Yes. He is building a movement that can be utilized once he is in office. The work doesn’t end on election day, it starts.

To be clear, he is not saying that making them free will cause them to be faster. He is saying he will make them free and will also make them faster. Two different things

I work in consulting. I have a VPN for my company and also for each client

I’d generally agree, definitely consider XY completely forgettable. That said, I think Rush of Blood is a great album as an album. Parachutes is a better collection of songs but Rush feels more comprehensive to me. Even clocks, in the context of the album, works. The only other album I enjoy is viva la vida, because while it’s not perfect, I like what they were attempting with that one. I’d like other bands to experiment with those kinds of concepts so even if I don’t think they exactly hit the mark, I appreciate the attempt

I would say at the time they were solid good. They weren’t technically very complex but who cares - half the bands at that time barely even played instruments, just banged out power chords and yelled into a mic. As far as pop music goes those albums were great in my opinion. Wouldn’t talk about them in a music theory class, but we were lucky to have such solid albums getting radio play.

If there were 100x less games but they all had the passion of stardew behind them I think we’d come out ahead

Units are weird. I just say one orbit

I def had some weird experiences like this in school too, though not as extreme. I had a teacher once give me a zero on an exam because I used greater than and less than symbols to describe two lines intersecting. She thought I did them all backwards. Normally I’d be too shy to push back but zero on an exam was pretty extreme so I went to discuss one on one and she basically called me dumb saying I don’t know how the symbols worked (this was like 9th grade, I def did and was pretty alarmed she didn’t). Finally she said fine, she’ll go ask a math teacher to come explain to me in front of the class if I’m so smart. She left, was gone for like ten minutes, and came back super upset. Slams the paper on my desk in front of everyone and says something like ‘fine I guess you want an A now?’. Was traumatizing. But was actually a huge teaching moment for me in that I stopped seeing teachers as things/concepts, and started seeing them as people. Same as me/my classmates/some random on the street. No one has this shit figured out. I also realized I never wanted the experience she just had, and learned to always hedge my opinions. It looks like, I think, it seems to me, etc. Has saved me from looking stupid but also encouraged those that I teach to question my dumb shit. But yeah. Teachers are just people, have you met people?

Side note my math teacher was extra nice to me that afternoon - I also learned that the teachers don’t necessarily like each other either. Apparently I had helped score points for the ‘not batshit insane’ crew

It’s been a nightmare seeing tech companies move into the utility space and act like they’re the smartest people in the room and the experts that have been doing it for 100 years are morons. Move fast and break things isn’t viable when you’re operating power infrastructure either. There’s a reason why designs require the seal of a licensed engineer before they can be constructed. Applying a software development mentality to any kind of engineering is asking for fatalities

Crazy inefficiencies is why not. If you’ve ever worked a large infrastructure or construction project you’d see why this doesn’t work. There are advantages of scale. A single company being able to handle the land acquisition, and all engineering alone for a large project is going to be like 10000 people, and that’s without construction. If I had to work with 15 other companies to get a thing built I’ll tell you right now that things never gonna get built. Big companies aren’t the problem, small ownership is the problem. Employee owned (socialist) companies are the solution. It’s not about not scaling, it’s about ensuring that the workers own the means of production. If you want renewable energy, high speed rail, and sustainable district engineering we need to leverage economies of scale. It’s just that we need to set up economic systems that distribute the profits to those doing the work.

It sounds like you’re telling me to stop caring about climate change cause I’d be happier

They’re mostly not being used for that and they come at a huge cost

Without spoiling too much in the book he isn’t muscley on earth but is once he is in space for a well explained reason. However, he’s also meant to be clean shaven in space due to the same reason and it looks like they’ve changed that so who knows.

I don’t like the idea of limiting company size - there are a lot of advantages of scale. Instead let’s say any company over 1000 employees must be fully employee owned

Every interaction I’ve ever had with police I’ve been the one attempting to de escalate. Literally 100%. What’s frustrating is you speaking calmly and clearly pisses them off even more because they feel like you’re speaking down to them. They feel like they are supposed to be the reasonable ones and you’re making them look bad. Which of course you are, because they’re not.

They weren’t invited by the states governor

Not everyone uses sugar.
“Better” is subjective

Engineer out the electricity?

My industry is desperate. I hire people that are barely qualified if at all just based on if they seem like they’d be able to learn. So I recognize I’m an outlier, but just saying such situations exist. I’ve been doing this about 15 years and I’ve never once had more qualified candidates than roles to fill.

Industry dependent I know but every time I’ve had two good candidates I’ve just gone ahead and hired both