Sunnyvale has done kind of the opposite: cops are required to work as EMT and firefighting. This helps avoid the "everyone I see is a bad guy" problem.

The original cover of the album, created in June 2001, depicted [them] destroying the twin towers of the World Trade Center.... The album was originally scheduled for release in September of that year... the band decided to postpone the album's release until November

"To defeat it, we have to rebuild the belonging, comprehension, and civic life that once made demagoguery unnecessary."

"1. Latent sociopathy
A stable minority of people show mild antisocial traits (low empathy, dominance seeking, loyalty to tribe over principle). In healthy systems, norms keep those impulses in check. But in times of stress... they become adaptive. MAGA is the political mobilization of that..."

I love these tectonic bits! Mississippi River seismism also blows my mind

Part of the reason why Lake Superior is so massive and deep (its deepest point is 733 feet below sea level and is the lowest point in the continental US) is because it occupies an ancient rift valley. What is now North American almost split in half a billion years ago.

thinking about that @segyges.bsky.social post about food racists

also relatedly this topic is why i'm still incandescent with rage at CR for scaremongering people into thinking pea protein has unsafe levels of lead

methane is a much worse warming agent than CO2 by a long shot. however, it is much shorter lived. if we reduce livestock, half the methane will be gone in 10yr.

been lactovegetarian for almost 8y, and people really lose their minds when you question their meat.

i think negative polarization from pursuing plant based agendas is not worth the improvement, other than continues research in improving plant alternatives

Great post.

just his teeth

i voted to leave the stove off. i am deeply unhappy my party was not successful at lowering it after a 40d shutdown.

nonetheless. if one party seizes power, turns it all the way up, and insists on throwing gasoline on it, it is good that they are the ones caught with the gas can.

on the bright side, the stove is getting hotter

on the dark side, people are going to get hurt

I love role playing an entrepreneur

my favorite part is telling the president he's fired

looks like it's fake bsky.app/profile/pale...