Jeffrey Winters

Don't look but after Solar boom, Batteries Hockey Stick of Hope is here.

Grid scale batteries are being installed at factories, farms, ports...

Rystad says: "Battery storage is no longer just enabling renewables — it is actively replacing gas generation."
www.rystadenergy.com/insights/ene...

I can’t help but think the UK intelligence branches were keeping tabs on this activity. No reason to protect Andrew or Mendelson at this point. Just nuke everyone.

Before it goes down, the Labour government should release all its Epstein files related to Trump.

Redstone Moment, more like.

Oh, no doubt. And having a young-looking person causally padding around that mansion seems alarming, given everything we know about Epstein.

Waiting for the guest to appear, I heard Epstein go into great-yet-simplistic detail about Zeno’s paradox. Without minors as bait, this guy is friendless.

Doorway, looks it. With a mirror so much of the time you only see their back.

I couldn’t see enough detail for me to be certain of sex or age; could be late teens or young-looking 20s. Not his age, to be sure.

From a political party to a cult of personality. This charts one aspect of the transformation.

The two rightmost data points are thus-far uninformed by actual data.

To meet its current consumption levels with renewable energy, the United States would need the area equivalent to what’s currently used for maple syrup.

At least nobody will ask “what’s the worst that can happen?” for another 20 or 30 years

Holy crap!

“Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”

Big difference between FDNY and FDs abroad is station sizes: FDNY has tons of tiny little single- and two-bay stations, while abroad they’re fewer but larger. I figured this is a recent divergence (consolidation abroad, not at home), but even Paris’s older stations were bigger; must be deeper rooted

The non-MAGA world can offer nothing that MAGA wants, because what MAGA wants is for the non-MAGA world to stop existing. You can't negotiate from that position. Either MAGA goes, or literally everyone else eventually will.

Holy cow, what a detailed map.

And he gets the boiler explosion question right. Phew.

Hey, mechanical engineer Scott Riccardi on the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions tonight. As an ASME alum, wishing him well.

“One of the most effective interventions tested was …designed to enhance personal efficacy beliefs and highlight the positive emotional benefits of climate action. … Moreover, interventions that paired efficacy with negative emotional appeals … were comparatively less effective.“

Trying to bottle fascism at its source, maybe? Like everyone else, they are tired of the old “sparkling authoritarianism” joke.

In no reality is a lawless state you. It is not accountable to you. It is coercive by nature and indiscriminate in its application.

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So, Jackson Lamb?

When you don’t understand the necessity of regulations …

and you don’t respect the value of expertise …

then the regulatory process is meaningless busywork that any machine (or intern) can crank out. No need for actual function, just match the form.

Somewhere along the way "a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" flipped to "therefore computers must make as many management decisions as possible" and I don't think it's unconnected to big corportations' consultant addictions.

Can’t look for it during the game, but it would be instructive to see US imports as a fraction of total defense weapons spend. Figure there are a lot of home-grown suppliers.

This is going to go down as one of the most shameful periods in American history. Hopefully not _the_ most, since there’s all that slavery pre-1965, but definitely on the list.

At this point, even by the strictest Hobbesian standards, this government has abandoned its duty to serve the public, and is illegitimate.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

“They” won’t greet “us” like a prodigal son, but like an ex-business partner whose drug addiction bankrupted them

Probably not my place to interject but seeing how that's never stopped me:

I think Canadian defense discourse focuses too much on "What if U.S. Fourth Reich?" and not enough on "What if U.S. shits itself and collapses trying?"

I see autocorrect turned statutory into station. Ironic, that.

Too many LEOs feel they are beyond the law. At the very least, we need to rein in the most obviously egregious abuses.