What are the odds of the optimal deal being reached on Trump's birthday (Eastern Time)? Who knows, maybe US stalled before, and/or gave a little extra concession to conclude today.

You are probably right it was timed deliberately this way, this is why the Iranians also didn't rush it ...

> Iran waited until the clock passed midnight local time to finalize the agreement, because it did not want the momentous occasion to coincide with President Trump’s birthday on Sunday, according to two Iranian officials who could not be identified because of the matter’s sensitivity. The seven-and-half-hour time difference allowed both Tehran and Washington to claim their preferred version of when the deal was finalized. President Trump had said it would be on Sunday, and Iran had said it would be on a later day.[0]

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/14/world/iran-war-trump...

Sure, it is logical that opening a previously restricted or infeasible product space is an easy way to produce business opportunities. Like the legalization of gambling in Nevada.

That cheapest option may not be the cheapest option in the long-term when the next Democratic president would re-activate the devices.

Same reasoning as removal of many post office boxes in last days of Trump 1 term.

The post boxes were more about crippling mail-in votes. In Washington Bill De Joy had at one point dismantled several of the sorting machines which dramatically slowed how fast mail gets dispatched. The result was that you could no longer mail your vote the day before election day and have it arrive on election day.

This is consistent with the very old topic of television as babysitter

Chemistry question: is there any advantage to preempting the possible spontaneous explosion with a controlled explosion? This controlled explosion would happen when the MMA is in a less volatile state, perhaps.

Second question: would it be futile to lift a containment vessel over the tank? Would a containment vessel of sufficient strength be too heavy to lift? For starters I'm thinking of a shipping container...

What about airlifting a containment vessel on top of it? To lessen the impact of an explosion?

I refer you to this excellent literature review of the topic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M9AXXLAonh8

The escalation from a cute firecracker, that's a bit dangerous, to holy hell, that's not a firework, that's a hand grenade is sublime.

Yes, and hard to stop watching. Really want to find out what happens to that steadfast pot.

What if built a containment dome and then filled it with cold water?

water is incompressible. Blast overpressure is way more damaging in it

The distinct categories of building, selling and measuring seem fallacious

I'm going to guess if net energy use goes up, due to a glut of renewable energy, the gaps on cloudy, windless days will result in greater fossil fuel use than before.

There need to be assurances renewables are replacing fossil fuels rather than just adding capacity.

> the gaps on cloudy, windless days will result in greater fossil fuel use than before

How can it possibly, when ""before"" (what dates and countries are we talking about?) was mostly fossil fuel anyway?

Remember that Germany, France, Spain and Poland look completely different in terms of energy mix!

Agreed completely. Other examples: long-distance telephone minutes, shoes, clothing, air travel... probably all cheaper.

Neat, how about adding historical constitutions as well, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constitutions_of_Franc... or the U.S.S.R.?

Adding a temporal dimension is a great idea. It would offer a fascinating perspective on the data by allowing us to track the 'semantic drift' of legal frameworks over time.

Brazil is actually a perfect use case for this: the country has had 7 different constitutions since its imperial era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Constitution_of...). Plotting its transitions through a monarchy, dictatorial periods, and modern democracy—alongside historical texts like the French Republics or the U.S.S.R.—would let us visualize exactly how a nation's priorities shift within the latent space across different political eras.

Thank you for the suggestion! I will seriously consider advancing the project in this direction.