Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins

And we all know who has the louder megaphone. Secondarily, I think a lot of climate folks think "clean energy is cheap energy, so rile people up about affordability and climate progress will follow." Which just... isn't true. Electricity costs are about poles and wires, not coal/gas vs. wind/solar.

Yeah I'm pretty sure anyone who can handle this shit this calmly will do a better job in government than most.

this world now is almost nothing like i would want! i would like being generally honest and scrupulous to be valued. i would like art to be a kind of human communication. i would like it if police weren't brutalizing my neighbors. i would like affordable coffee, stable meaningful work for people

I think you can extrapolate this outside coding. I saw a presentation a little while ago that went "and the model was able to identify CT saturation!" As if that's not something literally any competent protection engineer can observe at a glance and with a far lower error rate

This is fucking awful, obviously rescinding the offer is the worse part, but if you have any influence where you work, this culture of endless interviews needs to stop. HR tried to change our process from 2 to 8 interviews and thank God Engineering was able to successfully mutiny

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

@upsidedownsmore.bsky.social honestly these look amazing, even better than I expected!

too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

I hate how redditified the Epstein files have become

This whole thread is good but, this is the big thing to know

they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!

So the entire problem is that no one believes the Dem Senate leadership is actually in the fight on the side we want. You can't have unity with someone who is sabotaging you in the open

A quick thread about why the image below and its implications terrify me. My father, for many reasons, was a saint of a man. As he grew older, into his mid 80s, he developed issues separating dreams from reality, especially when waking up from naps.

[stops fighting] “We will keep fighting.” Uhh no fuckface, you JUST STOPPED.

There is maybe one politician I trust less on these matters than Chuck

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

Almost impossible to overstate how damaging it is to successfully excise from your life everyone capable of telling you "no"

Brave patriot

So I think a lot of people remember the blackout of 2003 but I wonder how many are aware of what happened on June 28th, 1998. Because that might actually be an equally important date for understanding Why Is the Power Grid Like This #energysky

lol

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Please check all that apply

i could smell the mustard and the onions

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

He cried on the stand, and through his tears sputtered AND I DON’T LIKE MUSTARD

people have completely memory holed this which is a shame because I don't know that I've seen anything like it before or since. Natalie Maines, performing in London, said she was ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, and in response she and her bandmates had their lives destroyed

Brownout: low voltage, generally not intentional, protection systems will generally not allow you to remain in this condition Rolling blackout: intentionally outaging portions of the system in sequence to prevent catastrophic undersupply What the hell is a rolling brownout???

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I don't think I've ever said this before but it sounds to me like every staff member of this school needs to be fired and the doors closed

"I need your most on-the-nose metaphor. No that's too much"

Manufacturing factory construction investment DOUBLED from 2021-2024. The IRA made clean energy cheaper to make, cheaper to use, and cheaper to build in America. Much of it now rolled back, energy will be more expensive for everyone for the next 10 years. It’s a crisis.

Yep, fucking genius right here

I remember

you would think if Ed Zitron had a conflict of interest about his AI reporting his writing on it would read less like he wants basically every tech ceo to die in a cybertruck explosion

Alas I have made the crucial error of trying to do the nuance thing

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Good thread, if you're talking about the grid in terms of econ 101 you have already screwed up (mostly because econ 101 is propaganda meant to give kids a "neglect air resistance" view of the economy but specifically for infrastructure)

Made this earlier this year

(my broad view is that everyone is trying to find an easy shortcut rather than the more difficult work of building an actual relationship between the party and both the voters it has and the voters it wants)

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

"oh you'll never meet a partner doing [indoor/Internet hobby]" Jokes on you, fuckers, I did

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.