Circling back to this, my main take-away was:
If we were able to get solar PV off the ground with a feed in tariff, why don't we advocate for juicing the alternative meats market with a meat-in-tariff?
I have a lot of ideas:
PV
wind
geothermal
nuclear
batteries
EV trucks, cars, and bikes
Dense, walkable cities
Transit
Home and industrial heat pumps
Weatherization
Demand response and VPPs
I'm extremely optimistic about the centrality of innovation because of its ability to change social and policy opportunity.
I question whether there are really many people fitting the very extreme definition used by that paper.
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If techno-optimists are "people who believe technology alone is needed to address climate change", then what do you call it when someone, like me, believes that zero-emissions innovations approaching price and performance parity unlock new social and political frontiers? A sociotechno-optimist?
Sincere question: if you are not a techno-optimist, why write about the social and political possibilities unlocked by your electric bike or the battery in it?
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
If one little fact could describe everything in the world, this could possibly be it.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
I've seen pictures of Isaac Chotiner, but I am still convinced he must look like this.
I mean the only way you can get to (c) is by Surah al-Baqarah ("Wherever you turn...") 🤷🏻♂️
Ah, the Merz-Chintz summit I see.
This is, frankly, exactly what it looked like. Good of them to admit it.
My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.
It's a Milkshake Turducken
(H/t @kbeninato.bsky.social)
Distraction turducken.
This administration went into Iran like it was camping in grizzly country... in tents and paranoid.
"Nominative determinism is bullsh..." [holds finger to earpiece]
"Wait, scratch that."
just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.
you have until March 23rd to comment.
i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.
Grateful to @newrepublic.com who asked for my immediate thoughts in Trump’s attack on Iran.
In short, the demand for nuclear weapons is about to go way up. If you do not have nuclear weapons, you are vulnerable.
newrepublic.com/article/2071...
If you hear people complaining, remind them that Dems offered to split out ICE and CPB and fund everything else, including TSA. Republicans said no.
Today's dinner special: your hat.
This is the way!
(but laudatory)
Under Trump I, I waged an utterly futile war to expunge "huge" from conversation.
Wow this slaps. Apparently the judge riffed it.
👀👀👀👀
You've got to hand it to them, (to be) "Yoon, again" is a hilarious slogan.
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
I mean that this may be an extraordinary action, but the "steel man" argument is that this is what it looks like to be preoccupied, and it may be better to play things safe given the fat tail risk of France sliding into far right autocracy.
