Hey Econ profession, is fiddling with the econometric data a *good* sign for a nation's future prosperity?

AP News

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

Go get 'em, @npub1wpvz...rz2s

Most of the damage Musk can do now is premised on his wealth, which comes back to Tesla. This is gonna be a bumpy ride, but to all my EV-loving peeps who aren't down with the fash, I salute you:

InsideEVs

Tesla Sales Are Tanking Across The World

Blame the Musk Effect, declining EV subsidies or all of the above. But Tesla

Have been told by co-workers that I need to be more prescriptive and less *"you should learn your system and respect users at the margins"*, so with that in mind, a short list of things that should never be in the critical path of a new website in 2025: - React - "CSS-in-JS" with a "runtime" - Redux - Apollo - Lottie - MSAL.js - Polyfills for classes, promises, or generators - core-js, Underscore, or Lodash - Node's Buffer - Moment.js - zlib.js

A truly shocking fraction of the JS community is carrying as if nothing has happened back on the hellsite. Negotiating with myself how to feel about that (and them) is increasingly easy and final.

You are about enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mindlessness. Consider one Mr Alex Russell. He has a headache. He senses something off, but he can't put his finger on it. He's looking at web page. With a carousel. And some links. As is the style, it has three copies of React (3), between the document and two (2) iframes. None of which is shared. It's served as 200 requests across 40 connections. Or at least it's the style...in **the Twilight Zone**