I'm confused about a stock market thing. Why aren't 9 month oil futures contracts higher than current prices? If the situation in the Strait isn't resolved, that's the latest possible time the Strategic Petroleum Reserve runs out. Prices must rise then or earlier when rationing is imposed.

An interesting side thing from Peter Thiel's meltdown the other day is that he said the DSA taking over the Democrats are a real threat but the Republicans don't matter because they'll do what he wants. While you should never believe anything he says, that should elicit a "hmmmm".

Make Musk personally liable since he pierced the corporate veil thoroughly enough the way he blended his companies together. Then apply civil asset forfeiture to take the infrastructure that made Grok possible—which according to his own declarations includes SpaceX and Starlink.

Before currency was a thing the bottom 95% had, taxes were paid using the corvée system. You were obligated to perform some labor for the state. 1 day in 10, 2 months a year, or a few years early in life. National service is a new tax that only applies to one of the poorest groups: young people.

Until I read the new #Trickcal event about Barong, I'm going to assume the plot is the same as Jonathan Coulton's song Creepy Doll. music.youtube.com/watch?v=oGWa...

EXTRY, EXTRY! C.I.A. OVERTHROWN BY RIGHT-WING COUP! IRONY LOST ON ALL INVOLVED! EXTRY, EXTRY!

As a bonus fun fact, Thiel also illustrated that he knows enough about the Lord of the Rings to misunderstand it even harder than a Wikipedia summary could mislead. He cites Pippin accidentally touching the Palantir leading to Sauron getting tricked as proof it was good.

You want to know how desperate Americans are for anti-fraud, anti-scam, and anti-con legislation and enforcement? Even the right wingers at Project 2029 want it to be a centerpiece of the Democratic agenda. Even rich assholes who hate the American people recognize that you have to do something.

With her module, Ifirt S3 applies two burn debuffs. But the meteor and stun makes me think this is Skyfire Alter.

One of the key doctrinal differences they object over is whether all Jews bear collective guilt for executing Jesus. Since Vatican 2, Catholics aren't allowed to believe that. It's hard to get more antisemitic than believing all Jews must be punished for killing Jesus.

I spent far too long arguing with someone who insisted Tom Nichols is a liberal. Honestly, that's on me. Someone starting at that position is too dumb to be reasoned with.

1 water bottle per person with only 4 water stations to refill them, no chairs, no umbrellas, an AQI so bad to require n95 masks. If their goal was to kill Trump voters, they wouldn't change much.

I do appreciate that the National Park Service is recommending people wear n95 masks to the event (and potentially for days afterwards).

Non-pet owners greatly underestimate how much of their life will be spent stopping your pet from killing itself if you get a pet. I have heard it's the same with babies. Why are politicians in this category?

People are going to die at the 4th of July thing based on the rules published. No coolers, no chairs, no umbrellas, no outside food & drink except bottled water, and guests must arrive before 6 PM. That means a minimum of 4 hours in 90+ temperatures. Then fireworks move AQI well past 300.

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

One of the reasons that I suppose the congressional apportionment amendment is that it makes putting all of congress in the same few buildings impossible. It forces them to spread out so they can get more staff.

In 1994, the medical journal Diabetes Care published a paper explaining the trapezoid rule for integrating under a curve. Neither the author, reviewers, nor editors noticed that Newton and Leibniz had already published this a few centuries prior creating a thing called calculus.

They are limiting the "Conversation Focus" feature to 3 hours per month or 15 hours if you pay $20. The feature is entirely local. It uses the on board mic, on board compute, and on board speakers to make spoken word louder. It's like a heated seats subscription.

The name of the new #Trickcal spin off game is "Trickcal Patima", not Fatima. Korean doesn't have labio-dental consonants so the letter F only comes from transliterations. All the websites talking about it are relying on a machine translation that saw 파티마 is also how you write Fatima.

Wait, I genuinely thought this book was killed when Democratic consultants said it was bad to run on "vote for us and you won't have a roof over your head" during a housing crisis. Has this DSA thing gotten them so scared they are willing to throw their own moderate/centrist advisors under the bus?

Let's expand this DSA surge to a gubernatorial race. Vote Francesca Hong in Wisconsin!

It's great that he says this but hospitals in his state are violating Illinois law protecting trans people to appease Trump. Pritzker himself has pledged to sign the "Children's Social Media Safety Act." currently on his desk. He's better than most Dems but he's still bad.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

Someone pointed it out yesterday but this whole thing is an anti-event. If Trump did literally nothing, more people randomly walk around the mall on any given day. He has found a way to decrease attendance.

SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that trans people are not entitled to the equal protection clause. Any effort to "unpack" the court must recognize that we have 9 hostile justices making right wing rulings. Yes, even KBJ.

We all know the only thing that will fix the Supreme Court, right?

Conservatives don't believe in living constitutionalism! the constitution is dead dead dead! they believe in UNDEAD constitutionalism. It's very different bsky.app/profile/kate...

Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Move over Wire Mother, welcome Wire Mommy

Thank you, @pocan.house.gov for voting against this awful bill that gives the worst people on the planet more power by de-anonymizing the internet. I only wish @baldwin.senate.gov understood this bill hurts so many vulnerable people.

Part of the problem here seems to be that the people selling gasoline recognize that $68/barrel isn't what it's going to cost once markets eventually realize there isn't enough oil for everybody at that price.

I'm sorry. In My Adventures with Superman, Giganta is also "the Distortionist" who has the power to arbitrarily rearrange anyone's body? 🥺 👉👈

These are literally proposals from Project 2025. Everyone framing this as Republicans do X (evil) but Democrats do Y (ineffectual) is missing the point. This is the clearest example yet of Democrats and Republicans being on the same team. This is your smoking gun!

Well, Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation. Why wouldn't the Democratic version also be written by them?

People constantly describe Israel as the only democracy in the middle east and that's simply not true. DAANES (formerly Rojava) is a multiethnic secular democracy with protections for minority and women's rights. It's clearly a work in progress but it's still a democracy.

I want to send something to my senators opposing KOSA but last time I did, Ron Johnson sent me the more respectful reply when his form letter told me to fuck off. At least he was honest that his motives were hurting LGBT+ people. Baldwin bragged about being a co-sponsor and gaslit me in hers.

A Lego master made this actual Gail minting and it’s making me so happy!

The Arknights×My Little Pony collab still feels like such a shit post, but this would still be an instabuy for me at $50.

One of the reasons transphobes oppose puberty blockers or just giving trans kids the hormones they need is because those trans kids will grow up to look indistinguishable from cis adults. That breaks the transphobe brain.

I started watching MAWS with my mom. And, of course, mom is super interested in Mallah and The Brain. She just loves monsters so much.

gay stuff

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

No... A 50 state tour! The Great American Fair should be available to all Americans. Bring Wisconsin cheese sculptors, an Iowan corn maze, and Maryland crab ravers around the country so everyone can see what makes all of America great instead of putting on a show for DC.

If we really wanna fix this, March 4th 1789 was the day the US Constitution went into effect. Need to keep it in the summer? June 21st 1788 is when it was ratified. The country didn't exist in 1776. It's a dumb day to start counting.

We tried that in the US. It failed horribly. Teaching students to identify characteristics of disinformation while remaining ideologically neutral simply caused bad actors to adapt. The emphasis on "critical thinking" also backfired. Turns out, you have to teach facts and that's unpopular.

@iwriteok.bsky.social , can you tell if these numbers are reasonable? I'm seeing a lot of criticism of them in the replies but I don't know anything about this stuff.

At least part of this is campus IT being unprepared. Even when I was teaching, I asked them to block external internet traffic on the lab computers during an exam so students could view approved references but not Google the answers. They weren't even able to provide traffic logs after an exam.

It's a shame these guys killed IoT. I genuinely liked the convenience of motion activated lights and being able to shout at my alarm clock to make it shut up. But they have destroyed that ecosystem to squeeze out pennies in ad revenue and subscriptions.