{"id":54461,"date":"2024-05-11T06:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54461"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T23:43:21","slug":"open-thread-may-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/11\/open-thread-may-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 11 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a bad back (and shoulder) day. I wasnt happy about it, but I had to admit I had earned it &#8211; assembling furniture, packing stuff up for charity, moving heavy stuff around. I thought I had paced it better, but I guess not. I used the TENS a full two hours, which helped. And today is an opera day (also a filling pill bottles for the next two weeks day) so I&#8217;ll make a point of resting physically, and ice if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>This is what clean energy is all about &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/05\/07\/climate\/battery-electricity-solar-california-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.2gRk.WYJ40JhArSUP&amp;smid=url-share&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rechargeable batteries<\/a>. Not the double A ones you probably use if you have a solar stake in your yard, but big ones. Really big ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/05\/nyc-mayor-rikers-island-waiting-trump\">Eric Adams<\/a> is not my idea of the world&#8217;s greatest mayor &#8211; but I do like this. (And, if Trump** doesn&#8217;t hand his phone off to one of his attorneys before they take him, they will confiscate it, and there will be no Xeets from it. Not that i suppose the reception is all that great inside.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kTEt7U4bF4?si=KrVh0G8DqWxzMsnu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XvXy-BO8YyU?si=sg4BpOdC7bokQkym\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/climate-bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/climate-bill.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/climate-bill-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/climate-bill-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a bad back (and shoulder) day. I wasnt happy about it, but I had to admit I had earned it &#8211; assembling furniture, packing stuff up for charity, moving heavy stuff around. I thought I had paced it better, but I guess not. I used the TENS a full two hours, which helped. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/11\/open-thread-may-11-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[5184,4355,4553,3723,3760,5498,3811,4899],"class_list":["post-54461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-alabama","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-climate-change","tag-joe-biden","tag-ohio","tag-personal","tag-squirrels","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}