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Facemelterson Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales

Have you met truck guys? Truck guys call you gay for driving an EV. Yes yes, not all truck guys.

Facemelterson US Administration halted largest Offshore Wind project in the U.S.

oh look, lying about national security concerns again. It's funny that the only thing this administration does is destroy things, lie, and make our lives measurably worse.

Facemelterson Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation

please refer to a chart of scientific progress that encompasses both those years and the post WWII expansion of the US science state

Facemelterson The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025

Costs money to support the mission

Facemelterson Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

The whitest thing I've ever seen

Facemelterson What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

you know what they're talking about, don't play dumb

Facemelterson What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

The idea is to destroy every part of the American federal government so that techno fiefdoms can be ruled by oligarchs. It's pretty obvious. Not sure if we can stop it!

In this particular case, the goal is to privatize science entirely.

Facemelterson The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution

tell us more about how you know nothing of american politics

Facemelterson CDC data are disappearing

crime went up after they removed chesa, mr. fact check

Facemelterson 'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly

fun to just suicide the country for literally no reason

or rather, for the reason of speedrunning 1990s Russian oligarchic plundering of the state

Facemelterson 'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly

that conclusion does not follow

Facemelterson Department of Government Efficiency

"The people voted for major reform"

They didn't vote for Elon to do it. They also were explicitly lied to by the Trump campaign -- they claimed they didn't know what Project 2025 was and that they had no relationship to it. The minute they won, guess what they said their plan is?

Lying fascists.

Facemelterson AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision

yeah most people just want to make food that is healthy and tastes good. Perfectly happy to follow a recipe like a LEGO kit.

Facemelterson AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision

yeah the best part of cooking is eating

Facemelterson Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says

these people don't actually care lol

Facemelterson Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says

astounding that, in 2024, you still have geniuses like yourself saying things this ignorant. Humans were not around when the asteroids hit, and if we were, we would not have survived. Same goes for most of the other calamities you listed.

Insane that this has to be explained to people.

Facemelterson Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite

you think there's ... less risk with genetically modifying a species to die out?

Facemelterson Notes on Anthropic's Computer Use Ability

the ads will target the latent biases of the agentic AI, just like they do with humans

Facemelterson Extremists keep trying to sabotage the electrical grid. What if they succeed?

Efficiency and available roof space

Facemelterson A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021)

lol what makes them degenerates

Facemelterson What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)

well it's not surprising that the instant the right wing took full control of the judiciary, they dramatically expanded its power.

Facemelterson What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)

you don't 'hire more judges.' A political party appoints them. This is simply a way to enshrine right wing rule into the interpretation and application of laws

Facemelterson What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)

Not a coincidence that, following a takeover of the judiciary by the right wing, they now aggrandize the power of the Court.

Facemelterson What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)

they will not have standing

Facemelterson Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone

how do you know this number but not understand the IRA increased IRS funding

Facemelterson Defending the city: An overview of defensive tactics

but it's a wall built and patrolled by the opponent that is preventing the population from leaving the combat zone

Facemelterson Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right

please take a picture of this setup

Facemelterson Cloudflare Announces Firewall for AI

lol 'uncensored' models are not mirrors to reality.