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Collieflower
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Your friendly local neighborhood mail carrier. Speedy Delivery in Pittsburgh. Outdoorsy, tabletop with buds, video games, history, and literature. Screaming in agony socialist.

The Internet Makes You Stupid, or so I've heard.
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When the 'whiny leftists' told you something Obama did was fucked up and helps lay precedent for an insane right wing tyrant, guess what! They were right! Same for Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc etc. You should have principles, not fandoms.
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
it is far easier to get absolutely owned and humiliated on a message board a few times as an anonymous account. the price is a lot lower, maybe a mere $10 bucks to change that Ron Paul avatar.

without this critical load bearing infrastructure a new generation of libertarians are at hazard of being
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
and yeah i know we can just make up budgets but all that money needs to be removed from these people so we can have folk train up and go into different sectors of the economy long term, these are hazardous useless untaxed money mines leading nowhere, toxic distortions.

bsky.app/profile/cost...
The entire R&D budget of the department of energy for renewable energy and energy efficiency is, or was, $3.5B. For the whole country! We should triple that number instead. bsky.app/profile/cost...
SpaceX gets a $5.9B contract.

All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Collieflower
The entire R&D budget of the department of energy for renewable energy and energy efficiency is, or was, $3.5B. For the whole country! We should triple that number instead. bsky.app/profile/cost...
SpaceX gets a $5.9B contract.

All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
June 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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And the regulation isn't even that good! Mostly piddling fines. But that's enough to set off the tech bros.
I wrote about European tech policy last year:
prospect.org/world/2024-04-03-eurocrats-on-the-brink/
Eurocrats on the Brink - The American Prospect
In a world on fire, with corporate and anti-democratic forces rising, why are European policymakers so slow to react?
prospect.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
they're all obsessed with aging and not dying! its coming dude, the grim reaper awaits. you being involved in Netscape at one time will not save you. you're not an ayn rand protagonist, you're a guy who did a little project with a few other guys that filled an awaiting vacuum first in the economy.
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
they're all pretty old now, going over the hump into retirement age, and haven't done Jack Shit. they're all scrambling for some legacy that cements their Real Genius Guy Status but are unable to bring that forth, techno utopia, and are naturally blaming everyone else. Society, laws, restrictions.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM