Stephen Judkins

Going to log off social media for the next week. I will log back on if and only if It Happens

Always going to happen, but I think it's less likely to be effective and spread now

If there's a 2% chance it gets sunk by a German torpedo a 0.5% chance of it just sinking in its own is fine

There is a slice who is pretty firmly committed to effective non-participation in actual politics, but I think there's a much bigger slice who is satisfied to rank their communist candidate or whatever #1 and maybe some DSA person and leftish moderate after that

Lol remember Teresa Raiford? Good times

Ranked-choice voting didn't *mathematically* change much in Portland, mostly the same people won who would have with FTTP. But it sure did lower the level of rancor a bunch, letting voters have more "expressive power" without worrying about spoilers

Did you just learn the word "antithetical"

Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes and gravy...all dank as fuck.

I am this person and remember loving thanksgiving though

I don't disagree that much more needs to be done much more quickly, but you have to look at first, second, and higher derivatives here. Solar and electrification are already making huge dents in carbon emissions in many contexts even if they haven't peaked yet, and it's really just getting started

To first approximation, no one lives on the Oregon coast

I sadly do not think there's the population to support this. (It would have been cool if Astoria had, like, 250k+ people)

Electrification when

It is actually a fun exercise to consider where the energy that a dam extracts would go otherwise!

Oh yeah it's not

A lot of WW2 counterfactuals are of the form "what if Hitler had only made incredibly risky high-stakes bets the times that ended up working and didn't the times they didn't work"

"COVID: maybe as bad the flu? It's too soon to say" is perhaps not a provocative question but it's actually a good one with serious implications

Atproto means this post is forever

His claim is that we should minimize energy usage at all costs (and should not consider that some forms of energy have orders of magnitude less externalities than others)

This guy seems completely earnest and regularly pops up in my mentions

Banger of a scifi novel. Amongst the best-reviewed in our book group

We had a system that was very far from perfect but was making everyone better off! These people are working their way up, and we were getting the immediate benefits of their labor! And now we're ruining lives and making everything worse to indulge the racist hangups of the worst people in America!

This would be appalling in any context and for any victim, but the fact that they're invading a commercial kitchen to drag someone off who came here to work their ass over a hot stove to make native-born restaurant-goers a little more comfortable and well off really shows how negative sum this is

Well, it might be even harder now because now we'd have to take away their street dining structures!

That's right

one response (true, funny) to the twitter location thing is "lol twitter/the gop/vc is cooked" and another response (true, less funny) is that a massive amount of the traffic on ALL public social media is money-making scams lying about national origin

Totally great and fair read of my post dude, thank you!

Din dun dun, dun dun din [drums kick in]

So you've posted about it? Seems about right

A middle-aged black woman will crawl across broken glass to vote for the left-of-center candidate in every single general election and you, a "leftist", are *complaining* about this? Hmm, interesting!