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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney

@jasonjdelaney.bsky.social

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Increasingly decrepit father, partner, economist, teacher LFGM, UU, upbeat guy, still recovering from an injury sustained during the cola wars on your side, rooting for you, no matter what

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 19h

I mean you can "let it go" as in "not respond" but I haven't figured out how to "let it go" as in "not make me think less of the person's capacity for rigor" or "not break my heart/hope for humanity"

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of grinch with a very angry face on a blue background

Alt: a cartoon of grinch with a very delighted face on a blue background

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Barry Bonds got done dirty

Goat

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

They only like religion insofar as it says "God says I can subjugate you because I'm his favorite special boy"

It's not religion it's solipsism

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Or even "egregiously permissive judicial interpretations" which are very bad!! But it's not all of them, and abandoning the idea that the courts can play a role in preserving the rule of law is doing their work for them

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Also "if you want people to live in dense urban cities"--people do!! People already live in dense safe American cities!! If you build it, people will live there!! I mean obviously not that particular racist shitbird, but normal people will

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah the thing I was thinking about was when does "cost to maintain" turn into "let's see how little maintenance we can get away with" to "shut it down"

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't true

It just varies a lot what he can get away with

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

In either case, though, new capital coming online starts driving coal out in a hurry--not just in energy but also metallurgy

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

So the question here is when does electricity get so cheap (or carbon fees do expensive) that it's competitive to just mothball the old plant and build new?

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

i'm much more familiar with petrochemical pathways--how is coal particularly useful in metallurgy?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

solar and wind generated more electricity that coal for the first time ever in the first half of 2025. that's the good shit ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

i don't see any way for coal to stay in the picture though, just too expensive to turn into chemicals

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

i don't know if i'd say "useless". You can get polyester, PVC, polypropylene, acrylic fibers, etc., from NG liquids. A lot depends on the relative price, and I'd guess in the long run you find the industry coalesces around specialized uses of each based on comparative advantage and process costs

"An example of a flow chart for products from petroleum based feedstock" from https://www.researchgate.net/figure/An-Example-of-a-Flow-Chart-for-Products-from-Petroleum-based-Feedstocks_fig1_235062870

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

How are they less useful? All they ever tell you is if the effect is possibly zero or probably not zero, but you need magnitude and direction in any case to know if it matters at all

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

This is smart

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I could explain to the "we're doomed" folk that it usually takes a long time for a species to go extinct. Understand? We're talking generations upon generations before the last human.

So if we're going to be around for a while either way, we might as well make things better instead.

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

It's wild when I look back over the last six months how I've just steadily replaced proteins with progressively cheaper proteins

A lot more sausage and peanut butter

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RJ Says: "Jay, Free Link Now!" @shoren18.bsky.social · 3d

Saw some post somewhere earlier about people “not getting” transness or whatever

You don’t have to get it.

If you believe in bodily autonomy for all, then no one needs you to understand their personal situation to earn being seen as a person by you.

You just treat every human being as a person.

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Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah w

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm...I don't just know the fact...0.45*... Nah

Oh! 0.45 is 0.5 - 0.05 (nice! The same number shifted one decimal!)!

1/2 of 40 is 20, so

0.5 of 40 =20
-
0.05 of 40 =2

So, 20 - 2
= 18
Fun

Jason "WS 2026 Baby lfgm" Delaney @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck??

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