Kirk Rudell

Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

“Me too but I got distracted by your house catching on fire!”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:34 UTC

“Ooooo, that one sounded pretty.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:48 UTC

“Take our poll”? Sorry but I was reliably informed today not to vote.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

Changing the headline when you should take down the piece is now the limit of integrity at the Paper of Record.
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

WHY I LIE ABOUT NOT VOTING

- @nytimes.com

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:12 UTC

“I am a Heritage Creep.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

That’s ok, NYT. There’s no way you’re printing my letter.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 04:19 UTC

One would think political journalists would be fired up to cover a truly pivotal moment in American history but it’s just not sexy enough to get clicks 😕

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

Ramp race!

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:40 UTC

📌

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

Obviously there are scenarios where Biden is unelectable. But when “convicted felon and rapist who tried to overturn an election” is electable, why attempt the first post-primaries switch on an unwilling President?

Having said that, Mehdi lays out a viable path: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

“No matter what other facts might emerge” is very straw man. Biden is old; he’s also an incumbent with, overall, a strong record. Forcing him out would signal panic; not promoting Harris would show misogyny/racism; introducing a new candidate nationally is risky. The consensus is pragmatism.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

They turned the a3 into a $65k car by making it a plug in hybrid. It didn’t get most of the tech of the higher trim cars, but it had nice seats and could do a little electric around town. Probably helped satisfy a fleet requirement and introduced EV before the full e-trons came out.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

I was getting 35-40 miles per charge and recommended the Volt to a friend who got the Gen2. I was so jealous!

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

The infrastructure bill was/is supposed to boost charging infrastructure, but in my experience the plug-in hybrid is the best way to scale EVs for the most driving profiles (and requires less rare metal per vehicle bc the batteries are smaller.)

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Went to an e-tron after but the EV range was useless (~12 miles) and it wasn’t programmed to usefully regen off the brakes. Got a Tesla, reluctantly, bc of the charging network. Couldn’t have traveled as much with another brand but still spent too much time plotting charging sessions.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

I had a 1st gen Volt, and if you put better seats in it (I know, more weight) it might be my favorite car. Spent <$200/year on gas bc most of my driving was in the city, but I had no range anxiety about longer weekend trips. Engine came on once to make sure the gas didn’t spoil.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:10 UTC

She’s a great example of striking while the tuah is hawk.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

You naive fool! Trump’s eyes were merely hooded, to confuse his enemies. His body was coiled like a snake; he could have struck at any moment. How many tournaments at his own golf club must he claim to have won before you will accept that he is Heracles reborn?

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

I regularly think about how Erdoğan met with Trump and right afterwards sicced his guards on peaceful protestors on US soil knowing that the US President would have no objection, and how it was a little public demonstration of the authoritarian alignment project.
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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

This reminds me of when Warner Bros used the 2008 strike as an excuse to fire groundskeepers while not touching their executives’ compensation.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

How about “Biden is an imperfect lead singer for a band I’d rather hear? I don’t love *all* their songs, but they’ve got a couple of bangers and they sound way better than the Nazi marching band.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

The alternative is to take your ball and go home, like Ralph Nader did, and allow the candidate furthest from your constituency to win. Which doesn’t seem like good leadership to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:30 UTC

If you’re a more progressive candidate, your job is to build as much support as possible to give to the more electable centrist in exchange for getting some of your stuff into the platform. Biden‘s not doing student debt relief without Sanders and Warren (I voted for her, too.)

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

I get it. It’s a shitty system. I used to wish we could have a parliamentary one with meaningful coalitions, so an elected party could actually enact its platform, but the UK ruined that fantasy. It’s incremental work, and it has been for 225 imperfect, two-party years.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

I don’t understand how one can play out the late night phone call hypothetical and conclude, “I’d feel safer with Trump.” Post after post of “I’m in the real world, talking to swing voters, the Democrats have LOST it” and then burrowing into some fantasy where there’s a third electable option.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:36 UTC

“Homeless? Temporary housing will be provided in the core of a Falcon Heavy booster.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:32 UTC

How old the earth is?

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

For example, student loan forgiveness wasn’t on Biden’s radar until Sanders and Warren put it there. Instead Nader put Bush in the White House.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:00 UTC

Was Ralph Nader…viable? He was welcome to run for President. His job, when it was clear he had absolutely no chance, was to throw his support to the ideologically closest electable candidate in exchange for the most additions he could get on the party platform. That’s how politics works.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

I can’t tell either and don’t want to waste a thoughtful reply or get pissed off more than I already am.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:43 UTC

Ralph Nader should stfu about how/why Democrats have lost close but consequential elections.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:33 UTC

Like Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes, only it’s Jeffrey Rosen with different versions of “we can trust this polite man!”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:04 UTC

*taps sign I’ve been tapping since January 2021* bsky.app/profile/rude...

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:32 UTC

Qualifier that should be attached to anything Mike Johnson says:

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:30 UTC

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 05:47 UTC

I was at the big house party when they filmed that night. Some friends if mine rented the place and knew Doug Liman; he said he needed a party scene for his movie so they offered to throw one. The movie was like a documentary of my first year in LA.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

The most consistent appeal of AI is that it gives people who can’t communicate in interesting ways the power to devalue people who can.

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