Conrad Chaffee

Tokyo Shimbun staff reporter, DC bureau, covering American news for readers in Japan. RTs are tweets I find interesting.

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

Roll Call has a live, proofread transcript of tonight's State of the Union. Just click the first link on the landing page. They'll keep updating it until they've proofread the whole speech.

[Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewski]

@conradchaffee That is odd. Landing page is here. https://t.co/UKu1cCX0Ln

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@nielslesniewski That works - thanks!

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

Funds are limited, so if you can pay for your own ride home but know people who might need it more, please pass it along!

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

Quick public message: if you're attending a Super Bowl party in DC this Sunday, the city will pay up to $15 for you to take a Lyft home afterwards!

https://t.co/wvGXWbdRZP

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

The snowcrete in DC won't melt until at least next week. This option will let you enjoy your party, get home safely, and not worry about driving in the snow or finding a late-night parking spot amidst the ice.

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

Funds are limited, so if you can pay for your own ride home but know people who might need it more, please pass it along!

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

If you’re wondering what time you’ll need a ride: most Super Bowls end around 10pm EST, and no Super Bowl has ever gone past 10:46 pm.

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@mattyglesias This gets the direction wrong. Reuters reports that Venezuela has *received* $300 million in payments for oil from a bank account in Qatar.

https://t.co/b9ZAJ1yWkn

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@slotkinjr @nytimes @Waymo @JeffDean My grandchildren will look back with horror at this era’s traffic fatalities, but these caveats are key. Many people love driving; more are deeply suspicious of AI; still more can’t imagine buying a $100k car.

And yet — imagine how many would give a $20k automated car a try!

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@wmata Thanks for the quick reply! I appreciate the work you do to keep this system running so well.

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@wmata Good morning! You should know that doors 11 and 12 on Yellow Line train 3132 are not opening, to the consternation of folks waiting to board or exit.

Most scramble for another door in time, but I just saw a guy miss the train as a result.

Please fix this soon. Thanks!

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@patrickhealynyt @nytimes @threadreaderapp unroll

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@dieworkwear Gordon Lightroom sang about these laborers in the Canadian Railroad Trilogy:

“We are the navvies who work upon the railway
Swingin' our hammers in the bright blazin' sun
Livin' on stew and drinkin' bad whiskey
Bendin' our backs 'til the long days are done“

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@TheMonologist Also, a bullet he used during the ambush was recently found by a team of archaeologists, providing evidence for the accuracy of his account of the Hallat Ammar ambush.

https://t.co/cqX0cOw9yC

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@TheMonologist Here’s the recently rediscovered nameplate from the train, which Lawrence took as a souvenir.

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@bellport_phys @chrislhayes @EIAgov That would explain the term “power capacity” rather than “storage capacity.”

If some other utility goes down, it seems to me it would be good to know how much power can instantly be tapped from batteries, but also how long they can supply it. But both data points are useful.

[Conrad Chaffee @conradchaffee]

@bellport_phys @chrislhayes @EIAgov Curious layman here. If you click through to the underlying data, it looks like everything’s in MW/GW, not MWh/GWh.

Do you think maybe the EIA is more focused on how much power utility-scale batteries can supply at any given instant, not how long they can supply it?