No link?

Only living people can win the prize. If they die between the announcement and the ceremony they still get it posthumously. I’m pretty sure that has happened now and then.

A lot are trekkers rather than climbers if that helps. Their environmental footprint is much smaller.

Costco has been ok for me.

Expert calls Musk’s ‘Doge’ involvement ‘one of the greatest brand destructions’

Article doesn’t say what kind of food. Bah.

Yeah I’m interested in the topic but am not up for watching an almost 2 hour documentary.

Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee which oversees the Library of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office, is alleging it is “no coincidence [Trump] acted less than a day after [Perlmutter] refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”

Who needs Russia for that? Is it because of the 4chan outage?

Background story from 2023. Multiple violent incidents and steroids and $30K cash were found in the guy’s car:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-01/tesla-road-rage-suspect-los-angeles-history-of-violence-threats

He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in CA but served less than 1, due to prison overcrowding. Apparently he was considered a nonviolent offender, wtf.

Thanks, that was informative. Appears to be 'roid rage behind the road rage.

I didn’t know REI was taking such a bath. It’s full in yuppie fashion now. It once was cooler but much smaller.

Waiting for claims that the election was stolen and that Trump was the real winner.

no end in sight

Can it actually go below zero? I’m new at this.

But has he also built an immunity to iocane powder?

Thanks for the good thoughts and it’s interesting (I guess not that surprisng) to hear that Trump and MAGA are, for now, even worse than the AfD if I understand what you’re saying. I’m pessimistic about local activism here being good for anything at the moment. Changes have to made at the federal level, which for me mostly means kicking out the Democrat establishment. The idea of AOC running against Chuck Schumer in a primary would be an example of that, though I don’t know if she would have a good chance of beating him. I’d say she has no serious chance of being elected president in 2028. Of course I’m open to being surprised.

It buys us time to elect a party capable of making good changes.

That’s a nice thought and obviously you know more about the AfD and German politics than I do, but on the US side I can say that the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing. Even after two terms of G.W. Bush (2000-2008), one of Trump (2016-2020), one lucky escape* (Biden 2020), and Trump now in a 2nd term, the Democrats make the same mistakes that they always have. It’s a safe bet that 2028 in the US won’t be any better.

It would be great to hear what kinds of remedies are under way in Europe to fix the status quo as you describe. If anything like that is happening, it doesn’t make the news over here. I can say that nothing seems to be happening in the US beyond some meaningless posturing.

They can be a lot less coy without triggering whatever happens when they formally announce a run. They can have exploratory committees and that sort of thing.

An AOC 2028 presidential run would be interesting but that is also when Chuck Schumer is up for re-election, giving her a chance to prmary him. I don’t have any idea of her chances either way. I think she understands that situation and will make informed choices when the time comes. I’m not exactly a fan of hers but I’ll give her some props for electoral savvy.

What does it mean if a democracy bans a party that the voters want to elect? Better to ask what failure of the system made that party popular in the first place. We have a similar situation in the US fwiw.

Is that also the law Trump says lets DHS search people’s homes without a warrant, on the pretext that they’re looking for migrants?