I’m actually stealing this as an explanation next time I’m at a house party and someone whips out the uno cards.

Dr. Fatima

Everything in its Right Place by Radiohead

I’m gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with “Iodine”, which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) “aye-o-dine”, but if we look at all of the other halogen, their “-ine” ending is pronounced “-een”, and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced “aye-o-deen”.

Why not just… uhhh. Ban ICE.

Unless I want to access customer service…

Can we get our customer service off of “X former know as Twitter” too while we’re at it?

I keep seeing people talking about the Marines and the National Guard being deployed, and this is certainly egregious and the blame for it rests squarely on Trump’s head… But I have not seen many people mention that the LAPD are not being deployed by Trump. They are being deployed by Californian Politicians, and from the livestreams and videos I’ve seen, the police are the ones shooting LTL rounds and flahsbangs at civilians and reporters. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the police response has been unacceptably violent, national guard or not. It is the violence from the police that has historically, and will in this instance as well escalate the situation.

Dr.Doom. He’s got experience and a pretty good track record all things considered.

Imo it looks remarkably safe as long as we ignore the person in the car driving into oncoming traffic.

No they fucking aren’t. That shit would be so much more expensive than a person. Liars, and not even particularly good ones.

I have a drip coffee maker that’s gotta be almost 40 now. It was given to me by an older family member when I moved into a new apartment. It still works fine as far as I can tell…

So I can steal all their shit too, right? It would “Implausible” for me to do so.

I don’t know about performance, or advantage (and I don’t think it matters since noone seems to care about the performance or fairness of non-proffesional sports unless it can be used as a bludgeon against trans people), but I happened to be arguing with my neighbor about this a few days and found that, according to the president of the NCAA there are “less than 10” transgender athletes in college sports out of about a half million. I feel like the whole discussion is a red herring. 1

I’ll admit Trump is a lot clumsier about saying it out loud, but 2000s Republicans were absolutely on the same wave. Being virulently anti-anyone-dark-than-an-italitan, actively eroding free speech, and hating anyone who worked for a living has been standard conservative shit since at least the 1800s. If anything, the 2000s Republicans had more of a war-boner to boot. Trump did in fact bring the facism home a fair bit more openly, but let’s not mistake a new hairdo for a new political movement.

The Fraud of Plastic Recycling Report

It was pretty poppin in my city.

Just a funny story, but, I use an Ubuntu laptop as my work computer as a teacher, and once, while I was helping another student with work, a student opened my laptop and began trying to install Roblox. She got far enough to figure out it wouldn’t work, and started searching for how to install it. When I came over she was trying to figure out how to set up Wine. She got pretty close to getting it working before I came over. I was secretly pretty impressed with how fast she figured it out. It couldn’t have been more than a few minutes.

I suspect the devil is in the detail here. China is only the third largest supplier of auto parts overall at ~9%, after Mexico (41%) and Canada (10%). ¹ But for some particular vehicles, China is a much more significant supplier², and for some components, particularly components of EVs China is damn near the only supplier presently ³. Also this exemption seems to be set to decay over the next three years. This all reads to me as Trump making incentives for building out production for the worse kind of car that is less likely to grow in demand, and only putting those incentives in place for 3 years when it would take, like, 10 or 15 years to build the supply chain and production… All while locking us out of the fastest growing market for cars.

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But it doesn’t say “it can generate too much energy and damage infrastructure”, they said “it can drive the price down”. The words they chose aren’t, like, an accident waiting for someone to explain post-hoc. Like, absolutely we need storage for exactly the reason you say, but they are directly saying the issue is driving the price down, which is only an issue if your not able to imagine a way to create this infrastructure without profit motive.