I did not go to the tenth or twentieth. I can’t imagine how they’d even find me for the thirtieth in the 2030s, I don’t really do any social media these days.

I’m an introvert and haven’t kept up with anyone from high school. Seems like it’d just be awkward.

Checks out, there is clearly more IQ under the middle of the graph.

the AC now runs for up to 10 minutes after a driver exits the vehicle, ensuring a cool cabin when they return. The timer resets at every stop. The AC only shuts off if the driver sliding door is left open for more than 30 seconds — a battery conservation measure.

Context from the article.

As I heard many times during childhood: “Close the door you’re letting the cold air out!”

Closing the door is something that seems like an obvious should-but-won’t-do for most drivers, so I could see this being a good thing to get people to actually do the thing, seems less evil than the headline initially portrays.

I only understand this reference because I worked for a company at one point that had a large number of NeXT and Solaris hosts that only had vi installed with letter key navigation, so my muscle memory does not use arrow keys.

Pretty good super villain idea, tbh. (I have to assume villain, he’s handing out tootsie rolls after all.)

I had the same thought, in a Pixar movie this could be a tear jerker scene, in real life that bird might die of a heart attack.

I’d never buy one at these rates. I have one from back when it was $75, just waiting until they release plex2 or some shenanigans to sunset the legacy lifetime pass holders.

How appropriate.

Which sounds reasonable until you think about what costs we refuse to externalize (road repair) and which costs we happily externalize (pollution).

It’s an interesting discussion I’ve had with coworkers recently where there’s a strong sentiment with some people that renewable energy needs to stand on its own, but the same argument could be made for fossil fuels and needing to account for environmental damage in pricing. Subsidizing renewable energy (tax credits, avoiding gasoline tax, etc) is an indirect way to compensate for the externalized costs of fossil fuels, which wouldn’t be palatable or popular if done directly.

Money needs to come from somewhere for roads, but it’s very hard to decouple infrastructure funding concerns from environmental concerns since no one is willing to tackle the problem head on with something like a carbon tax.

Best I can do is lick boots.

Who the hell does this Solomon guy think he is calling me out like this.

That’s some interesting political discourse there by the buttons.

Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?

I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.

And don’t even get me started on all the healthcare the meat bag driving it needs.

It’s wild that they were originally built for a five year mission and they’re still ticking almost 50 years later.

“You can’t quit, you’re fired!”

I’m pretty sure the professor can whip one up with some coconuts, palm fronds, and salt water.

Don’t worry guys, Schumer has a proven ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, no chance this doesn’t end in some kind of capitulation that fails to get any concessions.

Makes me wonder what that 27% is smoking and even that 29%.

But I will say for once this number is less than the 30-something percent of true believers, maybe some cracks in the MAGA faithcism? One can hope that there is a line… I’d would’ve hoped the Epstein files would have been that but here we are.