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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There were 20% undecided in this timeframe in 2022, and they pretty much all broke Republican.

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2022 United States Senate election in South Dakota - Wikipedia

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Optimus announcement was a real red pill moment for me. Tesla hired a guy to dance in a bodysuit, and yet every media report I saw covered it as "Tesla announces new robot."

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What in the AI-generated hell is that?

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

>interceptors >kill lots of people ...hopefully not, since that's basically the opposite of what they're supposed to do.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Permanent DST is just shifting every time zone east by one. I think that's weird, but I'll take it over switching clocks.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

HUB, just to drive people crazy with red herrings.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don't think so. No one was ever going to give Ukraine enough cruise missiles for them to launch a strategic bombing campaign into Russia.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And I'm saying you're wrong. In most scenarios, if you have at least 2 exterior walls, installing a mini-split would be pretty easy. Not as trivial as the average American house, but not hard. Yeah, it will never be as clean as a house built with a/c in mind, but it beats letting elders die of heat.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If the head unit has to be mounted on a shared wall instead of an exterior wall, you would need a different approach. You might run the lines along the ceiling until you hit an exterior wall. For aesthetics, cover them with crown moulding or something. Where there's a will, there's a way.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In your photo, for example, you could perhaps install a floor mounted model against the wooden wall, and punch through to the exterior below the window. Obviously I don't know the details of your house, but there is almost always a way.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Start from a patch of free space on your exterior wall, ground, or roof where you'd hang the condenser, then work backwards from there. The interior fan units can be wall, ceiling, or floor mounted. The two halves can be 10+m apart; the combinations are almost infinite.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The refrigerant lines are like 10mm or smaller. You'd drill through the brick and run them outside. The condenser would be hung on the rear exterior, or on the ground. There would probably be some limits on where inside that it is practical to mount the cooling head.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm glad Trump's ballroom is being built with bribe money, so the cost to taxpayers will be minimized when we dynamite it. I am agnostic about its occupancy when we do.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

To be valuable as a bargaining chip, we would need to take Kharg with the infrastructure intact. Heavy weapons have to be off limits for huge portions of the island. And the defender can choose to turn the whole place into a giant oil fire if they think you're winning.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Kids simultaneously: 1. are very smart, and 2. know almost nothing. And the combination is often hilarious.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Oh, I see Max thought about this:

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I feel like the correct move would be to buy a pair in the correct size to wear and pretend that the boss got it just right.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Sure it's a giant PITA to adjust their sleep cycles twice a year, but at least we're doing it for no good reason.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Shakopee isn't a small town, it's got 40,000 people.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"Stokes is facing separate criminal charges in connection with the shooting."

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J Beardly @beardlywine.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Luxembourg is a very small country but *slaps hood* you can fit so many microstates in this bad boy

Map of Luxembourg overlaid with Lichtenstein, Andorra, Malta, San Marino, Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City all fitting inside its borders.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

With luck, every farmer that voted for Trump will go bankrupt.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I can't help but notice that documenting immigration actions and walking with families in difficult times are goals, but "prevent abductions by ICE" is not.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Three cueing is not new. It originated in the 1960s, but managed to persist for a long time. The past few years have finally seen a shift back toward phonics.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Great recession and aftermath, looks like.

Consumer confidence index trend going back to 2007, showing confidence climbing from recession lows in 09

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I don't think I've seen them deployed like this before, but I'd guess it's legal. They are police officers under the state's authority, so I imagine they can be used anywhere in an emergency.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Their chests say "Conservation Officer" and their patches are tough to make out, but they seem to match up to this.

Maroon and Gold "Conservation Officer" Patch

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Minnesota, Hail to Thee, Hail to Thee, our state so dear, Thy light shall ever be A beacon bright and clear.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The $1B bribe is not required to join, it's just to let you stay longer than 3 years. I'd be surprised if Paraguay put up the funds.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Bad-Faith Baseball strikes again!

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Positive feedback is good, so clearly a positive feedback loop must be good, too.

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Snowmelt systems do have a place. Keeping a hospital sidewalk continuously free of ice is a great use case where the safety benefit justifies the energy cost. But a residential driveway in Wisconsin is going to be a luxury item 99.9% of the time.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I've never considered the need to dry my driveway, and I don't have any driveway drains to keep clear. I didn't know how much energy is typically used for those purposes, but I don't imagine it will make up the difference for most people.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Your original comment was that you're "spending the energy either way," which implies to me that the energy use will be comparible. But in fact, the energy required to clear a driveway mechanically will be much less than through heating, except in the lightest possible snow conditions.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What? A snow blower is self-propelled, the gasoline both moves the machine and moves the snow. And I have no idea what you're talking about needing to keep drains flowing for a snow blower. The snow is still frozen afterwards, it's just in a different place.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My napkin math was only counting the BTUs to turn 125 pounds of 32F ice into 125 pounds of 32F water. The rate of snowfall didn't factor in. In practice, spreading it out over time will take more energy because more energy will be lost to the surroundings.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Some napkin math tells me that you might be able to melt an inch of the lightest, fluffiest snow from 500ft² for less energy than it takes to run a 5hp snow blower for 30 minutes. But only if the snowmelt system puts 100% of its heat into melting snow. So it's only more efficient for tiny snowfalls.

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's going to take way less energy to move snow, rather than melting it.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/10/2025

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

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Captain Carrot @cptncarrot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Putin's Useful Idiot being too big of an idiot to be useful is beautiful.

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