Okay, I just want to point out that if you have been considering an electric car, I would really consider doing that quickly because things do not look good re: oil availability and cost. Used EVs are currently a screaming deal. I have a feeling this will not be the case for too much longer.

I swear there's a huge contingency of the general public which simply has not realized the electricity an electric car needs is the same electricity they already have at home.

welp finally got that new video done youtu.be/mmCfOazZCNQ

“The ICE warehouse jail in Merrimack is not opening. For the people who would have been detained there and their loved ones, this is a real win. It also proves something larger: detention expansion is not inevitable. Everyday people can stop these facilities.” afsc.org/news/how-sma...

OK, so, this was a post complaining about right wing chuds. In the replies, some people seem worried that I'm complaining about trans people engaging in "egg culture" So I'm just going to point out that confusion might indicate that public musings, even when friendly, should be discouraged.

I just decided to check the comments on the renewable energy video again and a ways down there was a comment with plenty of likes and a few replies where people were essentially taking bets on when I'd come out as trans. What is with these weird little freaks?

this is unironically the best case for punitive taxation there are arguments about fairness and freedom and whatever else but at the end of the day it is self-evidently far too dangerous for society as a whole for anyone to have that much money, the end

This would be incredibly easy to foresee for everyone who managed to realize what fuel is and that renewable technologies do not require fuel to operate but y'know thinking isn't popular these days.

Thinking back on one of the weirdo convos that happened on here yesterday, I feel like I need to make sure everyone knows that those of us who think EVs are the future of cars are like... not at all married to lithium. We just think batteries are good! We're open to any kind of battery! In fact,

RIP to the man whose voice burned such phrases as "September Wheat" into my brain.

there's like a 27% chance that Trump thinks the presidential portraits in the White House can talk

If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Adding (this didn't fit neatly into the thread) that this is another reason electric cars seem to me to obviously be the wiser choice when you can make it. I've had my car for four years and after 50,000 miles all it's needed besides electricity is a set of tires and a ~$500 coolant flush.

OK. I'm gonna do something here with this discourse, and it's not ~really~ about cars. It's about the mindset of "I deserve this" and how that preempts the logic parts of the brain in ways which can hurt you. Here's a crotchety old man thread: (1/10)

“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.” That’s because it is. www.science.org/content/arti...

it is the year 2026 and i just had to download a printer driver because windows somehow forgot my printer can print on both sides. computers were a mistake.

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

The stupid levels really are just too high. We should do something about that.

Eligible voters of Illinois: There's less than a week left to register in person to vote in the statewide primary election. You can sign up at election offices through March 17, the last day of primary voting. You can find more information at npr.org/vote

In the wonders of Chicagoland wiring standards, I present to you something which most of you have probably only heard of in code books: the elusive grey neutral wire. Context below:

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

I didn't think when I wrote "Additionally, because oil deposits inevitably run dry, we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly.... and [its] cost can change quite dramatically based on supply and demand" it would be so prescient but, well...

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn: It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.

the combination secondhand embarrassment and general annoyance just pushed my buttons in a very particular way which i really dislike and I will take it upon myself to avoid that.

Look this is repeating a bit, but...

the thing that the Democratic base cannot abide above all else right now is Handing It To Them and being anti-trans is, in fact, Handing It To Them don't do that, it's bad morals and bad politics

Currently helping an elderly family friend figure out if an email is a scam (which it obviously is) and hey, people who make mobile email apps, it's a dark pattern to not make the email address of the sender visible without needing to click on the little arrow thing. Just thought you should know.

This is a great point and I'll add to it by saying a lot of people who claim they get carsick in EVs are really getting carsick because the driver of that EV is using one-pedal driving very badly. It takes effort and fine pedal control to coast/drive smoothly which lots of drivers do not have.

This is not meant as a call out, but I do want to pull this out because I have seen this expressed way too many times. This is good old-fashioned ignorance mixed with a little bit of presumption. Anyone who uses this talking point simply does not understand what the modern car market looks like.

Question: Should those of us who recently made content about renewable energy and made an argument that electric cars should be seen as a national security benefit because we can use energy sources other than oil, um, press on that? Kinda of hard to resist but y'know doesn't feel very kind.

Just heard a red-winged blackbird. I applaud its timing in announcing the first day of March.

Eligible voters of Illinois: TODAY is the online voter registration deadline for the statewide primary election. (And you can register in person at election offices through March 17, the last day of primary voting). You can find the links you need to register and check your status at npr.org/vote

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Pulling this out of the thread because this really is the challenge of social media and quite possibly our time.

people who find those words in statements like this deserve to be blocked

It's all very bad, and I don't want to take away from that reality when I say this, but we've had an awful lot of "I told you so" moments and I'm tired of not saying that so I'm saying it.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Abolish ICE AND CBP

The @techconnectify.bsky.social socks do not disappoint

Following up to a very old video of mine (LED traffic lights and the problem of "but sometimes!") I noticed the shrouds for the red lights at this intersection were suddenly larger than the others.

Cut the check, Donald Trump.

Looking through comments on the latest video, and something stands out to me which we need to talk about: Too many people hear "I think you should vote for Democrats in November" and think I went on to say "that's all you'll have to do and everything will be fixed" Y'all gotta cut that shit out.

We not only can MAKE THE ARGUMENT we must. And it turns out, even in this horrific climate, most Americans already get it:

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Y'all know I talk about Menards a lot. Here is a perfect example of why. So you're going into a hardware store, right? You need a bolt that's a little bit longer than the one you have. But Menards has a grocery section, and if you walk through it, you'll find weird stuff like this.

In a rare and unfathomable W for Google, I can report that they actually managed to get the setup process for the Gen 1 Google WiFi mesh routers correctly ported into the Google Home app. Literally shocking.