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So we’re just going to ignore that the US does the same for Ukraine? Or are there different rules for them and us?

This is just unbelievable.

Yes! Never waste a good crisis. This is the opportunity to build transit, bike friendly and pedestrian friendly infrastructure!

(w caveat that US is less vulnerable to this oil shock than most others, and the real cause of domestic price rises is the end of the export ban) a crash program to shift your state off of oil by rapidly developing transit and accelerating TOD would be extremely easy to communicate rn!

Good thread with a significant silver lining to this war. I expect a prolonged closure of the strait of Hormuz will kill off the ICE automobile.

Not the sharpest knives in the drawer…. And there’s a whole drawer full of them!

Only for those fluent in Marylandese.

Given the DHS assessment that the greatest terror threat comes from white identitarian actors and trumps disparagement of elections, I think stochastic terror is a real danger.

Imagine how different everything would be had the U.S. enthusiastically embraced renewable energy back when Carter put solar panels on the White House or when James Hansen first testified about climate change before Congress in 1988. For one thing, over 150
Iranian schoolgirls would still be alive.

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Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy

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#biofuels and #biomass are not the solution to climate change. We’ve known this for decades. So why do Very Serious People keep pushing them??

Biomass is also being promoted as the solution to #plastics with all the same problems plus some extra. I despair at serious researchers who fail to learn from the #biofuels history and end up serving as useful idiots to this grift.

Independently does a lot of work here. Most phds are in an established field and you need a guide to help you shape interesting questions (and rule out ones that have been addressed). Stand on the shoulders of giants etc.

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In that context, the Venezuela strike was to secure a replacement source of oil before the Persian Gulf closed.

Am I wrong in thinking that the war on #Iran is meant to be the forever war? Think of all the Orwellian advantages that come from it: political support, corruption, pretext for suspending civil rights at home. "Unconditional surrender" clearly won't happen.

Prediction markets, like prior forms of political gambling, are incompatible with democracy and must be outlawed. This one isn't nuanced.

I was thinking something similar. As people spend more time gaming and interacting with AI will they fail to develop a theory of the mind?

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Interesting perspective

Wait, what? Are you referring to the IRIS Dena? That's hardly unarmed, it was in transit (not during an exercise) and it was off the coast of Sri Lanka, not "our own waters." I'm not supporting the attack -- more unnecessary deaths in a war of aggression -- but I hardly think you can blame India.

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China pledges to "tackle" overcapacity in petrochemicals but stops short of saying it will actually cut production. That's short on specifics, but certainly sends a warning signal to firms that are currently building out more capacity. finance.yahoo.com/news/explain...

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Surely you can’t be expected to work with a company you are suing right? That would be a clear conflict of interest. And if you’re not suing them yet, surely you should be?

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On the contrary it allows poll interpreters to spin their own opinions as popular regardless of the data. A problem for the readership but not the writers!