Being managed by campaign consultants again? Can’t tell how much of that is his personal predilection versus being a good student of his bad-advice givers.

Is half of the east coast media institution about getting into the right cocktail parties? It sure looks that way from here.

Well, they don’t want to be reminded about that.

I think HVAC might turn over naturally: it’s already significantly electricity based. Heat pump water heating too. Heat pump clothes dryers are still pretty exotic. Enough has been written about EVs.

Looking at least American urban/rural disparities, the main contributors are:

Large homes and their furnaces, HVAC.
More driving around.

Other major consumption categories in general is more water heating, clothes drying. These do stay closer to constant regardless of density.

I think one thing not exposed in this chart though: Americans use a lot more energy. I’m not sure on what — may be that China has extreme disparity in their areas outside of cities?

I’m glad they’re receiving quality transitional education.

We need the technology to rebuild Harry Reid.

What is we took the retail politics deficit of someone who specializes in parliamentary inside baseball, but like, removed their skill at compelling tough votes?

Well, you gotta do something for the graduate students

I like his wisecrack, but I’m curious how many Stanford undergraduates are well acquainted with the bus, given the tilt on clientele for that school.

“Mechanical sympathy” one way people called this kind of knack for a system in the old days. It had more an optimization focus, though I’ve seen it used in contexts of debugging as well.

This sounds like a good way to get cancer

I see there’s a calmatters connection, which seems like a good partner in this.

Does the UN charter say a state has natural rights, or like, rights in the organization, e.g. to have representation in the UN? Because it mentions human rights separately and quite a bit more often.

A tweeter in the distant past had a good one: “you learn math with your arm”

@nextdoorsv.bsky.social your prophecy may yet be done: Prop 13 was less like an injury that we could recover from and more like a slow, inexorable prion disease of coalition stability that would spread to other states.