Wikipedia glosses it as “maximum rate of extraction of petroleum”. But the folks on the oil beat here routinely confuse energy with power and don’t know the difference between the price of oil and the price of an oil future—so their strengths are reportage rather than analysis.

That is Not. What. Peak. Oil. Means.  Stop getting it wrong, Earther.

“Concentration camp”

Because Twitterspace is dominated by idiots.

Shilling has an inane desire to be on “the right side of history”. What a clown...

It’s habit for me.  And this new format is breaking that habit as well.  It’s truly awful. 

Obama puts kids and families in detention centers:
Matt Novak doesn’t care.

“Yes, calling for justice for Breonna Taylor is political. So is not calling for justice for Breonna Taylor. In fact, not saying or doing anything “political” is also a political choice!”

Lol. I’m not sure what this site even is anymore. Or why I’m still here. I suspect I’m not alone. Habit? Love? 

I may be misremembering, but I thought once you paid the phone off your payments stopped. So, all it would mean is that you own your phone for a month or two before up get back into the loan program? Maybe not?

Imagine if Target took a percentage of the products sold in their stores?  Absolute chaos.

Imagine if Microsoft said right now that they only way to add software to Windows Xbox was to go through their app store and they wanted 30% of whatever you charged for the software. Their is no way anyone would stand for that.

Hair salons in NY that are trying to stay afloat at lowered capacity while also dealing with the increased costs and stress associated with all of the new state regulations for COVID-19.

Why are you surprised that receptionists at random hair salons are not wasting their time entertaining a random phone caller’s random questions about extensions at the RNC?

Top-line apocalyptic claims of methane ice melting due to climate change and causing craters in the Yamal peninsula. Buried well down in the article, admission that melting methane “could be one possible explanation”.

And as a young healthy person you are still very unlikely to die from it.

Check your oil. It happens with rotary issues. 

Slideshow. Why. Why slideshow.

This! When I was doing grad school a few years ago it was made explicitly clear that Wikipedia was NOT an acceptable reference. But a Good Wikipedia article will have its own sources, and many of them were just fine to use.

The post office is much closer to a public utility than a university