Went out last night with an old friend for what started as dinner and turned into a 6 hour venture. As such things do. Also, no hangover, which is an unqualified win at my age.
Inputs
1: An interesting quandary I hadn’t thought of before, that the Jones Act is negatively affecting offshore wind farm building because the US doesn’t have a steady manufacturing supply of the specialty ships to build the windmills. The Jones Act, star of every post-hurricane story for its impediment to supplying and rebuilding because we’re happy to let globalization into every part of our economy except our shipping to ourselves, which, 🤷♂️.
A telling quote for how dumb this all is:
No existing WTIVs1Wind turbine installation vessels comply with these restrictions, barring them from transporting wind turbine components to installation sites from nearby US ports.
Instead, these vessels must use a workaround. One method is operating out of a foreign port, such as in Canada. Another is for the vessel to position itself at the installation site and have the needed components transported to it by Jones Act‐compliant “feeder barges.”
https://www.cato.org/blog/jones-act-contributes-offshore-wind-growing-pains
I’m sure there are specific reasons to keep the Jones Act in place, but they’re growing increasingly asinine in a globally connected world.2I’m also very aware I’m linking to the Cato Institute, which does not exactly have the most even perspective on such things, but on this they and I are in some form of alignment.
2: Got a notification from Once that their first product, a you-buy-it-you-own-it distro of Campfire, is available for purchase. Once, from Jason Fried’s 37signals team, is fighting against the tide of SaaS and turning life into a subscription to everything, which is both a noble cause and one I sincerely hope succeeds. While I don’t, at present, have a real strong use case for hosting my own chat software, I’m still tempted to buy it to support the mission.
3: Hahahahahahaha, get fucked buddy.
Notes:
- 1Wind turbine installation vessels
- 2I’m also very aware I’m linking to the Cato Institute, which does not exactly have the most even perspective on such things, but on this they and I are in some form of alignment.