Just thinking about how critical of a mistake it was to make construction project environmental reviews only count negatives. We don't build infrastructure that would offset or remove environmental harms because building them causes environmental harm, even though it would be completely offset.

This is based on averaging 54 to 60 MPG and the most likely CO2 emissions from that level of efficiency. CO2 emissions and MPG are highly correlated, but not directly calculable from each other.

Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I've got nothing against watching Zootopia 2 and enjoying it, but I disagree with paying for it. Telling them you're going to pay for copaganda and lazy sequels/remakes isn't a good idea.

YouTube keeps advertising videos at me about "no rules F-1 cars". And while I enjoy the aesthetics and engineering of what can be done when you take away the rules, it just kinda hit me... why are you calling it an F-1 car? If it's not following rules, it's not a [insert brand here] car.

It really shows a disconnect between promised life and reality when an iPhone by default cannot be used as a music player for your music. They added so much capability to these devices, but strictly prevent taking your own audio files and playing them with a music app.

At what value of Time does this occur?

Current state of population video. Censored thumbnails are videos that are potentially misleading, so I want to give more context before I reveal them (or cut them) from the script. I'm focusing on notetaking instead of the script today.

Damn, shows how many comics I read recently that it had been this just a week before I went diving for new books and it previously was 22.1%. :D

I am kind of sad that my best video about AI so far was completely suppressed. 27 views. My channel is relatively dead, but that is not the kind of numbers that this kind of video generates. It was suppressed. 100 minimum is the norm for these.

I'm trying to relax because I'm stressing myself too much about various ideas I want to express. I think perhaps it's time to ironically focus on writing more.. as in writing itself. Because when I focus on writing as script writing, it's easy to get lost when overwhelmed.

I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.

Oh fucking great. I just discovered Vivaldi's button to clean up download history ALSO REMOVES FAILED DOWNLOADS. The only reason I was using it is to make it clear what was still downloading and what failed so that I can fix failed downloads, but now it's useless.

I feel like the insistence on relying on academic style citations in video essays alone is a mistake to be corrected. Links to any and everything cited should appear alongside the video. This, and other thoughts from watching hbomberguy's plagiarism video to be placed somewhere else eventually.

I think we've finally reached the point where the hybrid vehicle I drive is emitting more CO2 than the power production used to fuel the average EV.

I've spent most of today on a video about population collapse, overpopulation, and underpopulation.

I see celebration of surveillance from space. I want to join because such tech can improve things for everyone. But I know this is being used to kill random people. And I do mean random. If you look into the criteria used, it's never definitive, or even close. -.-

I've had just a really bad day. The thing capping it off was trying to have a nice quiet dinner only to have the restaurant decide to blare audio of someone's curse-filled deaths threats disguised as a "news" broadcast. Cool. I really needed exposure to vile behavior to end my day.

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

I don't remember if I mentioned reaching 22.10% of my books being read. I've kind of forgot to mention it for a while. But anyhow, I went spelunking in Project Gutenberg so now that percentage has dropped to 20.97%.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.

It's extremely easy to predict the future, as long as you assume no substantial changes like wars and technologies. Of course, then all of your predictions will be incorrect due to wars and technologies.

"Light pollution is a serious problem." Actually, styropyro (Lightbulb Georg), who has this fucking thing, is an outlier and should not have been counted: youtube.com/watch?v=zr-e...

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action. Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions. You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice. The working class has much more power than they think.

I'm re-watching Dan Olson's "This is Financial Advice" and somehow it hadn't occurred to me before that the ideal outcome "Apes" proclaim is literally hyperinflation - where money becomes worthless - but they think they'll be rich when that happens.

Reminder that taxing churches will actually make the hate and white nationalism WORSE because it's the largest churches (richest churches) that encourage this hate, while small local community churches usually do not, and are the only churches that would be harmed by taxation.

Hell yea. :D

Speed running my artist career by drawing both a political comic and Vaporeon inflation in one go.

The Streisand effect but make it stochastic terrorism. You can smell the flop sweat from here.

I just learned that William Shatner appeared on Ancient Aliens. I'm so disappointed.

Jus thinking about how the Animorphs books are my most re-read books because they're short and easy to read and for so many years of my life it was difficult for me to find more fiction I liked (because I was a kid limited to school libraries mostly, and this was before easy digital access).

CHARLOTTE: “More than 20,000 students missed school Monday” Standing up to Trump’s lawless ice goon raids

Extremely misleading. - Scrivener didn't take out an ad. - This is about an opt-in feature that is disabled by default. - The article is explaining the situation so that people who have accidentally enabled this know what happened. - It implies Apple is collecting data, but these options are local.

I'm sorry what? I don't get to choose where fire hydrants are installed, and literally no one can choose to be healthy. What an insane comparison.

A good headline for anyone who still believes mainstream journalism has quality standards. Really weak stuff this week.

I keep seeing "Why did they use AI to make this image if they had to fix it up after?" and I think it's interesting because it highlights a lack of understanding of process. Do they think making something from scratch takes the same amount of time as photoshopping an image? Or are the same skill?

Highlighting the difference between sex and gender by using trans people who have changed their biology to be intersex and then just calling them male and female is so frustratingly stupid.

I am always looking for a better way to prioritize my reading list. My most recent attempt was making a script that randomly pairs two books on my list and I have to choose which one I want to read more. This then does a +/- 1 point for each of them and then prints the top books on my list.

Star Trek Generations is 31! USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D saucer crash sequence, created with multiple plates by the ILM crew:

I firmly believe that at the very least, if the ostensibly very serious people are allowed to advocate for violence on a mass scale, then we ought to be able to advocate for violence against those very serious people. Preemptive strikes on the pundit class could very well save a lot of lives

I keep going back and forth between being happy and upset with Vivaldi as a browser. It's almost stable, and removes most problems with Chrome while keeping all of its benefits and adding useful features.. but just.. built-in ads you can't turn off and refusing to update when I tell it to update....

And now I feel like shit cause I'm just complaining about consumerist shit when the whole consumerist model itself sucks and I'm so lucky to be able to even complain about most of this stuff instead of starving, but like.. I don't think ANYONE should be denied the ability to have enjoyment.

I know for a fact that many things were worse when I was a kid, but I can't help but miss when a thing you bought just worked without requiring some stupid sign-up or extra purchase or configuration, and kept working past its return window.

Never buy anything from JLab. I gave them so many chances because the first several pairs of earbuds I got from them were very good, and I have a speaker from them that's still good. But I'm fucking sick of defective product after defective product.

If I wanted random ads to pop open while I am using a browser, I wouldn't have installed one that comes with a built-in ad blocker. @vivaldi.com

A combination of stupid things brought my service uptime down to 1 nines.

I just didn't expect basic internet connectivity to be a thing I'd lose so much access to. For years, it had been so stable that I started moving all my things to local hosting because there were no foreseeable issues. Now things are just up in the air instead.