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I am not honoring the butcher of Gaza, a man who in my lifetime was more than happy to stand on the bones of mass-incarcerated Americans he considered subhuman just like Palestinians. no rent control proposal is going to bring those people back

@adoukas @rohanspatel @farzyness Elon fanboys casting around for amy reason to agree with him about Trump. Sad.

@rohanspatel @farzyness Godspeed trying to reason with these folks. Genuinely.

Biden endorses Kamala. The person who was the least popular presidential candidate for the Dems in 2020. In her own home state. What is actually going on lol

@rolotomars @rohanspatel @farzyness Ix-nay to the libertarian horsepoop.

@rohanspatel @farzyness You should read this. x.com/enbrown/status…

@Climatologist49 It would get you out of AK before winter sets in.

@rooftop_love I think making it easy to install Level 2s as appliances would achieve a lot more a lot faster.

@GregorMacdonald Why?

To complete the test, Sotomayor now needs to resign. If she was at Harvard as recently as this Spring, divulging that she has cried over the court's decisions (tears warranted, no argument) then it's not rational for her to stay.

@_david_ho_ Also overeating.

Fossil fuels

@JGDYKWIM @billmckibben @juliaioffe Thank you for making clear who you are, comrade. Blocked.

Let’s be honest: Dems should’ve had this conversation a year ago.

@BSchmidtTweets @theiaincameron Bunch of state names, although I suppose many of those are names of prominent tribes who lived in those areas and may not have been used as place names before European settlement.

@theiaincameron Place names are fascinating. Immigrant cultures that hold preceding cultures in contempt, sometimes even committing genocide, will keep many older place names. Lots of Indigenous geographic names still used here in the US, especially for smaller rivers/lakes.

The name Glasgow, that of Scotland's largest city, is so old that it predates the era when Gaelic was spoken there. It is, rather, a derivation from Brittonic, a language related to Welsh. It was spoken for over 1,000 years in the Glasgow area. The name Glasgow means: 1/n

@bern_identity @kenklippenstein But if you're right, he'll have to resign soon.

@bern_identity @kenklippenstein He could have managed a recorded statement. Possibly they just didn't want to detract from Kamala's opening push.

Wild that this was announced via tweet rather than press conference or at least a short video address

@billmckibben @Olivianuzzi I predict some journos trying to keep this a horse race.

@Olivianuzzi I voted for Biden and I’m grateful to him for rising to the occasion. That’s why I voted for him, because I trusted him to do the right thing

The Democratic Party told its voters that they could not be trusted to select a nominee when they effectively shut down their primary process. Now, they are installing a new nominee. American voters happen to like democracy. I predict some backlash.

@GrahamK63306 @CJHandmer Interesting, didn't know that. Sounds like a move to try to kill cost-plus.

@CJHandmer @stevebloom55 And interestingly, SpaceX apparently will not bid *unless* the contract is fixed-price.

Budgeted for $250m, already heading >$600m. How is it possible to spend that much money, that quickly, on a robotic moon rover? I've heard a lot about dire NASA funding wedges, and almost nothing about NASA's ongoing catastrophic productivity collapse. I worked there for four years and the only times I got in trouble (coaching conversation with manager's manager or higher) was when I made the mistake of putting into writing ways I had found of saving significant sums of money. There's an entire department whose only job is to estimate project costs - something any quant could get to 90% fidelity with a four line spreadsheet, since the algorithm approximates to "whatever it cost last time + 30%". I run a company that burns about $400k per month - a fortune! And in 2 years we've revolutionized three core technologies (green hydrogen <$2.50/kg, DAC CO2 <$250/T, and intermittent Sabatier reactor) necessary for synthetic fuels, for a total cost of <$10m and with a technical team I can count on both hands. It has always been possible to innovate arbitrarily far on both schedule and budget, but it has been a long time since anyone at NASA showed the least interest in generating more value for money.

@ProfBillMcGuire The urgent needs of fossil fuel users are being ignored during this climate crusade. Tut-tut.

@bitterwaterblue Although he had better not "focus solely." He needs to be seriously campaigning, albeit not as intensively as would have been the case.

@vkhosla California is uniquely positioned for this role. But Gov/Legislature don't have the guts.

Could you also give us a plot of per capita emissions by country? Some folks need to lead and move faster and drive reductions in cost of technology so others can follow. Solar and wind being widely adopted in these countries though they are unfortunately still investing in coal/gas. Likely will go away in 5-10 years if we do our job and reduce cost of new technology as happened with solar and is happening in EV's.

@bern_identity To be honest, I don't envy Elon's situation. His two big companies, the ones he's dreamed about for decades, are very vulnerable to a Trump presidency. And Trump won't consider neutrality acceptable. It's part of what happens when fascism is on the ballot!

Surely not surprising. Elon is trying to recruit Vinod Khosla to get on the tech billionaire Trump train.

@GerschLee @billmckibben @juliaioffe It was.

@billmckibben @juliaioffe Who’s to say Biden’s age was an issue a year ago?