God bless him

This is your brain on idealism.

While still a valid callout, these "new chips made out of non-silicon are BETTER in EVERY WAY!" experiments happen about once every 6 months. As it turns out, 10% less energy use isn't compelling enough to convince a trillion dollar industry to completely retool from the ground up, and even without the profit motive that's unlikely to change much.

It's a wonderful case of the feds can't build them directly, so they give a bunch of money to the states, but they can't build them directly either, so they give that money to local governments, who are under no obligation to actually spend it on the chargers, and there's grift at every level.

Federalization is a fucking joke.

Character arc of a Shen Yun dancer realizing that the giant red wave with Karl Marx's head sweeping the stage at the end of the show is a good thing.

"Doom spending," the new media term from the same people who harp on why it's important that inflation be constant lest people not spend all their money all the time to keep the economy afloat

My favorite genre of journalism: other countries' journalists writing about the US the same way the US writes about their countries. I'm just sad they didn't dredge up some "America expert" who's never been to the US and doesn't speak English to call for mass balkanization of the country followed by conspiracy theory screeds for the extra flavor.

How could we have possibly known that it occasionally rains in places that aren't California?

It's always funny to fire back at Redditors that the vast majority of the protestors weren't mad about communism, they were mad that things weren't communist enough.

Either Trump is an existential threat that requires the strongest possible response, or he's just another corrupt asshole in a country dominated by others like him.

And before you go "but America doesn't do that sort of thing!", I'd encourage you to look up Fred Hampton.

Being aware that the gun you're holding naturally tends towards pointing directly at your own foot does not make the existence of the footgun any more tolerable. Even the best developers will fuck up; having your language enforce memory safety is objectively a good thing, and arguments against it come from FUDDs and gatekeepers.

Because the Democrats' issue with what the GOP does at the border isn't the cruelty but the inefficiencies. They could run the immigrant-mulching machine so much quicker and cheaper.