It’s weird how women vastly overestimate risk (like 1,000x-10,000x the actual risk) and men vastly underestimate it.
How’d that happen?
Day: September 5, 2025, 6:11 PM
Slump
The economy is already in recession, though it hasn’t been officially declared yet.
Recession now, and then depression in 6-9 months. It’s going to be a bad time.
Track
By March 2005, I'd already spent years trying to figure out how a solar array could track the Sun without the use of slip rings, while attached to a spinning space tether. Very late one rainy night the answer came into my mind all at once, and it reminded me of a fan dancer. pic.twitter.com/RCYj3zrnJA
— Kirk Sorensen (@kirksorensen) August 30, 2025
Why in Zeus’s name would you make something so complex and difficult to deploy when you could just not do that?
You could just use a fixed bus for the solar panels with single-axis heliostats. In other words, put a “curtain” of lightweight mirror strips (heliostats) in front of fixed solar panels. Don’t move the panels, move the mirrors. That way, the motion is minimal (only need a modest rotation range for 23.5° sun variation throughout the year) and don’t need to move a huge structure as the heliostats are extremely low-mass. This minimizes moving parts, doesn’t have whatever crazy shit is going on in that animation that will fail fast and catastrophically, and is not from a design loony bin.
Fuck does not one person have a damn brain up in here?
Solid Hit
Epic detonation of the Russian S-300 V4 https://t.co/lmaJw7vTKW pic.twitter.com/ePkvsbVxhy
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 4, 2025
Solid rocket fuel! Has a very distinctive look when it goes kablooey.
Sov
There are almost two hundred countries in the world. The polite fiction is that all of them are fully sovereign, but to me it looks like only six are—the United States of America, Russia, China, India, Iran, and Turkey.
— Ben Landau-Taylor (@benlandautaylor) September 4, 2025
I’d add Brazil. Arguably Indonesia as well.
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you.
What Can Democrats Do to Get Rid of the Scarlet L for Loser? Maybe not act like giant fucking losers 24/7?
Why the world’s biggest movie bombed in America.
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants. Damn nature, you scary.
Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access. We made the right decision to move to California. Anti-vaxxers can live in their death-riddled shitholes.
The Simple Mathematics of Chinese Innovation.
Houston’s ConocoPhillips to lay off up to 25% of global workforce.