Gas is literally the same price it was under Bush Jr.

Why have mute buttons if you don’t use them

We couldn’t even prosecute Jefferson Davis correctly. We have no historical or institutional capability for handling this level of crime.

Silicon Valley built the Tower of Babel.

The worst thing about it is that you come to lament how you cannot block someone out in the world as easily as on social media. (Something something Black Mirror did it)

The fifth season of The Wire often gets panned for being boring because of its writing re: the media, but having just rewatched it, it’s easily the most relevant storyline to today’s world.

I had a teacher argue this same thing once. I told her Star Wars took place in the past (“A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…”) so therefore being set in the future couldn’t be a requirement. She was very upset with me for this.

My understanding is that they are still expecting government subsidies from the IRA and Microsoft is therefore NOT shouldering the entire cost.

I sometimes wonder if these sort of characters would end up in the Senate if they were still appointed by state legislators as used to be the case. Not that some state legislatures haven’t also gone off the rails, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.

That’s not even remotely close to describing what SpaceX does.