Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Sure Sure
That people think self-driving taxis are the obvious first best use of self-driving cars is so strange to me. It's the hardest thing! I'm skeptical of the whole project, of course, but the focus on making them do the most complicated thing is... weird.
General Motors Co. has created its own ride-hailing platform and quietly built one of the largest charging stations in the United States to get its Cruise self-driving car unit ready to enter the robo-taxi business next year.
Bad Grifting
You spend a year being in the Cabinet and *then* you start downloading money into your bank account. That's how it's supposed to work. Pruitt isn't just corrupt; he's stupid.
Pruitt’s approach during the transition foreshadowed the kind of behavior that has attracted scrutiny in recent months. According to a current and former EPA official, Pruitt routinely asked his assistants — including then-executive scheduler Sydney Hupp — to put hotel reservations on their personal credit cards rather than his own.
In one instance, according to former deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski, Hupp was stuck with a bill of roughly $600 for a booking she had made for the administrator’s family during the transition. Chmielewski said in an interview last month that he was in Jackson’s office when Hupp approached Pruitt’s chief of staff to explain that the period for transition reimbursements had expired and that Pruitt had not covered the bill.
That's A Story
I admit I am a bit dumb and don't quite understand all the contours, but Marcy has a story..
There Are No Shovel Ready Projects
Philadelphia is currently under water because of a water main break.
Morning Thread
In case you missed it yesterday, one of our very own commenters has had her first book published. I started reading yesterday and am about half way through already, despite having had a pretty busy day. It really moves right along. Talent + Craftsmanship=Good Read.
Head over to Amazon through the link on the left side of this page and get your copy. You won't be sorry.
Head over to Amazon through the link on the left side of this page and get your copy. You won't be sorry.
Monday, July 02, 2018
Huzzah!
Our fellow commenter's book has arrived.
Not quite as exciting as a new baby, but close.
I've only read the first few chapters and can say, without equivocation, I'm hooked. Phew, it's a terrific read.
Go get your's by clicking on Atrios' Amazon link on the left side of the page. Then go sit someplace cool and enjoy the afternoon.
Not quite as exciting as a new baby, but close.
I've only read the first few chapters and can say, without equivocation, I'm hooked. Phew, it's a terrific read.
Go get your's by clicking on Atrios' Amazon link on the left side of the page. Then go sit someplace cool and enjoy the afternoon.
The Resistance
Meta is boring, but I do this stupid blog for various reasons. One is, of course, it is now my job and I need to earn cool hard cash. But really that is not my primary motive or I would have made very different choices over the years (also I am dumb).
Two is that we have a fun community here and I host it and hopefully that is good for the people who are a part of it. That has long been a bigger part of what I do, both in time and and motivation, than most people understand. Running a community is a thing on the internet that nobody who has not done it has any understanding of.
Three is...hopefully I change the world! In tiny ways, maybe, at best. I have no delusions of grandeur. If I can change things just a bit I will have done good.
The last one is the thing I find harder now.
Two is that we have a fun community here and I host it and hopefully that is good for the people who are a part of it. That has long been a bigger part of what I do, both in time and and motivation, than most people understand. Running a community is a thing on the internet that nobody who has not done it has any understanding of.
Three is...hopefully I change the world! In tiny ways, maybe, at best. I have no delusions of grandeur. If I can change things just a bit I will have done good.
The last one is the thing I find harder now.
They're Dumb.
Finally discovered why @nytopinion has so many bad takes. pic.twitter.com/IFIW8M1pkY
— The Break with Michelle Wolf (@thebreaknetflix) June 11, 2018
Traditional Family Values
As soon as the thrice married sexual harrassing/assaulting, barging in on naked teens, adulterous, daughter lusting president is out of the office, "family values conservatives" will go back to lecturing liberals about morality and the New York Times will print that bullshit, too.
But now it's like "oh, silly coastal elites, real Americans fuck chickens and have daily orgies, don't you know that?"
But now it's like "oh, silly coastal elites, real Americans fuck chickens and have daily orgies, don't you know that?"
Sunday, July 01, 2018
I Am So Tired Of Your Stupid Bullshit
After too much time spent on the internet, I can't be bothered to argue anymore. You are a big dumb dumb shutup forever.*
*not necessarily you
*not necessarily you
Remembering When
Everything is crazy and horrible now, but post-9/11 everything was also really crazy and horrible. Different, of course, and I am not ranking them, but I do think people forget. It was the crazy hippie liberal blogger position that Actually, torture is bad. We were the crazy ones.
What a decade!
What a decade!
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