DC Statehood Now

It's no secret that Tesla's market cap still eclipses all other automakers. But when you lay out the major players' sales and revenue in chart form, the story is quite telling: www.wsj.com/business/aut...

There is no way to sugarcoat it. Podcast-J is lazy and stupid.

An inability to distinguish descriptive claims from normative claims isn't *quite* the same thing as illiteracy but it's not quite not the same thing, either.

Well I expected the worst but we landed safe and sound at IAD and it’s not thunder storming yet.

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Have a fair detour around this at 38,000’ and it’s a bit bumpy.

Yay, this is right when we’re supposed to land.

Had my first “thanks but no, we absolutely will not discuss how ML works with our power units” from an F1 engine manufacturer. One down, four to go.

Uhh this might all go horribly wrong.

I said it 30 years ago and I’ll say it again today: play this song at my funeral. And you all better get up and move.

The British press has failed the country for more than a decade.

This flight has four different kinds of champagne and sparkling wine and I’m seeing which ones pair best with picked onion monster munch and let me tell you, they do not go well with the Gusborne. 🤢

Turns out the antidote to altitude-induced lachrymosity syndrome is watching dumbass movies like Super Troopers on the plane.

Say what you like about Super Troopers but I will always appreciate the fact that they used a caged 930 Turbo, the Miata in-car sequence is great, and someone involved was also a watch nerd. #wcbs

It took all my self-restraint not to grab my neck and start grimacing when I saw a dude (and not a white dude either) wearing a Kirk t shirt in line with us for the Ferris wheel when we went to the “let’s embezzle $150 million for some plywood and vinyl wrap” America fair.

I do seem to bump into racing drivers at airport security more than you’d think. Today it was Harry King.

Aluminum rimowa cases are far more common at German airports than LHR. London I’m disappointed at your lack of swag.

Fuck yes, I get to go to the Concorde Room today.

Yeah, Mao's Cultural Revolution was a real laugh riot, second only to his successor Deng Xiaoping's Tienanmen Square Massacre block party in '89. Is he the China version of Edward Snowden?

Good.

$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

11 minute headways between Piccadilly line trains is some bullshit, TfL.

every single flavor of live streaming video content seems designed to rot the viewers’ brain and drive both them and the streamer flagrantly insane

"I never would and never will criticize Mao Zedong… one of the great leaders of this world... who changed the entire universe … There was a lot of fucking excess... but China would not exist without Mao." Mao’s rule resulted in 40M deaths.

Congrats F1, you managed to completely ruin Spa. Well done.

As expected, the new F1 power units are utterly fucked at Spa. Now imagine how bad Monza is going to be.

All of a sudden Bsky won’t show me my DMs in the UK, except it did show me them yesterday.

They've had 22 crashes *with* safety drivers in only 12 months, including: 1) 2 minor injuries (1 hospitalized) 2) 18 property damages 3) 12 at-fault crashes (55% of total) 4) 3 tow-aways Human drivers are 3.5x safer. This is history's most elaborate dog-and-pony show. #$TSLA

Stop scrolling and post 2 characters who bring you happiness.

There's a lot I like about this piece, but it did not take anything like an hour to ride the stupid ferris wheel. Maybe 20 min.

"WHERE WERE YOU ON WEDNESDAY?!" - Will Buxton on England or his unsuccessful bait attempt, depending on who you ask #IndyCar

A poster having AICP in their display name is almost as much of a red flag as a poster having multiple emoji flags in their display name.

This poster is a city planner, and so one of the men responsible for the fact that US roads encourage people to speed and are actively dangerous to pedestrians. And yet he's here saying EVs are the active threat. No, buddy, it's the environment you build. Roads that encourage speeding.

These arguments are pure vibes and always lie about the fact that road damage scales at ^4, so the difference between a 1500 kg ICE car and a 2000 kg EV is immaterial when roads have to cope with a 6000 kg ambulance or a 16,000 kg lorry.

Muscovites’ stunned reactions that there can be explosions near them will be nothing like when Californians or New Yorkers see their first re-entry vehicle streak through the sky

One day again, America will wage a war when the USA shares in the direct costs of conflict, and I do not believe Americans are psychologically ready for it.

I miss the days when these conspiratorial losers would talk about "the plan," some nefarious plot to undermine DC by wypipo. Now they're just doing straight racism.

I realize for most people, D.C. statehood is about two Democratic senators, but for the residents of the mainland colony, it's about the ability to govern ourselves.

This sketch is such a banger!

Attention all Wits fans. Jimothy the Seattle raccoon is UNRELATED. Our first use of the name was June 7, 2013, written by @bnacker.bsky.social , performed by @mike-eagle.bsky.social. One of my favorite sketches, with Hannibal Burress. youtu.be/SeExu2Che_A?...

Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.

reading the Stancil haters on here gives me that kind of soul-deadening feeling that I only usually get when I scroll right wing two-minute-hates on X. just a frothing mass of angry cruel people who are angry and cruel for no good reason. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it

This is already a problem, and it's only going to get worse now that the entire public knows exactly what ICE is. The only people who are going to be applying to do this are drawn to the power and violence.

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

The LAPD announced on Saturday that it will not renew its contract with Flock Safety, after an audit found that officers had investigated 161 people within a two-month period whose cars Flock cameras had mistakenly flagged as stolen.

Apollo, the Manhattan Project, the Human Genome Project all say otherwise. Economists are just haters because they know they’re not real scientists and their shit is all made up.

Is Markwayne Mullin a bigoted racist? Yes. Is he incredibly stupid and ignorant? Also yes.

The kicker is that they’re doing it for free because they’re dumb, not for money because they’re spies. Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

No sympathy for these fucking idiots when someone gets too close and there’s a fatal mid-air collision. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.