methodology and analysis.
JCM
3/29/2022 10:35:45 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 14:
In the Safari -> Perferences -> Advanced tab check Show Developer Menu.
In the Developer Menu -> User Agent -> Select Google Chrome Mac.
Restart Safari.
See if that works for ya.
buzzsawmonkey
3/29/2022 10:53:05 AM
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Joe Biden endorses electrickle-down theory.
Kosh's Shadow
3/29/2022 10:55:41 AM
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In #11 JCM said: Biden's $5.8 Trillion budget only enforces my opinion that the economic destruction by the Biden puppeteers is intentional.
And his recent statements about Russia make me wonder if he is being directed to start WWIII. I don't know who would want that. Maybe the Mad Mullahs for the Mahdi, and there are certainly people in the administration who suck up to them.
"But Jen!" said a feisty Peter Doocy, "Don't you think these inconsistent statements could cause World War III and unleash CRT on our kids all at once? Why did Biden have to walk back his statements?"
"We would like to walk back the statement that we have ever walked back any statements," said a frustrated Psaki. "But if you find any statements that we have walked back let me know and we'll circle back later to walk back our walk-back."
JCM
3/29/2022 11:11:17 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 20:
So Babyon Bee is no reporting news?!
I'm mean it's great satire, but it so close to what is actually happening, it scary at the same time.
Kosh's Shadow
3/29/2022 12:03:43 PM
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In #21 JCM said: I'm mean it's great satire, but it so close to what is actually happening, it scary at the same time.
ORLANDO, FL—On July 1st, teachers throughout Florida will no longer be permitted to encourage discussions about sex with children in grades kindergarten through grade 3. Florida teachers have been adamant that they've never encouraged such discussions in their classrooms but they are weirdly outraged that they will no longer be able to.
vxbush
3/29/2022 12:17:42 PM
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Reply to JCM in 17:
Developer menu is already enabled, and I'm sure Google would vastly play nicer if I pretend to be using Chrome.
Lots of information regarding the Russia-Ukraine situation here with citations to articles in some places.
vxbush
3/29/2022 1:01:37 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 25:
Be warned--the author takes an anti-Israel stance:
Not to mention that in the last ten years Israel has repeatedly hit military targets in Syria, Iran and Lebanon to prevent the creation of a hostile armed front on its northern border, and yet no nation has proposed imposing sanctions on Tel Aviv.
A lot of this letter has information I've not seen elsewhere, but this statement seriously annoys me. The tendency for the countries around Israel to try and get rid of it doesn't seem to rise to the level of ethnic cleansing for this guy.
JCM
3/26/2022 3:37:37 PM
Kosh's Shadow
3/29/2022 5:19:30 AM