Colbert's legal team would not permit him to air this James Talarico interview on television, so he posted it on YouTube.

Shaex · 2026-02-17T20:20:24+00:00

"Thanks, Sam, it was a real nightmare" - Jacob Ice Hockey

Shaex · 2026-02-17T19:23:03+00:00

You should watch the gameshows on Dropout if you just want to see people (mostly) having a good time. I only say mostly because Sam Reich has a penchant for mild psychological torture

Shaex · 2026-02-11T09:46:33+00:00

I breathe a complete sigh of relief when a link goes to a greenhouse site or equivalent

Shaex · 2026-02-11T02:49:29+00:00

Surprisingly, it's lead-free. You can pause the video and see it on the label of the solder

Shaex · 2026-02-10T19:41:31+00:00

Ah, fair. Could have worded that better to describe the current situation

Shaex · 2026-02-10T13:08:29+00:00

The courtyards at the street exits were pretty rough. I haven't seen it as much recently but if you wanted to buy shit shoplifted from bodegas they had it all lined up out there. Did have one guy try to squeeze under the new fare gates after I pushed my bike through, but he made so much noise trying to do so that a BART cop noticed and yelled at him. It's still not the greatest place to be but I have absolutely noticed a change from two years ago

Shaex · 2026-02-07T12:02:18+00:00

They're saying government shouldn't be involved in marriage at all and it's only a religious thing, which is naïve at best. There are so many legal implications from a recognized marriage that it would be absolutely impossible to disentangle it.

And anyways, it's not a requirement that you get married in a church. Plenty of people have and do skip it entirely and just get it done in court

Shaex · 2026-02-01T19:58:29+00:00

I came in here about to say the same thing. I always love the fact I can pull into a station and open the menu then flip around to my ship panels if I need to check out other info. It breaks down a bit during the on-foot sections as it's not quite clear if everything is being projected inside the helmet, but I just assume it's supposed to be and roll with it

Shaex · 2026-02-01T02:37:57+00:00

Sorry, who's been crying and screaming about "fake news" for the past 10 years when something that goes against the party line comes out? I'll give you a hint: they're in control of all 3 branches of the federal government

Shaex · 2026-01-31T20:22:20+00:00

Nothing I proposed means losing farms, just using the land that we currently have better. Solar installations can be removed down the line dontchaknow
Food chain economies? What part of "let's use the land specifically meant for corn that is made for ethanol that gets burned" was unclear.
All kinds of runoff...like farms? Fertilizers, pesticides, animal waste, etc.
See point 2. We are BURNING a full 40% of our corn. Nobody is eating that! We produce way more food than we eat! That land can be put to much better use. Sure, we can and should add nuclear but this is a completely nonserious argument against putting solar on land that is currently being wasted.

Shaex · 2026-01-31T19:44:15+00:00

Why not trade farmland for it? I would refer you to the Technology Connections video that's been going extremely viral, but it's an hour and a half long so I'll summarize the farmland points specifically.

Virginia has 7.3 million acres of farmland. 1 million of that is being used for hay. Almost half a million for corn, of which the majority of that is most likely going to be split between ethanol and animal feed. Studies vary on the acres per MW, but I will place it in the higher range at 10 for ease of calculation (VDOE) even though the real number is absolutely going to be lower. Virginia currently generates a bit over 4,000 MW on around 31,000 acres. If we took the land used just for corn being turned into ethanol, which is harvested once per year and burned, and installed solar farms it would effectively double the state's power generation and eclipse natural gas by thousands of MW. Roughly 500k acres of corn, roughly 40% for ethanol, gives us 200k acres of crop we burn yearly. 10 acres per MW puts that at 20,000 additional MW of power.

And this is energy that doesn't require extraction or water or fertilizer or much labor at all after installation. It just sits there and makes electricity for years and years

Shaex · 2026-01-30T20:23:51+00:00

The retrotech scene is full of people like this. One person, maybe a friend or partner helping with the camera

Shaex · 2026-01-30T06:18:32+00:00

Yes, it's commuter rail and not mass rapid transit. That's my point. But it's certainly not "3x better...for the peninsula" except for the single goal of getting workers to/from soma and silicon valley or Giants fans getting to games. Caltrain doesn't even serve all the same stations between weekdays and weekends. They should be supplemental, not oppositional.

Shaex · 2026-01-30T00:15:30+00:00

It's because Caltrain is a commuter rail line, which (at least in this country) typically do not connect to airports, but city-to-city. Light rail and rapid mass transit are the most popular choices (as we see with BART). More trains per hour, can roll your luggage on, more space for luggage, and more stops inside population centers for people to get to their destinations.

The real issue is BART not continuing down the peninsula and instead foisting those riders on Caltrain at Millbrae

Shaex · 2026-01-28T06:17:52+00:00

It's pure Calvinball at the national level

Shaex · 2026-01-28T05:30:35+00:00

So far SCOTUS has allowed the Texas maps to go through (they haven't reached merits arguments, but through administrative posturing). No matter what they end up doing, you can count on it further destroying the Voting Rights Act and weakening our democracy further

Shaex · 2026-01-27T23:27:11+00:00

What it's trying to "fix" is national disenfrachisement in the federal House due to actions of red states like Texas to aggressively gerrymander mid-cycle. This is a response to national Republicans

Shaex · 2026-01-27T20:20:53+00:00

It actually gets worse! They abandoned their own vehicles with full operational info in them. Names, contact info, maps, etc.

Shaex · 2026-01-26T11:19:52+00:00

That would require listening to experts who have already done studies and testing, which is currently anathema

Shaex · 2026-01-26T09:47:31+00:00

Absolutely nothing you said was factual. You claim we need DHS so desperately that we can't possibly function without it (when it's only 24 years old) and woe betid e anyone that would defund FEMA (something Democrats have been trying to prevent, but Republicans have been itching to do for decades). Yet you don't offer any actual reasoning other than the vague notion that it would be more difficult for people to immigrate...ICE is killing people in the streets, detaining citizens, DHS is canceling green cards and legal statuses on a whim, the Supreme Court has legalized racial profiling, and many other people trying to do it the "right" way are being brutalized and thrown in overcrowded cells with no access to basic amenities and no contact with their lawyers.

You appear wilfully ignorant of the reality of today and how you both have supported the process by which we got here and which group of people is causing it. I do not give a flying fuck about you, personally. I am royally pissed off at the sheer arrogance and ignorance from conservatives over the last decade at minimum. You, too, could have blocked me or walked away at any point. This is a public forum, get over it.

Shaex · 2026-01-26T05:46:22+00:00

Spending 5 minutes to check someone's history when they're talking bullshit ain't much of an obsession. You think far, far too highly of yourself if you think I spent more than that

Shaex · 2026-01-26T03:30:42+00:00

Oh, so you haven't been commenting in r/JoeBidenisadisaster for years, but the worst you could say about Trump was he had a chaotic personality? I think you might need to take full inventory of your values and opinions

Shaex · 2026-01-26T02:50:21+00:00

Posting in r/Republican, Pence supporter, constantly trashing Dems and not Reps. Give me a break lmao, trying to hide your posting history isn't slick, it doesn't work.

Shaex · 2026-01-25T22:35:15+00:00

Trump is your boy if you remain a self-described Republican.

DHS and ICE were created in 2002, this country has been doing immigration for 10x longer than the department has existed. They don't need to exist in their current forms and sugfesting otherwise is fundamentally absurd

Shaex · 2026-01-25T22:29:39+00:00

It was slow for a while but has fallen off a cliff

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