We are turning tech companies into state enterprises the same week we are bailing out Russian corporations. In the end, Soviets won.

Good luck to President Trump on today's performance review.

.Chris Bataille: "From US perspective, this is worse than Sputnik, and it is having the exact opposite & wrong reaction to 1957 - retreat, shutting down basic science and clean tech commercialization, instead of diving into creating a national science complex & building fast."

When you spend ten minutes on a tweet and it bombs

As the ignominy of Alaska recedes, don’t lose sight of what Putin alluded to at that presser as his biggest fear: Europe uniting around Ukraine and putting enormous pressure on Trump to reject the Russian demands, possibly by offering their own incentives for doing so. The EU is

Conservative Mike🇺🇸🦅🗽 oops our bad, sorry. meant to post this

We have never witnessed in real time how Putin manipulates America with this sort of detailed timeline. Trump literally revealed verbatim how Putin told him to stop mail-in voting in America… and three days later, he is following Putin’s orders. Astonishing.

Rivian’s Halloween tricks are fun, but owners are still waiting for promised features like text messaging, climate hold, valet mode, Apple Watch as a key, and launch mode for Gen 1. Read more: riviantrackr.com/news/why-rivia…

STOP BUYING GERMAN VEHICLES IN WHITE UNTIL THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THE FRONTS LESS DUMB YOU MAY LIKE IT, BUT IT MAKES THE REST OF US SCREAM CRY AND THROW UP THANK YOU

If you want to know where we're headed if we continue to allow NIMBYs to dominate our urban politics in the United States -- just look across the pond at the UK. This is end-stage NIMBYism, which looks a lot like end-stage climate denial. Because ... they're the same thing.

So Quinn Nelson lag ended up being somehow related to DRM!? Wild. Would love to have a software deep dive on how that works.

Sea level rise is already greater than 1/8 inch *per year* (accelerating) and wind is one of the cheapest forms of energy. This man is a total fucking imbecile and yet you can find hundreds of these in the comments and QRTs:

It would be really cool if phone reviewers listed obscene storage upcharges as negatives because +$120 for +256GB in 2025 should not be acceptable.

Things like this Wassym Bensaid drive me absolutely nuts about the software product design - features that seem cool but are not useful in practice because of some oversight. In this case, the gear tunnel doors can be "opened" from the display... but not really unless you have

Corn: - 160-200 bushels of corn per acre - 2.7 gallons of ethanol per bushel - 1 acre = 432-540 gallons of ethanol (this is not directly gas, but close enough) Solar: - 100kW per acre (standard conservative estimate) - .3 production factor (8 hours of useful sun on avg, varies

Share of global automobile production by country. China will make Japan's 70's and 80's dominance look like child's play.

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