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@DrJillStein Please just go away, you duplicitous grifter.

Dems rev their engines for another riveting AIPAC election.

@DylanRatigan We can disempower Iran by switching to renewables. It’s that simple. China knows this is and is capitalizing on this very moment.

Every single person in the American political and finance community has known for decades that the reason Iran has gotten away with agitating the way that they have and the reason no one would ever invade Iran — is because they control the base price of global energy fertilizer and plastics — via their stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. It is why all past threats by democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton have been perceived as nothing more than empty rhetoric — and it is why the current US President’s actions over the last 40 days amount to political and economic malpractice that approaches treason…

@ChrisMurphyCT He’s making China great again because their past decade of massive investment in renewables and EVs have primed them to capitalize on this moment. Too bad it’s not the US.

Trump's Iran War has been a disaster in the U.S., as gas prices eclipse $4. But in the developing world, the shock of spiralling energy prices has been cataclysmic. 1/ A short thread the scope of the damage Trump has caused. There are crises everywhere and you need to know.

@mzjacobson Canada is highly risk averse, which is why investment goes to trees, rocks, and condos, and government jobs is the main employment growth sector.

@mzjacobson Canada is a prime candidate for switching to heat pumps because an absurd percentage of buildings use electric resistance heating. If Canada had a more innovative business culture, it would be a global leader in heat pump manufacturing.

No, Canada will save $182 billion/year in private energy costs by eliminating the use of fossil fuels for energy, electrifying all energy, and providing the electricity with WindWaterSolar alone (this will also reduce energy needs 61%) x.com/mzjacobson/sta… Here are the data web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… @AaronGunn

@nytimes I can’t believe that NYT didn’t sanitize Trump’s words here. Normally they would go with something like “Trump threatens reprisal.”. I’m glad that NYT draws the line at unprovoked nuclear war. Good job guys! (Slow clap)

Breaking News: President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz. nyti.ms/3OlVQES

@TheMightyHans @VicVijayakumar If soap ruins the seasoning, it’s because it was not seasoned correctly. (Citation: me who uses cast iron multiple times a day)

@VicVijayakumar No, it's not, if you actually used an iron skillet for cooking you'd know that when you do that once, it takes a long time to get it non-stick and back into shape. You can argue with me, but if you do you're wrong and I'm right.

unironically this is how you should wash your cast iron skillet. it's fine.

@mzjacobson Canada’s politics have been captured by the fossil fuel industry. It’s not quite a petrostate (Alberta is however) but it’s close. Even though the contribution to GDP is small, Canada’s economy has few value-added sectors. 2 decades of a real estate bubble.

Can Canada eliminate fossil fuels and nuclear for all energy? Although Canada currently provides 63% of its electricity from wind-water-solar sources, electricity comprises only 21% of Canada’s total energy, so wind-water-solar provides only 13% of Canada’s total energy. However, if we electrify all of Canada’s non-electric energy, which includes its energy for transportation, buildings, and industry, and provide that electricity with just wind-water-solar sources, Canada’s energy needs will decline by 61%. That is because we would eliminate the 22% of Canada’s energy used just to mine, transport, and refine fossil fuels and uranium and also replace less efficient combustion vehicles with electric vehicles and replace less efficient combustion heating with electric heat pumps and electric enhigh-temperature furnaces. The 61% lower ergy needs will reduce annual energy costs to Canadians by 61%. But wait, there is more. Eliminating combustion eliminates about 5,000 air pollution deaths per year in Canada and emissions that cause global climate damage. As such, the total energy plus health plus climate cost savings to Canada with wind-water-solar is a whopping 87% compared with no change. What is more, the land needed for wind-water-solar is only 0.19% of Canada’s land area, and this is mostly open space between wind turbines. For comparison, oil and gas wells in Alberta and British Columbia alone occupy 0.27% of Canada, and the mined and unmined Alberta oil sands area is 1.6 % of Canada. In sum, a transition of all energy in Canada to wind-water-solar will reduce substantially private energy costs, social energy costs, land use, air pollution, and climate damage. What is not to like? More info web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… youtube.com/shorts/ME14hbg…

@ewong @nytimes I mean, even fucking CNN got this right. That’s pretty fucking awful when they’re better than you.

@ewong @nytimes NYT above the fold headline right now is: Trump renews threat of attacks on Iranian power plants and bridges. Perhaps you hacks could lead with the key detail of his presser, which was him implying that he could nuke the entire country. Stop sanitizing him, you cowardly hacks.

NEW from @nytimes: Trump revels in threats to commit war crimes by destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure and sending it back to the "Stone Ages." He and his aides scorn laws on using force — obvious from strikes on civilian boats to Hegseth's talk of "no quarter" in Iran.

@bryan_johnson Any piece of upholstered furniture in your house older than 2020 is probably treated with flame retardants.

ok I'm going to turn this into an experiment. > measure turf toxin levels: PFAS, heavy metals, PAHs > measure same toxins in my body > compare before/after turf removal > document remediation process 13k artificial turf fields in US. My kids played sports on them.

Guys, I’m an idiot. All this time I’ve spent trying not to die, I had toxic turf in my backyard. Artificial turf contains crumb rubber infill made from recycled tires, which leaches chemicals including PFAS, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds are linked to hormone disruption, carcinogenicity, and systemic inflammation. I don’t know how I missed it. It makes me question my basic competence in life. What gets me is that I try so hard to survey the world of potential idiocy. Then I find out there’s a monument to idiocy sitting right in front of my face that I was blind to. I’m removing the turf, yet I’m still stuck with this seemingly unsolvable problem of how to not be an idiot.

@Prominent_Bryan The country with the lowest fleet average fuel economy in the world is - drumroll, please - Canada! Congratulations! (ref: IEA)

Okay so I had always heard that the Honda Civic was the best selling car in Canada for a long time. I never realized this ranking did NOT include trucks The Ford F150 sold 138k units in 2025 versus 38k for the Civic. And even if we exclude trucks, then it's the Toyota Rav 4 at 75k! I thought we were different from the US but we really aren't

@pmajrider @mzjacobson @ClaraJeffery Look at this asshole here who can’t even read a graph.

@mzjacobson @ClaraJeffery Batterien produce no energy, Dude. They only store it with losses.

Yes, the sun does't shine at night, but batteries produced electricity every minute last night (4/4) as California set a new discharge record of 57.17 GWh/day. Batteries have met 8.01% of all main-grid demand in 2026 in the 4th-largest economy in the world. The batteries cost (if bought today) only ~0.28 cents/kWh-grid-output, or 0.86% the cost of grid electricity in CA.

@Bushra1Shaikh You rooted for Harris to fail. GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.

Is Donald Trump dead yet?

@ZontarAlt @JoshDehaas True story. Canadians would rather build nothing and complain about it.

@furious_buffalo @JoshDehaas We aren't Florida

According to Grok, you could cover the cost of everyone’s flights from Toronto to Montreal for 180 to 300 years with the estimated price tag to build Alto high-speed rail. On Alto, you would also have to pay hundreds per ticket and there would be a taxpayer subsidy.

@ZontarAlt @JoshDehaas Growing ridership and positive EBITDA says you’re wrong

@furious_buffalo @JoshDehaas No one would tolerate something like Brightline

@ZontarAlt @JoshDehaas But it exists, and it still goes a helluva lot faster than Via

@furious_buffalo @JoshDehaas Brightline doesn't have grade separation on much of it which is whyvmost of it doesn't have HSR speed

@CharlesLammam Ask Canadians on this app what innovations we should undertake to bring the country out of its economic doldrums and half of them will say to build a pipeline to sell more bitumen. Why the fuck would you not leave.

Canada's startup exodus is accelerating. Nearly one of every two Canadian founders who raised over $1 million in 2024 are now based in the U.S. That's up from about one in five just a short time ago.

@JeffreyLuscombe It’s because they fucking hate anything that remotely reeks of collective action.

Ask a Conservative why they hate this so much. They won’t have much of an answer except ‘the party said I should’. #cdnpoli