Brian Schmidt

SF Bay Area environmental advocate, also doing what I can for state, country, and planet. Politics, environment, climate, water, and funny animals. He/him

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@ben_a_goldfarb Was it up during Halloween? Even better if so.

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@AzorInfo @bayraktar_1love Capturing and knowing how to use are two different things. MANPADs aren't hard, but have limited reach. Real SAM systems aren't just point and shoot.

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@AzorInfo @bayraktar_1love Yeah, but that's kind of weird. Their opponents are rebels, not the Ukrainians. Other than MANPADs (maybe those), there shouldn't be anything.

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@Grunt2000 @shashj They were, implicitly:

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@shashj The good news is the AIs were told to succeed no matter what. Make those paperclips.

The bad news is that they were fairly sophisticated about it.

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@PaleoLaura Surprised at how low-key this was, just ran across a single article in SFGate. Seems like it would've been a bigger deal.

Anyway, some of the elk herd in Santa Clara County need to get across 101 and into better habitat.

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@webdevMason [citation needed]
[somethng better than the Cass Report]

[USFWS Pacific @USFWSPacific]

SHE DID IT AGAIN!

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.

At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male.

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@watn_tarnation And Trump supporters think you can't lose when playing Russian Roulette with wannabe Caesars.

[Steve Cohen @RepCohen]

Anyone who is troubled by the Hunter Biden #pardon should support my constitutional amendment to reform the pardon power—an effort I've led since 2017. It bans pardons for a POTUS's family, staff, or crimes committed for their benefit.

In 7 years it's never received a Republican cosponsor. I hope that will change.

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@ProfDBernstein Sabotaging the trials helped Trump win, the greatest benefit possible. I doubt it tipped the scales on its own, but nobody knew beforehand what the margin would be.

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@1Chillwind @joshtpm @TPM No, it's far more specific than being an a-hole. Hunter's manipulated being Joe's son for decades to get benefits no one else gets, now it harms him. Cry me a river, and get in the same pardon line as everyone else, including btw other Biden Admin people who aren't pardoned.

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@BradyInAZ @joshtpm @TPM You're welcome!

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@AlecStapp @mattyglesias Contrarianism is a hell of a drug. Too bad for Matt, maybe he'll survive it.

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@AlecStapp His error is failing to distinguish long term v. near and medium term. For near and medium term, having actual policies, not great technology prospects, are more important. Speeding up the very slow rate of eliminating gas furnaces and water heaters is critically important.

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@jonkay @WesternU @Quillette The lesson many commenters are taking is "they tried to repress our ideology - we are outraged and so we should repress their ideology."

Or maybe, there's always this free speech thing....

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

In 2022, @WesternU teachers college denounced a student who’d asked questions about decolonization. The DEI committee demanded her expulsion—until a UWO tribunal defended the student’s rights. @Quillette has its 70-pg decision, internal email & recordings
https://t.co/qRsMD0lQcO

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@barbarapuciul @anneapplebaum Ukraine should be what it wants to be. Democratic Mexico has plenty of critiques of the US, and it has the right to do so. If we first invaded Mexico and Russian missiles were then used to protect them, that would be a problem that we created.