Jeffrey Winters

Yeah, I feel like the movie missed the point of the novella.

Gonna hear a lot about "energy security".
Sure we want energy security.

"What has changed compared to previous oil crises and oil price scares - even the 2021-22 one -is how affordable the clean energy solutions needed to replace oil and gas imports are"
KEY point by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

Think of it this way: Take how many miles you want to drive and divide by 4,500. That’s how many hours it takes to charge.

To put this charging rate in perspective, 2 km per second = 4,500 mph.

Baumol’s Cost Disease, they used to call it. Now it’s known as Baumol’s Cost Immunization.

*You know that Ursula Le Guin myth about "Omelas"? Well this world is the opposite of that. There's this secret, ritual chamber holding eighty moguls in luxurious contentment, while the entire planet and everyone in it is in obvious suffering and decay

Itinerant worker on one side (cycled a number of blue collar jobs before he was killed in a car wreck); Tire shop owner who sold the business after Pearl Harbor and moved my mom’s family to a farm.

My mom grew up w/o an indoor toilet. My Brooklyn apartment has only one bathroom. Progress.

But hear me out: Ten Democrats in a county _that_ small ain’t bad.

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Congratulations!

Your questions aren’t fair! They force people to give answers contrary to their politics/portfolio!

This was from an exercise I wrote up for a friend. Of these, I figured Canada, South Korea, and Poland most likely, with Germany and Japan poss. but dealing with internal opposition. Others less likely due to lack of nat sec threats or huge downside risk.

Saudi and Turkey would but need plutonium.

Countries of sufficient size with access to plutonium:

Japan, Canada, Brazil, South Korea, Spain, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan, Belgium, Sweden, Argentina, United Arab Emirates, Iran, South Africa, Romania, Germany, Italy, Australia, Indonesia, Poland, and Norway.

Wait that roach I hired to represent me is a STYLIST???? I’m going to jail 😭😭😭

Synthesis (50% a joke but also with these guys?) they fully had a soft coup situation planned out and then accidentally killed all the guys who were gonna do it and now everyone in charge is really intent on prosecuting this war for real

On that last point: If I’m any number of (formerly?) allied countries, my sense is that I’d want to put together the elements for a program. But in your estimation, is it actually possible for a Japan/Germany/Canada/Poland/Australia/etc to assemble precursor equipment w/o all hell breaking loose?

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

Congratulations. That in and of itself is an amazing achievement.

Rather than regime change, Iran becoming a failed state & potentially breaking into a civil war & multiple weaker states is a common discussion among Iranians of all political leanings in Iran & leftist Iranians in diaspora. Yet it doesn't get much air elsewhere, esp on English MSM, I find.

This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.

Where is Iran?
Each dot represents an American's guess.
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Thing is, Trump will … um, finish the proverbial Happy Meal … before the blowback reaches him, so it’ll be some well-meaning Democratic president five years from now who gets whacked by the IRGC. Starting another war.

Truth is no one under 40 has experienced real widespread violence. The 80s and early 90s were NUTS in comparison to the word my kid gets to grow up in.

But yea Brooklyn in the 70s had to be tough as shit.

Trump doesn’t support democracy in Iran.

Trump doesn’t even support democracy in the United States!

I mean, when we first moved to Brooklyn, we were just cresting the big 70s-80s crime wave. Was a different world, though I never felt threatened.

The city’s a theme park now compared to then. No one under 40 has experienced when New York was genuinely dangerous. People are posers.

Louisiana is rough. Indianapolis 6:00 news is a constant rundown of murder, rape, and drive-bys, but I imagine NOLA, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport must be scary.

Raised my kids in Brooklyn, sent them to public school k-12, and any “I seen things” rant from them would be total BS.

Yeah, even after 30-some years and my constant assurances that I’m far safer in my corner or Brooklyn than in Indiana, my mom believes her (and Law and Order’s and Fox News’s) version of New York.

There are more murders in TV New York every week than there are in real-life New York.

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days).

And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of?

Small red stars.

PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!!

Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

1990s, apparently. Who knew?