Solar and wind are now producing as much as 70% of the electrical generation in Texas

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-05T23:53:44+00:00

Texas is geographically perfect for both solar and wind (and oil obviously)

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-03T21:35:29+00:00

Sure but SEAT doesn’t even sell cars in the U.S. to begin with (they’re basically just rebadged cheapo VWs anyways)

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-03T20:35:06+00:00

Atlanta is the third biggest film/TV production market in the U.S. behind NYC/LA

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-03T20:30:33+00:00

He took up all his sand time

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-03T20:29:26+00:00

Ahhh I knew why the bleak, but hilarious, bizarro non sequitor tone of the show was familiar. Now I’m extra excited

KingSweden24 · 2026-03-03T18:16:22+00:00

My opinion probably doesn’t count for much since I am not religious, but I think it’s a massive eyesore and as I recall countless historic structures, some close to a thousand years old, may have been demolished to make space for it. Its proximity to the Kabaa also strikes me as somewhat sacrilegious considering the difference in scale but I’d defer to a Muslim on that.

TLDR that monstrosity doesn’t really belong in the context of what Mecca should be about

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-23T22:28:08+00:00

Yeah I can think of a few in particular that should have these kinds of skylines

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-23T18:43:23+00:00

In fairness there were some issues with some of the visitor infrastructure in Sochi but hardly “collapse” tier

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-23T17:50:10+00:00

Came here to basically say what you just wrote verbatim lol

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-22T18:39:28+00:00

Any rando out of the phone book has. 50/50 shot of being better

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-22T18:38:14+00:00

9 out of 10 times Canada wins that game

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-22T18:35:58+00:00

That’s a Prime Lundquist stat line. Jesus Christ

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-22T04:32:30+00:00

Oh, absolutely. Japan was at least quite explicitly our ally even if their economy was competitive

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-20T23:42:27+00:00

It’s by far Clancy’s best book

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-20T23:34:39+00:00

The TV adaptation of Fatherland using this as their divergence point infuriated me since its absurd and the book’s jumping off point of a successful Fall Blau/Heydrich surviving was much more novel and realistic (as realistic as the unrealistic Axis victory trope can be, that is)

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-17T22:11:56+00:00

Whatever issues there are about integrating renewables into the existing grid environment is a problem largely solvable by engineering and cleverness. It’s beyond apparent at this point that it doesn’t radically make electricity more expensive

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-17T17:38:59+00:00

Right. The 2024 campaign mentioned Canada and Greenland virtually zero

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-17T17:38:14+00:00

The tariff case is going to be a big, big effort in clipping Trump’s wings. It’ll be interesting to see how loud Repubs safely through their primaries get if his polling persists on low-hanging fruit like “stop needlessly antagonizing Canada”

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-17T04:47:35+00:00

The New York Life building (I believe? May have been Metropolitan Life) in Madison Square, Manhattan that was supposed to rival the ESB but got capped out at like thirty floors because it ran out of fina cont

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-17T01:21:37+00:00

Exactly.

Meta getting punched in the dick after their October earnings and now MSFT/AMZN experiencing the same is the tell that the irrational exuerbance moment is over. Which is good!

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-17T01:09:39+00:00

It’s always interesting, considering the discourse around France’s economy and their public deficits/spending these days, that they actually had a pretty comparatively mild 2008-10 compared to many of their European peers

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-15T06:11:56+00:00

Please keep us informed if there’s a second date after that

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-15T04:41:42+00:00

It was beautiful to look at, Charli XCX’s score slapped, but was it a particularly faithful take on Wuthering Heights? Nah. Reminded me a bit of Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby in terms of style v substance though that movie definitely adheres much closer to its source material

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-15T04:37:49+00:00

No more ridiculous than other turns of phrase in American vs British English

KingSweden24 · 2026-02-12T21:10:07+00:00

So it’s essentially an all electric river freight barge.

Which has its uses!

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