FWIW, lithium prices appear to have fallen sharply over the last year: https://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=li&u=kg&d=240#google_vignette (That's from just a quick google lo… (View Post)

Related to the topic: People have begun to call J. D. Vance a "shapeshifter". It's not a compliment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting (Those looking for a modern fictional descri… (View Post)

On topic; There's another disadvantage to blind oppositionalism: It can allow you to be manipulated by others. I don't doubt, for example, that some in the permanent government used it at least a few… (View Post)

Completely off topic, but I think most of you will like this WaPo story: 'TROON, Scotland — For decades American golfers and golf freaks would come over here and pay a nodding homage to the British O… (View Post)

At another site (Patterico's) "Colonel Klink (ret)" claims that he has known Vance for years, and that JD is nothing like the person Klink has been seeing on TV. https://patterico.com/2024/… (View Post)