Mr. Biden signed a proclamation declaring every Nov. 17 to be International Conservation Day and vowed that the United States would spend millions of dollars across the Amazon on restoring land, planting native tree species, supporting biodiversity efforts and increasing fertilizer efficiency programs. It was the first time a sitting American president had visited the Amazon.

This reminds me of when President Obama went to Laos with a couple weeks left in his Presidency, and vowed to clean up the US bombs that still explode and maim children every year. It was the most heavily bombed nation in history by the US, and they didn’t even declare war. Then Trump came in and threw it all away.

The United States eventually dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

Because they know they won’t get caught or punished.

Of course.

The United States chose: a world of conspiracy theory and hearsay as fact; pseudoscience and speaking in tongues over reason; rule of man over rule of law; whiteness over everybody else; and the promise of crypto wealth over women’s health.

The kids who, without a glimmer of intelligence in their eyes, told you it’s a fact that Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own dick, are now grown up and running the country.

Ghosting is a normal part of life. It happens, and 95% of the time it’s inadvertent and not a slight. People come in and leave your life. That’s just how it works.

If someone isn’t worth the hassle, move on. It doesn’t even deserve an explanation or second thought.

Only you get to determine how your time is spent. Nobody deserves a monopoly over your emotions or effort, and anybody who demands an explanation is just manipulating you because they don’t respect your agency as a person as much as they value their own pride. Don’t fall for the toxicity.

There are eight billion people out there. It would take 250 years to high-five them all. Lots of noise, very little signal.

For you TL;DR - Toyota missed the EV market and suddenly finds themselves unable to compete in this space, on the outside looking in.

Their North American lead, a guy named Jack Hollis who looks like any American stereotype named Jack from the 1960s, thinks it’s unfair to make 35% of sales EVs. So now that the Trump administration clearly wants to move back to oil wagons, “those plans are pending federal approval and risk getting axed under the new Trump administration.”

Hollis is publicly making an appeal to authority with the incoming administration to get them to overrule the California regulation so that he doesn’t get blamed for Toyota no longer being competitive.

Also, quick Google search reveals Hollis has a quote, “I work for Jesus, but get paid by Toyota” so you kinda get the idea of who’s steering the ship over there. Another quick search shows Hollis donated multiple times to the “Automotive Free International Trade PAC” which contributed 93% of it’s funds towards Republicans as of October.

Yeah, better vantage point.

The most recent commercial game using the modified 2.5D Doom engine, was released in May 2024 on Steam. It is called Selaco.

Dalí was a huge Alice Cooper fan

US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.

But Rogan chose revenge, not unity in giving Trump a platform and endorsing him.

+1 Singapore. Good food, I don’t stand out in a crowd, future city.

I guess the world burning was worth sticking it to Kamala for Gaza.

The media normalized him. Just like they did to Hitler.

I don’t know about overvaluation of individual companies, but i do know that DJIA is overrated legacy crap from the 1870’s that only exists because human computational power was limited.

The S&P is going to be much more reliable a metric than, “Here’s 30 companies to buy stock in chaps” targeted at conservative WSJ readers.

SiS 6326 with 8MB.

It was 1999 but I had a very limited budget, around $400, for the entire system. This was my first AGP card.

The Wikipedia article says that this was not supported well by Linux but that’s just not the case. It was the first card for Linux and FreeBSD that I had which let me view more than 256 colors. I ran KDE 1.x and then XFce.

Something happened between then and 2001 where I got a GeForce 2 MX 400 which ran fine with FreeBSD for many years.

This has been the story of Linux since the 1990s.

BSD does the same thing. They famously stuck at the gcc 4.2 series about a decade too long because of licenses.

Nothing new under the sun.

It’s an incredibly fun and popular sport and the World Series just ended.

Articles like this are good at highlighting that nothing sacred is safe from climate change.

If a couple dozen people read the article from a baseball fan’s perspective and suddenly it clicks for them, it’s a win.

No. Space Force chief wants more money, of course there’s another disaster coming.

If they were serious about space tech, the first step would be to end all contracts with compromised Elon Musk.

Also, ArsTechnica is kind of a dumpster fire on reporting anything PRC and allowing ethnic slurs in the comment section so take it with a grain of salt.

Fun interview, I didn’t realize he was educated as an actual medical doctor.

In my state, getting at least 2% of the vote for either Governor or President in a general election keeps the Party on the ballot for the next election.

Without hitting that 2% threshold, the party loses its official status and has to go back to petitioning status, which means resources are tied up both canvassing for tens of thousands of signatures and fighting in courts to get reinstated. So it’s a perpetual ground game and prevents the party from taking off.

The Libertarian Party has remained above that threshold for about a decade now, the only third party to do so consistently, and that’s pretty scary.