I submitted my resignation last week…my 2 year term was already up 🤷‍♂️😅 I was honored to serve as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. My fellow council members - unpaid volunteers like me - were hardworking, talented people who inspired me every day. I’m proud of what we accomplished on behalf of the American people…like a historic partnership between the White House and every major sports league to increase access to sports and health programs for kids. I hope @realdonaldtrump exercises his presidential authority so the Council can continue to advocate for fitness and good health for all Americans. These are bipartisan issues…nonpartisan issues. May God give you the wisdom, Mr. President, to put politics and name calling aside…and instead lift up the everyday people working to bring America together. Let’s build longer tables….

It's easy to forget how insane the stuff Trump says is sometimes because there's so much of it. Thanks, Jimmy Kimmel.

*my very white child* - “mom, what percent Chinese am I?” Me - Zero. MVWC - *incredulous and disoriented, with a lower lip quiver* “You mean, I’m not Chinese… at all?”

Idk if it helps but my toddler very matter of factly said ’we have to call the fire department to get daddy out of the tree’ today while daddy was sitting across him at the dinner table.

If Kamala Harris gets through a schedule of Charlemagne tha God, a Fox News Interview, and Joe Rogan without throwing transgender people under the bus, I'm going to never doubt her again. But I'm not feeling great about it.

Holy shit. A federal judge just ruled in Pennsylvania that LGBTQ topics, and books with trans characters, cannot be taught without parental permission/opt out. He ruled in favor of this by comparing trans people to dogs and dissected frogs, which also require opt out, he says.

Not to say that Franklin Graham is a hypocrite, but,...

I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "haskell" The reason is the left's lack of work ethic ('lazy' rather than 'strict') and, in a Pillmorian sense, to elevate alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace ('tail-call optimization')

Incredible news. Georgia’s six week abortion ban has been ruled unconstitutional under state law. Everybody deserves the right to bodily autonomy.

Even most "liberals" don't want open borders, but I do. No recent history of violent crime? Welcome to America! People should be free to wander.

I like trees. I even just this week went out of my way to plant about as many trees as I reasonably could in my backyard. Did I do any real good for the planet or just arrange for a nice place to hang a hammock or two in a couple of decades? If you successfully planted -- and kept planted despite them being made out of a useful resource -- 100 billion trees by 2050 you'd offset roughly 0.6% of the carbon emissions produced in the same timeframe. If you planted, and kept planted, a trillion trees it would only handle about 6% of the carbon emissions by 2050, reducing change in the temperature of Earth by 0.15 degrees Celsius. climateinteractive.org/blog/… Note: Planting a trillion trees would represent increasing the amount of trees _everywhere on Earth_ by something like 33%. If we sum over the different tree planting projects, we seem to be only track for something like 250 million trees / year. If we keep that pace we offset roughly 0.1%-0.2% of the produced carbon. One problem is deforestation currently massively outpaces that. We seem to be losing about 10 billion trees net per year due to clear cutting. ( 5 billion -15 billion). nature.com/articles/nature14… That is to say, that reforestation efforts aren't currently even enough to amount to a meaningful net reduction in the loss of trees. Aiming for the trillion tree target by 2050, planted 1 trillion trees, we'd lose ~250 billion of those to current deforestation. Okay, so let's say you get everyone everywhere to stop cutting down trees, so that you're not just feeding later clear cutting efforts, and that everyone everywhere in all developing countries will by treaty choose not to use this local resource, despite historical precedent, because they totally won't think this is some effort by the developed countries to keep them down. Even with that, the above just wasn't anywhere near enough to keep up, even if we keep scaling up current efforts like One Tree Planted, the Amazon Project, etc. But let's say we went all in! Successfully offsetting all carbon production in that timeframe with trees would take something like ~16 trillion additional trees, multiplying the number of trees on earth by a bit over 6x. Taking 1,000 trees per hectare as a reasonable average tree density, just the _new_ trees required by this effort would take 160 million square kilometers. Unfortunately this is ~7% more land than _exists_ on Earth, (149 million square kilometers) even ignoring the fact that much of Earth has large unusable areas like deserts that exist, and there's already ~3 trillion trees sitting on that land today taking up space, as well as people, and this would require us to increase sequestration efforts by well over 1000-fold, sustained for the better part of a century, AND stop all net deforestation cold today. Trees as much as I like them just aren't a sufficient carbon sequestration technology. They may help on the margin, and their loss definitely hurts, but they don't come close to being the solution to climate change on their own, and most reforestation efforts seem more about slightly slowing the bleeding than being remotely sufficient to the task of actually making a difference. I think that is probably why Bill is so dismissive of planting trees as a solution.

Scammers could tell you to vote Republican, or to move to Texas.

Recursion is human, tail recursion is canine.

Power of an African elephant 📹 David den Hartog

Kamishikimi Kumanoza Shrine in Takamori, Japan looks like a Studio Ghibli world in real life. [📹 souichirou_]

BREAKING: David Feuer has announced he will be supporting President Biden over Donald Drumpf.