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The JCPOA was very good, actually.

If we were a serious country, here is how we'd talk about Biden vs Trump: 1. Biden was too old, but he ran the most competent government in our lifetimes & it was full of highly qualified experts 2. Trump is too old & a criminal fascist & the government is failing & full of malevolent incompetents

The eternal question: What are the victory conditions?

Maybe we have some Coast Guard sailing the surface of the Sun that can come rescue our Moon Soldier.

Don't know if this is going to go anywhere but if it does, some folk are gonna come unglued. www.latintimes.com/lawsuit-chal...

Every now and then I like to remind people that Mr Ryssdal is a former Naval aviator.

Fill your gas tanks today.

He's going after IDA now. This is all because they and DOT&E would've eviscerated Golden Dome. Hell. Some incredibly smart, dedicated, and talented folk. www.cbsnews.com/news/pentago...

So you're telling me if I buy a bunch of ttrpgs, it will help to fight fascism?

Big balls showing up at work tomorrow:

Son of a bitch. Chris was an awesome AO.

Mood

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

"...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.

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

"[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

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

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 —>>

Ha.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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.

Donny Two Dolls sounds like an awesome Mafia nickname.

Zuck: the average American has three friends.

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. 😣 🔭🎢🧪

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

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

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

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.