Lars @lpeds.com · 29/09/2026We had this done recently. One of the guys gave me an offcut from a copper tube as a souvenir. Magicians with shovels. One guy strode by a shovel lying face up, tapped the blade with his heel, met the onrushing handle in his palm, and brought it around to shuffle some gravel into the trench. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026Details, for those unfamiliar:calmatters.digitaldemocracy.orgSB 868: Electricity: portable solar generation devices. | Digital DemocracyDigital Democracy overview of bill SB 868: Electricity: portable solar generation devices. 030
Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026Hey @governor.ca.gov: Any plans to sign the “Balcony Solar” bill (SB 868) into law before the 9/30 deadline? It’s been on your desk for weeks. CA renters should have an opportunity to cut ⚡️costs, reduce carbon emissions, and help the grid during peak usage. What’s the holdup? 130
Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026I mean. It’s stark. Compare today’s with this one from Sept. 2023:mesonet.agron.iastate.eduIEM :: AFD from NWS SGXAFD issued by NWS SGX at 03 Sep 2023 09:23 UTC 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026I follow the San Diego, Ca station’s AFD, so maybe the changes I’m noticing are local. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 27/09/2026Seems like the National Weather Service’s Area Forecast Discussion has gotten sloppy and less informative over the past several months. More typos. Less meteorologist’s reasoning behind the forecast. The AFD is a valuable resource and it’d be a real loss if it were to go away. @nws.noaa.gov 300
Lars @lpeds.com · 23/09/2026Is the orange face paint like the wrong-sized Florsheims? The boss gives everyone a tub and says “put it on” and you do? Oz didn’t used to be this orange. 0101
Lars @lpeds.com · 22/09/2026Somehow singular “they” snuck up and lodged itself in the part of brain that says ”this sounds right.” Now whenever generic “he” turns up in older texts I give it a sidelong glance. It sounds anachronistic, but more, it sounds off, and the colonization of my ear is complete. 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 20/09/2026AI Force? An AI Tsar? I thought they had given that job to a tech-bro? (Asks chat.) They did: David Sacks was the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto Tsar. But it was a limited-time appointment, so when his term ended, he joined the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 18/09/2026He’s gonna get a repetitive use injury if he doesn’t get those “babe in the woods baffled by it all” shoulder shrugs under control. 062
Lars @lpeds.com · 18/09/2026Haha. He pulls this whataboutism when he wants to show deference to visiting tyrants. “Oh, you think Xi is bad, but that’s because you’re a hypocrite who doesn’t understand anything.” 020
Lars @lpeds.com · 17/09/2026Say Canada buys $500b of US goods and services and sells $550b back to the US. If you ban that trade, you will have LOST $500b in sales and not “saved” or “kept” $50b. That $50b simply disappears. (Maybe if someone tries to “Explain It Like I’m the President” to him he’ll get it.) 031
Lars @lpeds.com · 16/09/2026I always heard that one starts with the facts (the linked Claude provided), and wraps some arguments around them on the way to a conclusion or point. It seems like Erickson went about it in reverse. Maybe lawyers do things differently. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 14/09/2026Did not expect to see MBS become a Trump Dignity Wraith. But they all do, eventually. 090
Lars @lpeds.com · 11/09/2026The talk about ai-authored human extinction seems premature. Surely the machines will need some of us to stoke the fires, for a while. And those people will need homes and food and all the rest, produced by other humans. We might call the transition to machine-servitude “the latest capitalism”. 100
Lars @lpeds.com · 10/09/2026The nesting dependent clauses stuffed into this sentence leave us waiting all afternoon for the speaker to announce his point. No wonder the cook quit. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 10/09/2026If the $5k is coming out of his pocket, then yeah. It won’t change my vote, but thumbs up, sure, good plan. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 10/09/2026My fantasy baseball team in the last week of the season as injuries mount. 000
Lars @lpeds.com · 09/09/2026Ahh, Helene, wishing you the best possible result on Friday and looking forward to reading your takedown of that logo. 020
Lars @lpeds.com · 09/09/2026Folks have built lives here over those 25 years. Deep roots in their communities, with little connection to El Salvador, certainly little economic connection. You can’t move your landscaping business or your restaurant “back to El Salvador.” That livelihood is here. 0160
Lars @lpeds.com · 08/09/2026My wife’s grandfather died at 99. He’d made all the arrangements himself years before. He’d even set aside a few hundred dollars to cover the cost of cleaning his apartment, after he departed, because, he said, didn’t want hear his sons complaining that he’d stuck them with the bill. 050
Lars @lpeds.com · 08/09/2026Sorry for your loss, man. It’s a terrible space to inhabit, regardless of the nature of your grief. 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 08/09/2026We already see this, of course. There is plenty of food. We have a distribution problem (mainly that poor people can’t afford to buy it). 020
Lars @lpeds.com · 08/09/2026It occurred to me the other day that AI has probably put a lot of pig butcher operatives out of work. 131
Lars @lpeds.com · 07/09/2026That dude in the illustration? His bio-dad was Zeus, so human evolution doesn’t really figure into his capacity to slay a lion with a golden coat impervious to attacks from mortal weapons. 020
Lars @lpeds.com · 06/09/2026Several of these. Here’re a couple: “This” “Tell me you’ve never TK’d without telling me you’ve never TK’d.” 010
Lars @lpeds.com · 03/09/2026I just learned that Belphegor is one of seven arch-demons of Hell, whose specialty is tempting humankind with labor-saving inventions and ingenious discoveries (that work). And also lead us into sloth and ruin. Truly the arch-demon of our times. 030
Lars @lpeds.com · 02/09/2026This leaves the current broken system in place, which means ultimately the utilities and ratepayers will be forced to cover wildfire costs. Here’s an idea: The state should take the IOUs public. But not until the ongoing lack of resolution drives the share price closer to $0.calmatters.orgWildfire liability bill dies without a vote on final day of sessionThe measure, which was opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's public utiliites, never came to a vote in the Assembly. 000
