I certainly can’t think of a more relevant background than “gas executive who goes on Fox News a lot” for leading the organization responsible for the nations nuclear arsenal.

The article is real, btw

It’s already been published. But it’s superconducting at 10 K. This is a new high temperature record, but pretty far from room temperature.

They’ve been doing studies of what would be required for ignition for a while, but have never demonstrated ignition using the Z machine.

If they did have ignition, there’s no way they would’ve let LLNL claim to be first and enjoy all the media attention.

Nah, the Z machine never achieved ignition. That doesn’t mean it’s not a really cool facility though!

The vote was 336 to 95, clearing the two-thirds threshold required for passage. In the end, 209 Democrats and 127 Republicans joined to pass the bill. Ninety-three Republicans opposed it, as did two Democrats.

While this is technically bipartisan, a majority of the votes are from Democrats. Once again it’s up to congressional Democrats to save the GOP from itself (not to mention America from the GOP) and keep the government functioning.

Exactly! Heck, right before he was ousted McCarthy went on TV and blamed Democrats for not passing a budget, despite the fact that 1) McCarthy’s continuing resolution passed primarily with Democrat votes, and 2) Republicans were the ones unable to agree as a party on a budget.

It’s super important to constantly hammer home that all of this dysfunction isn’t “congress”, it’s congressional republicans.

If they need to raise prices by 18% to pay their workers, then they need to actually raise the prices on the menu. Right now this is just bait and switch, it’s dishonest and possibly illegal depending on the location.

I disagree, “The Congressional Chaos Shutdown" would pin it on congress as a whole.

There’s a semi-paradoxical fact that most people strongly dislike congress, but have higher opinions of their congressman. They always blame dysfunction on “other people in congress”. I guarantee if you polled republican voters and asked who was in control of congress, a substantial portion would say democrats.

The article is reporting on a published journal article. Surely that’s a good start?

I didn’t read it that way. The op ed spends most of the text criticizing christian, anti-LGBTQ legislation. He blames the bigots.

”… instead of heaping buckets of condemnation on a man for a victimless alternate lifestyle that you happen to find icky. But, boy, we’re good at that around here, aren’t we?”

“From trying to remove LGBTQ+ books from libraries to essentially banning transgender kids from existence to forcing children to have children, the state of Alabama, under conservative rule, has cornered the market on religious governance.”

”Yet, we continue to push these distorted Christian beliefs as actual policy and law. And in the process, we have fostered an environment in which a man who has apparently committed no crimes or harmed anyone is shamed into ending his own life.”

”There is no telling how many Bubba Copelands there are out there – kids and adults who have been crushed by the hateful, ill-informed, religious-based environment fostered by this sort of ignorance and intolerance. People who have been used as pawns by politicians to spread ignorance and fear.”

There’s a lot more in the article, but I don’t want to quote too much and run afoul of site rules.

I said it in another post that Emmer may have been a decent compromise for Dems to extend an olive branch.

Emmer withdrew without ever having a vote by the full house. He chose to withdraw because he couldn’t convince 217 republicans to support him in the private, republican-only votes. At no point did he seek support from democrats, or even give them a chance to vote for him. Republicans are clearly not interested in any olive branches from democrats.

I think we need to start comparing to “ice cream cone on a summer day” to make it more sporting

Where did you hear that? CFCs can linger in the atmosphere for 50-100 years, so recovery is a slow process. It took more than a decade after the Montreal Protocol went into effect before the hole in the ozone layer stopped growing. Additionally, different parts of the ozone layer will recover at different rates:

If current policies remain in place, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 values (before the appearance of the ozone hole) by around 2066 over the Antarctic, by 2045 over the Arctic and by 2040 for the rest of the world. Variations in the size of the Antarctic ozone hole, particularly between 2019 and 2021, were driven largely by meteorological conditions. Nevertheless, the Antarctic ozone hole has been slowly improving in area and depth since the year 2000.

I would recommend reading the article as it devotes a lot of text to discussing this.

One big takeaway is that Harris is uncomfortable with self promotion and more at ease doing the work behind the scenes. Hence her success as a DA, but then trouble standing out during her primary campaign and as VP.

In the first picture in this article they’re clearly cooking on an electric stove. Weren’t electric stoves supposed to be woke?

Lots of doom and gloom in the comments here. As the article describes, the hole in the ozone layer varies in size over time. It is slowly recovering, but the annual variability means it sometimes is larger than before.

The variability of the size of the ozone hole is largely determined by the strength of a strong wind band that flows around the Antarctic area. This strong wind band is a direct consequence of Earth’s rotation and the strong temperature differences between polar and moderate latitudes.

If the band of wind is strong, it acts like a barrier: air masses between polar and temperate latitudes can no longer be exchanged. The air masses then remain isolated over the polar latitudes and cool down during the winter.

Although it may be too early to discuss the reasons behind the current ozone concentrations, some researchers speculate that this year’s unusual ozone patterns could be associated with the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in January 2022.

And

Claus concludes, “Based on the Montreal Protocol and the decrease of anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances, scientists currently predict that the global ozone layer will reach its normal state again by around 2050.”

Another fun record, tallying up all the votes he’s received during McCarthy‘s 15 rounds and the most recent votes, Hakeem Jeffries now has accumulated the most lifetime votes for speaker in history.

much of the late 70s to late 80s

Man, you’re reaching back 40 to 50 years to find an equivalence in the Democratic Party. A lot can change in half a century. It’s also worth noting that Byrd renounced his KKK membership later in life.

I’m pointing out that just 2 days ago, a majority of the republicans in the house voted in favor of a speaker who compares himself favorably to a former KKK leader.

No no no, it only makes you half dead. Successful compromise!