The French revolution - and most of that history - contradict your hypotheses.

Science demands rigorous testing of all three of those hypotheses before making a conclusion.

Dude probably gets a standing ovation every time he enters a room.

I didn’t say AOC was part of the problem. My criticism was limited to David Hogg.

AOC isn’t the entire solution, but she’s a big part of it.

“Guillotine Party” effectively summarizes what’s needed.

So what? We just continue as usual?

That’s exactly what David Hogg is doing: Continuing as usual. He’s reinforcing the centrist problem.

David Hogg is doing the same thing we’ve done time and again, and hoping for different results this time around.

David Hogg idolizes Nancy Pelosi and other corporate centrists. He’s trying to elect young corporate centrists, not progressives. He’s part of the problem.

s/MAGA/Tea Party/g. Trump’s MAGA doesn’t get credit for that.

We do need a Guillotine Party to do the same thing to the Democrats.

David Hogg is trying to get primary challengers for some worthless old incumbents, yes. The problem is that he’s not trying to get rid of all the worthless old incumbents. He idolizes Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and most of the corporate centrists that destroyed the party. He wants to replace old, do-nothing incumbents with young, corporate centrists, not progressives. David Hogg is part of the problem, not the solution.

There’s a common dream among gun nuts, where you squeeze and squeeze and squeeze the trigger, but the gun never fires.

It has to do with how we are often taught to shoot. If you anticipate the recoil, you tend to push the gun forward, the muzzle drops, and you miss your target. To counter that, you’re taught to slowly squeeze the trigger while you aim, and let the shot surprise you. By the time you recognize the gun has fired, the bullet has already passed through your target.

In the dream, you’re squeezing harder and harder and harder, waiting for a bang that is never going to come.

“Abdicate”

Bread was preceded by porridge (crushed grains in water or milk), which was preceded by gruel (raw, whole grains softened in water). Gruel also gave us beer.

The constitution is to protect the government from the people.

Revoke it at your own peril.

just be sure to pick up on cues

Yeah. About that…

Can confirm. Like bubbly water being squeezed through a thin tube. As a kid, I thought it was air bubbles farting their way through a narrow blood vessel.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Looks like I’m gonna have to buy another newspaper tomorrow.

I found that I can’t convince google assistant (via bluetooth headset) to find my phone unless my phone is unlocked. The only workaround I’ve found is to set a 1-second timer.

Want happier employees?

“No.”

So, they left a bucket of water to stagnate next to a bus stop?

I’m not trying to solve any problems with Crypto. I’m trying to use their purchasing of electricity to solve a different problem: seasonal variation in solar production.

Due to long, clear, summer days, and short, cloudy winter days, if you have enough solar panels to meet your demand in winter, you have about 400% of what you need to meet demand in the summer, even after accounting for air conditioning loads.

That excess power on the grid crashes the price of power. Unless you can find someone else to buy it, or some way tonuse it. To have enough solar generation capacity to meet your needs year round, you need something that can suck up excess power in the summer. If you can’t monetize that excess, you’ll never be able to get enough solar online to meet demand year-round.

Storage can conceivably address daily fluctuations, but it won’t solve seasonal variation.

https://youtu.be/bBkqI7EQp0A