Stephen Judkins
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social
policy enthusiast and minor internet troll. bête noire of trolleybuses
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Yeah man civil war sounds great, it'd be super fun to be tortured to death in front of my children like happened in Syria
Yes. Almost exactly antipodal to the impact site, I understand...🤔
How come illustrations of dinosaurs always have a smoking volcano in the background? Were volcanoes actually any more common when dinosaurs were around?
Yeah I've heard the Netherlands system isn't super great. Probably better than the US in that there is less chance of being caught in a debt nightmare
To be completely fair is was a horrible chart for our former presidential candidate to post!
Lots of countries have healthcare systems that are lot closer to Obamacare than they are to, say, the NHS. We're probably the worst among rich countries but not by an enormous margin and the ACA was a huge improvement
Yeah, my history 200 class was one of my favorites! Professor loved to show us fun examples of primary sources misleading people, historical puzzles, that sort of thing. Made the topic really fun
My answer as someone completely ignorant of pedagogy is that a class that debunked internet rumors and memes would do that
Free-Thinking Cat Shits Outside The Box
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
The life jacket will stop this from happening, though, you're good
To be clear in many contexts this can kill people! Happens every year in Oregon, first hot weekend hits and people get drunk and jump into the snowmelt-fed rivers and immediately cramp up or go into shock and drown
I swam in a 33 degree spring with a wetsuit once. It's *extremely* cold when you first get in but, the way it works is that your body quickly warms up the water inside your suit and you feel pretty good pretty fast. My face and exposed wrists were super cold though
Everyone "gets it" to some degree if sufficiently exposed, it's just that immune system can catch it early enough there are no symptoms
It was the obvious answer, but I checked and the player I suspected it might have been (Allen Iverson) was #3. Goddamn that guy had some burners back in the day
Yep I swing by periodically, usually when I'm walking my dog to work downtown. Nice little spot! Feel the neighborhood has like 3x as many coffee shops than it did a couple years ago
The folks who parked the trailer in front of my house that no one lived in, but was used as a warehouse for car parts that was most frequently accessed at 11PM, did not engender much empathy
I think, like, much less coal+oil could have put us on a much different path if timing had been different. What if we were running out of coal in 1930 and hit peak oil in 1940? The the discover of uranium and how neutrons work would have been pretty fortuitous!
Yep. To be not sarcastic, a little give and take on both sides makes this unfortunate situation work a lot better for everyone
No, it is wrong to ask anyone in that position to change their behavior in any way
Like a said, on balance I think some significant protectionism is warranted here! I just don't think it's drawback-free
No. Chinese vehicle production is obviously going to be elastic to some degree. To what degree is the question
I'm not quite so sanguine. I think Chinese vehicles would reduce emissions more if available in more markets worldwide. How much EM sales can substitute for US sales is an open question
Peak of Mt Adams! Pretty simple climb and breathtaking view of St Helens. This would have been a spectacular view
The Apple mouse is good and reliable. It's Bluetooth, I have no interest in something that needs a USB dongle
I think automated enforcement makes a lot of sense, granting that we'd need to crack down on unregistered cars somehow
I don't think it's a win-win at all, I think it's navigating a difficult set of trade-offs.
Again, the counterfactual isn't the US charging ahead to meet our decarbonization goals, domestic job market be damned. The IRA passed with the support of organized labor. The counterfactual is it not passing at all and the pre-IRA status quo
If you follow the industry at all, it is fairly obvious that a near-term consequence of no trade barriers with China would be cheaper EVs and a whole lot of laid off American workers. Would the IRA coalition survive that? What do you think?
People are also being pretty blind to, or even obtuse about, the domestic politics of this. The IRA was a political deal that included an expansion of domestic manufacturing jobs. For the near future, the only way to keep that promise is significant trade barriers with China. This is the trade-off!
It’s fascinating how many people who on normal days consider neoliberalism their source of all woes have decided that open trade with China is actually sacrosanct now
In the context of the IRA and its domestic politics this is *completely unsurprising* since, for the time being, significant tariffs are the only possible way to maintain the manufacturing jobs that were promised as part of the deal. I am disappointed that this point is being elided
Really wonder what he was thinking as the pyroclastic flow approached
I think a much bigger nuclear build out and synfuels could have made a big difference
What do the actuarial tables say about Clarence Thomas, even without the recent pneumonia bout?
Looks like it's on YouTube and Prime video! Worth the $4
One reason for optimism is that our problem isn't that the curve goes in the wrong direction forever, like it looked like 20 years ago. It's just not bending quite fast enough and it didn't start early enough. Ultimately our CO2 problem will one of stocks, not flows, which is more tractable
If our polysilicon solar cell and lithium ion battery development curve was shifted 50 years earlier the world would be in a whole lot better shape right now. Or if we actually hit peak oil in the 70s. We're just kind of unlucky in that way. But it could be worse!
Semi-related: The King of Kong is one of the most fun documentaries I've ever seen
Yeah I was following him for some reason so I assume he's made some good points in the past, really hoping everyone chills out here