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@Tuggernutz87 @DemocraticWins And mattering for the midterms means that it starts to limit what he can do and maintain congressional cover.

@DemocraticWins Does it matter ? He is in office and can’t run again.

BREAKING: New CNN polling shows Trump's "approve strongly" number is lower than at any point in his first or second terms. Trump’s own base is abandoning him. This is amazing.

I mean…weird tweet? Or does weird not quite cover it? Didn’t we fight a whole war not to have kings? And even if this is a “calm down we’re just joking” thing, isn’t it in very poor taste to “joke” that our president is a king? Just asking questions, guys!!!

@_Kodacrome @JoJoFromJerz Oh, you want an army of Unsullied. I see.

@_Kodacrome @JoJoFromJerz Are members of the military also supposed to be celibate and disavow their family of birth? What kind of single track minded, will only follow orders even if it means committing atrocities, are you trying to turn our military into?

Insanity.

I don't know who needs to hear this but: Partners, sometimes your job is to make the fantasy come true, and sometimes your job is to live in the fantasy with them. You don't have to know the difference, you only have to know to ask.

One of my difficult but important realizations in adulthood was that there are rarely “right” or “wrong” choices, just different paths to take. With every choice we make, we have to mourn the loss of all we didn't choose. In this way, growth and grief are deeply connected.

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

Maybe the best thing I’ve heard in commentary: “The Earth is covered by 71% water, the rest is covered by Alyssa Naeher.” 🤣

@VicVijayakumar I used Dropbox as my collaboration tool for a project and I learned so quickly how terrible it is. Using the wrong tool is a great way to learn the benefits of the right tool.

I don’t think my point is “they should be teaching git”. Learning git takes 10 minutes but not if you don’t know that you need version control. There’s just always been a gap between what colleges teach and what industry wants you to know on day 1. Apprenticeships fix this.

I have a degree in computer engineering. I learned C, C++, Java, PHP, and MIPS Assembly. Git wasn't invented until after I graduated, but at no point did anyone mention any other version control system. I only learned to use it from a student developer job. This cemented my belief that learning things without practical application is incomplete, and that innovations from industry take a long time to make it back into the education system. There need to be industry representatives on curriculum-setting boards who can advice on what else needs to be taught and what is no longer relevant. Oh also colleges work hand in hand with lenders to trap students with barely any financial knowhow into signing for predatory loans at high interest rates that are easy to acquire and near-impossible to discharge. But that's a different topic.

Here’s the thing: Accepting pathogens ripping through your community, killing and disabling people, is inherently not only a cowardly act but an unnatural one because it cedes humans' status as the apex predator. This is something we have not done willingly in a hundred thousand years. Much of this was to the detriment of the planet and every other species, but one law has governed us for all of our history- no one messes with humans but humans. We don’t allow wolves to roam our towns and cities because they only prey on the sick and weak. We never “learned to live” with any predator as dangerous as the pathogens we now face. We either limit their existence to a few select, remote areas, put them in a zoo, or make them extinct. Humans are the apex predators on planet Earth; we have never ceded ground the way many do today. We have never accepted sacrificing our own to the Minotaur in the labyrinth. When anything tried, some folks grabbed a few pointed sticks, or figured out how to flake flint, and went out and showed them what’s what and who’s on top. Now, when people fashion shields and arm themselves, others, who are unwilling to fight, unwilling to protect themselves or others, proclaim that they must have some secret message. They say that if they carry a shield, their friends might laugh at them, that only a few are taken, and probably only other people they feel don't matter, so why should they care? Yes, there is a message in the protective measures we employ- it is that we don’t cede ground, no one comes for ours in the night, and no one picks off our elders or carries away our children. The bull protects not just himself, but every member of his herd. Human tribes are no different, it is why we form them- for collective protection. For generations of our ancestors have used superior intellect and cooperation to defeat any predator that comes for us or ours. A rifle above the door, a baseball bat beside it, an obsidian knife close at hand, a bottle of antibiotics- whatever the tool required to kill the threat, we have made it; humans do not surrender our own to anything. To accept that any creature, any organism- any natural event, is our better and allowed to prey on us is unnatural. Cowering by the campfire because the monsters in the dark only take a few each night goes against 100,000 years of evolution. We are the monster in the dark- we are the nightmare of every other creature on the planet, from single-celled organisms to giant whales. For the last hundred years, they have only been allowed to exist only at our sufferance. Until today- when something, perhaps wandering out from the forest, perhaps escaped from a zoo- preys on us in ways we have not seen in centuries. Pathogens, the last remaining predator we have not beaten. Now, many ask, why don’t we go belly up, bend the knee, cower, and timidly accept such a tiny enemy as our better? Why not live our lives happily in the moment as Eloi, accepting the predations of the Morlocks when fighting them is so inconvenient and unfashionable? What if my shield doesn't match my outfit? What if it hides my handsome face? What if my friends laugh at my shield? Why protect ourselves when even acknowledging the Morlocks are eating us is seen as gauche? Of course they are, but we don't talk about it- it's so vulgar. Why don’t we allow pathogens, the last predator, to extract their price from us for another 100,000 years, taking days of pleasure and labor from us, disabling us, and killing millions? Why do we fight with technology, cooperation, and persistence like our ancestors did with every threat to their tribes? Because some, in every tribe, cower by the campfire and hope that in doing nothing they will be safe, that someone else will be next. Some pick up a fist-size rock or whatever tool they can fashion and make sure they and theirs aren't next. They don’t cede ground, not to any monster- big or small.

The 185MW/565MWh Kapolei Energy Storage site includes 158 Tesla Megapacks and is now fully operational⚡️ Owned and operated by Plus Power, the system will provide load shifting and fast-frequency response services to @HwnElectric, improving grid reliability with higher amounts of renewable energy

@ryanlpeterman @johnkinmonth Reminds me of the Hawaii missile warning mistake. You don't fire the guy that screws up that badly. He is the one guy in the whole world who you KNOW will never do it again.

@johnkinmonth Rewarding people for breaking things is probably too far, but I agree they shouldn’t have been fired

Blameless postmortem reviews are an underrated part of FAANG engineering culture. Here's why:

@AnnieGaus Felt in San Mateo!

Quake!!

@billhookunion @syntropian @LeavittAlone And with the internet today, the dissemination of information of what to do and how to do it should be easy!

@syntropian @LeavittAlone In England at least they also had semi- government supported groups like Women’s Institute that helped bulk process and can seasonal surplus. People weren’t just left alone to fail and figure it out. And communities worked to arrange what was grown where

We literally already did this. We did it almost a century ago. In only two years, we retrofitted thousands of acres of available suburban and urban space into small-scale agricultural production, replacing 40% of all household produce consumption nationwide. We can do it again.

@POTUS How about we pay them more? Sounds like a better way to appreciate them than Tweets.

In schools across America, teachers arrive early to set up classrooms, spend long hours teaching students, and stay late preparing lesson plans. During Teacher Appreciation Week, we celebrate our remarkable teachers and recommit to having their backs, just like they have ours.

@AppleRidgeGuy @ClareMalone Thanks for saving me from making your mistake. ❤️

This reads like someone who has (or will have?) a non-disparagement clause.

Engineers are hired to solve systems problems. Organizations are social systems. Don’t be surprised or annoyed when the engineers point out the systems problems within the organization. Work with them. Use them as the problem solvers they naturally are.