I hugely appreciate that my circuitous career path has allowed me to stumble into flexible load and capacity optimization at just this moment.

We can’t do this in the US because we prioritize expensive jobs for favored groups over cheap energy.

Let me just tap the sign again: What works for them will not work for you. They can say anything they want and get a solid bloc of people to vote for them. You cannot.

Anyone ever play Red Baron as a kid?

Even NIMBY clocks are right twice a day.

Enjoy it while it lasts, Christopher. Judgement day is coming.

wrote about the claim that the D party has abandoned its working class roots. that didn't happen, bec Ds only recently began to fitfully fight for a multi-racial working class. the current D party is the best D party there's been. a low bar, but still. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-democ...

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I really can’t help people if they can’t see that the extremely limited number of highly differentiated impeachments that have occurred in the country’s short history really don’t tell us anything about future impeachments.

If he can illegally change the Department of Defense to the Department of War we can absolutely rename Trump Station to Al Smith Station the moment he’s out of power.

Woke 2 is going to woke so hard. Deloitte - given their huge federal consulting practice - is huge here. The winds have changed and are at our backs, now we just need to set our sails right.

(Eric Adams visiting fortune teller in 2021): "After I'm mayor, is Albany the next step?" "Something like that"

JD Vance tries to call Trump live on stage at a rally for Viktor Orban in Hungary and he gets sent to voicemail twice.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Q: As of today, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? LEAVITT: We expect that the strait will be opened immediately Q: Who controls the strait right now? LEAVITT: *refuses to answer*

Of course he’ll accept bribes because he has absolutely no moral scruples, but the problem with the war was that it was becoming a catastrophe he couldn’t bluster people into treating as brilliant, so instead he switched sides and surrendered and he’s going to try to sell that as brilliant instead

Trump clearly did the reading on rentier states and economic diversification leading to democratization. This was his plan all along.

I’m so tired.

At least we made Kamala Harris feel bad by giving Bibi Netanyahu the American president he wanted. That's what really matters.

Obviously you’ve not been to a place if you’ve only been to the airport, but what about if you take the train through a state? You can spend a long time in a state without ever getting off the train.

The reality is that without international subsidies there are *fewer* spots for domestic students and much less aid. He knows this, of course.

Hot take: Dems should beat this horse until it’s beyond dead.

MLB could never.

That’s not what they’re taking out of the equation - it’s whether your parents were lawful permanent residents. Which makes me assume some of the Indian- and Asian-Americans in the admin probably would no longer qualify as citizens.

I have low expectations but the level of delusion here is unreal. You can’t chicken out if the other party tells you to go fuck yourself. That is not a thing. And why would they say anything else?

All that aside: he murdered the current leader’s father and wife. This isn’t some abstract conflict at this point, it is extremely fucking personal. W invaded Iraq for far, far less, and Trump should live the rest of his days in extremely predictable ignominy for his reckless folly.

I feel like it’s a sign of extreme dysfunction that we have US Senators concerning themselves with any bill for as little as $10 million.

maybe iran should be a bit more sensitive to his undiagnosed adhd ?

Well well well, if it’s not the consequences of my actions.

This is correct. I think the underlying issue this piece kinda of elides tho is that a bunch of Americans online are convinced that they are communists, when they are actually just libertarians who use leftist rhetoric to rationalize their libertarianism.

The fun part about option 1 is that there’s basically no way it involves remaking the global order in a way that’s beneficial to the United States.

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

Here’s the thing: this isn’t even about treaties. The country’s entire leadership was assassinated, and yet the same leadership is still in place. There’s no normalizing to be had here for a long, long time.

It was a glitter bomb.

hey what if instead you called them out for being genuinely unethical and terrible people in a creative and hyperbolic ways that leveraged social media virality and the press' obsession with platforming engagement controversy

Sounds like the GOP is going to light a whole bunch of money on fire.

Very easy to avoid this by simply not getting a fridge with a screen to beam ads into your kitchen.

The business community is going to start to yearn for the halcyon days of December 2024 (even if the billionaires’ brains are cooked).

I feel like the most likely outcome here is jacked up goons slowing down the security process and hassling families on their way to Disney World.

sometimes i think about the CISA seminar i had to go to one time pre-Trump and the very real fears of the Iranians hacking the power grid

It’s very funny that when finally confronted with the second-order effects of his terrible decisions he thinks doubling down and doubling down again will somehow allow him to wriggle free of consequences. Or it would be, if we weren’t all going to suffer as a result.

I think the worst part about this story for me is that you know Elon was cackling as his son was a total dick to the server.

This traffic violence hits close to home, in Harlem a few blocks from where I live. I’m curious whether the driver gets to keep his license after he “kept hitting the gas pedal”, running into multiple vehicles and - it seems - killing at least one pedestrian. pix11.com/news/local-n...

The energy transition can be accelerated. We have the technologies. Right now, we can use the oil/gas we have more efficiently. We've done this before — after the 1970s oil shocks, OECD countries slashed oil intensity dramatically. The technology exists. The economics work. Now we need will power

My grandfather, in writing a book about the myth of redemptive violence, included an anecdote from when I was five when I told him “the good guys always win”, serving as an example of both childish innocence and how deep the myth goes. Note that I was five.

This is right, and to say otherwise is a form of dooming in the same way that “we’ll never have elections again” is a form of dooming. Alliances ebb and flow but are, ultimately, pretty sticky, particularly when they’re paired with deep cultural ties. The status quo is pretty sticky.

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

Lol.

If they’re going to be the way they are they might as well just wear Yankees jerseys.