GreenEngineer
@eubanksengineeringresearch.com
Professional engineer and permaculture designer fascinated by the thermodynamics & metabolics of infrastructure and the built environment.
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
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Resist the urge to return to normal at all costs. It is an illusion. And a dangerous one.
1. There is no living with MAGA.
2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now.
It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.
1. There is no living with MAGA.
2. We are now in the Anthropocene. The world we knew is gone. Climate change is here, now.
It’s time for America to grow the fuck up.
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you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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[marx voice] IT'S A COSTLY SIGNAL
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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This comment is correct but it is also true that Trump is not really different, just much more extreme.
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To understand Trump is to understand he doesn't believe in repeated games where cooperation is the equilibrium strategy because people can punish non-cooperation in the future. He thinks everything is a one off prisoner's dilemma and tries to screw the other party no matter the future consequences.
For Trump, there is no time horizon that matters beyond the immediate. He could care less about the Republican Party of 2027, let alone 2029 and beyond. This is the Republican deal with the devil. They put Trump in charge, but Trump doesn’t care about others beyond how it affects him. 2/4
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This comment is correct but it is also true that Trump is not really different, just much more extreme.
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I used to say this about Republicans before Trump too. In the short term the best strategy is to extract as much as possible even if it means destroying long term capacity. It’s been their governing strategy and we are all worse off for it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I used to say this about Republicans before Trump too. In the short term the best strategy is to extract as much as possible even if it means destroying long term capacity. It’s been their governing strategy and we are all worse off for it.
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
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Ah. So this I can help with. Lawyers wear two hats. We are counselors and advocates. Most often, we’re just depicted as advocates. As a result, in conversations like this, people see us explaining how things work, and think we’re saying it’s how things should work.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Ah. So this I can help with. Lawyers wear two hats. We are counselors and advocates. Most often, we’re just depicted as advocates. As a result, in conversations like this, people see us explaining how things work, and think we’re saying it’s how things should work.
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"why do credulous rubes who don't know how anything works like the guy who had a reality tv show where he was portrayed as a brilliant and great guy?" Don't overthink this!
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"why do credulous rubes who don't know how anything works like the guy who had a reality tv show where he was portrayed as a brilliant and great guy?" Don't overthink this!
Petro-masculinity.
Sounds about white.
Sounds about white.
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Petro-masculinity.
Sounds about white.
Sounds about white.
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The root problem is that we didn’t stop that multi-decade plot. We could have reacted to Cit U and John Roberts differently; NYT could have gone a different way; we could have defended journalism as private equity killed it; used Congress to hem in the banks. As we did in the past- all these things
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The root problem is that we didn’t stop that multi-decade plot. We could have reacted to Cit U and John Roberts differently; NYT could have gone a different way; we could have defended journalism as private equity killed it; used Congress to hem in the banks. As we did in the past- all these things
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They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.
There’s only one type of ICE agent - the criminal kind.
But the independent criminals are by far the less dangerous - you can fight back without having the US Government step on your head.
But the independent criminals are by far the less dangerous - you can fight back without having the US Government step on your head.
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There’s only one type of ICE agent - the criminal kind.
But the independent criminals are by far the less dangerous - you can fight back without having the US Government step on your head.
But the independent criminals are by far the less dangerous - you can fight back without having the US Government step on your head.
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At least once a week I think of how the ZIRP was used to create a class of fascism-susceptible venture capitalists rather than a massive green infrastructure investment.
Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
At least once a week I think of how the ZIRP was used to create a class of fascism-susceptible venture capitalists rather than a massive green infrastructure investment.
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Idk what to do but sacrificing base enthusiasm in order to somehow shape the party into the image of the exact politicians who were immediately wiped out by Trumpism seems worse than no plan at all.
November 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Idk what to do but sacrificing base enthusiasm in order to somehow shape the party into the image of the exact politicians who were immediately wiped out by Trumpism seems worse than no plan at all.
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listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
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"They focused in on extremely narrow, emotionally charged issues like trans girls in sports, but it turns out they were just anti-LGBTQ bigots the whole time & want all queers dead!"
Yes. Yes. Now take this insight & apply it to *all the other shit they're saying*. Generalize!
Yes. Yes. Now take this insight & apply it to *all the other shit they're saying*. Generalize!
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"They focused in on extremely narrow, emotionally charged issues like trans girls in sports, but it turns out they were just anti-LGBTQ bigots the whole time & want all queers dead!"
Yes. Yes. Now take this insight & apply it to *all the other shit they're saying*. Generalize!
Yes. Yes. Now take this insight & apply it to *all the other shit they're saying*. Generalize!
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This is Bad (source: network.fintechtakes.com/library/3d38...)
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is Bad (source: network.fintechtakes.com/library/3d38...)
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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.
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... Where?
Why isn't anyone asking WHERE
Why isn't anyone asking WHERE
"We're gonna do some testing, yeah. Other countries are do it. If they're gonna do it, we're gonna do it." -- Trump on nuclear testing
October 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
... Where?
Why isn't anyone asking WHERE
Why isn't anyone asking WHERE
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I guess we have to Sherman harder Sherman did. The tank or the general, I don't really care.
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I guess we have to Sherman harder Sherman did. The tank or the general, I don't really care.
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It is possible to make steel without any combustion of fossil fuels or process emissions. The magic? Electrochemistry!
It will take a while to bring down costs, but this is inevitable. It makes too much sense.
It will take a while to bring down costs, but this is inevitable. It makes too much sense.
An electrifying new ironmaking method could slash carbon emissions
By extracting metallic iron without producing carbon dioxide, the new process could even be carbon negative, at least for part of the world’s iron production
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October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It is possible to make steel without any combustion of fossil fuels or process emissions. The magic? Electrochemistry!
It will take a while to bring down costs, but this is inevitable. It makes too much sense.
It will take a while to bring down costs, but this is inevitable. It makes too much sense.
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Exactly!
That's the real story
The 'cost' argument is a smokescreen
System as it exists now is a massive subsidy to corporate power.
It keeps workers docile, suppresses entrepreneurship, & ensures a steady, massive flow of cash to a parasitic industry
Their opposition proves how much power we'd gain
That's the real story
The 'cost' argument is a smokescreen
System as it exists now is a massive subsidy to corporate power.
It keeps workers docile, suppresses entrepreneurship, & ensures a steady, massive flow of cash to a parasitic industry
Their opposition proves how much power we'd gain
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Exactly!
That's the real story
The 'cost' argument is a smokescreen
System as it exists now is a massive subsidy to corporate power.
It keeps workers docile, suppresses entrepreneurship, & ensures a steady, massive flow of cash to a parasitic industry
Their opposition proves how much power we'd gain
That's the real story
The 'cost' argument is a smokescreen
System as it exists now is a massive subsidy to corporate power.
It keeps workers docile, suppresses entrepreneurship, & ensures a steady, massive flow of cash to a parasitic industry
Their opposition proves how much power we'd gain
So simple. So obvious. So utterly beyond the pale.
Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer
1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else
2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else
2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
lol
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
So simple. So obvious. So utterly beyond the pale.
Every billionaire should read this book.
What’s different between then and now is that then, the antagonist was institutional. Now, in many cases, you can put a face and a name to the power centers.
They need to think on that, long and hard and right the fuck now.
What’s different between then and now is that then, the antagonist was institutional. Now, in many cases, you can put a face and a name to the power centers.
They need to think on that, long and hard and right the fuck now.
I think we sometimes dismiss boomers when they talk about how crazy the sixties were, but uh they’re not exaggerating. the sheer volume of (mostly casualty free) bombings, bank robberies, and shootouts during that period is just not comparable to anything in our current politics.
October 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Every billionaire should read this book.
What’s different between then and now is that then, the antagonist was institutional. Now, in many cases, you can put a face and a name to the power centers.
They need to think on that, long and hard and right the fuck now.
What’s different between then and now is that then, the antagonist was institutional. Now, in many cases, you can put a face and a name to the power centers.
They need to think on that, long and hard and right the fuck now.
I keeping with longstanding GOP tradition.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I keeping with longstanding GOP tradition.
This is what desperation looks like.
Good gods, talk about reaching.
Good gods, talk about reaching.
Wait, are people really upset that Mamdani spoke about his “aunt,” and it was actually his father’s cousin and not his father’s sibling?
Because that is an extremely normal thing a lot of cultures do. Including a lot of large Jewish families!
Because that is an extremely normal thing a lot of cultures do. Including a lot of large Jewish families!
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is what desperation looks like.
Good gods, talk about reaching.
Good gods, talk about reaching.