The NYT buries articles like this using non-prominent placement. Try finding it on their website without using the search tool

The switch won’t be instant though. There will be a lot more suffering from this kind of unplanned shift than there would have been from the kind of planned one environmentalists have been advocating for

Looks like the gift link ran out https://archive.ph/bOGqj

Trump’s Greenland thing is a multi-year obsession, not a one-off

It’s not quite as bad as his obsession with attacking Iran, which goes back into the 1980s, but it’s long-lasting enough that it’s not safe to count on it just going away.

There’s a lot of evidence that it has not moved elsewhere. Let’s look at New York City for example: reducing car traffic inside the zone cut pollution outside the zone by reducing traffic there too

There are very narrow examples where what you describe isn’t impossible, but they tend to involve all-coal electric supply combined with first-generation electric vehicles. Eg: West Virginia 20 years ago.

Just that they weren’t deployed in a way that prevents a pilot who knows where the mines are from avoiding them. In the 1980s, tankers regularly transited despite a risk of mines.

Still makes a lot of sense to me that they’d try to deploy at least some mines; needing an Iranian pilot to get through the strait would provide one more advantage.

Land mines are still getting widely used in Ukraine despite there now being drones. Why is this any different?

It still makes a lot of sense for them; a set of mines which Iran knows the location of would be pretty dramatically to their advantage, just as it did in the 1980s.

Because:

• It’s cheap
• It’s effective
• It’s hard for the US to prevent
• They haven’t gotten takers on their safe-passage thing

It seems to all be anonymously sourced. Still, the kind of thing I’d be really surprised if Iran didn’t do

Fwiw the US only imports about 5% of its nitrogen fertilizer use.

I believe it is mostly nitrogen fertilizer that’s in short supply, not potassium.

Yeah. It imposes a huge set of risks for leadership if that surveillance system is compromised.

Turns out it had a view count limit that I didn’t notice. Here’s an archived copy; not a completely trustworthy archive, but they seem to be accurate on this one.

I think it’s more like Thiel looking for any reason whatsoever to take down Gawker.

There are regular protests outside their main engineering office in Palo Alto.

Yeah, archive.today came out of gamergate, so there’s a very good chance that the owner sees their mission as being to help jumpstart fascism. In a world where the truth is paywalled but the lies are free, becoming more useful on the left might have been a real problem for them.

The problem that web.archive.org and ghostarchive.org both have is that they regularly fail to archive content

The problem is that those areas are in the subtropical dry zone, where water constraints mean we won’t see sustainable large-scale agriculture.