Dear fans of residential solar:
The Senate is proposing to immediately terminate residential subsidies while totally failing to terminate industrial subsidies.
This is wrong.
Let's all advocate an equal termination date—"placed in service" 2028 or earlier—for all subsidies.
American Energy Independence is critical to our national security.
The new bill will drive solar and wind energy growth to zero. Zero.
Where are we going to get our energy from to compete with China?
We will need 25 new natural gas plants built per year to replace our amazingly successful solar and wind energy growth that this bill will kill.
Do the math. It takes 5-7 years to build a natural gas plant. The AI race will be won or lost in the next few years. Our energy grids are already collapsing.
We need more energy now, not in 2032.
American Energy Independence goes away because of a grudge against solar?
Come on guys, we can do better than this.
@HardcoreHistory When I first started listening to podcasts, HH, WTF and NPR shows were the only options. I've remained a fan of you and Maron since then. Love your work, Dan!
Please let this be true today:
“There was always just enough virtue in this Republic to save it; sometimes none to spare, but still enough to meet the emergency.” —William Seward, Secretary of State during the civil war.
Ok, buckle in. Here's how Pennsylvania is going to play out tomorrow. You'll want your notifications on since I'll be live tweeting updates throughout the day regarding turnout in certain areas, new developments, etc.
Once the polls close, this is where things get interesting.
@Zigmanfreud Just wanted to let you know I value your commentary. I'm a liberal but I find you one of the few people out there who calls it like they see it (even if I frequently disagree). I appreciate the honesty. Been a listener since the World According to Zig days. Cheers to 200!
@Jonathan_Blow Just finished the Witness and it was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever (and I've never before enjoyed a puzzle game). Pre-ordering this now. Thank you!!
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Additional new bits of advice I wished I had known earlier (not in my book), as my gift on my 73 birthday:
• The best way to criticize something is to make something better.
• Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will make you a better person.
• Forget trying to decide what your life’s destiny is. That’s too grand. Instead, just figure out what you should do in the next 2 years.
• Aim to be effective, but unpredictable. That is, you want to act in a way that AIs have trouble modeling or imitating. That makes you irreplaceable.
• Whenever you hug someone, be the last to let go.
• Don’t save up the good stuff (fancy wine, or china) for that rare occasion that will never happen; instead use them whenever you can.
• The best gardening advice: find what you can grow well and grow lots and lots of it.
• Never hesitate to invest in yourself—to pay for a class, a course, a new skill. These modest expenditures pay outsized dividends.
• Try to define yourself by what you love and embrace, rather than what you hate and refuse.
• Read a lot of history so you can understand how weird the past was; that way you will be comfortable with how weird the future will be.
• To make a room luxurious, remove things, rather than add things.
• your parents while they are still alive. Keep asking questions while you record. You’ll learn amazing things. Or hire someone to make their story into an oral history, or documentary, or book. This will be a tremendous gift to them and to your family.
• If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
• When shopping for anything physical (souvenirs, furniture, books, tools, shoes, equipment), ask yourself: where will this go? Don’t buy it unless there is a place it can live. Something may need to leave in order for something else to come in.
• You owe everyone a second chance, but not a third.
• When someone texts you they are running late, double the time they give you. If they say they’ll be there in 5, make that 10; if 10, it’ll be 20; if 20, count on 40.
• Multitasking is a myth. Don’t text while walking, running, biking or driving. Nobody will miss you if you just stop for a minute.
• You can become the world’s best in something primarily by caring more about it than anyone else.
• Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
• Try to make the kind of art and things that will inspire others to make art and things.
• Once a month take a different route home, enter your house by a different door, and sit in a different chair at dinner. No ruts.
• Where you live—what city, what country—has more impact on your well being than any other factor. Where you live is one of the few things in your life you can choose and change.
• Every now and then throw a memorable party. The price will be steep, but long afterwards you will remember the party, whereas you won’t remember how much is in your checking account.
• Most arguments are not really about the argument, so most arguments can’t be won by arguing.
• The surest way to be successful is to invent your own definition of success. Shoot your arrows first and then paint a bull’s eye around where they land. You’re the winner!
These are my twelve favourite landscape painters from the 1950s to the present (not entirely in order of preference, but almost...)
1. Jean-Pierre Ugarte (born 1950)