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Hey I saw this episode of Silicon Valley!

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Reminds me of an old favorite CollegeHumor video comedy skit series - “A Message From Your Favorite CEO” featuring the Tumblr CEO…

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Just need to check again later. I had this same error at first.

you’ll only see water bead up when you hit certain temps.

Leidenfrost effect FTW

Basically If you FIRST heat up your stainless steel cookware to the point that when you drip some water on it, it “beads up” instead of immediately boiling away, your cookware becomes temporarily non-stick. Just don’t want to go a lot hotter than that, or you’ll do things like burn butter (unless using Ghee butter or something with a higher “smoke point”)

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For some reason I imagine that scene in of one of the first few episodes of the HBO mini-series Chernobyl, when they wade into the water near the exploded reactor and their flashlights just immediately die due to the massive amount of radiation and the episode ends in darkness with the crew’s Geiger counters just going absolute ape-shit sounding like a singular continuous tone.

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Slightly off-topic, but I really hate that the Rs are so goddamn horrific that the Ds can just gesture at how bad the Rs are and not actually do much tangibly for their voters compared to… say… like how LBJ did with the passing of the addition of Medicare and Medicaid to Social Security or FDR with the “Rural Electrification Act”… because they know that the alternative for voters not voting for them = enabling of fascists who will speedrun the 4th Reich.

I really wish the left was even half as powerful as what the demagogue-spouting right-wing news stations pretended.

I would have guessed the “Tar Sands” area being an incredibly massive source of air pollution, but I guess I wasn’t considering wild-fires role in the matter.

Correct. We actually used to have MUCH higher taxes for corporations where all the write offs had to do with improvements to employee lives.

The idea was - either businesses should spend money on making things better for their employees or Uncle Sam will via taxing them.

…And he won’t do a goddamn thing about it legislation-wise. Hell, he won’t even SAY anything about it.

I really wish we would have elected the guy who - despite what he could or couldn’t have done in office - at least used the bully pulpit to call out the ghouls with dragon-like hoards of wealth that have put us all in a worse place than our parents were 60 years ago.

The neoliberal “we’re like the Republicans but as if it were still 1980” type Dems who have been in charge of the party for decades now should be scared out of their minds and doing whatever they can to get the apathetic would-be voters out and mobilized.

After what the MAGA fascist lunatics did to Paul Pelosi, Tammy Duckworth, and were GOING to do to them in the Capitol were they to have caught any of them, I can’t believe these idiots still think being rich will save them from these actual fascists if they lose in 2024.

Seriously, Jan 6th is going to end up looking instead like a dress rehearsal if Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and all the other “3rd-way” Ds don’t stop choosing appeasing capital when given the choice of trying to attract new working-class voters or attempting in vain at appeasing Republicans (who will NEVER choose “Republican-LITE” when they can get any actual R on the ticket).

Time is almost out. The increasingly large pile of historical comparisons are apt. The alarms are blaring.

For the love of all that is good, stop with the half-measure “going high when they go low one-time-partial-mail-in-rebate if you apply on our barely functioning website to request to see if you qualify” legislation and just straight up illegally pass an avalanche of populist actions designed to immediately tangibly address the needs of the working class so the Supreme Court is wasting months and political capital for the Rs trying to declare it all as not-legal even though it’s awesome… as soon as possible… or risk the literal end of democracy by allowing Trump the opportunity to disingenuously claim that he would do what only the furthest left Ds might even dare to suggest.

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I’m afraid it’s worse than that.

Basically after FDR died, for as imperfect as he was… all the objective good he did was slowly whittled away by members of both parties - simply at differing rates.

With Truman put in as his VP after the DNC suggested replacing FDR’s first VP - Henry “I want to pass a civil rights bill in the 1940s” Wallace for their more “centrist” candidate, we dropped 2 atomic weapons on civilian cities.

Kennedy was the first real neoliberal in that he came from a dynastically wealthy family and successfully dropped the top marginal tax rate that FDR had helped set at 90% down to 60%… which helped create massive budget shortages about a decade later. LBJ got us into Vietnam. Carter was too nice to ever use the bully pulpit and also let his own personal Protestant work ethic dictate his own policy goals which he seemed to back with the idea that things like the oil crisis should be a burden that every day Americans shoulder rather than the massive giant multinational oil companies, and then after Reagan won 2x and Bush “my family worked with the Nazis” Sr. won a term afterward, Clinton pivoted the last remaining New Deal democrats to a 3rd way where they abandoned the working class for a more palatable version of Republicanism.

Bernie really could have been a turning point, but instead all that has happened is the accelerating worsening of all our lives alternating between the hands of the ultra rich who only do it slowly… and the hands of increasingly fascistic nakedly monstrous ultra rich ghouls and their goons.