leelarson.bsky.social
Dog walker, science fiction reader, mathematician.
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It's pretty clear he's probably never bought gas or groceries. And this is a man whose image is based on populism.
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It's really quiet when you're so far up Trump's ass.
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Imagine a couple dozen billionaires sitting around the Cabinet room. Trump says, "Tomorrow tariffs go down." As soon as the meeting is over every one of them is telling their cronies to buy.
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It certainly shows they aren’t proud of what they’re doing. We will need a truth and reconciliation commission in a few years as a confessional for these people.
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Because he looks good on the teevee box??
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And if, for example, Chicago is leveled by a nuke, do we get a partial refund?
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He'd have to climb up from lower down to get onto the shit-tier?
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Ahhh… but you assume the Congressional Republicans still have a few vertebrates in their midst.
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If he takes one next year and doesn't tell us how he did, then we'll really have cause to worry.
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It's a pity he has no China experts to ask.
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Isn't it interesting that the world's economy is now in the hands of a man who somehow bankrupted a casino?
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But that would be a downright unfriendly thing to do to his BFF.
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What has this country come to when twenty million dollars can't even buy a state Supreme Court seat?
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First the verdict, then the charges. No trial necessary.
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Isn't Congressional silence pretty much the same as tacit approval?
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I used to think Trump lied merely to pander, but I've come around to believing his world view features a strange pathology: when he lies, he believes what he says. This self-constructed fantasy world has no room for people who disagree, such as judges. He sees those who disagree as dishonest.
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He's dancing with the guy who bought him the ticket to the ball.
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Does the USA have any ships in the Black Sea? Surely this is well-known because American Navy ships passing through the Bosporus Strait in the middle of Istanbul would be pretty conspicuous.
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A pessimist might think he's opening the way for something even he thinks is illegal.
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Yup! His conscience died in 2018.
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He may have no choice but to lie because he doesn't really know what's going on. Just today he perhaps didn't remember he called Zelenskyy a dictator last week— "Did I say that? I can't believe I said that." Was that a lie or a brain bubble?
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Stuff like this is sort of like when the Catholic Church censored Galileo and when Russia endorsed Lysenko. Inconvenient facts, when ignored, come back to bite. In this case they're playing with the future of the planet.
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Revenge for the first impeachment.
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Make America Gas-powered Again
He requested and got $1B from oil executives last May, so it's payback time.
<https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-asked-oil-execs-for-1bn-2024?op=1>
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From Trump's viewpoint there's no reason to rename it. It's already named after a region of the fifty-first state.
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Perhaps it's this year's version of "Stand back and stand by." We saw how much good came of that one.
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This is just Musk playing power games.
And, besides, child care is so expensive these days!
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Netanyahu just generated a whole new generation or two of terrorists and Trump wants to walk into the hornet's nest. Nothing good coming.
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I hope so. I test drove a Tesla and quite liked it, but rejected it for several reasons—some Elonic. I’m trying to arrange for an L2 charger in the garage right now.
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We worry about malefactors like the Chinese installing back doors into the most sensitive systems. We're inviting these guys to hide back doors. Nobody really knows what they're doing. (I'm pretty sure they're not improving ancient COBOL code.)
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All the self professed evangelicals I know are what I'd call "secular Christians." There's little religion in their beliefs; they belong to the tribe.
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Kinda like Trump wants to channel Andrew Jackson and the trail of tears. Someone ought to force feed him the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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We've been shopping for a new EV over the last few weeks. The search was narrowed down to Tesla, Chevy Equinox, and the Hyundai Ionic 5. The Tesla is a very nice car, but we settled on the Ioniq 5, largely because of Elon.
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In the news stream the tariffs are dominating. But the press is forgetting Deep Throat's admonition: "Follow the money." I suspect this is not an accident. Where else are rodents silently burrowing?
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I think it was George Carlin who pointed out that if you think of how stupid the average person is, then half the people are stupider than that.
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Apparently CNN has been assimilated into the Borg Collective.
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Haven't you noticed everything moving to a subscription model? That $15M was last month's payment.
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Often when teaching calculus I'd point out how the limit ideas upon which it is based pervaded other areas. A few years ago I speculated whether Darwin was inspired by such ideas. A student reported me to the department Chair for mocking her religion. The Chair and I had a big laugh over it.
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Heaven forbid they might be exposed to uncomfortably different ideas! We don't want our future lawyers learning to think.
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Maybe there's a more accurate word that's somehow become rare in the modern lexicon: opining. Musk has no power to do any of the things he suggests. All he's presenting are poorly thought-out opinions. Consequences be damned.
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The Vice President is looking more and more like the odd man out in the administration. Who has an office closer to the oval, Vance or Elon?
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I guess he has no sense of irony.
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It's a good thing there probably aren't too many of them.
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The pendulum swings both ways. Trying to expunge DEI from the society could lead to a "throwing the baby out with the bath water" type of outcome. The discussion on the right seems to be DEI is always bad, and on the left it's necessary to right historical wrongs. Who's taking a middle ground?
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Why do so many sci-fi and fantasy names use apostrophes in unlikely places? It must drive the audio book reader crazy. Of course, they could go all the way with unlikely characters. Sz^alöq
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Let's not forget Mitch McConnell.
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I come at it from a technical mathematical sense. The set of useful numbers, although infinite, is surely countable, which is a set of measure zero to mathematicians. This means the others are a set of full measure, which is a set technically deemed to contain "almost every" real number.
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This kind of stuff is not new. Read Bleak House by Charles Dickens to see his tale of legal obfuscation.
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means."
This is my favorite Dickens book.