Danyel Fisher

Anyone who would say yes didn’t see this message

Also you probably should anyway

Paul Allen built a museum largely as a tax deductible way to show off his collection of sci-fi memorabilia, bought and restored an old movie theater, and largely seemed to spend his money on things that struck him as nifty — from science institutes to owning the Seahawks. You could do worse.

You worked for Joe Nand, or Bob Xor?

By this argument, no brief that speaks of morality, economic effects, social interests, or literally anything but “the law” should ever be considered

What explanation would satisfy you? Are there circumstances where Congress willingly gives up its role in declaring war?

If we learned anything from the My Lai Massacre it’s that orders should be obeyed without question.

Dumb heart. Barely spins a yarn, much less telling a tale.

New York is the beachhead. The forces assemble there and will all flood across through Hoboken on the PATH in formation.

Then she’s not actually a governor; she’s a meat puppet on a string.

For announcing her grave doubts about the constitutionality of a facially-unconstitutional law?

I’m sorry — but no. This is the year of our lord 2026 and if we’ve learned anything from the federal executive it’s that there’s always a choice.

Could the governor direct the DMV not to act on the law until a court had resolved its constitutionality?

Um … we don’t have children practice handwriting because there’s a shortage of the letter ‘a’ in the world. We don’t have them learn times tables because the economy needs a piece of notebook paper that says “4x3=12.”

But this does raise an interesting q: I would love to know who first came up with the water metaphors and what they were thinking

I think that was more “help justify corn field monoculture” than “make better gas”

Data centers are seen as profitable enough that it’s worth opening (or reopening, or even building) a carbon-heavy plant to fuel them — because a watt now commands a premium over a watt in five years when we could stand up a wind farm.

The challenge with hyper scale data centers is that they directly oppose the goal of pushing the cost of a marginal megawatt under the carbon price.

(Same problem as with crypto actually!)

As aviation fuel? Sure, it’s an alternative. As data center fuel? It’s just another form of carbon.

Currently, our best known ways of generating enough energy to extract that carbon and water from the air generate lots of carbon and evaporate water (or generate waste yet more heat)

It’s kinda a coal-powered piston to squeeze wood into coal lumps

That said: I’ll grant the water impact is lower than the carbon impact.

You need a lot more air to dissipate waste heat then you need water.

Unfortunately, cooling in water has unfortunate environmental effects.

www.nrdc.org/resources/po...

This is a problem that he’s responsible for! The purpose of a nationwide injunction is precisely to hold the status quo to keep things from getting messy while the wheels of justice turn. But CASA killed that!

So if you break the law hard enough, kavanaugh thinks it’s now legal because it would be annoying to set things right?

Yet she’s quite sure that all OTHER government employees are living high on the hog, and it’s just her department that mysteriously has a water club

Correction: FEMA was independent. Reported directly to the president. Cabinet level leader.

FEMA can go back to Interior, where it very happily was pre-2002

Please do! Those are incredible!

Its barely worth engaging with: it also shows up in poetry. Psalm 93:1, for example: “…Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.”

Of course, for literal readers, the first half of the verse is hard: “the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.”

(I acknowledge that this is an absurd level of — hopefully joyful — pedantry.)

Psalm 29 seems to be about an earthquake:

6 He makes Lebanon leap like a calf,
Sirion like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of the Lord strikes
with flashes of lightning.
8 The voice of the Lord shakes the desert

The president has promised to use ICE to interfere with elections. ICE has been ignoring court orders at all levels.

“Abolish” is the minimum bar. Democrats should call for abolishing the agency, prosecuting everyone involved, and breaking DHS back into its pre-2001 components.