Carl [he/him]

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I see 3 main reasons she lost and none of them have really anything to do with Walz.

I remember that the week they picked Walz was the one week where we all thought that the Dems could actually run a competent campaign. People were calling Republicans “wierd”, Kamala no-showed a Netanyahu Senate visit, Walz was and still is genuinely popular - there was a lot of hope that she would break with Biden to the point where even cynical people thought she would do it out of pure electoral calculus due to Biden’s unpopularity.

Then apparently Harris herself the Biden staffers they brought on the campaign shut down the “weird” messaging, and she had that blood and soil DNC speech, and we all got brought back to reality.

AOC is going to keep capitulating to Democratic Party politics, and she’s gonna keep getting shafted by it because the party structure is completely resistant to even the most minor or performative changes. Even David Hogg is getting challenged for daring to say “maybe the Democrats should do things instead of just taking up space.”

I think this is a case of an individual having big individual influence that flies in the face of what an institution should rationally do. Trump has been talking about tariffs his entire life, and here in the second term he’s found out that he can just do it and nobody can stop him.

Once he started doing it, the people in his orbit had to react. Some did so by doing insider trading, some have tried to turn this into a part of some grand strategy play to economically isolate China, some possibly hold onto hope that American manufacturing can be rebuilt. While the first group have had some success the other groups are doomed to failure because such a plan would have to be executed over decades by a unified political class - America was able to do that in the 80s and 90s, but now?

So Trump is whimsically declaring, changing, cancelling, reinstating, and delaying tariffs because he doesn’t know what he’s doing, and the people around him are either desperately trying to figure out how to turn this debacle into a win or just shrugging and profiting off of it personally. It’s a situation that is only possible because of the combination of Trump’s incompetence and the perceived power of his personality cult - nobody wants to be the one who goes against him and then doesn’t have a career anymore, so they’re all just going along with it waiting for him to die. It’s pretty much exactly what libs think Stalin’s rule was like.

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fuck french toast, marry waffles, kill pancakes.

This appears to be the first record of a coelacanth in this area, previously they have been found off the coast of South Africa.

love my dog

TBH I think mid budget and non major franchise movies are over in theaters. Streaming has simply devalued them too much. Time will tell if theaters can survive off blockbusters alone.

Clan rock stacker.

why does civility have an absolutely massive trunk?

named after one of the most mid Star Wars games

then again if we get to see N1 Starfighters in a cool ass-battle sequence I’ll watch that slop.

I posted a video about this tech a couple of months ago. NASA’s X-59 is in the active testing stage, with its first flight planned for this year.

The main American competitor to this Chinese company right now is Boom Supersonic, whose XB-1 test plane has already flown. Their first full scale plane, the Boom Overture, is in development.

idk how it works but it does. I’ve been using Rite in the Rain for years but there are others too if you search it up.

Plus pressurized pens are useful in more than just zero-g. I used to use one along with a waterproof note pad for note taking in the field. They’re also not prohibitively expensive, although the ones from Fisher itself carry a pretty huge brand name markup, other companies sell them for a couple bucks each.

None at all. They originally filmed the scene with an actor in a big fur coat, but they cut it out because it’s kind of redundant - we don’t learn anything about Han that the earlier scene with Greedo doesn’t teach us in a more interesting way. Then they decided that Jabba would be a giant slug man some time in between 1977 and 1983.

I wouldn’t go that far. China makes something like 80% of the intermediate products used in “American” manufacturing, so I’d still expect price increases across the board.

This guy is right but for completely the wrong reasons. This article is an anti-green energy hit piece.

The West is de-industrialising itself in the quest for Net Zero.

government-forced energy transition race to net zero.

Germany, where a rapid deindustrialisation in the pursuit of net zero has been underway for several years now

What fucking planet is this man living on where Western governments are taking climate change so seriously that they’re sabotaging their economies over it?

No buddy, I don’t think the drive to net zero is responsible for any of these closures, even if the company in question happened to be talking about some greenwashing initiative when the closure occurred.

So, where will the steel-making capacity be made up? Why, in China, of course. The furnaces there won’t be fired by clean, green electricity or hydrogen, but by coal. Because, well, coal is the most energy-efficient, cheapest way to fire the blast furnaces needed to make the steel. Physics still matters.

The implication here is that China doesn’t care about green energy and that that gives them an advantage. This despite the fact that China has been investing more into a green energy transition than every other country combined - yes they still use coal, but it’s part of a centrally planned, carefully carried out transition that they have been executing for over a decade now, a plan that has been so successful that in that time they went from having some of the worst air quality in the world to some of the best, and that now sees them making the overwhelming majority of all green-energy related tech from panels to windmills to batteries.

Another recent headline out of the UK reads, “United Kingdom closes its last coal-fired power plant.” That September 30 header came from CBS News, and again is descriptive of the story itself: The last coal power plant in the UK was shuttered at the end of September, bringing an end to an era as the UK government strives to meet its carbon reduction goals.

Or it could be that large scale solar and wind generation have gotten cheaper per MWh than coal. Hell, they’re currently cheaper in Europe than coal was ten years ago. While the changes are rolling out too late/slowly to stop the worst of what climate change will bring, we have objectively reached the point where the green energy transition (at least for grid power) is inevitable due to market forces.

The magic sauce here isn’t disregarding the atmosphere as the writer wants it to be, it’s centralized, thorough and long term planning in a society where Capital is under the thumb of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This man imagines that if only the Western governments would deny climate change more and become even more destructive towards their environments, that they would become competitive with a socialist economic system - but he doesn’t see the simple and obvious truth that that would only further accelerate our self-destruction.

[redacted] critical electrical infrastructure, flee to the [redacted] mountains.

this includes the one I live in the middle of. swear to God I’m gonna [redacted]