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Every new internal combustion engine is a policy failure.

Screencap from Casablanca "shocked, shocked" scene Caption - I'm shocked, shocked to find industrial-scale AI theft in this industry
gmail notification James Carville This should scare the hell out of every De...
Straight of Hormuz Ship pumping oil into an oil derrick on the left Ship pumping oil out of an oil derrick on the right Caption: Pump oil into the earth on the left Pump it back out on the right. Or don't, Keeling curve is at 430ppm!
Screenshot of DOW at 47k
Agent Dale cooper driving into Twin Peaks, tells his voice recorder that it's February 24th
somebody using AI to pick food at a buffet
Gmail message, "By Gemini; there may be mistakes. Learn more."
"By Gemini; there may be mistakes. Learn more"
Merriam-Webster word of the day gif says "swampy"
diagram of a lava flow rising beneath ice Tuya = a flat- topped, steep-sided volcano formed during a subglacial volcanic eruption whe
Alyssa Katz There’s no regulation that demands this information. John Catsimatidis You grew up too rich. You know that? I grew up on 135th Street. Josh Grenman Nobody knows how anyone grew up here. Alyssa Katz My mom was a Holocaust refugee and my dad was an immigrant from Israel. He had very little money. John Catsimatidis Good.
Simpsons screenshot. Man looking suspiciously at presidential candidates Clinton and Dole holding hands. Dole says "We are merely getting likes. If you can think of a simpler way I'd like to hear it."
The first woman known to have lost her baby after following Saldaya’s advice was Lorren Holliday. When she got pregnant in 2018, she interviewed midwives, but couldn’t afford the $5,000 downpayment for their services. Reluctantly, she resigned herself to the hospital, until, scrolling through Instagram one day, she found FBS: “What they offered was exactly what I was looking for
screencap of two electric tractors and a youtube comment from the daughter of the original owner describing its use over 50 years
Video preview for "a geologist dismantles dating methods"
Screencap of Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum says "Life, uh, finds a way" about the potential of the dinosaurs to replicate
Rosie the Riveter poster
Maggie Simpson riding on a bear as it walks off the left side of the screen, as a disgruntle looking man yells "All bears off the set"
successive ezra tweets first one says "...too little to just say we oppose political violence" second one says "...we are going to have to live here with each other"
"Is this a pigeon?" meme, with "Klein" looking at "The argument, Searchlight" and asking "Is this abundance?"
Screenshot of a feed showing this post followed by https://bsky.app/profile/auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social/post/3lytfgng4hz2r
screenshot of a Tesla video titled "Master Plan Part IV | sustainable abundance" with some more or less real vehicles and a impractically shaped robot
Platner told me that Star Trek’s optimism had inspired his earliest interest in policy. “This brings us back to Star Trek,” he says to wrap up his philosophy on culture war issues. “You have to solve scarcity. I believe that if you solve scarcity issues, no one gives a fuck about these other things.”
NIH Cancer funding by year, showing consistent growth from 2014 to 2024 across different types of cancer. This is all threatened.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/porsches-best-daily-driver-911-the-2025-carrera-gts-t-hybrid-review/ Screenshot of a car review, highlighting that the "electric" turbocharger gives "almost instant" throttle response
Three screenshots from Hackers with captions First: I've got a record. I was Zero Cool. Second: Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Third: Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988
Picture of a driver holding their phone with both hands, taken through a bus window
Scene of a street where a driver had injured over 70 people. Many police officers standing. A few cop cars and ambulances. Chyron on the bottom states: I DON'T THINK IT'S OVERREACTING TO SAY BAN ALL CARS NOW
Douthat: The coupling crisis writ large seems to be linked somehow to technology, right? Evans: Yes, that’s what I think. Certainly. I think we can say there could be locally specific factors that go on in each place. Each place has its own cultural idiosyncrasies and I don’t want to ignore that. But yes, absolutely. The big shock that’s occurred everywhere all at once is we’ve seen vast improvements in personal online entertainment. So we know, for example, in the U.S. — Douthat: Podcasting. You know, I mean — [Chuckles.] Evans: Yeah. All these charismatic podcasters. Douthat: That’s right. Evans: So people are spending more. No, but I think that’s the thing. I mean, no offense, Ross, but I do blame charismatic people like you. If people want to socialize, to listen — Douthat: This is a new podcast. It’s played no role at all, yet — yet — Evans: Oh, OK. You protest your influence. OK
top half: normal trolley problem diagram with people on the tracks, labelled "trolley problem" bottom half: pacific electric interurban facing a line of cybertrucks on its tracks, labelled "Interurban Problem Solver"
an oped titled "If You Want Welfare, You Must Work" by ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., MEHMET OZ, BROOKE ROLLINS AND SCOTT TURNER in the new york times
front cover of a book titled "Hot Cup of Joe" with a creepy drawing of joe biden holding a cup of coffee
mnals who came illegally. Gentile, 31, was a toddler when the family moved from Argentina to the U.S. in the mid-90s. He is a green card holder, and the father of two U.S. citizen children, ages 6 and 8. "We feel betrayed, tricked." Verdi and Rey say they have shielded their grandkids from the severity of Gentile's current situ- ation in South Georgia, where he is clad in an orange jumpsuit and fighting to remain in the coun- try. They told the children that he had to leave on an urgent trip. "They ask, 'Where is my daddy?' And we can't tell them, 'Daddy is in jail," Verdi said. "We had to lie to them because we don't want to hurt them," Rey added.
Jennifer got to know a founder of the group, Karen Solomon, who had been collecting data on police suicides since 2016. Solomon, who is married to a police officer in Massachusetts, had become frustrated by negative sentiment toward cops after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Solomon believed the shift in public opinion was taking a huge toll on officers.
George Santos Is Sentenced to More Than 7 Years in Prison Federal prosecutors wanted Mr. Santos, whose pattern of lies and fraud led to his expulsion from Congress, to receive a lengthy sentence to “protect the public” from future fraud.
Shortly after the call with the supposed Google agent, the same D.C. resident, whose identity remains concealed in federal court documents, received a second call from someone who said they were a security-team representative from Gemini, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange. Like the supposed Google employee, he had the man’s personal information; he explained that his Gemini account, which held about $4.5 million worth of coins, had been hacked and that the man needed to reset his two-factor authentication and transfer the Bitcoin in his account to another wallet to keep it safe. The person on the phone then suggested that the account holder download a program that would provide additional security. The man agreed, not knowing that he was downloading a remote-desktop app, which would give the caller access to his computer — and access to a second crypto account, exposing him to an even more staggering theft. It turned out that the D.C. resident, an early investor in cryptocurrency, had more than 4,100 Bitcoin in total. Ten years ago, that much Bitcoin was worth about $1 million; that day, it was worth more than $243 million. Within minutes, it was all gone.
Farah said that terms like the “war on cars,” can be counterproductive. “Car enthusiasts hear talking points like that and think ‘They’re going to take your cars away.’ Of course nobody wants to do that.”
Bus with graffiti "Don't" before an ad for "Work at Anduril"
https://readsludge.com/2025/04/03/spacex-poised-for-massive-profit-from-pentagon-rocket-initiative/ "paving the way for rapid troop deployments or sensitive equipment delivery"
Better city design: A multistory building beside a tree. No cars.
screen cap of video saying Atlanta has the worst traffic he's seen
Collision at an Intersection EXAMPLE 9.8 A 1 500-kg car traveling with a speed of 25.0 m/s collides at an intersection with a 2 500-kg van traveling north at a speed of 20.0 m/s as shown in Figure 9.12. Find the direction and magnitude of the velocity of the wreckage after the colli sion, assuming the vehicles stick together after the collision
book title: what if we get it right subtitle: visions of climate futures
bakfiet full of gravel, on Berm Peak youtube channel
kelce with a case of Garage beer
Simultaneously, we are on track to have more plastic in the oo. than fish, and the remaining fish are eating plastic. There's plastic seafood. There's plastic in most drinking water-and in heer! T.
Screenshot from Slingblade, Doyle is drunk and bragging about his "crew can dually pickup" to his passengers
screenshot from the Simpsons, Moe saying he's worse than techdirt
When wells are damaged or inundated, they can let in contamination from broken sewers and septic systems, for example, or from manure washing off factory farms. “In a flood, there’s a cocktail of everything,” said Hartwell Carson, the French Broad Riverkeeper for the Waterkeeper Alliance nonprofit network who has also been coordinating free testing for private-well owners. He said volunteers had tested 135 wells in the area, and so far found about 30 percent positive for E. coli or fecal coliform.
Duck ... duck … cruise! Regarding the Oct. 13 Travel article “Who hides ducks on a cruise ship? Meet the Quackers”: On our most recent cruise, my family and I enjoyed the growing tradition of “duck hunting,” in which passengers hide rubber ducks for others to find. It’s especially fun on sea days when we’re looking for entertaining ways to explore the ship together. As noted in The Post’s article, duck hunting has become an increasingly popular pastime among cruisers, and it’s easy to see why. For my two children, my husband and me, it’s more than a game; it’s a shared experience. Watching our children’s enthusiasm as they searched for hidden ducks made every day feel like an adventure, making our stay on board even more memorable. This type of entertainment is valuable in its simplicity. Families such as ours do not cruise solely for the locations or amenities; the simple, unexpected moments are what make lasting memories. Duck hunting also encourages interaction with other passengers, contributing
screenshot of bikes in the sound of music
Postcard of French military bicycle scouts riding on a road en route to Ypres, Belgium in formation. https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/spotlight-bicycle-battalions
omar and brother mouzone from the wire, walking side by side
subaru parked on a sidewalk
a subaru hood and a truck bed covering a walkway because the drivers don't know how to fit in a parking space
Here are families defying the trend of one car for every adult. The secret, I found, is not just choosing how you want to live. It's where you live.
Edgar, from men in black
1. MARTA is the only major American transit service to not receive state funding. 2. Suburbs like Cobb and Gwinnett did not join MARTA, making the metro more car dependent over time. 3. All this means - MARTA spends a large share on operating costs and maintenance.
delivery robot in a painted bike lane