- Staring directly at the Sun for 45 minutes:
- @astrokiwi How many different ways can we simultaneously break the sky? in reply to astrokiwi 00:54:06, 2022-06-11
- It's like they're fighting over a limited pool of marks, and the grumpy old dudes are annoyed that their story no l… https://t.co/efI9dYLccc in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:07:22, 2022-06-10
- I find it hilarious to watch hyperinflation goldbug commodity hawkers from 2008 calling out today's crypto scammers. 19:05:12, 2022-06-10
- RT @polotek: "You really think people would elect a washed up reality show host who also clearly a bigot and a criminal?" 17:02:36, 2022-06-10
- RT @polotek: "You really think we would go to war over nuclear arms that don't exist?"
"You really think people can be brainwashed into re… 17:02:14, 2022-06-10
- RT @polotek: White dudes be like "you really think the majority of the population would go along with passing laws to discriminate against… 17:02:07, 2022-06-10
- @SarahdawnH Have you seen War Witch? It takes place against the backdrop of the coltan mines.
https://t.co/VejBU3hlsX in reply to SarahdawnH 09:42:11, 2022-06-10
- Round and round and round we go. https://t.co/dPHwNXVMcN 22:11:32, 2022-06-09
- "Oh whoops, it turns out that whole batch was fraudulent and today the market price for permanent removal is $500/t… https://t.co/rSjrcKYeRY in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:06:31, 2022-06-09
- I suspect offsets & credits will remain irredeemably scammy, but sometimes I wonder what would happen if everyone w… https://t.co/8BpGLUczp4 22:02:22, 2022-06-09
- It's funny how long a show that's a full hour long feels, after you've seen a bunch of 42 minute episodes.
- @SarahdawnH "I realize than an increase in the amount of affordable housing limits the appreciation on existing hom… https://t.co/uXQIzoxGXN in reply to SarahdawnH 21:36:06, 2022-06-09
- @thebmbennett I like big bots and I cannot lie 🤖 in reply to thebmbennett 16:10:55, 2022-06-09
- @CatalystCoop "And now a word from our sponsors." in reply to CatalystCoop 16:03:42, 2022-06-09
- @CatalystCoop @agelston But really we only use Python. in reply to CatalystCoop 15:05:46, 2022-06-09
- @SarahdawnH https://t.co/dlhk0d0Qku in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:45:57, 2022-06-09
- @SarahdawnH Okay but what about the lesson on gay pirate marriage? Surely they didn't remove that from the curricul… https://t.co/FYoD4lcr5j in reply to SarahdawnH 12:45:06, 2022-06-09
- It seems like there are wildly diverging ideas in the US about what constitutes abuse worthy of punishment and what… https://t.co/xVME6CDzwv in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:40:06, 2022-06-09
- this is happening
https://t.co/pnxGnV3NVL in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:21:56, 2022-06-09
- This is happening, and also… https://t.co/hAzSsPZIIy 12:21:55, 2022-06-09
- @ChuckKutscher @JesseJenkins @Arne_JJ I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out but, it seems like this is a… https://t.co/FA7xbicOoN in reply to ChuckKutscher 10:17:23, 2022-06-09
- @thmscwlls @bendnorman ☝️ in reply to thmscwlls 09:04:21, 2022-06-09
- @ChuckKutscher @JesseJenkins @Arne_JJ Who knows if it can be cheap enough to compete, but the Natrium reactor desig… https://t.co/h9sGyEDVWh in reply to ChuckKutscher 09:03:14, 2022-06-09
- @DavidPomerantz Is one really wondering though? in reply to DavidPomerantz 23:38:56, 2022-06-08
- RT @GalaxyKate: Rich people realizing that Great Artists can be rented for pennies
+ Proudly displaying both Revenge and Cringe commissions… 23:37:41, 2022-06-08 - @drvolts The IRS revoking your 501(c)3 status. in reply to drvolts 23:34:41, 2022-06-08
- @drvolts The procrastination vibe is so strong. in reply to drvolts 18:08:56, 2022-06-08
- @ericmbudd I liked the tweets about how 2/3 of his followers are bots. in reply to ericmbudd 16:44:57, 2022-06-08
- @daveregrets "To remember forever to forget…"
https://t.co/v5m0Pl8pfy in reply to daveregrets 23:35:40, 2022-06-07
- @ericmbudd Okay but what about the book sales? in reply to ericmbudd 21:47:44, 2022-06-07
- @LucasCohen12 Right now it's either altruism (philanthropy), PR, an attempt to help jumpstart solutions which will… https://t.co/gnxxixvxLP in reply to LucasCohen12 17:37:33, 2022-06-07
- @CatalystCoop And the external backup drive is still around here somewhere in one of these drawers and we have a SCSI adapter dongle. in reply to CatalystCoop 17:28:36, 2022-06-07
- These are indistinguishable from actual US bike/ped infrastructure in terms of their functionality. Someone should… https://t.co/XMTM2IpekL 15:36:15, 2022-06-07
- RT @Gritty20202: there's a lot to unpack here https://t.co/KLhVxufH4p 00:08:43, 2022-06-07
- RT @daveregrets: This is a really nice section of the recent NYT piece about choosing to have kids despite the climate crisis. I've talked… 00:06:05, 2022-06-07
- A poignant vignette about the situation of the Ukrainian railway system today. Before the war it carried 80% of the… https://t.co/8mQhiSaMRU 21:16:04, 2022-06-06
- RT @mikamckinnon: Is it time to sing it again already?
🎶Earth is Easy Mode🎶
Always & forever, attempting to create habitability anywhere… 18:39:16, 2022-06-06
- Maybe Uncle Joe has finally given up on the Bituminous G.O.B. https://t.co/dxIdyWPjV1 16:50:17, 2022-06-06
- lolsobbing while I talk to a former Google contractor who says they had her use a personal Gmail account and consta… https://t.co/MxAioIUnGq 15:34:28, 2022-06-06
- A great fast-paced exploration of how to portray morally ambiguous characters well, and why it's important to do so… https://t.co/emXQEOofvC 22:23:59, 2022-06-05
- This sounds similar to Colorado, where agriculture is ~2.5% of gross state product, but uses ~85% of the water the… https://t.co/TJwXGPdGjH 15:35:01, 2022-06-05
- @kptrease ~10W/m^2 is the average power output across a whole year (so incorporating both diurnal and seasonal vari… https://t.co/xb8xGEHk5I in reply to kptrease 15:23:17, 2022-06-05
- It must be weird to accidentally inspire a bunch of people to do things you don't really agree with. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:42:04, 2022-06-05
- I've loved me a lot of KSR books. It's weird that the RGB Mars series was kind of taken up as a rallying narrative… https://t.co/ERVPRczsqQ 14:40:49, 2022-06-05
- @KevinSLeahy Yeah, I don't ever remember seeing any burbs or traffic jams! People do seem to bop around all over th… https://t.co/6VGSLJwKRa in reply to KevinSLeahy 14:34:21, 2022-06-05
- @kptrease The global average is around 2.5kW per capita. Bangladesh is at the low end of big countries with ~300W.… https://t.co/u3rJCPLlUZ in reply to kptrease 14:26:12, 2022-06-05
- I love Star Trek, but I don't think this is that kind of future. Honestly I don't feel like I've seen much of this… https://t.co/LGOixdBi6d in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:22:41, 2022-06-05
- Personally I think that beyond a certain point increased quantity of consumption has pretty steeply diminishing ret… https://t.co/YCcmEf87Bu in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:18:12, 2022-06-05
- Or do we intend to change the nature of economic and technological development to accommodate limits as needed?
Ar… https://t.co/Eu8XJVETP1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:09:10, 2022-06-05
- I don't think we've (consciously) decided which kind of world the current push for energy transition is supposed to… https://t.co/MOymqfZFZ9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:05:56, 2022-06-05
- If you want egalitarian access to large amounts of energy and a large population, then you can do low power-density… https://t.co/SooIcslKcX in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:00:38, 2022-06-05
- Or you could have a civilization that accepts limits to energy consumption, and instead channels economic and techn… https://t.co/IHZfuVdOxX in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:53:01, 2022-06-05
- If there's extremely energy intensive futuristic technology, it wouldn't be accessible to a large number of people.… https://t.co/rqWsW5WnyH in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:49:32, 2022-06-05
- Renewable energy fluxes at ground level are unavoidably diffuse. I think a civilization that relies on them will ha… https://t.co/PAB1Taahv4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:46:56, 2022-06-05
- 1e15[W] / 50[W/m^2] / 1e6[m^2/km^2] = 2e7 km^2 = 20 million square kilometers.
This is slightly more than the lan… https://t.co/BeqUoYsEMA in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:40:36, 2022-06-05
- 100kW x 1e10 people = 1e15W
Today PV produces on the order ~10W per square meter. Say they get approach the quantu… https://t.co/CRLmsjXSwW in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:35:22, 2022-06-05
- The *mean* US rate of total per-capita energy consumption is ~10kW. At the upper end of the income/consumption spec… https://t.co/sZQMeg2GiO in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:26:04, 2022-06-05
- Earth in Star Trek is supposed to be pretty egalitarian. Everyone seems to have access to the technology of the day… https://t.co/GjZBlwDUW3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:22:17, 2022-06-05
- As far as I can tell the Star Trek universe is one in which humanity has transcended scarcity not by developing a s… https://t.co/E6pTBkJzes in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:09:35, 2022-06-05
- RT @daveregrets: I wouldn't characterize myself as a degrowth person, but like, how much of both boils down to the unstated inviolable prin… 13:03:31, 2022-06-05
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