The alfalfa growers hold snior water rights, so they can do whatever they feel like while everybody else suffers

The oil needs to stay in the ground though — everywhere, not just in Canada

The problem is that they’re designed to leave no mark, so it’s really hard to prove in court that they were used. Perfect torture device.

Vegans living socially connected lives built around mutual care instead of competitive consumption

The NYT now makes people register. That’s why I have an archive link above. You do need JavaScript

I think theyve been doing that periodically since 2017. Kind of run out here. The US is going to end up with a long-term capacity degradation because of this

Know your constituency. They’re viable in some, but not all.

Whether that makes sense depends a lot on which country. Some Green parties (Notably in the US) behave as if they’re intentional spoilers to make the worst viable candidates win. Other countries, it makes a lot of sense.

There are a bunch of questions like that now

Archived copy of the article and a gift link that requires registration, but has updates

Probably written by Josh Marshall himself. He’s been around a lot longer than anything except Markov Chain generators.

Motorcycles use a small enough battery that I’d expect to see a lot more battery swap, since you ought to be able to pick it up and make the exchange.

Immigration is a big lift. And often not legal.

Some like couches. Others prefer the suction of vacuum cleaners

It’s a lasting long term thing. Not just a recession thing

Which also reaches almost nobody.

Which is to say she doesn’t support any utility-scale solar, which is necessary if we are going to stop burning fossil fuels

Some forms probably. A lot of earth observation produces better approximations using the same statistical techniques that LLMs use for producing language.

The fundamental reason I don’t expect LLMs to go away is that they wildly increase software engineers productivity. It’s a lot more cost effective to give an engineer an LLM than it is to give them a team subordinates.

Chinese EVs see effectively banned in the US, not merely subject to a tariff

No. They no longer have the right to put turbines in the water there. Might be able to do it in state waters where California is talking about an offshore wind deployment.