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Houstonian, native/edible gardener, energy nerd, sourdough baker, city/transportation enthusiast, (long-suffering) Miami Hurricanes and (spoiled rotten) Astros fan, dad
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IMO the only way to effectively address this problem (along with a whole host of other problems that will be impossible to "get back in the toothpaste tube") is with a new constitution. Our country is running on an outdated OS, this is just the result of novel exploits of inherent vulnerabilities.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Completely unfair how FAFO applies to doing laundry.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I can certainly understand how elected Democrats could arrive at the strategy of giving Rs enough rope to hang themselves by allowing them to wreck the federal government and the economy and hope an incumbent party that has just materially made everyone's lives worse gets rocked in the midterms.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

It's actually unbelievable that we don't require a CDL to operate a machine like this on public roads.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure why I put PLEASANTVILLE (1998) on our list but it holds up surprisingly well. Honestly did not remember it getting so...relevant.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Really glad I didn't roll the dice to try and give the tomatoes and summer flowers a head start in the beds. 🌱

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

There's a small contingent of people online who get angry when you say this but: Wikipedia is unquestionably the most successful utopian project of the internet age, and its destruction would be a crime against humanity

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

I gotta admit, seeing this level of open corruption goes a long way towards explaining why the Imperial stormtroopers' gear in Star Wars turned out to be completely useless the first time some stone-age teddy bears started throwing hands.

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

The Financial Times is recuiting for a Houston correspondent- energy will be a key focus- but also the Texas economy and migration- apply here job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is literally the only special character I know the alt code for (alt+0151)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Watching the halftime show again I'm kinda struck by how it was really staged, shot, and performed like a music video more than a live performance. Totally apart from the content I think that made it feel categorically different from any SB halftime show I can remember.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

minorrrrrrr

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Free speech baby

submitted 20 days ago • 427 comments

OH NO! DISASTER!

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

submitted 21 days ago • 107 comments

In fairness the tax prep services have been huge SB advertisers for decades, but it hurts when you imagine an alternate universe where the Internal Revenue Service runs its own SB ad for Direct File once it was live for all 50 states.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A great example of my cardinal rule of covers: a creative reinterpretation is almost always better than a faithful reproduction, assuming the listener is familiar with the original.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

A great example of my cardinal rule of covers: a creative reinterpretation is almost always better than a faithful reproduction, assuming the listener is familiar with the original.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

“we should run government like a business” “which one” “Theranos”

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Setting aside the risk of the feds nuking it, I also haven't seen discussion of the conflicting goals of NYC Congestion Pricing. Its utility as a traffic reduction policy comes directly at the expense of its utility as a revenue source. Could also require more spending if drivers switch modes!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Some friends noticed that they can’t download U.S. Census TIGER/Line spatial files this morning. Hopefully this is just a temporary issue. In the meantime, I suggest using the IPUMS National Historic GIS database. They have both the census data and the spatial files you would probably need.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trump seems to be making a lot of big threats, and exacting a lot of concessions (or at least the appearance thereof) by relenting or delaying consequences he may not have ever intended to actually inflict. Meanwhile Elon is in the back room executing all the hostages.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment