Your regular reminder that GLOBAL government energy R&D spending is less than what Americans spend annually on pet food & treats. Not vet bills. Just food and treats …. Energy transition? Seriously?
WE AIN'T EVEN TRYING!
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— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) November 9, 2021

I’ve always been puzzled by our lack of investment in areas that would have enormous, immediate and long-term payoff. It just makes no sense. We can’t even do the easy things, so I guess it makes sense that people believe we shouldn’t even try the hard things, and that those are “impossible.”

Friends, what do you do when the restaurant switches your order with an effing (no offence) vegan?

— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) November 10, 2021

Return with a main battle tank and enact fierce and unrelenting justice upon the evildoers.

bf came back from driving my car w his hand bleeding and was like “there’s something sharp under the seat” and i said “ohh yeah that’s my car knife” and he got annoyed??

— amelia elizalde (@ameliaelizalde) November 10, 2021

I knew a woman in Seattle who kept a real katana behind the seat of her truck. It was not for show; she was extremely well-trained in kenjutsu and was fearsome with that weapon. I hope no one ever thought to mess with her because they would’ve ended up in little pieces all over the ground.

Putting on my hacker hoodie to View Source.

Surprised this didn’t happen years ago. And equally surprised that it wasn’t Mozilla who did this first to Firefox, the “most customizable browser EVAR!!!!”

I’m bitter about it all because I am old enough to know what the internet could have been, because I was there when it was otherwise. And I remember the culture of BBSes, too, which is a whole other thing.

U.S. consumer prices soared 6.2% in past year, most since 1990.

Ah, yes, that transitory inflation. Perhaps they are talking about on geological time scales? In a few million years, that inflation should be tamed. Just give it till the next epoch.

Also, learn to forage, because a hamburger is going to cost $9,000,000,000 soon.

Why the coronavirus is unlikely to mutate into something deadlier.

Or more transmissible. It’s about at its limits thermally and evolutionarily now, unless that Wuhan lab gets some ideas and starts fucking around with it again.

The media regurgitated verbatim every hoax and myth made up by anti-sex fanatics and acted like they were legit news stories for the past decade.

This is the result. https://t.co/UMSD5fjL0D

— Deviant Ollam (@deviantollam) November 7, 2021

And the prude-libs ate that shit up. They loved it. They lived for it. White liberal women think they are on the verge of being trafficked every 10 minutes, and it gives them great pride.

It’s been interesting to watch people get more prudish over time, claim they are not, and then have them make statements like, “I’m not prudish, I just think a bare shoulder is so naughty and uncalled for!”

They’ll have women in burqas soon enough, I guess, but will call them “anti-pandemic feminist NPIs” or some such.

1. I think we’re on the verge of a revolution in travel

— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) November 9, 2021

I agree, though it won’t be as large a trend as he thinks. But it will make the anti-fun anti-travel libs go nuts (most of them, these days), and I will enjoy that too.