Chet Collins

Tweetbot and Twitterrific updated with option to opt-out of subscription refund – Six Colors

it’s also kind of awkward, given that the money comes out of the pockets of those independent app developers like Tapbots and The Iconfactory, who got just as much of the short end of the stick as their users—if not more so. So for both apps there’s also an option to opt out of the refund.

It’s easy to feel sympathy for these app developers put out of business overnight, but that’s the inherent danger building a business that’s entirely reliant upon one client. Small businesses all over the country have the same problem, go out of business, and get no sympathy.

Unpopular opinion: pro-rated refunds mean that the customer pre-paid for a year of service. The fact that the business assumed that those users would stay a full year and not be due a refund (and already spent that revenue) is not the customer’s fault. It’s a cash flow planning error.

At the end of the day, this was a risky business model and it’s not a surprise that it failed.

Senate Votes 50-46 to Reverse ESG Rule for Retirement Funds - WSJ

Advocates say that addressing climate change, improving corporate governance and encouraging diversity can boost profits.

The data says ESG is another way for Wall Street to fleece the retail investor. ESG funds are proven to be more expensive and deliver lower returns than their peers. Also, no one agrees on was ESG is.

ESG is a marketing play by a desperate industry that got run over by ultra-low cost index funds that deliver market returns. Allowing them into 401k plans will leave American workers with less money in retirement.

Navy to rename USS Chancellorsville for former slave Robert Smalls - Task & Purpose

Implementing the Naming Commission’s renaming plan is expected to cost the Defense Department roughly $62.5 million, according to the commission’s final report.

Biden’s Regulatory Deluge - WSJ Opinion

The Constitution grants the power to make laws to Congress, not agencies. But in calendar 2021, Mr. Crews notes, agencies issued 3,257 rules, including 105 last-minute Trump rules, while Congress passed 143 laws. Last year they added another 3,168 rules in the Federal Register to go with 247 laws passed by Congress. That’s 13 rules from unelected agencies for every one law from elected legislators.

The Gaslighting of East Palestine - WSJ Opinion

Today’s fear is the price Americans are paying for the public-health authorities’ response to Covid. So many things experts claimed in the name of science—from the efficacy of masks to the shortcomings of natural immunity—turned out not to be true. The result is East Palestine, where many ask why they should now believe authorities who assure them the air and water are safe.

Biden Draws Distinction Between Classified Documents Found at His Homes and Trump’s - WSJ

He was apparently referring to a widely circulated photo showing documents that federal agents had laid out; the image didn’t represent how Mr. Trump kept the papers.  

This is the first time I’m getting this information.

Pentagon Spent At Least $1.5 Million on Missiles to Down Three High-Altitude Objects - WSJ

That figure is only for the four AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles used to bring down the objects over Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron. It doesn’t include the cost for Navy, Coast Guard, Alaska National Guard and Canadian forces to search for the debris, which likely will add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cost, the officials said.

Oh, and oops, we didn’t find anything.

And everyone gets to keep their jobs!

The flights used to spot the balloons and eventually shoot them down aren’t part of the cost estimates because the U.S. military considers the flights part of its pilots’ training and has already budgeted those flight hours, the defense officials said.

Yup, just a little unplanned scramble and live-fire exercise outside of designated ranges and airspace. Just your classic, garden variety training flight.

Donald Trump Visits Ohio Train-Derailment Site, in Early Salvo of 2024 Race - WSJ

President Biden was briefed on conditions in East Palestine while he was rallying Europe to Ukraine’s aid in Warsaw, Poland, while former President Donald Trump visited the disaster site Wednesday afternoon.

This derailment happened more than two weeks before Biden left the country. He hasn’t been to the site because he’s consciously chosen not to go. The Transportation Secretary will be there 20 days after the derailment, but didn’t announce a trip until after Trump came and left.

This is why Trump won in 2016, and why he’s still a contender. Politicians are briefed from afar, appearing cold and aloof. Trump is unafraid to get up close and personal and comes off as compassionate and engaged.

Lately the narrative has been the derailment is Trump!s fault because he cancelled an Obama-era rule about train braking systems.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board has said that the brake rule wouldn’t have applied to the derailed Norfolk Southern train.

A narrative that changes the story but is completely irrelevant to the facts.

This exact series events is the quintessential behavior of the political class that put Trump in office and they’re laying the groundwork to do it all over again.

Crypto Still Draws Everyday Investors Hoping to Strike It Rich - WSJ

Some individual investors’ enduring enthusiasm for crypto stems in part from a sense that traditional routes to wealth are blocked off, say investors and researchers who study their behavior. Those everyday investors say that those paths, such as earning income, investing long-term in stocks, and buying real estate, seem less accessible and less lucrative than crypto, even with its significant risks.

Working a job and investing for the long term is less accessible than being a crypto bro?