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Replying to @masnick.com
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Look at these goofballs already trying to kneecap the momentum.
Hear me out. What if instead of selling food below cost to all comers at taxpayer expense, then using more taxpayer dollars to subsidize private companies that can't compete, we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?
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My neighbor told me progressives keep eating centrist candidates in primaries and so I asked how much his centrist PACs are spending and he said oh just a couple dozen mil every primary so I said it sounds like he's just feeding billions to broadcast TV networks and then his daughter started crying.
I remember reading articles ~10 years ago a about using arrays of wind turbines to blunt hurricane winds and lessen storm surge. Hopefully coastal areas can still make use of that.
And now we're on a trajectory where costs of solar and storage are declining so fast that the window for offshore wind's economic viablity (despite its own declining costs) may be closing bsky.app/profile/zach...
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After seeing this I had to call my mom and thank her for the Ghostbusters costume she made me when I was little. She hand drew a patch with the ghost with the 🚫, sewed it to a tiny pair of coveralls, my dad put an old backpack in a cardboard box painted silver complete with a blaster. Fun times. 👻
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Close second is damming a creek
what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach
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🔊Cease your doomscrolling & start sky-surfing across @vrubinobs.bsky.social new "ocean of stars"! Behind all those sparkles are magical swirling galaxies & I've been having such a lovely time zooming in on them. I think you should too (slow to load but worth the wait) 🤗 🔭 🧪 👉 skyviewer.app/explorer
Who knew clouds of dust and hints of far-off galaxies could be so mesmerising? The @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST has begun and we’re here for the ride! This project is decades in the making, and the hard work of thousands of people around the world. Read more: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-06... 🔭
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