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author of Lead The Future | energy abundance @FREOPP ⚛️ fellow @rootsofprogress | better takes @ or read my book👇

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If you have 49 minutes to spare, my paper analyzing the closure of Indian Point is LIVE and free forever Due to the closure of Indian Point: *New Yorkers faced much higher electricity prices in 2022, which hurt lower-income people the most *Natural gas has continued to grow as…
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Imagine paying all that money to put your children in $30k/year private kindergarten just for your kids to have lower odds of acceptance into elite colleges because you're not yacht rich
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there are going to be more Bitcoin maximalists after this bear market fyi
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tfw an application wants your sat score and you're a 27 year old man 🥴
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what is happening!?!?
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@jchick_11 Bro worried about the wrong wedding 💍
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Honestly, if many Gen Zs just decide to never go to college and spend the next 5+ years trolling around and building cultural spaces and scenes, that might be our best hope for a roaring 20s
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on a heavier note,,,
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I don't know who needs to hear this but the best way to cope with a bad breakup is to become hotter
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Have you considered that your lifestyle has put your inside a niche social bubble and you're completely and increasingly detached from the concerns, motivations, and interests of most people?
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so what's going on here? 🤔
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@Slatzism @heavenlycaprice She seems like such a kind and enterprising woman
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@tszzl Allah gave the Taliban hundreds of millions of dollars in US military assets and is getting cam girls kicked off OnlyFans and she thought she could 1 v 1 him in the astral plane? I blame TikTok
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@NotTheIsland If you can't win short-term status games and long-term financial games at the same time, do you belong in the ivy league? "Yah, I identified as a communist for 4 years (many commie gf) but then I started making 100k/year and realized that gulags were immoral"
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@DWS________ If this is real then why haven't they resigned? How are University administrators more 'complicit' in American foreign policy than staffers of the president's administration? That doesn't make any sense
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Americans are going to go wild when they're vaccinated *and* people are telling them they can't socialize with friends, keep their biz open, perform live music, need to wear a mask, etc I don't want it to happen but it's going to. I'll keep this one on the TL for posterity
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I just spent 10 days in Tel Aviv. I ate whatever I wanted. I drank much more than I normally do. I walked 30,000 steps a day in the sunshine. I lost one pound. Something is seriously wrong with the American food system.
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In Austin you are enough
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In NYC you’re not rich enough In LA you’re not hot enough In SF you’re not autistic enough
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@thechosenberg When your gf is asking for an open relationship it's already over Stories like this are good to share
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@fegervebefh53 @isabelleboemeke "Tritium radiation is so weak it cannot be measured by a normal Geiger counter...A tritium electron cannot penetrate the dead outer layer of your skin...Tritium has a high uptake, but a biological half-life of only 10 days... Potassium-40 in seawater is about 12 Bq/L (up to 22…
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Everyone who became my friend this year has "bought the dip"
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the Chinese rocket is going to crash through my roof tonight and land right on my bed but I'm not in my bed I'm out walking on the golf course by my house,,,
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we're going to meme each other into getting married and having kids
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@telmudic gotta disagree, Tel she deserved better than her new guy (I have a non-profit seeking funding)
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@YIMBYLAND What's going on with the Denver airport??
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@J_A_K__ @AndrewYang this is not good for women, it will severely limit their ability to find a partner who they find worthwhile to marry the battles of the sexes framing is not helpful and should be abandoned
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"I'm a regular guy. I don't have a second passport. I'm not going anywhere. Bitcoin is going to save America." - @BrainHarrington #Bitcoin 🇺🇸
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What is the best movie about manufacturing?
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you don't fully internalize how stressful and unhealthy college is until you see friends who have aged in reverse and become hotter since graduating
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Being an early 20s adult with a child doesn't sound cool to many people in our culture But being ~40 and having an adult child sounds unbelievably cool This tweet isn't about having children in your early 20s
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How old were you when you started believing in magic again?
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holy shit we just got an emergency warning that NYC grid struggling with energy demand in the heat wave && we should limit use is this a taste of the post-Indian Point future?
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the title is inflammatory but if it gets people to click and read, it's likely worth it I thought @ShellenbergerMD was playing too much to the right with his latest book 'San Fransicko' and in < 2 months I changed my mind on that this is hard to read:
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a college where there's only one computer science course, introductory python, but every course requires labs/projects that make up a portfolio graduation requirement
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wow imagine how powerful you'd feel if you and your so went to the gym together before 7 am
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@micsolana The thing that's crazy is the guy just thinks he's doing the right thing to prevent and deter theft but he may face discipline or potential legal problems He's supposed to allow theft to happen, even if it violates his values
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@GRITCULT Uhhh is this real?
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@dotnetschizo there must be 10x the amount of bison in America, we need to bring back the American chestnut, energy should be too cheap to meter a better world is possible!
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@EDJames19959020 @MPelletierCIO lmao guessing this is ironic
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The wealthiest people in our world want what you already have: a loving family, ride or die friends, and mutuals who will reply "banger lmao" and smash the rt
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elon and yann have shown us that no amount of money or status can suppress the desire to post. and i think that’s beautiful
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Families intent on building dynasties are helping their children to get a down payment on a house in their 20s to help them accrue equity and feel empowered to start a family Others have similar resources and are waiting until death to transfer them, when their children have res
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what's something that you used to think was stupid but now think is brilliant?
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Anyone from Wisconsin want to talk about it?
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Binge drinking by county
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never checking a bag again my bag didn't make it on a direct flight,,, it has my laptop in it F
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Still think a good way to increase demand for the vaccine in the US would be to: *tell people it's super effective *tell people it prevents the spread of Coronavirus *commit to abolish any laws that prevent you from being able to drink beer on the sidewalk if we hit 70%
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the goal is to be a financially independent, offline, grill dad keep your eyes on the prize
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@thechosenberg She's telling on herself (dating immature or boring men)
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@thechosenberg I know it smell crazy in there No clean freak is dating a guy who doesn't shower or brush his teeth
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what if giving young people a life crippling amount of unsecured, nondischargable debt is not a good way to signal we, as a society, 'value education'
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My paper was mentioned in this New York Post editorial 🙌
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the pandemic isn't really over until we can eat free samples at Costco again
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My body is a machine that ingests HEB classic roast instant coffee with a little whole milk and local raw honey and outputs niche bangers that receive between 1-12 likes and 0 retweets
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@paulg @joerogan The whole point is that he has world class distribution from his show, which is why people are so critical of him and the ideas he 'platforms' lol "Would you accept a smaller stage for this conversation?"
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if data science is real, why can't facebook, twitter, etc just connect me and my next gf? 🤔
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@shoe0nhead @softminus One day my [future] children will eat McDonald's fries that were fried in beef tallow
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@thechosenberg cope a lot of different people became granola and a lot of nerds are not any more fun as adults
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help i am being shadowbanned
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the FBI paid informants to conduct surveillance of Governor Whitmer, conspire to kidnap her, and provided accomplices they recruited with training, ammo, and potentially explosives they let her know they were doing this but uhhh what?
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The future does not belong to the joyless
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"Global warming isn't responsible for our blackouts. Blackouts are our future by design." anti-nuclear environmentalism is progressive austerity in my future, all people can have a/c during a heatwave Global Warming Ate My Homework by @micsolana
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@pronounced_kyle Grateful to simply have a job because it seems like a lot of people are struggling to find one...
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I don't even want to party today but I'll do it anyway for America
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if you're so smart, why aren't you annoying?
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@thechosenberg Bros in sport teams shower together at that age too, the only weird part is posting about it for internet points
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We're so back ⚛️
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Pirate Wires episode 14 with guest @grantadever coming soon 🏴‍☠️
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If you lift the heavy things, the sad voice does get quieter
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Your parents don't want you to record enough data about them that advanced machine learning methods will allow you to simulate their essence after they've died They want: 1) grandchildren 2) you to call them
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@sonyasupposedly I have started referring to claims from papers like, "The current meme is..." Ie. The current meme is that your prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until you're 25
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The more I learn about eggs, the crazier it is that they were demonized by people conflating exogenous and endogenous cholesterol
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bf who gets to the airport hours before his plane departs, gf who runs to her gate and makes it right on time
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gf is reading my tweets aloud in a pretentious voice I'm going to delete my account 👋
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if you're so smart, why are you annoying?
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@mstr_ridley They're not that strongly correlated, getting rid of standardized testing tends to hurt smart kids from low income families much more than it hurts less smart kids from high income families
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young people going to Mask and Social Distancing University for $65,000/year are being robbed blind I honestly can't even believe this many students are still enrolling
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Dating apps are over It is our obligation to expand our social circles and play matchmaker
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Lindyman is fragile Not being able to read Lindyman content is more lindy than being able to read it You're all free now 🦅
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I don't care about your rolex, bro, what pdfs you got?
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The best way to cope with rejection is to become a hotter version of yourself 1 F = 10 push ups or squats
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an urban living situation is only as good as the tastiest meal you can buy for <$8 within a half mile walk
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This is true You need to be eating at least 4 eggs per day
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As little as half an egg a day is associated with premature death.
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saved you zoomers a google search
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After 4 scrappy years as a 1099 contractor, filled with many wins and failures, I have accepted a full-time offer as a Resident Fellow (Energy) at @FREOPP Grateful for the opportunity, @Avik , and excited to dive deeper into energy policy 🙏⚛️⚡
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I think Austin is having a reversion to the mean and That's Good, Actually It is going to become less of a homogenized tech yuppie city (2021-2022) and return to being a lower cost of living big town and haven for the ambiguously employed
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sorry if my tweet game has fallen off I just have a lot going on in my life and I've been consistently happy 😕
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need more friends who snap pictures of me when we're out and about so I can have a better dating app profile [or a gf]
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I was once on a first date and a peer from college randomly came over to the table to tell me that he read my book and it was very good The rest of the date went well
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imagine living with opportunity cost brain and assigning $0 worth of value to a long walk
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GUESS WHO'S GOIN' ON A DATE TONIGHT? GOD GON' DECIDE MY FATE TONIGHT
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It feels like we're heading towards a future where airplane travel is less default safe than it was growing up and we should not allow that to happen
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If your gf is eating 4 eggs for breakfast, that's not your gf that's your wife
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@nikitabier @Indian_Bronson Just replying in case any women at Nvidia read your post and want to get coffee or go out for a drink, dinner, dance sometime (6'1)
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This has nothing to do with decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, it will not change them in any meaningful way Petty tyranny and unreliable electricity is the fastest path back to an electorate that doesn't care about energy mix at all
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Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — must cut carbon emissions up to 75%
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What if I'm just assuming the girl with this in her dating profile doesn't appreciate competitive markets driving down the cost of necessities and positive sum gains from genuine innovations that allow us to do new things or do more with fewer resources... Am I being prejudice?
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@JoeBiden disrespectful to women who choose to spend a couple years bonding with and raising their kids before K-12 it is work, even if they don't (and shouldn't) pay income taxes for doing it!! give parents cash and let them decide
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