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Like I said.

I am starting to feel like I’m some kind of a lunatic, as this tide of AI-generated writing rises around me.

I will never stop telling that story, which explained so much.

Write those down. Even a few months from now, they’ll be funny. And some will stick. We still call popsicles “ixles” and the air conditioner the “ixo-dixo.” When impressed by something, we say “ooh, nice sprinkle butt!”

Happy birthday! :)

Remember this ugly-ass ring that Trump accepted as a bribe from the "natural diamond" industry earlier this month? With 321 diamonds? Well, Trump exempted the natural diamond industry from last week's tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

Trump’s Tariff Exemptions Include Diamonds, Oil and Gas, Copper and Other Items (Gift Article)A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised familiar questions about who should receive the lucrative exceptions, and why.www.nytimes.com

Oh, wait, they did this! I just hadn’t checked in a while. Great.

UL Solutions Debuts Testing and Certification Framework for Safer Plug-In Solar Across the United StatesOur new plug-in solar system certification program gives manufacturers and consumers the clarity they need to embrace plug-in solar systems with confidence.www.ul.com

Yes! Ditto for UL certification of balcony solar.

Adoption in such countries is life-changing. For a supermajority of Americans, it’s just a way to save some money. So absent a power grid disaster, we’ll never see the same uptake…but we can try.

Right! Buy one of the panels China dumped across the border, stick it on your roof, you're done. Whatever downsides that zoning exists to deal with are outweighed by the need to decarbonize real real fast.

If you're thinking "why is that band named the 'Light Crust Doughboys'?" then think back to "O Brother Where Art Thou?" The Soggy Bottom Boys are basically a parody of the Light Crust Doughboys, Pappy O'Daniel was a real dude, he just wanted to sell his brand of flour using the new medium of radio.

Either we're in a climate emergency or we're not. It's so frustrating seeing countries with hockey-stick graphs of residential solar adoption (e.g., Pakistan) while the U.S. continues an overall upward trend that in no way reflects the actual urgency of the situation.

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I'd never done that math!

Love that "closed" sign

I did that too! That metal threshold is now silver instead of black.

😳 Opioids kick off an unfortunate sequence of effects in you!

Yuuuup, same effect on me. I have ~12 hours that are just a total horror show, and then another 12 hours that are just regular miserable, before the effect wanes. Both times I've been taken opioids for serious injuries, the effects of the opioids soon became worse than the injuries.