Tweets for the Week of 2022-08-14 to 2022-08-20

@ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr Meanwhile, In Outer Space
https://t.co/oHaMcywJ6j in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:12:53, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr I don't think anybody outside of the collapsitarian accelerationists are like "Yo, let'… https://t.co/IjuMcQJX0b in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:04:15, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr And a bunch of bigger economies are also total misery! Just look how big the US economy… https://t.co/OInG5Ctpdy in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:59:12, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr Obviously not all smaller economies are better. Lots of them are total misery! But ther… https://t.co/eJnAxS26L6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:57:40, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr But if the US collectively spent half as much on transportation (nix cars) and housing… https://t.co/UECnkJmsiC in reply to ericmbudd 18:56:08, 2022-08-20
Just for fun, if these prison sentences scaled linearly with dollars stolen, either:
* the CEO would have been put… https://t.co/mmaOSxUorw in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:28:58, 2022-08-20
It's like how the cost of a speeding ticket in Finland scales linearly with your income, so as to present a uniform… https://t.co/N78mkzcZoL 12:14:25, 2022-08-20
@bolderbekah Yeah, the BBBA would have been much B for a variety of reasons. in reply to bolderbekah 12:12:45, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd Anyway I got distracted. I came On Here to schedule a tweet for Monday asking what data we need to liber… https://t.co/WW7ShlEILh in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:17:02, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd MOST OF THE ECONOMY IS LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY GARBAGE. in reply to ericmbudd 11:15:07, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd But we could! At least in rich countries like the US (plenty of other places really do need MOAR).
The… https://t.co/h5agviJbeC in reply to ericmbudd 11:13:55, 2022-08-20
@SarahdawnH I really resent that the xenophobes have made "citizen" into a dirty word. It's got good roots.
I wish… https://t.co/Vm2R3wOF5h in reply to SarahdawnH 11:12:00, 2022-08-20
@tatere Sometimes sadly just a little bit too adjacent to the war industry. in reply to tatere 11:07:46, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd This too would be degrowth. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:06:36, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd Or you could just not work as much. Make less money. Go on more bike rides. Have more picnics and potluc… https://t.co/QUk6FJeSLb in reply to ericmbudd 11:06:01, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd These actions reduce economic activity and material consumption, but provide basic needs and maybe even… https://t.co/IYmxH1WMit in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:03:23, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd I just don't get the need to bag on "degrowth" or some stereotype of it.
Selling your car and riding a… https://t.co/5BYjqRw6TA in reply to ericmbudd 11:01:09, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd And some kinds of growth we *think* are good right now may not seem so great at 10x or 100x their curren… https://t.co/28GGYWoG0u in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:53:52, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd I think there's plenty potential for other kinds of growth. But they aren't all the kinds we came to exp… https://t.co/bJvOtUWDUV in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:52:43, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd Some kinds of growth are unabashedly, literally toxic. Others aren't even growth at all — but instead j… https://t.co/3TZ8Kd5B1C in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:49:38, 2022-08-20
@ericmbudd But so much growth is just pointless crap that doesn't improve anybody's life or do anything useful, exc… https://t.co/e67xWFJPmh in reply to ericmbudd 10:47:18, 2022-08-20
I'm sure this isn't a new idea, but it seems like the political economy of the IRA mirrors stuff the war industry h… https://t.co/6TRGAQL2Xk 09:51:36, 2022-08-20
Maybe I'm being paranoid but I feel like my internet connection gets throttled after I've been using my VPN for a little while. 23:09:08, 2022-08-19
@dwallacewells Wow. China usually has some long records. in reply to dwallacewells 20:27:53, 2022-08-19
Refactoring code you wrote five years ago feels like some kind of atonement. 18:44:48, 2022-08-19
@CHThiem Ah, lifecycle assessments.
https://t.co/8WZIIWYnew in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:21:24, 2022-08-19
@CHThiem Stoned librarians for cooperative housing I vote yes. in reply to CHThiem 16:12:18, 2022-08-19
RT @masterofn001: @POLITICOEurope @FaganKara Intelligent, powerful, attractive woman has fun.
Story at 11. 16:06:45, 2022-08-19
@CHThiem Is that a hemp totebag? in reply to CHThiem 16:05:55, 2022-08-19
Big tan suit vibes. https://t.co/WUJ9MxbR5Y 15:28:01, 2022-08-19
Seems bad. https://t.co/OPalwUPycG 13:20:37, 2022-08-19
@SarahdawnH And a bunch of these people supposedly care about climate, which is the mother of all intertemporal iss… https://t.co/vALy554jhG in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:06:00, 2022-08-19
@SarahdawnH Also it's a *permanent* transient population. There will always be students and others who don't own mi… https://t.co/sCluITQ7TG in reply to SarahdawnH 09:03:01, 2022-08-19
@SarahdawnH Spence's long slide into NIMBYism and local conservatism makes me sad. in reply to SarahdawnH 09:00:00, 2022-08-19
@kyrib ☝️ @SarahdawnH @austen_sharpe in reply to kyrib 16:18:24, 2022-08-18
@ericmbudd I think there's some relationship. Natural gas prices are higher globally. There's a huge push to build… https://t.co/PwH6blPxql in reply to ericmbudd 14:10:38, 2022-08-18
@choldgraf I've totally made a little game of trying to guess who has put each emoji on a message in our Slack, and… https://t.co/zIZaMOFEzV in reply to choldgraf 08:06:07, 2022-08-18
Somehow it's sweeter and more personal for *not* being universal knowledge. It's a very particular story, that in a… https://t.co/QiAaIpj5yR in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:04:30, 2022-08-18
It's weird because the unforgetting isn't personal. It's on behalf of the world. I never knew these things. We neve… https://t.co/a7e6twVGB1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:01:18, 2022-08-18
We need words for these weird niche feelings that come from knowing weird niche things.
It's like a hunger for unf… https://t.co/gL0StKy9WR 07:52:43, 2022-08-18
🍿🍿🍿 https://t.co/Jr4Wi71cdw 18:33:58, 2022-08-17
@mxcatnap @quarto_pub I haven't had to do it, but isn't this the dream underlying @ApacheArrow? in reply to mxcatnap 15:32:31, 2022-08-17
Release the kraken already. 🦑 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:58:53, 2022-08-17
Hard pass. At this point Democracy requires chaos. https://t.co/TaYkAdN9x2 13:56:43, 2022-08-17
Found via @amywestervelt & @WeAreDrilled in this pod:
https://t.co/frjcrBihgS in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:20:27, 2022-08-17
They sure are creative about opening new fronts in the war to xenoform our homeworld.
https://t.co/qNt7S2UyaB 08:19:17, 2022-08-17
Man this PA election season is just 🔥 https://t.co/uiqBqHjP3n 23:41:16, 2022-08-16
If they can do it to sex workers, imagine what they can do to you. https://t.co/00TIyCr5oK 15:45:47, 2022-08-16
@drvolts I'd probably just walk around Condesa and Roma and the other old central neighborhoods and soak in the goo… https://t.co/Y0BBfGJ0TE in reply to drvolts 12:15:18, 2022-08-16
Hmm. The grid is not built for spatially intermittent loads. https://t.co/MLadUGcckJ 10:49:03, 2022-08-16
15x15x30' is the volume of 2.5 40' shipping containers, but still. High density computronium. https://t.co/djnmNuNXO9 10:46:57, 2022-08-16
Why did nuclear saturate at such a low level? Cost? Project timelines? Public fear of accidents? Weapons proliferat… https://t.co/wJwWYKvXxw in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:19:51, 2022-08-16
I'm not knocking nuclear or renewables here. In a climate context we'd be better off if the nuclear curve had remai… https://t.co/ZtvG3ZneOC in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:16:12, 2022-08-16
Though one could have said exactly the same thing about nuclear in 1975. https://t.co/pi0ys9mXAf 07:35:52, 2022-08-16
@LaughLax Yeah I think they overdid it a bit there… but I do like the uncertainty of not knowing when an episode… https://t.co/ZaF2UMHfqt in reply to LaughLax 07:32:18, 2022-08-16
Turns out the states can be laboratories for more than just democracy! https://t.co/565ulLdlw1 20:08:32, 2022-08-15
@LaughLax yep yep in reply to LaughLax 20:07:41, 2022-08-15
Oil prices will be hella volatile until we have a diversified portfolio of different non-petroleum hydrocarbon sour… https://t.co/1vaM7CznNe 18:07:36, 2022-08-15
@emilymbender @cfiesler Wait is the haiku also the prompt that generated the image?! That seems too good to be true! in reply to emilymbender 17:59:56, 2022-08-15
I like how streaming shows can play around with pacing by radically changing the length of episodes without telling… https://t.co/qDiGJapW18 17:57:47, 2022-08-15
@drvolts Just post it all! Preferably with some indexing so if folks do want to skip around they can. in reply to drvolts 17:51:20, 2022-08-15
@SarahdawnH https://t.co/dsAWRh7FRr in reply to SarahdawnH 15:12:20, 2022-08-15
And so one ridiculously hot day a group of guys shaved their armpits and wore skirts and sleeveless tops and were i… https://t.co/i5kLUPv4mE in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:21:13, 2022-08-15
In my San Joaquin Valley high school without air conditioning we'd sometimes get 100°F days in May or October when… https://t.co/PL4pMaN6NN 13:20:17, 2022-08-15
@thebmbennett @mtoconnor3 It's reducing coupling through interface segregation but for family law! 🤓 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:34:39, 2022-08-14
@thebmbennett @mtoconnor3 Plus it doesn't have to be symmetric. Or entirely done with the same person. And if you w… https://t.co/9rCbtWfMQW in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:08:42, 2022-08-14
@thebmbennett @mtoconnor3 You can do most parts of marriage a la carte if you like. Advance healthcare directive, d… https://t.co/FgzDDCD63w in reply to thebmbennett 10:04:52, 2022-08-14
RT @CatalystCoop: Some thoughts on being a kind, humane remote manager of a small, relatively junior technical team working on twice as man… 08:27:40, 2022-08-14
@SarahdawnH Yet another reason I wish stable households with more unrelated people was a part of society. in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:04:53, 2022-08-14
@SarahdawnH Sigh. I know at least half a dozen awesome women who have said something like this to me. That they wou… https://t.co/XngTD0HcUa in reply to SarahdawnH 08:03:49, 2022-08-14
@gschivley I think it could be. in reply to gschivley 07:42:20, 2022-08-14

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