William Thomson
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Seeing our gorgeous blue Earth against the eternal blackness of the universe is the best, most memorable gift of spacewalking.
NASA History Office@NASAhistory
Let's give 'em a hand! 🦾 25 years ago on April 22, 2001, STS-100 astronauts Chris Hadfield and Scott Parazynski completed a 7-hour spacewalk, installing the International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2! That day, Hadfield (center) became the first Canadian spacewalker.
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@TSLAFanMtl Do you think the oil market disruption drives energy installations in addition to EV adoption?
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Am I the only one who Tesla wipers in Auto mode go full speed all the time? I haven’t been able to use Auto for over a year now.
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@garyblack00 I don't disagree, Gary, but none of that matters - it's what Elon wants, and the shareholders will probably give it to him.
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@HasanTracker @conorsen Whether it's cost of living, not social policies / political ideology, driving the migration.
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@conorsen Can you please elaborate for once chat man??
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How you think about Collin County, Texas matters here, and I think there’s a robust debate about what it signifies.
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
A pretty clear pattern: people are moving from blue states to red states.
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@MikeMitchNH Or c) shut up and focus on the work you can do with the power you have
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There's a self-selectivity to the sorts of members that like to gossip with beltway media, but still pathetic. Nobody made you run; nobody is making you run again. If you don't like what's happening, suck it up or do something about it.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
since this ran this morning -- 4 hours ago? -- ive gotten countless text messages from House Republicans agreeing with this sentiment. and saying why the hell should we stay in congress if all we're going to do is vote on censures and be a potted plant.
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@RadioFreeTom I am amazed at how many rakes they've managed to step on.
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@conorsen Obvious to everyone now that the threshold on anything a party actually wants to do is 50 votes.
Only conclusion to be drawn is opening the government is not something they want to do.
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“We need to respect the filibuster on a CR but we’ll use reconciliation to address healthcare” doesn’t even pass muster with me, let alone normal voters who don’t follow any of this stuff.
Andrew Desiderio@AndrewDesiderio
Using budget reconciliation would allow Republicans to address premium hikes stemming from expiring Obamacare subsidies without requiring Democratic votes. Meeting included RonJohn who has long called for additional reconciliation bills
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@conorsen It totally is. As someone who deals with statute on a regular basis, LLMs consistently get the content of existing law wrong as well. They can still be helpful tools for digging up information, but verification is a must.
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I feel like “Give me the in-conference records of all the SEC football teams from 2010-24” is something an LLM should be able to do easily, the information is all on Wikipedia/the web, but I continue to have no confidence they’d be able to do it accurately every time.
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@RyanRadia Ryan, do you have data on size of average home across these time frames? And housing units per capita?
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Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States)
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Ludicrous Shake at the Tesla Diner is amazing!
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@JPWeiland Count me as another person that appreciates your level-headed analysis. Many thanks.
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@JPWeiland @BoldsHeidi I think conspiracy theories are also used as a tool to reduce one's agency in one's own circumstances. i.e., if my life turned out poorly, it's not necessarily my fault, because of "xyz". There can be a certain comfort in that.
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@BoldsHeidi Those all require thought, effort, and critical thinking. It's much easier to say the government etc moves the continents for xyz nefarious reasons.
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BESSENT COMMENTS AT JPMORGAN EVENT IN WASHINGTON: SOURCES
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
🚨 *BESSENT SEES DE-ESCALATION WITH CHINA, SITUATION UNSUSTAINABLE
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@USA_Polling "It is not possible to give every alleged criminal a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, years."
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If you let them do this to non citizens, they'll do it to citizens next
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
BREAKING: Trump says it is not possible to give every person he wants to deport a trial, 'because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years'.
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@2buckchucky @FreightAlley Uhh, tariffs need to be assessed on imports to raise revenue. What happens when the imports crater, as they are now? Your revenue goes up in smoke.
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Craig, not saying this will materialize, but a tax rate of 0% from 0-$150k of US earners is roughly equivalent to an additional 50% tariffs on China and 10% on the rest of the world. At least at 2024 import levels.
Those tariff levels no raise about $600b which offsets the federal income taxes on most Americans.
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In speaking with nine large importers this week, everyone expected tariffs and anticipated that Chinese goods would bear the brunt of them.
The typical range for China was 10-35%. Only one had 50 %+ tariff forecasts on Chinese imports.
Everyone said that tariffs at their forecasted levels would have been painful, but wouldn't have cratered their operations.
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@realMeetKevin Jesus, these replies make me weep for the state of humanity. I feel you, Kevin.
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I feel like the country I grew up to love, respect, and honor is being gutted.
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@conorsen @nstrzo Thought this was an interesting piece - industry orgs are paralyzed by fear of retaliation. Capital markets are the one tool we have that can't be bullied, apparently. politico.com/news/2025/04/0…
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I really think the Biden debate is a better analogy in that anyone not on the team immediately saw how nuts it was but people inside the tent were shell-shocked and defensive, trying not to acknowledge what they just saw or rationalizing it away.
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
This week didn’t feel like ‘08. Obvious to many, but lots of people in the market now who weren’t then! Movies don’t really capture the feeling - not the visceral part. But I think reading the diary entries of real people panicking does, pretty well
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