… it’s just going to be, I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me.

Bitch, you are the encyclopedia britannica of reasons for a president to be impeached.

This seems to me like the same kind of question as the one about werewolves in space. If you’re going to make up some lore, make up whatever you want!

Its supply and demand. The AI data centers are paying their electric bills, but at the same time they represent a significant increase in demand for electricity, so electric companies can raise their prices.

But first they have to finish the hearing on whether water is wet.

I agree. He should have been tried, and convicted, and put in prison. It was a miscarriage of justice that he was not. But even if all that had happened, it shouldn’t make someone ineligible for office, otherwise it could be abused by a corrupt government. Ideally it would make someone unqualified in the eyes of the electorate, but… well I wouldn’t count on it these days, unfortunately.

And despite that Trump was allowed to run for president!

I wouldn’t want criminal charges from preventing someone from running for office. Otherwise someone like Trump, once in office, could just get his justice department to file charges against any candidate that he didn’t like. It is a failure on the part of the voters to have elected him despite the criminal charges (although not the only failure, certainly).

Just the first two syllables would be Worcester, which is also a place.

I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.

I don’t have much hope that they will get the justice they deserve.

I’d love to see the “religious right” wake up a bit to what being “conservative” has actually come to mean. The current level of cognitive dissonance has been a long time in the making.

Another vote for Kobo here. I have a Clara 2e that i really like. It can use Overdrive to get books from the library, or you can just load books yourself either over USB, or download documents using its built in web browser. The browser would also let you look at an online planner, I guess? There isn’t one built in. The slow screen updates make using the browser pretty impractical for the most part, though.

Blowing up the boat in the first place.

Nice. I’m happy to see RCV more in any context. Get it into the conversation, if nothing else.

I can’t really tell what in looking at, here. But that is an incredible shot.

My guess is that the amount of sprawl in America is a big contributor. It means there’s a higher barrier to biking, which in turn means that fewer people do it, which then means that there’s less effort put into biking infrastructure (and the sprawl also directly makes building infrastructure more expensive), and so then the people who do bike have to be more intrusive on other traffic. So then there’s tension between the drivers who end up inconvenienced by bikers, and bikers who feel threatened by drivers.

If you’re going 1/4 of the speed limit and there’s no biking infrastructure, please stay off the road. I’ll probably get hate for it, but blame the state for not providing safe infrastructure for cyclist.

This goes both ways. If there’s no biking infrastructure, maybe its you who should blame the state for needing to go around or stay behind the cyclist. The road is theirs as much as it is yours.

Were electrons supernatural before we had the laws to describe them? Would something that’s supernatural now still be supernatural if we came up with laws describing its behavior?

What does it really mean to be supernatural? What’s the difference between, say, a ghost and dark matter? We don’t really know what either one is. Is it that we can reliably find evidence of dark matter, even if we don’t know what it is, so it’s not “super” anymore? It seems to me that “supernatural” is just a name for the ones we don’t actually believe in.