dillgarlicsalmon.bsky.social
Interests and education in Science/engineering/economics fields, but mostly post about politics at the moment. Not revealing personal details. Salmon looks cool and I like cooking it, thus the name and picture.
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"High energy males"
*watches Trump shuffle down some stairs*
"Who is Musk fighting this time?"
(High energy does seem true for Musk, though not in the positive way the screenshot intended.)
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enforce existing laws (Like when Musk started boosting Russia while a defense contractor/pulling BS with Starlink and Ukraine). Its not like one genius person or business is the only possible way space stuff can work.
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SpaceX is a contractor, is "NASA had been funded" it would be other contractors doing the same thing (While less flamboyant then Musk, more billionaires/business people getting that money aren't great politically either.)
Better option is to take steps to ensure a range of suppliers and just
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but this stuff is important for future elections and governing the country.
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attack, a lot of people who voted Buttigieg/Klobuchar supported her who would not have gone Sanders, so she has a better chance to win nomination than Sanders if he drops out.
I could see avoiding her in the general (It was a close election, plausible that Biden is the only one people vote in),
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I'm guessing this is why so many in these threads disparage Warren. She's extremely successful, would have done the best job at doing what presidents do, so these election power competition types have to knock such people down out of insecurity.
But Warren was ahead when Sanders had his heart
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AI in the U.S.'s best cities. All in Texas. They will use robot construction workers, be made from stainless steel, construction is on a five year timeline."
5 years later, builds ten houses in Texas. The heating system doesn't work right, one has leaking plumbing.
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"Musk, explain the idea behind your new house building business?"
"Well, we as a society need ot build new houses. It is making rent really expansive, and that slows economic activity"
"Musk, you are a city planning genius. What will you do about it?"
"I will build a billion robo-houses with
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Excuse me, miss, I have several relatives in the industrial heartland Midwest who work in factories, are you saying the lack the skills to build bananas? How dare you insult...
/s just in case
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Pericles
Or Julius Caesar
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They are Going To The Middle, by praising anything right wing the R's do. And I think it will be successful. Jeffries and Schumer will announce a relegalizing of slavery, Medicare and Social Security being killed entirely, and public schools being outlawed. The polls should rise immediately. /s
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He might want to get on that if he wants various immigrant/ethnic group votes. /s
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because that takes some mental effort, and who wants that.
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Being on autopilot, repeating whatever has worked before, seems to explain it just fine. Jeffries and others get where the are by punching left and down, kissing up and right, and not making waves, and will keep doing the same thing from here on out. And rage if asked to do anything different,
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"And Jared Polis did evil in the sight of the Lord, more then his fathers had done. He renounced the Lord and the Lord's traditions, and worshipped the Baals and the Asherahs, and built graven idols and brought the High Places to Colorado, of which there were many sites due to its geography...."
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So if you are in the greater Seattle/Olympia area, and you have something or know of something that would help her out, please let me know. She needs a relatively stable place to just exist for a bit to get back on her feet. Please throw ideas at me… (4/5)
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My current "how to explain modern politics" theory is lots of insecure, status obsessed people *because* they are dumb and boring (abusive, generally low quality, etc.). Insecurity means tearing down anyone knowledgeable, kind, etc. because it makes the insecure feel bad. (See also Hegseth, Trump)
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Its kind of like effective altruism, from what I've seen. Some vaguely useful things argued for (Easier housing construction), some questionable/problematic stuff (lots of other regulations to remove), and all the wrong people are boosting it.
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(Sarcasm on) Oh, you selfish woman, you want Trump to stick to one nutty thing a week your in your field of expertise/interest? Do you think you're better then the rest of us or something?? My god, such entitlement, the nerve to ask......*mumbles into the distance* (/end Sarcasm)
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I think a Palestine, Illinois or such exists. So....probably Mississippi river? Wabash maybe? And Lake Michigan is sort of like a sea, right?
Anyway, that obviously answers the question the screenshot was honestly asking in good faith.
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Will senators be obstructing anything? Should have been done months ago.
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Just like Elon Musk. *gasps*
The nietzsche quote was accurate. /s
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Reposted
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Of course current twitter would have the opposite. "I like Nazis" --> bunch of the crowd on there agrees --> trick them by switching to "I like kittens" --> outrage.
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Have done this a few times as well. Plan to include it, get into the zone of writing a thread (most screenshots are in threads) and forget, remember soon after hitting post.
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Warren was still old but about a decade below Sanders and Biden. You were just too focused on Sanders as the only possible choice.
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Done.
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Bright side, New York City mayors never get that much support in primaries. Wannabe mayors I never heard of running, so probably same deal.
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attractive to these people.
Or maybe Khanna hangs out at parties a ton. Political operatives (among others) overvalue face to face interaction/presentation it also seems.
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Same sort of people went for Gabbard as well.
From the outside, a lot of political operatives types seem to like imperfection/hate anyone who actually does what they say they want. (See how obviously awful Cuomo gets a lot of support) So mixing in incompetence/corruption/questionable policies is
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(Apart from some planned posts.)
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repost Gaza fundraisers, do plan on verifying some (apologies for not doing this, life is a mess but it is a goal, is a productive use of this place.), hopefully will otherwise be able to stay off most of the time.
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about Trump bullshit, the hatred of woke, arguments about why you just can't accomplish something useful because reasons, just a generally sad and frustrated tone, etc. It's a crap place, just a generally draining thing to interact with, even without the ridiculous fights older twitter had.
Will
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costs (metra might need more cars, plus station and track upgrades.) Have planned out how to do most of this (still need to know how ridership estimates are done to test that part), but have to actually do all of this.
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Been attempting to actually analyze this in detail. Blue Island branch + Beverly branch do roughly cover the appropriate area, but will have to know how many people expected to take buses to the stops (in which case more frequent Blue Island and Beverly can cover it), and actually calculate the
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desire from elsewhere, people who want substance get nothing, only people who like it want to be seen as supporting good policy but without actually doing do.
(Sub "ideas" or "action" for policy and same applies.
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Does seem like Harris 2020's "loan forgiveness for people with a Pell grant who started a business in a pooer area" way of thinking infests a lot of people. Put out the appearance of something, with the right buzzwords, with no substance. People who hate good policies and competence get their
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Most of the AIPAC '22 are I've noticed. Cuellar continues to vote against Dem stuff, Shontel Brown has barely done much of anything, Foushee as well from last I checked.
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Actually, a lot of people liked what was in it. One particular section of the party insisted on obstructing for months, lying or pretending they would support the bill and dragging the whole thing out only to renege. Talk to them first.
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Wish this were repeated a lot more places. Activists, media people, random people could support dems honestly, cynical grifting/taking advantage of people boosts right wing for various reasons, dems would look more powerfuland R's weak when they like power.....
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August/September: "Is Christine Quinn corrupt? Investigations will be revealing....."
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He's going to have to announce so many new robots.
And commercially viable aluminum air and lithium sulfur batteries* if he had any idea they existed.
*Or any other applicable new battery chemistry/technology.