Huge oil and gas reserves also help out.

That’s a headline alright!

Just asking questions!

I mean that just diplomacy right?

This is the best job I’ve had in my life and of course I’m not looking, until I give notice.

I’m your best friend, until I stick a knife in your side.

Don’t mistake diplomacy for weakness. That’s how you end up with a knife in your side.

I still play Alpha Centauri. It’s a great great game.

5000, not 500.

It’s worse: they are banking on fusion and SMR, which are pipe dreams even at twice the time scale:

“We are looking at fusion and new-generation fission with completely different tools compared to large-scale nuclear plants of the past,” he stated.

I hope they are lying knowing they are lying.

A few streets here re-introduced street parking explicitly as a traffic calming measure (in addition to a separate bike lane behind the parked cars).

I know it works. I can tell it works. But I still don’t really like it.

There’s pretty solid research about these things from the past 30 years or so. At this point, ignoring literature is just rank anti-intellectualism.

Good luck, sounds like you’re going to need it.

They came out swinging in Zelenskyy’s defense earlier, so now the owners phoned the editors up and told them to come up with an excuse on why it’s Ukraine’s fault after all.

That guy sure issues a lot of “ultimatums”. I wonder what that word means.

Wait, how do “bike lanes worsen traffic congestion”?

I love how the comment degenerates into madness slowly like a bad copy pasta.

Oh no! How will I know what right wingers think? That would mean I need to open a newspaper! Or turn on a television! Or spend an evening with my mother in law’s new boyfriend!

Fuck off with your echo chamber bullshit.

I know what they want. They want to hurt me and mine. And I’m not going to roll over.

Full Molotov Von Ribbentrop.

German rail network fucking sucks. The Swiss won’t even allow German trains on their tracks if they are more than a few minutes late because it messes up everything.

I find Stalinists the most un-stalinlike people on the planet. For all his faults (and there were many, up to and including fucking genocide) Stalin was a man of action.

Stalinists just cry all over each other about how the west is mean to them.

Most of the “internal barriers” are due to the fact that we speak like 17 different languages. No amount of fiscal policy is going to “fix” it.

If you have curly hair, it draws out the moisture without destroying the lock pattern.

I’m not sure we can afford an “either or” strategy.

We should be doing that, we should be doing euro-ULA, and we should be massively expanding (access to) launch infrastructure. There’s only so much you can do when your ranges are literally on the other side of the planet.