The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Related: How does one politely explain to an electorate that they are about one more demand for a treat away from not even being able to walk 4 miles to a store to spend 23% of their income buying rice and beans.

The correct response to this stupid populism remains "we must cleanse the government with holy fire." It just indicates that some flammable deposits in need of cleansing fire aren't in the GOP overtly doing fascism.

Cost of housing, cost of medical care, cost of childcare. These are necessities. All are *VASTLY* more expensive than in the 80’s. 50” TVs are luxuries. As a society, we have become very good at providing luxuries. We are shit warmed over at providing necessities at prices people can afford.

cosign just about every word of this article, especially this: www.geesemag.com/articles/aoc...

The problem with LLMs is that we have made a machine that makes all the nails you might want but (predatory capitalist wet dreams notwithstanding) we are going to continue to need master blacksmiths for the foreseeable future.

congratulations to trump and bibi for starting a war and immediately making the iranian regime the strongest and richest it has been in its entire history incredible, world-historic geopolitical fuckup

“do you blame human greed on the invention of money” Yes, in fact, because money made it practical for an individual to hoard wealth to a degree that is not possible when hard goods and land are the only meaningful forms of wealth.

The MAGA project is one of genuine racial feudalism. Inequality of persons and the enshrining of hierarchy isn't some accidental outcome but the very purpose. That's why everything is on the table: de facto abolishing the Fourteenth Amendment, abolishing women's suffrage, slavery, all of it.

Holy fucking shit. This is mid-thread. The protein in question comes from freaking TARDIGRADES.

On any given issue, the actions of the Nazi regime come down to Wilhoit's Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

there is some tension between jamming your subpar AI into every single one of your products and your OS along with making once-in-generation investments into it while specifying in your terms and conditions that it’s a non-essential toy, tbh

''It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.'' -John Kenneth Galbraith

It's a useful heuristic that if a message is beneficial to people with a lot of power to generate or amplify messages it needs to be viewed with some skepticism. It might be true under an authoritarian regime "The opposition party is evil and their actions are futile" but, also...

Chuck Schumer sits at 17 percent approval...he drags all Dems down with him. He is not made for the era of Trump that we live in today. Schumer steps down as Minority Leader and it will be a fund-raising bonanza for the Dems...

The replies in this are really worth reading for a cross-section of the places where there are big gaps between public understanding and expert knowledge.

Buying fire engines that fit the city you want is cheaper than building your entire city to fit the fire engines you have. This is true even after taking staffing costs into account.

Free public parking is bad

Peter Pan syndrome and not in a cute way.

This is the ONLY thing that matters (other than not actually getting in bed with Nazis - looking at you, Maine).

For all the talk of the left's vision of manhood (or supposed lack thereof) it's important to note that the modern right doesn't have a vision of manhood so much as a dream of perpetual adolescence.

"It's absolutely wild how the Declaration's list of grievances read like a list of Trump's second term actions. Genuinely uncanny" Huge agreement with comrade @deep-chicken.bsky.social

For real. Excellent dogs, dope signs, weed moms, wine dads, choirs, preachers, punks pushing a sound system playing cypress hill, brass bands, kids in sequin fairy dresses, goths w/ parasols, ppl wearing frog hats, + more, all united by the singular feeling of being completely fed up.

Biofuels are a bad idea.

The biggest loser of them all.

The signs at these marches are getting a little more... pointed.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Look I’m an old leftist punk that brawled with nazi skins and I have literally nothing in common with these people but when I see a soccer mom with a Trans Kids Belong sign screaming FUCK ICE at the top of her lungs I whole heartedly welcome my unlikely new comrade

If you've got a better plan shut the fuck up, gather your legions, and go do it.

Something about horses and barns and when it make sense to close the door…

On brand.

Very important for anyone who hasn’t decided that giving up is easier.

People on the left are saying Trump has installed an authoritarian regime when he is merely *trying* to install an authoritarian regime and has partially succeeded. This distinction is far more important to highlight than anything the president is doing

The latest at @volts.wtf gets into the actual shape of the AI-boom-induced “energy crisis” and its a whole lot more complex (and hopeful!) than the public discourse lets on. (TLDR a lot of it is not lack of capacity, but outdated utility and regulation models.) www.volts.wtf/p/for-data-c...

I want billionaires taxed until they can no longer afford to fund it out of their own personal assets. This is my prescription for AI, for climate change, and for galloping fascism. One weird trick does them all.

Once pop culture has aged enough, it becomes high culture. Which makes me shudder to think what will pass for high culture in 100 years. (Not actually. Most likely we’ll be too busy trying to survive on a climate-wrecked planet to care about high-overhead art.)

the simple truth is if Trump collapses then so does the Epstein class which rules us and i don't mean, "if Trump dies" i mean if the veneer is finally ripped away and he can no longer be acknowledged as anything but the senile pile of failures he's been his entire life

they want what he's got, and they want it to keep going Trump is emblematic of not just our current state of affairs but the past DECADES a gilded idiot coasting on an unearned reputation, propped up by those who benefit from his clout on account of simple proximity to it

I would argue that Trump is an accelerant of this phenomenon, however, and not a root cause. The real roots run far deeper, and their existence allowed Trump to be in the position he is in now, and do the damage he is doing now.

It's one of my favorite forms of protest. You have plausible deniability and can get real fucking creative. Even a slow walk infuriates mwhaha

Um, yeah, that would be the dementia manifesting

67/ Cannot talk of the US as one entity when it comes to fuel. "New England heats with fuel oil. The Southeast heats with electricity. The Midwest heats with natural gas. Same country, completely different energy systems. Every county in one map:" ht John Bistiline x.com/JEBistline/s...

Forget soup thrown at paintings, Ukraine is showing how you truly Just Stop Oil.

“These folks” are not fit to participate in society.

In so, so many ways…

That and people realizing cops in metro areas have largely been on a wildcat strike since 2020.

Thanks to Donald Trump, well-known for his opposition to personal automobile ownership. (Truth is, I think he does object. He thinks only billionaires should drive, and the rest of us should push.)

Gas prices, welcome to The War on Cars.

2026: the year of "no really, your national security depends on aggressively switching to all renewables as quickly as possible"

I assume Disney realized that there was no way to get it to stop making porn of their characters