And this is why education is important: the Republican Party under Donald Trump and the Republican Party under Abraham Lincoln are two very different things.
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Work. Work. Work. Stay hydrated. Go to the dentist. 10,000 steps. “What’s for dinner?” Insurance. Drink water. Pay a bill. Pay a bill. Smile. Credit Score. Check engine light. Go get gas. ALLERGIES! TAXES! STUDENT LOANS! Phone storage full. Email. Email. Apple $12.99. Apple $9.99. Subscriptions. Subscription. Overdraft. Laundry. Fold. Text. Text. Text. Clean the house. “I haven’t seen you in a while.” Doctors appoinment. Hair appoinment. Nail appointment. RENT. WAR! GOVERNMENT! POLITICS! THE PRESIDENT!!
Atmospheric scientist here, again. Let's do the math.
Auto start-stop saves 3 billion gallons of fuel and prevents ~30 million tons of CO₂ annually. You just killed it.
Meanwhile, NOAA's own data shows U.S. climate disasters averaged $140 billion/year over the last decade. In 2024 alone: $182.7 billion in damages. 568 lives lost. 27 separate billion-dollar disasters. Since 1980: $2.9 trillion and nearly 17,000 dead.
The average time between billion-dollar disasters has gone from 82 days in the 1980s to 12 days in 2023-2024.
Oh, and this administration just shut down the NOAA database that tracked those costs. Can't have expensive disasters if you stop counting them.
"Making America Hot Again" is costing Americans $140 billion a year. That start-stop button you just bragged about killing? It was free.
Van Gogh died broke because nobody wanted his paintings. He sold maybe one during his entire life. The art world thought his style was too immature. His brother Theo, an art dealer, kept him alive by sending money constantly.
When Van Gogh passed in 1890, his brother, Theo died just six months later. That left Theo's wife Jo as a 28 year old widow with a baby and about 900 paintings nobody wanted, plus hundreds of letters.
Here's what actually mattered. Van Gogh had written hundred of letters letters to Theo and Jo explaining individual paintings and his life as an artist. He told them the stories behind each work, what he was trying to express, what each one meant to him.
After both brothers died, Jo remembered these letters and published them.
That's what made him famous. People could read Van Gogh's own words about each painting. The works stopped being random art and became stories he had experienced. The paintings got context directly from him explaining what he was doing. Jo gave the world Van Gogh's voice attached to his work.
By the time she died in 1925, he had gone from total unknown to art historical icon.