Energy Doc Brown needed to power his flux capacitor in Back to the Future: 1.21 gigawatts

Energy needed to power a proposed OpenAI / Oracle data center in Saline, MI: 1.40 gigawatts

My first thought is a basic property of abundance is that it doesn’t require distribution

In particular, we expect the future to provide new and hopefully better ways to live a fulfilling life, and for more people to experience such a life than do today. It is true that work will be different, the economic transition may be very difficult in some ways, and it is even possible that the fundamental socioeconomic contract will have to change. But in a world of widely-distributed abundance, people’s lives can be much better than they are today.

“In a world of widely distributed abundance”

Joe Rogan says he gave Harris campaign ‘open invitation’ to sit down anytime: ‘I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up’ The mega-popular podcaster on Wednesday defended his decision to reject the interview based on the ground rules that the Democratic presidential candidate tried to impose — including limiting the t…

Ok, I guess they couldn’t come to terms on schedule and location. nypost.com/2024/10/31/u...

I wonder how many, like Harris, he invited and they declined.

There are people that actually care what’s in the document and are worried about it, and there are people who just want to stir up outrage. I am careful to make sure when I make claims about a document that I have screenshots or reporting to back it up. It doesn’t take a lot of bandwidth.

Read a 900 page document to find something that somebody just made up? No thanks

I guess not.

Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires? During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.

Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?

"During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat... waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier."

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-priv...

He’s trolling.

All of my parents cutlery is family made and easily into its second century of daily usage.

DEI Is a Failure Because the Civil Rights Movement Wasn’t About Elite Diversity The tide is turning against modern diversity bureaucracies. But that's not necessarily bad news for progressives, at least if they believe in the goals of the civil rights movement.

“DEI was a failure. It was a failure not because it wasn't implemented properly or because we didn't try hard enough.

It was a failure because the civil rights movement wasn't about elite diversity in the first place -- it was about lifting up the poor.” www.theamericansaga.com/p/dei-is-a-f...

Maybe an age limit while we’re at it

Like anything, context matters. Find common ground on the right stuff.

“This has got to be a society-wide cultural shift that we have to stop looking at this vital force of nature as something we can conquer or control, and learn how to live with it” 🔥

Dating from the 1050s, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, this is Britain’s oldest door, made from oak, in a passage leading to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey
www.westminster-abbey.org/history/expl...

+ for advocating for adaptation and resilience
- for using the term “mindbomb”

Seems like he’d be pro illegal immigration if he wanted cheap labor and workers with no rights

“Project 2025 requires all 18-30 yo serve 1-2 years working on farms as community service”

Do you have a source for this?

THE TRUE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE BY PHILOSOPHER KARL POPPER* YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE POPPER PARADOX THANKS TO THIS? I NEVER SAID THAT! (PICTOLINE.COM) POPPER ARGUED THAT SOCIETY VIA ITS INSTITUTIONS, SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO PROHIBIT THOSE WHO ARE INTOLERANT FOR POPPER, ON WHAT GROUNDS MAY SOCIETY SUPPRESS THE INTOLERANT ? When they "are not prepared to meet on the level of rational argument" "they forbid their followers to listen to rational argument... & teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols" THE ARGUMENT OF THE INTOLERABLY INTOLERANT IS FORCE & VIOLENCE "LINLIMITED TOLERANCE MUST LEAD TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOLERANCE" WE MISCONSTRUE THIS PARADOX AT OUR PERIL... ...TO THE EXTENT THAT ONE GROUP COULD DECLARE ANOTHER GROUP 'INTOLERANT, JUST TO PROHIBIT THEIR IDEAS, SPEECH & OTHER FREEDOMS *Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl R. Popper Muchas gracias a @lokijustice y asivaespana.com

Another famous poster:

They shouldn’t have to work in these conditions. Masks or no masks

Theory of Enchantment

Just this kind: www.theoryofenchantment.com

Sam Knowlton (@samdknowlton) on Twitter: "The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter." - Bill Mollison

Hope it goes well

Perhaps a silly question but are you dressing warm enough?

Said goodbye to the sweetest chinchilla yesterday.

“They” in this case meaning people who say they want people in red states to suffer?

I think it’s worth pushing back on but if the pushback is merely limiting the desire for suffering to red voters I want no part of it.

Trying to figure out whether “actual people” refers to everyone in red states or just those that vote blue.

'Thuya Burl Tripartite' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Thuya burl, Serviceberry and Ebony with Holly spacers.

The bowl is Serviceberry wood... a favorite! An understory tree that is native to Canada and every U.S. state except Hawaii.

#spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #design #woodworking #carving 🥄