Dr. Tessa Fisher

If you're still using Grammarly for some reason, it's past time to stop.

This should be a campaign ad.

The labrys is far too cool a symbol to be monopolized by mold-stricken TERFs

We Can Beat Gavin Newsom Liberals and leftists both have to stop acting as if he’s already the nominee

this is endless discourse...so I will just reiterate that *Newsom is not ahead in polls* and talking about him as if he's already the nominee helps him. don't do that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/we-can-bea...

Tbf, the pre-modernity comment was mostly target towards James Howard Kunstler and his ilk than you, specifically, I should've made that clearer.

You literally use the same rhetoric that peakniks did in the 2000s and 2010s, so, as far as I'm concerned, you're a peaknik.

Sure you did, or at least strongly implied it

Thus, peak oil is, at best, a distraction, from the real and existing challenge of transitioning to a cleantech future, and, at worst, a bitter but false hope of our society being forced to return to the pre-modern era that so many peakniks foolishly idolize.

3) Furthermore, my point wasn't that less energy use was going to cause people to die--it's that if we burned enough fossil fuels (including oil) that supply limitations began to affect the economy, it wouldn't matter, because the climate would no longer be habitable and we'd almost all be dead

1) Sure, but that also doesn't mean automation isn't out of the question. Our current systems are often egregiously wasteful, as it is. Which is why

2) We're going to need to rebuild our infrastructure *anyway*--a lot of it is approaching the end of its lifespan, so why not switch energy modalities

I understand the political theory behind this - “look, we’re on your side re: affordable gas” - I just think it’s a stupid fucking theory

let them touch the stove, press their hand on it good and hard

I also have a Sabbath number of 4, because when I was in the marching band in college, we did a half-time show with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo as guest soloists.

Still working on that Bacon number...

Sure it does.

1) People aren't going to be living with lower energy, because if it gets to that point, most, if not all, people won't be living at all.

2) Oil is far more energy dense than PV, but if you build your infrastructure the right way, that doesn't matter

And, while we're at it, there's also tons of energy available (as others have pointed out) from the sun; decentralize energy production enough, and baseload becomes less of an issue. It'll require a substantial overhaul of industry, etc, but that's probably for the best, anyway.

Yup, with a degree in environmental science, no less.

Sure, oil is finite. But the problem is we now know there's enough of it (and other fossil fuels) left to completely cook the climate before declining production ever starts affecting economic conditions.

These guys are the business version of that Air France pilot who crashed the plane because he had learned from the start with autopilot and didn't really know how to fly without it. A generation of Business Guys who have never had to think about a single actual business thing

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site

every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

This in response to the hundreds of thousands of people who have died as a result of Trump and Musk’s attack on USAID is clear evidence of the exact same kind of brain poisoning that produces, eg, JK Rowling. Winning an argument with the strangers in your phone becomes more important than human life

this is what we are fighting for, the same country that welcomed my family more than a hundred years ago and the same country that will serve as a refuge for generations more once we crush these bastards into the dirt

God bless America, this America

I realize the NYT is so far up its own ass that it thinks it’s a reasonable ask for the mayor of NYC to have to denounce every bad thing a Muslim does, anywhere, but practically, why would a liberal Muslim mayor be the type of person religious extremists would listen to

It is insane that the president lie-hallucinating about the US killing 180 children and teachers is not a bigger story.

literally every person on this list save maybe Baldwin is replaceable and we should, at some point in the next 3-4 cycles, replace them

Also, yeah, I've noticed this and it's mad disrespectful to Palestinians? They are a specific people suffering from specific atrocities and oppression, not a generic shibboleth for "suffering"

My God, a peaknik? In the wild? I thought they went extinct years ago!

I would like my leisure time and the food I eat at a price I can afford to come at the expense of unfeeling machines rather than 11-year old undocumented Guatemalan refugees press-ganged by poverty and legal status into picking tomatoes, actually.

I think Erin does good investigation, but has a habit of approaching any sort of analysis through the lens of rampant catastrophisizing

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

It's almost astonishing how often I come across a trans person online talking about how the community is completely on our own because cis people as a whole won't do anything to help us and we should be trying to evacuate to safer states asap, and they then name drop Erin in the Morning