silenced112 @silenced112
Scientist who is increasingly frustrated by how the term "science" is being used to silence, eliminate debate, etc. #teamreality. Now inactive on X. US Joined October 2020-
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@JimWalshLD19 "Who will buy our newspapers?" "Newspapers?"
@dvb_eck @garyonthenet @ATypicalATLien @GeorgieM72 @Hitchslap1 Foam. Works very well. I have one of these units, use it to cool my bedroom during hot days. Heat is much worse on my electric bill than this unit. It is a bit bulky but also very quiet.
Rental car is new, expensive, and utterly undriveable. Main problem is the aggressive notification to take a break with a coffee emoji and five loud beeps. It is triggered if you drive too close to the line or veer even slightly outside the perfect center, like threading a needle constantly. So it screams at you for even the slightest venial sin -- providing more moral exhortations than a puritan preacher in 17th century Plymouth. This happened every ten minutes or so on a 2.5 hour drive. Makes one insane. If I drank all the coffee they had suggested, I would have been hospitalized. Meanwhile anything you want to do -- turn on the radio, change the temp, change the station whatever -- comes with a text warning not to be distracted and a terms of use approval, as if this is not distracting in itself. I'm certain the rental is somehow linked to the Internet so you get the sense that you are not driving at all. Paradoxically, it all feels extremely unsafe and it is impossible to relax. Horrid! The one time someone snuck into my blindspot going 80 -- now way to see this because this SUV has the outward visibility of a tank -- the magic seeing eyes did not notice. It is more interesting in correcting that helping me. What a miserable experience. It's odd because the US went all in with cars after WW2 at the expense of passenger trains on grounds that cars offer individual freedom. These new cars do NOT offer individual freedom. They are hectoring, surveilling, prisons on wheels. By constantly registering distrust in you as the driver, they deprecate volition and hence make driving less safe than ever.
@WaywardRabbler I went to one last night to see a County Highway writer read from her book. "No ICE" sign in the window. Everything else in the bookstore (Third Place Books in Seattle) was exactly as described here. Very laughable and I'm proud to have not bought anything.
In 2024, Microsoft Corporation donated a cool $1,000,000 to stop the repeal of the Climate Commitment Act, that led to the de facto banning of Natural Gas in Washington state with HB 1589. Two years later, Microsoft has just signed a 20yr deal with Chevron to supply Natural Gas to power their data center in Texas. “The rapid growth we’re experiencing in AI and cloud, driven by customer demand, requires energy infrastructure that can scale quickly and reliably,” said Noelle Walsh, Microsoft president of Cloud Operations + Innovation. ... Press Release: chevron.com/newsroom/2026/…
@monsterhunter45 Still waiting for David Gerrold's next Chtorr book. How long has it been?
Every single armchair liberal I know thinks "wealthy" starts with the income group right above them - and that's who they vote to tax. Natural consequences would take care of that except blue cities like Mpls carve out and funnel money back to the elites, so they don't suffer.
If you think for one second a “wealth tax” will only be for 9-figure net worth folks you are insane. Just wait until you have a $25k tax bill on your modest $1 million brokerage account you saved your entire career for. This sort of rhetoric should terrify EVERYONE.
The suspension of @PezeshkiCharles is outrageous and recalls the worst days of COVID censorship on X. No cause has been given. @elonmusk
Well they've suspended one of the best informed, best written, and intellectually thorough accounts on X: Charles Pezeshki, actual rocket scientist, student of semiotics, traveled adult thinker etc. As distinctive and enlightening an account as there was. Free the prisoner.
@weheartseattle @MayorofSeattle Is this a troll account? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Mayor doesn't give a shit.
@OliverJia1014 Do you actually want their soft power though?
@KirkLubimov I think @StephenPunwasi predicted this...
@MarcusGustavus I only use it for brahmins.
@lesmothian @ChristinaTasty "Finished", it was severely cut down and ended abruptly.
@annbauerwriter @RalphWGoethe @JonHaidt @TheFIREorg At least it came up before my donation to FIRE. Well, lack of donation now.
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