Turn Your Lights Off

Some people didn't react well to this and, yes, sure, turn your lights off if you don't need them, but failing to do that sometimes is likely a miniscule contributor to excess use. Once lights were a sizeable portion of your electricity use, and now they aren't. Running an LED bulb for a month solid is about .3kWh, and one dryer load is about 3kWh. An incandescent bulb running for a month is about one dryer load.

Lazy Sunday

Need to obtain some better vibes.

Best Picture Nominees, RANKED

I didn’t see Oppenheimer, Zone of Interest, or Killers of the Flower Moon.

1) American Fiction

2) Anatomy of A Fall

3) Barbie

4) The Holdovers

5) Past Lives

6) Maestro

7) Poor Things

Morning

Sunday funday

Saturday Night

Rock on. Don't forget to turn the clocks forward, or back, or whatever.

Afternoon

I got nothin'

Better Living Through Chemistry

I suspect it is quite common at the moment, but, given what we know about the Trump White House pill mill, I also suspect this is a bit of projection from the leading lights in the conservative movement.

Leaving The Lights On

Tl;dr: household LED lights use so little electricty they're barely worth worrying about.

Masterful Design, Sir

Amazing stuff from Elmo. The Shai-Hulud from Ed Wood's Dune.

A little backstory on the linked site: Lambert used to be the #1 Tesla Superfan and Electrek the #1 Tesla Superfan site. A million years ago, when Elon was touting his vaporware updated "Roadster," he was taking deposits and running a referral bonus: basically, refer X people and win a free Roadster. Of course, running the #1 Fan Site, it was easy for Lambert to "win" that prize.

The Roadsters never appeared, Lambert complained one too many times, and Elmo got mad and cut him off.

Morning

Slacker Saturday

Friday Night

Rock on.

Happy Hour

Get happy.

There Isn't Time

They say it'll take a month or two to build a port for Gaza and, you know, people are starving

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in war-ravaged Gaza — now some are dying of hunger too.

Israel is saying they will require security checks of deliveries from the sea, which means "not going to let it in."

There was a time when good faith people could see this as something other than what it is, but that time passed a quite awhile ago.

Bond, Supersedeas Bond

[Nelson Muntz laugh]

NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Friday secured a bond for more than $91 million to cover the judgment in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case while he appeals.

Lunch

eat

It Will Only Make My Opinions WORSE

Related to this, the more backlash Hochul gets over "putting young nervous guys with guns in the subway," the more it's guaranteed to last forever. She's that type.

I Am Not A Witch

I did break down and watch this. Amazing stuff.

Love the "kitchen no one had ever been in before" also.

Saving Face

A certain type of person - sadly the type of person who desires and attains power, often - definitely will let the entire world burn before admitting they made a mistake. And this isn't even admitting to a mistake in a way which would have consequences, like prosecution or resignation. I mean just an almost consequence-free "whoopsie, my bad."

Oldheads will remember I used to regulary ask why "we" were still in Iraq. Fundamentally, that was the reason. It wasn't just one person who couldn't admit to a mistake, it was the entire political-media class who couldn't. The next six months will be critical!

Morning

Friday, the day of getting down.

Thursday Night

Rock on.