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submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The same guys trying to demonize government workers as useless bureaucrats who just lounge around all day on the taxpayer dime are complaining on television about how hard it is to work in the government

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment." Constitution says bupkiss about anyone signing anything.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Though in fairness, the US appears to be attempting superpower suicide by at least half a dozen methods simultaneously right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"[Captain Prescott] wishes for Council, and can get none... I had no hesitation in answering that Council ought to be the very last thing that an accused Person should want in a free Country..." John Adams, on his defense of the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Alrighty. Let's see how this awesome tiling handles hypersonic plasma.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We've notified Paramount that @freedom.press intends to bring a shareholder derivative lawsuit if it settles with Trump over his ridiculous and unconstitutional lawsuit against CBS News —>>

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Ha.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Respectfully, news orgs should not report that "Harvard can no longer" do xyz -- Trump just saying some shit doesn't make it law. Stop carrying water for him rhetorically.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

If, after a full decade, a reporter doesn't know that he lies like it's his native tongue, I don't know what to say. Go be a professional mark at the county fair's most rigged game.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The bond downgrade specifically mentioned this bill as one of the reasons.

submitted 15 days ago • 89 comments

I've said it before, and I'll repeat it: The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today. wapo.st/3YTivKW

submitted 16 days ago • 72 comments

men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy

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submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

Hell, they won’t even allow us to get criminals out of the Oval Office

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

"Accuracy and fairness matters." Let's try the "what if a Democrat did it" litmus test and see how that plays out at The Paper of Record.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway

submitted 23 days ago • 102 comments

Not for nothing, Pope Leo XIII was known as the "Workers' Pope" and was against lassez-faire capitalism.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I can't get this imagined but all too plausible conversation out of my head: "China has the South China Sea. We should do that." "The South American Sea?" "Wait. Wait. No."

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Good news, everyone. Your chances of getting killed by a Soviet spacecraft is not zero.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

“Do you swear to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?” “I don’t know.”

submitted 29 days ago • 586 comments

Who hasn't formed an emotional bond with a vector space?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly a decade of teaching physics to undergrads left me with one regret. I don't know how to teach a person to be curious.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Donny Two Dolls sounds like an awesome Mafia nickname.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Zuck: the average American has three friends.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This tracks. Normally we aim for a class of 10-15 in physics and astro at U Oregon, and admit 30-40 to get there. This year we admitted SIX because we couldn’t have a larger class, and admitted one at a time off the wait list to reach that number. Next year is unlikely to be better. 😣 🔭🎢🧪

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

So this goes up to SCOTUS and when they rule against Trump. Miller will tell him he actually won... and then what.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone out there want to photoshop MS13 on a pic of Stephen Miller's knuckles?

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Then I also made a big concession when I didn't unify quantum with gravity.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I guess I'm at the point in my career where I have to speak at events. Orlando has a Skyline Chili though. So that was nice.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Details matter. He didn't tell us to inject bleach. He said inject "disinfectant". I opted for Pine-Sol.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

This is satisfying on several deep layers simultaneously.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

This is absurd. He’s being held by them at the U.S. request and the U.S. is paying for it. The U.S. sent him there. He is not under the “sovereign control” of El Salvador.

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

Those days I spent practicing tightening little screws was for all for naught.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

For a good time, call 202-762-1401.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

We’re gonna give DoD $1 trillion but we’re gonna cut 8% but we’re gonna slash the budget by $1 trillion but we’re gonna raise tariff revenues but we’re gonna trigger inflation but we’re gonna cut rates but we’re gonna get trade deals but we’re renditioning citizens but we’re for open border…

submitted 56 days ago • 9 comments

"What distinguished the Third Reich from all previous dictatorships was its use of all the means of communication to sustain itself and to deprive its objects of the power of independent thought.” ~ Albert Speer, at the Nuremberg Trials.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I once thought China's Wolf Warrior diplomacy was the greatest burning of soft power the world had ever seen. I stand deeply, deeply corrected.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Damn. George Soros sure is paying a lot of people today.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

New arms control proposal: 10,000% tariffs on Russian, Chinese, and North Korean reentry vehicles crossing into US territory.

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments