wcdobbins.bsky.social
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I wonder how much of metal health toll of social media is the reinforcement of performative negativity causing those thought patterns to seep into other parts of life. I would guess it's not like this on inst, but both twitter & bsky people trip over themselves to be the first cynic on the scene.
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It's just the American term for the descendants of Ulster Scotts in the U.S.
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It's hilarious that it was the DUP, Ireland's loyalist, British nationalist party, who wanted to make a surprise gift for JD Vance with a glossy report documenting his claimed Irish ancestry, and then COULD NOT FIND ANY. The draft report was buried until uncovered by public records requests.
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Calvinball is transparent about its lack of rules. Everyone (Calvin, Hobbes, sometimes Roslyn and Susie) knows that things are made up as they go.
What’s maddening about what SCOTUS does is that it never acknowledges that this is what it’s doing. It says there are rules and does not follow them!
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VC boardroom presentation
"And now: the future of Fintech"
Cartoon clip: "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"
Thunderous applause
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Seems like it's 60% subscribers and 40% advertisers.
www.economistgroup.com/results/2023...
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Elephants?
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The flat refusal to consider tradeoffs in the deep sea mining discourse is... strange. As is, I think it's probably not as bad as bottom trawling (the machines will be moving much slower) but, there are pathways to make deep sea mining's impact to near zero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=crUb...
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The people in that thread claiming happens are presumably getting their info. from orgs like this:
www.centernyc.org/urban-matter...
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Rent control is certainly a benefit for existing renters.
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bsky.app/profile/adam...
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It's too bad you couldn't find any videos of deep sea mining to post.
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Moreover, if these savings were suddenly liquidated and shared with all 8 billion people on Earth, the emissions would *stay exactly the same*. It doesn't matter who owns them.
It's just the share of the world's economic activity represented in their investments and savings.
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Accounting for known effects still leaves a warming ‘gap’ of roughly 0.2°C (doi.org/10.1038/d415...) @climateofgavin.bsky.social
We argue that our planet has become darker, in particular in 2023, because low-level clouds have declined, limiting Earth’s ability to reflect solar radiation. (3/8)
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The left most monitor at first glance looks it's displaying the Eye of Sauron. This raises questions.
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What's that Sauron Cam? Are you watching a live stream of Bar-adur or have zoom calls replaced palantirs?
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rough back of envelope math: if you take the number of primary voters in 2016 as the ‘true’ constituency for Trump (before he became nominee and polarization kicked in), that’s about ~11% of 2016 voters. def not nothing, but that’s a AFD style party in another system, not the Presidency.
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Reality TV producers won't consider casting you for "Milli vs. Gorilli" if it's this obvious you're trying to get cast in "Milli vs Gorilli".
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What's the knock on enhanced geothermal?
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Sure comparing it do doing nothing at all makes seabed mining seem bad. But we're currently doing mining on a massive scale on land so considering the environmental tradeoffs involved in various approaches seems important.
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I'm open to being wrong on higher order questions, but first blush its much less harmful than coal mining on both traditional pollution concerns and carbon. I think seabed mining is quite a bit better than getting our cobalt from DRC on environmental and humanitarian grounds.
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Antisemitism awareness in the "be aware of all your options" sense.
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Yes! With no sound I it thought was a Kate MacKinnon cameo. Doesn't help that the extras around him are trying not to laugh!
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“Why do these halfwit dronelike ingrates hate me so”
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Turns out that was a bad assumption.
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I'm not familiar with the phrase "controlling contingency". Is that a term of art in the domain of eminent domain?
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At least one railroad is onboard, but I'm amenable to eminent domain for the rest.
www.utilitydive.com/news/soo-gre...
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I'm not arguing quadcopters are going catch f-35s in flight (Anti-air drones will obviously look more like rockets than quadcopters). I just think it's wild to confidently assert it would cost 400 billion to develop military drone swarms.
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There are if complications if you want humans to input every change in flights controls, but that's not something we ask of our anti air weapons.
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I think all necessary reimagining will be doable for less than the development cost of the F35.
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Counter Point: multiple companies are currently using thousands of drones simultaneously for entertainment purposes. It's unlikely militarizing these drones would cost 400 billion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIc...
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The US doesn't have the transmission capacity currently, but I think you've got the right instinct. Building transmission lines in the rail ROWs strikes me as a more feasible than expensive trains. Shared ROW suggests the possibility of electrifying much of the rail network as well.
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It seems from the outside like it would solve a lot of permitting/ Nimby issues and yet I first read about SOO Green 5+ years ago and it seems like not much has happened.
soogreen.com
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Yeah that's going to be fodder for the other candidates.