Tesla, the most-American cars built in the US, has had two models replace Toyota as the best-selling car model (regardless of powertrain) in the WORLD The photovoltaic cell was invented in the US The lithium ion battery cell was developed in the US (invented in🇬🇧, brought to market by🎌)

Which is also irrelevant to the whataboutery trying to dilute GOP fuckery BSKY is loaded with Dems speaking up. There's even a meme about it "Schroedinger's McConnell/Turtle/Tortoise". And of course, those with power to "do something"

I have some good news for you... You cannot access the definition without a subscription, but it is in the OED. And it is very, very old

That looks a lot like an old photo of Amoeba Music in Berkeley, which is still in business This is the oldest photo I could find in image search

Engineers, as managers, cannot join unions Seems pretty relevant to unionization to me I've been boycotting Meta products since before it was cool. And before it was Meta. Or they had bought a lot of their "products" like WhatsApp and Instagram BTW, search on WhatsApp loaded with "how to replace"👍

If it wasn't clear, that stuff in quotes is what a hypothetical person sitting at home comfy and snug in their privilege might say. It is what a lot of people assume. And we know that's true because we've heard people say similar things, "he must have had a reason", "they shouldn't have done that"

It's not a Mi-24, but Mi-28 A HEAT armor-piercing shaped charge shoots a jet of copper in one direction, the one it is pointed in. To do that it uses a high-explosive charge in a metal double cone case that still can kill a human in a radius around it. So they just use those PG-7 for everything 1/3

You're whatabouting with a hypothetical. You are excusing this behavior with "everybody does it" even as you pretend to condemn it. You claim that both parties are the same without proof that one is as bad as we have evidence the other actually is That puts you on the bad guys' side

In forward flight at this altitude/airspeed, you could autorotate after losing the tail. It's still dangerous because you are landing with forward speed on rough terrain What happened in New York is that they lost the main rotor along with the tail boom

Sulphur is a catalyst poison, for one. But, more importantly, it clogs the oxygen sensor in the exhaust stream that provides the feedback that informs the engine's computer about the correct air/fuel ratio. This reduces power and idle stability Remember the Merc video? h/t BeefeaterFella

Killing people was extremely pragmatic from Stalin's perspective. But preferring a pseudoscientific theory (Lamarckian Lysenkoism) over an evidence-based theory (Mendelian genetics) for ideological aesthetics was definitely not pragmatic. It turned the USSR from a food exporter to a food importer

An excellent idea can be mismanaged It is no coincidence that the NHS has been shortchanged during the 2nd longest period of Conservative Party rule. Small c conservatives love wrecking government institutions that work so that they can point to the failure and say "See. Government can't do it."

You know what's really hilarious? MAGA going socialist because Trump saw Norway's and Saud's "Sovereign Wealth Fund" and saying, "we should have one of those". It's all because he's a greedy fuck and would like to control a huge pot of money like that, not because he cares about society or anything.

And the USA is, among other things, a Democratic Republic, a Republican Democracy, or a Constitutional Federal Republic The UK is a Constitutional Monarchy, as is Denmark, Norway, and Sweden All have capitalism and socialism incorporated into their social and economic framework to varying degrees

Or the X-plane from which the political technologies of the prototypes of Trumpism were developed: Overton Window, Gingrichism, Ron Paulites, Tea Party aw shucks faux populism, purity politics enforcement

Chicago is famous for its insane elderly-killing heatwaves, so I wouldn't put it in that list. Nor New York which not only has famously hot and humid summers dominated by the smell of literal hot garbage, but also high-rise tenements with window units hanging out. 89% NYers have A/C

It depends on who is defining the word. Venezuela and Cuba are not exactly shining examples of those in power using the land's natural boons for the benefit of everyone But, on the traditional scale of left-right, Sweden (yes, yes) and Norway have done pretty well Not every "socialist" country

I do wish people would stop being so insufferably precious as if they have a unique unsolvable problem such that they must suffer in not-so-silence. Who would have thought prior to this heat wave that the French and the Irish were the can-do-ers adapting others' ideas to their own situations

Acting on new information?

Golden oldie from 2023

"Maybe it is easier for someone to experience someone with a psychologist, someone with friends, taking some special substances, let’s say, for smoothing." Puff, puff, pass. <<COUGH COUGH>> Leave the sound off. I didn't feel like doing this again. I just wanted the visual

What is your argument for continuing with the strawman arguments? The first priority for everybody should be identifying and countering the enemy, the fascists, not figuring out which one of your natural allies you should criticize for not meeting your standards

The fluffy beastie strikes!

Snow passed away several years before Pasteur published his theory. That itself was decades before Koch identified specific pathogens to go with the diseases and then published his now-eponymous postulates All bracketed by first filtration plants (1804) and first chlorination (1902)

It's baffling how many French people have never walked down the A/C aisle of a DIY store. "I live in the central district of Paris. We aren't allowed to install window air conditioners" *blink, blink* www.ubuy.fr/en/product/J...

Have you seen how masonry fares in an earthquake? It's not pretty Wood (and steel) frame buildings flex and remain structurally sound, or at least survivable, when brick and stone collapses and crushes everything within Wind tends to destroy roofs first and without prejudice. Except that tile flies

What's a "Twitter issue"? The very idea that "latinx" was invented by white "woke" people is a myth that was widely spread through Spanish-language opinion media by MAGA guys, to the point of influencing office/comms policy of Latino Dems www.bu.edu/articles/202... www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

$500 is too expensive? Zero installation is too complicated?

Self-reported identity and voting performance are not racism. Also, centrism is how you win, unless you can provide some compelling cause for people to skew their votes to your position. If you don't provide that compelling reason, that's YOUR FAULT, not theirs