"We must adequately study the impact of a bike lane on an oil refinery"

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According to the Wikipedia article on Adipocere, it could be *way* worse:

I feel you on that.

I don't know how you have functional Democracy or Liberalism without people having accurate factual knowledge of the world around them - and generative AI seems poised to do foundational damage to people's ability to have accurate factual knowledge of anything.

If he's beating chance in any way, it was by making very big investments in concepts that were, at the time, considered dumb. But I don't think he made those investments because he had vision; rather I think he made them because he thought they were cool.

I *really* don't think so - any ability to "smell nerd clout" is heavily undermined by his time at PayPal and his actions there.

The other datapoint supporting this theory is that the only time he was actually in a leadership position where a board of something other than sycophants was monitoring his work was at PayPal.

He lasted in that role for six months before the board canned his ass.

The main reason I think "he just got lucky with the managers" is the explanation is the fact that he has had nothing but appalling failures with everything else he's touched both before and since - Boring Company, X, Neuralink, SolarCity, etc.

I think he's just as dumb as he acts - he just lucked out to a truly insane degree by finding competent managers at both SpaceX and Tesla who could keep his stupidity away from the product and the people making it.

Starship and the Cybertruck suggest those guardrails are gone.

Eh, I'd guess that engine class makes a bigger difference than anything else, but mostly just because large diesel engines are *so* obscenely loud. That will, in turn, correspond very roughly correspond to vehicle size.

It's honestly my favorite cover. I like the sort of... Almost ethereal nature and how it builds.

This has always been the dumbest element of conservative "healthcare reform" - they want the least sophisticated actors in the healthcare system who are *ALSO* under the most stress (patients) to barter with healthcare providers *BEFORE GETTING CARE.*

It is insane.

If it makes you feel better, I think it's warranted because there's no real safe distance from the US imploding.

Of course, that fact probably also makes you feel worse about the entire situation in general, so take it as you will.

Warren, obv, but I think the real "consensus" candidate for the caucus would be Kelly, and I don't think he'd do a terrible job either.

Did they announce the results yet?

Great episode - I only have a comment on the Question from the Legion:

I think you missed the obvious improvement Acme'd make to the Schwerer Gustav; they'd make it automatic.

But, because the barrel wears out, the action also ejects the barrel and installs a new one from a magazine automatically.

Local distribution networks are much more vulnerable to severe weather, but that's a problem battery trains won't solve.

And, if you have a situation of "important building needs power and is right next to a railroad track" the solution would probably *still* be "park a locomotive next to it."

I'm not even sure about *that* - high voltage transmission wires tend to be pretty durable and utilities are able to fix them very quickly once they're on the ground; it's likely they'd be fixed before a battery train could be charged, let alone dispatched.

And, unlike most spectacularly dumb regulatory hacks, this one actually leaves behind useful infrastructure once the regulatory problems are solved.

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