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I’m afraid American optimism isn’t what it was back in the ‘60s.

Not at all! I think Martian colonies are right around the corner, and we’ll be able to get them built much faster with the irreplaceable expertise of billionaire techdudes onsite. Once we get Musk and Bezos on those shuttles, I have no doubt the project will be successful.

If tunnels with self-driving cars were available, that would be a terrific thing.

oh shit, I’m sorry! yeah, that’s unquestionable, at least for a few more years until Serena’s in the mix.

Oh, yeah, I would never argue that his campaign is anything but loopy techdude stream of consciousness. The death of malls has just been on my mind lately so I slipped into tedious advocate mode.

I think vegetarians have mostly gotten over the insistence that veggie proteins resemble meat, but it’s super difficult to convince a lot of [mostly older] people that meatless meals are anything but poverty rations. It just...doesn’t compute.

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The slaughter isn’t even the gross part of most American meat!

Technology blogs are, of course, well known for their acceptance of the existence of totally unsolvable problems, and typically respond favorably to public declarations of the futility of human endeavour. This article is a real departure from that norm, which certainly exists.

This is very different from “Game Over, man the colony ships.” If you start from the proposition that nothing can be done, nothing will be done and we’ll get the worst possible version of climate change. There’s a difference even between “major disaster” and “major x 2 disaster” (primarily for the global poor, for…

Oddly, I think revitalizing malls is an extremely worthy endeavour. In a lot of places they’re the closest thing there is to a public square, and a government commitment to making them work would significantly improve the quality of life for a lot of suburban and rural people.

Is that the bigger point? Not that the government turned its coercive power on her because she offended Our Ruler? Because that seems like a bigger point than standup comedy rankings.

China and India both get nearly 3 times as much of their energy from renewables as the US does, and they’re continuing to increase the percentage. China in particular is responsible for something like half the global investment in renewable capacity. It turns out not being beholden to crazed foreign despots for your…

Every single person who’s played or watched kids’ sports knows at least one more annoying sports parent.

And yet it’s still cooler than sports-bloviating on ESPN and Twitter.

Jesus, dude.

Perversely, parents with attention disorders are probably less likely to forget their kids this way than habitually diligent ones.

If the people this happens to aren’t hideous monsters, then how can I be sure it’ll never happen to me (and don’t try to tell me it could happen to me, that’s impossible)?

Tops on cars are the real killers.