Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 2hOctopus is awesome in Britain. It is substantially less awesome in other jurisdictions, for reasons that are beyond its control. Is there a pathway to bring the true octopus experience to other regions? 000
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 2hAs if americans gave a single solitary shit about europe 010
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 6hGotta be either ragebait or satire. Nobody speaks like this to their wives and lives to tell the tale. 110
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 9hI wonder if they realize what a huge favor they're doing him. 000
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 23hI think the Russians should leave Ukrainian territory. 140
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh good I'm so glad he's willing to take putins word on the plague. I'm not massively concerned about it but it's ludicrous to carry water for russia at this point in time. 030
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 07/10/2026When Greta went full PLO it became clear to me that quite a few of the people in the climate action movement are not actually looking to make the future a cleaner, more livable place; they are looking to pick fights that make them feel virtuous while they lose. 030
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A tornado striking a refinery is a good summary of donald trumps political career 010
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I know a Not Just Bikes subscriber when I see one. 000
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aw HELL yeah. Feel free to run that sucker for 2 hours. 030
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When your favorite band is touring your favorite album because it's the 20th anniversary, you will succumb. 060
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I live in Germany. Three gas stations near me just closed for good. It's happening, slowly but surely. 1140
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Covid is zoonotic, just like the Spanish flu. 001
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel like I really am not feeling great about this. 141
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"I want things to be different so I'm gonna vote for the guy who was literally the most recent previous president." 130
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah but that's getting dangerously close to "mineral supplements can make plants grow better" which is, like, no shit that's not a finding 120
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/202612% IRR is going to be pretty close to the hurdle rate for a company like Fedex, it's by no means a BAD investment but it's not the gigantic no-brainer the raw numbers make it seem. As you point out tho, the kicker is that you have to replace the trucks regardless, so then it really is a no-brainer 130
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Related: We call ancient Greece "Western civilization" but it isn't really at all. Socrates Plato and Aristotle are deeply strange, the world of the Iliad and Odyssey is an alien world. 291
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026800 mil over 20 years on a 300 mil investment is not really that great of a return profile. 200
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026WEAKNESS DOES NOT WORK. TWELVE YEARS OF FECKLESS BEGGING HAS ONLY LED TO MORE WAR. 010
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"We are ready to negotiate" = the war will continue 0132
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Mainstream journalism is not well equipped to tell good science from bunkum even in the best case, and there are several complicating factors here... 040
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's definitely giving Lysenko. We'll see soon enough I guess. 110
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Vegetarians do not have this bad reputation but vegans do, which makes it pretty clear that the problem with vegans is not that they don't eat meat. 010
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Also the spectrum where the sun shines strongest. 010
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This looks like a shaped charge hit...FPV with an RPG warhead maybe? 130
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Wow it seems like they really want ukraine to drop the kerch bridge. 070
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whatever the difference between an alive person and a dead person is, feel free to label that delta "soul". 020
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is the more interesting question why LLMs can do arithmetic at all, or why they can do it sometimes but not always? 260
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Payday is here, so is my monthly donation to liberty ukraine (and come back alive) 000
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The issue with the firing squad is not the effect on the condemned but the effect on the executioner. 100
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Talking to john yoo about humane punishment is like talking to joseph mengele about medical ethics 000
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Funny how we've lived long enough to see anti-semitic conspiracy theories about how the jews are ANTI-communist. Hitler would be rolling in his grave if he had one. 030
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If he makes gen AI a mortal sin and starts excommunicating tech bros I will seriously consider converting. 020
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Don't forget the ed snowden, currently doing apologia from his gilded cage for the most evil man in the world. 0453
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Back of the envelope, current US fuel ethanol production could meet ~40% of US jet fuel demand. 120
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Because the American economy never lets consumer surplus flow to the consumer, someone always jumps in between to capture it. Baumol's cost disease is the mirror image of Wright's law. 000
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's fitting since the modern right is to the nixon administration what the ku klux klan was to the confederacy: a bunch of bitter losers determined to reverse their defeat by any means necessary 010
Ben Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My view on AI risk was always that the major risk is humans using AI to do dumb shit on purpose and boy was I right. 060
