I groan at people who think the best music came out when they were in high school, but damn why they’d have to drop the perfect electronica album in my senior year? I haven’t stopped playing it since
with alt text, also unironically I think people who want to do shit like this should be shamed publicly until they stop and it shouldn't be legal
To create excellent public agencies capable of high-quality project delivery, don’t just ditch the contractors - take on the outdated civil service rules that make it impossible to hire and retain top talent. It’s an arduous but essential fight.
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Kline got the Oscar for that. Trump is angling for an EGOT
Steak 'n Shook
Italians make too many licorice/anise-tasting cookies. Bleccch
Good. Maybe you'll stop using Uber to get everywhere. That's kind of the whole point.
i keep hearing inflation isn't a problem but idk
He’s gonna re-establish the running game at LAW & ORDER: SVU
Ugh. Awful
It’s still the case that such a record being out in the world - without any sort of guilty finding - makes people think you are unsuitable for credit, employment, leadership appointments, etc.
We’re approaching it. Not really close to it, but I think near-term progress can shift a lot of stuff that is broken in international politics, which have a lot to do with extremist right control over resources and, hahaha, trade routes
::lived-in-Williamsburg-in-2003-voice:: I was beat up by seasonal hire cops before most of you were aware of cops just beating up people for no reason.
I’ve confirmed that my motion was granted in a Travis County court for an expunction of records relating to my encounter with Austin PD 15 years ago which resulted in full dismissals of all charges, meaning that this saga is finally over & it doesn’t show up on background checks anymore
It’s Joever.
Dems are a big tent party. Lots of people in the Democratic Party get-it and they need support to vault over the party leaders who are straight-up bigots and nationalists
Grid storage is a game changer. Now that renewables are lower cost-per-watt than fossil fuels, being able to store it indefinitely to ride out peak power times is genuinely a pivot point for utilities. Add in the shift of autos to electric power and the need for international oil may vanish
We’re actually quite constrained by the limits of mass-produced batteries today. If we can improve the manufacturing cost of batteries that are better, you’ll get:
* EVs and PEVs with faster charging, greater range and lower cost
* Phones that last a week without charging
* Cheaper renewable power
Among the other tradeoffs you can get:
* Same capacity and charge speed at a lower weight or smaller form factor
* More durability from long-term use at the same capacities (or better)
* More resilience/safety from high-wattage charging and from combustion situations in general
The physical technology exists to do quicker charging + capacity resilience, but it currently isn’t economical to produce and sell such batteries; they cost too much in raw materials + manufacturing, and people wouldn’t buy them at scale.
Breakthroughs in mass-produced batteries are game-changing
So, with all of that, what you want is a battery with more resilience to heat and high-wattage charging (aka “fast”). Lots of big batteries right now charge quite slowly in order not to impact capacity too much - or even worse, to avoid explosions.
These batteries seem to charge better quicker.
Batteries are chemical concoctions. They discharge electricity based on stored ions; charging is the reverse process; both processes have waste heat, which increases with load. Long term capacity is impacted by hot conditions; most battery/device makers allow some degrading heat to get performance
I’ll thread what this means in a little more detail, but given our current progress on electrical distribution and mobility, “super batteries” are a welcome development
Recently started biking for real, and holy f-ck - the cars. I swear to absolute fucking God. The cars man. I've never in my 30+ year life seen so many stupid fucking idiots in traffic. Blind motherfuckers. They are making my blood boil. Today someone decided it was a great time to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. I kept distance but the car was jerking and was indecisive and just stopped forcing me to go right on the curb making me fall head over the handle bar and crash. Not a care in the world the driver just looked at me and drove off. Never in my life have I seen so many stupid people that can't drive. And I've had a drivers license for over 20 years soon.
A common thread among newer cyclists is realizing just how awful drivers are. There are things you simply don't notice — behavior that has been normalized — when you mostly drive. Biking, walking, or rolling through the world changes that.
There are lots of ways you can sanewash a moron and villainize a noble politician, and the Times is pretty good at deploying all of them
He had a lot of empires. The stuff he did with housing was heinous.
I think a lot of the roads would have been built without Moses. They were mostly downstream of the Eisenhower system and its bananas funding for an extensive military-grade expressway network
Once again, someone who is deeply offended or disenfranchised by something (or many things!) Trump did is still named as a "supporter". Anyone who disagrees with Zohran Mamdani on any one thing, even on obvious disinfo, is put into the "strongly oppose" bucket
A MOUSE THAT YOU CAN CHARGE FROM THE SIDE, NOT THE BOTTOM
is this real?!
PB is also deliberate to mention that he was canny, but also loopy and incurious. He was certainly presented with evidence that he should change strategy and he stubbornly refused/doubled-down without any real logic behind it. Him and his "Moses men" then wondered why they were vilified