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[Andrea K. Stein @andreakstein]

“Do you think he knows?”

“Knows what?”

���That I’m practically blind.”

“Maybe not, but he soon will.”

“How is that?”

“He’ll interrogate everyone in Inverness until he finds out everything there is to know about you, Lieutenant Demarest.”

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@PeterSchiff @elonmusk AI is a universal human product and as such should have its licensing fees applied to the national debt.

[Andrea K. Stein @andreakstein]

Con - Lord of Conquest is available in Kindle Unlimited!
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A half-mask and a jaunty green wool cap with a feather completed her disguise.

She twirled in front of her floor-length mirror before asking Lucinda, “Do I look like Robin Hood to you?”

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

my last week's major accomplishments:

- got properly dressed before DHL guy arrived
- remembered wordpress password on 3rd try
- didn't burn lunch
- told husband to buy new coffee filters *before* they run out
- managed to stuff all empty amazon boxes into the recycling bin

🥳

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@skdh A path to today's big questions, thank you for guiding.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Everyone who thinks the world could just stop using fossil fuels on the snap of a finger should have a look at this chart. More than 80% of the world's energy supply presently comes from oil, gas, and coal, and that number has barely changed in the past decade.
Of course we will eventually phase out fossil fuels, simply because the supply is finite. No matter how hard you dig, there's only so much of the stuff.

But at present, the life of pretty much everyone on this planet depends in one way or another on fossil fuels. In case you live in a fancy new "zero emissions" house, well, first of all congrats on being in the 0.001% of the world population who can afford that, and second, try to figure out how many of the supply chains for building that house would break down without fossil fuels.

If we were to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions tomorrow without also subsidizing fossil fuels, much of the world economy would collapse because most of the key industries would go bankrupt basically overnight. (I think we should still put a price on carbon because it's the right default, but then we'll need to find a way to ease the transition.)

This is why it's become so hard to solve this problem. It would have been easy enough 50 years ago to put a price on carbon dioxide, switch to nuclear, and with further improvements in solar to more of that. But we've missed that bus.

I want to emphasize again because people keep misunderstanding this, I am not a fan of fossil fuels. If it were up to me, I'd plaster the world with nuclear power plants tomorrow and would take great pleasure in seeing oil companies falter and die. I am merely saying this is a difficult problem to solve, and the reason it's difficult is not technological, it's mostly economical.

That said, let me stress again that I think the extensions of the electric grid necessary to support the transition to renewables are an underappreciated problem. Without the grid, nothing else is going to work.

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@skdh Ah, fusion would solve everything and until that time it would be useful to lift one's foot from the petrol pedal a bit.

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@jaredpolis Fun!

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@BeschlossDC Ah, My Uncle worked in that lab at Western Electric. He and the other lab rats took that Bell 2500 series phone and hooked it to his mobile shortwave that they had patched into the local phone office in Greensboro NC.!

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Letter to the Editor: Erasing Native Americans from Colorado history perpetuates myths and misconceptions https://t.co/bHw7XUmskd It is important to not short change history by cherry picking the timeline.

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Letter to the Editor: Learning is a unique experience for each of us https://t.co/DK42vMv7d8 Thank you for a thoughtful and important message about learning in these times. Getting families and the community involved in the process of learning is the best outcome to date.

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@elonmusk Absolutely, oil drives this slaughter and replacing the concrete infrastructure in Ukraine must not be powered with Putin's oil.

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@smerconish Yes, I will happily pay more to defeat Putin, happily!

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Yes, we will happily pay more to defeat Putin, happily!

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What is the Polar Vortex? - Science and Climate https://t.co/R1MXAG8BCV via @ucdavis

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@Hicaduda The world is in a better place now! Congratulations 👏👏👏

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@ProjectLincoln Doesn't share spotlight.

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@HC_Richardson Exercising control over either party in a debate denies the legitimacy of the debate platform in the same way that a bully who talks over an opponent invalidates it. Such behavior must trigger the removal of both speakers. They then would be allowed to come out one at a time.

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

I’m a teacher. I would never in a million years let a classroom turn into this.

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May 20, 2020 https://t.co/w48tg7Jc5X