Austin Wu

Seinfeld is a show set in New York but it’s written by people who live in LA, so the characters all have cars and are always driving everywhere which is kinda weird for people who in Manhattan

The load-bearing assumption is that America is a rational nation, making decisions in pursuit of articulable goals. States like Iran are, by contrast, unpredictable, dangerous, potentially even rogue.

But a cursory examination of the facts on the ground reveals the opposite: WE are the rogue state.

"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."
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finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

donald j. trump ... welcome to the war on cars

Fondly recalling the 2010s, when one could borrow money for free and instead of densifying our cities and building electric-powered mass transit, we pretended Uber rides would always be cheap and worked hard to prevent "transit-oriented gentrification."

me_irl 😐

gas sign from fallout tactics, which is before the really intense push to Fallout Bible-proof the lore of the series & also before Bethesda smeared Todd Howard's shit all over it. so it just depicts prices for actual ass gasoline and not nuclear reactor coolant or vertibird credits or whatever. the joke is that they're in the four figures. If you want diesel go fuck yourself ig

gas prices looking good out there

now curious if there is utility in spicy-camping-esque conscription (like in austria and switzerland) less for defence purposes, but moreso as an outlet for performative masculinity in a confined environment

you ever look at american draft cards and see everybody in 1940 was like 5'8" and weighs 150#? and then see reports that american soldiers were taller and better fed than their european counterparts?

non-denominational (crypto-baptists)

If You Were the Average G.I. in World War II | The Saturday Evening Post What was the average G.I. like in World War II? Some of these facts may surprise you.

"if you were the average frontline G.I....you are five feet, eight inches tall, and you weigh 144 pounds. During your basic training...you gained 5 to 20 pounds and added an inch to your 33 ¼” chest."

it's written kind of ambiguously, but that sounds like they got up to 145 *after* a 5-20lb gain 😬

I think the craziest part about Trump’s victory in 2024 is this: how the hell did so many Americans not have Trump fatigue at that point? The senile nonce had been an inescapable part of the news for nine years at that point. How were people not sick of him?

You don’t understand modern warfighting: we’re leveraging joint assets across multiple domains so we can employ fires to achieve full spectrum dominance and enhance lethality. So we can bomb them.

There’s now a lot of recognition that vehicles have become too expensive, the thing that made them so was largely a market disconnected from the global one, it’s decoupling even further, and we’re going to be left completely behind in the EV transition. Whoops!

Kind of impressive how poorly timed the big-ass truck abundance thing was. Pretty soon after that, it became obvious that, for a number of reasons, expensive big vehicles in the US are gonna be a problem and there’s no real way to fix it while keeping them big!

model rule 1.19: duty to client to not crash the fuck out

On his deathbed Trump has received the light of Twelver Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

*neighbours

A racoon holds a button in his hand, looking at Toad. From "A Lost Button" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

A racoon came out from behind a tree. “I heard that you were looking for a button,” he said. “Here is one that I just found.”

“That is not my button!” wailed Toad.

my body is a MACHINE that turns CHOICES into MISTAKES

Can't wait for the tour this summer - he's opening for Death Cab!

marco rubio is just (unknowingly) in a very chinese time in his life right now

Anyway, Marco Rubio had *no* idea what it meant as of 2012. He brings up the Sword of Ch[i]ang, and cites the mythical conservative warrior and says he thinks it's a Jeb Bush original.

(One reason we know that unionization has been of massive benefit to both teachers and schools is that there is an educational sector that is mostly NOT unionized - charter schools - and the jobs in them are dismal, while their educational performance mostly ranges from mediocre to bad.)

i do think he was probably right about this in retrospect, because Gorby probably needed more power first to go about decentralizing the Soviet Union (ironic)

same could be said about the DC-10 as well 🤔

lol, rubio's (lack of) knowledge of cold war history was a known (non-)issue back during the 2016 primaries www.politico.com/magazine/sto...