bobcoxauthor.bsky.social
Retired NIH scientist. Caltech grad. Sci-fi author. Hiker: especially Nepal and the American Southwest.
Happily married.
Out of the blue DMs better be damn impressive.
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Repeating anything that comes out of the administration without including the remark “(was said by known pathological liars)” is journalistic malpractice.
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I saw it in the theater when it came out. The sound was turned up so high I could hear the nonlinearity in the amplifier distorting the frequencies. It was horrible.
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I met an actual American Communist once. A very nice guy until the conversation strayed into politics or history somehow. Then the rigid doctrine part of his mind suddenly took over. Was a little weird.
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Use a bunch of impenetrable math/physics/biology jargon. “Renormalized the Hahn-Banach theorem with the Axiom of Choice, which will enable DNA calibration without data.”
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I calculated the last digit of pi in base 17. It took a long time. And a LOT of paper.
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I agree. At this moment in history, speaking out clearly, forcefully, and with principle is absolutely needed. Bernie is doing it as well.
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Which is why the medium sized countries are all trying to figure “how long to make our first nuke?” And for those with uranium assets, hearing “2-3 years” as the answer. Less for Germany.
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Perhaps not. And then the Speed Trial rule gets the charges dismissed.
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It’s been a long campaign since st least I started reading news, 60+ years ago. “Jack booted IRS things” has been a catchphrase for that long.
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Which kind of pancreatic cancer? There are the death-sentence kind and the slower kind. (To be slangy.)
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That's true. Plus the crushing and degradation of government operations as a whole. Retribution and revenge!
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At 33,554,432 they hit 2^35, which is a nice round number -- in binary notation.
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Oh, and also sending hordes of rural people into the cities. Who were (almost literally) grist for the mills of the Industrial Revolution, and who provided servants for the rising rich. Which is why Victorian England period pieces show households with scads of servants.
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And I hate to predict this, but the damage to the Extramural Program will be followed by crushing the Intramural Research Program. Already the supplies thing is hurting. Title 42 scientists (most of the IRP) will be easy to axe.
Ugh to the 47th power.
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Apparently he was very successful with his rampage of demolition. Truly he achieved what he set out to do.
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Rather, it is being executed by people who explicitly do not care. What good does this scientific research do THEM, NOW? The same precept applies to everything else they are wrecking.
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Why #1 -- Just out to destroy everything.
Why #2 -- Scientists are all libtards, so who cares?
Why #3 -- Give them time to remake science in their own image.
Why #4 -- Out to destroy universities in particular.
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My favorites are the people who get it in one repeatedly. Some “creative play” going on there.
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Nice to hear. No mention of it being looted, like most of the other tombs were long long ago. Tutankhamen’s tomb was unusual in that the ancient looters missed it. Probably being outside the Valley of the Kings was why Thutmose II was overlooked.
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It’s the 21st Century version of the Enclosure Acts. Which let rich landowners in England seize the common lands that villagers had used for centuries. Impoverishing the rural people for 100 years.
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Too optimistic.
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“It was just a joke!”, he said as the tumbril took him to the Place de la Révolution.
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And Donald Trump’s father Fred had Alzheimer’s. Does DJT pay any attention at all to what’s going on?
(Don’t bother to answer.)
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Yeah. Talk about some Treasury obligations not needing to be paid is highly disturbing -- since all Treasury bonds have been paid starting with the Revolution almost 250 years ago.
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Our President is the BEST! (At something.)
/sarcasm
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Besides being morally horrible and exposing Marco Rubio (again) as an empty suit -- this will totally put off Foreign Service Officers being sent on assignment to non-First World nations. But I suppose destroying morale is a GOOD thing. What we want is sullen people representing us to the world.
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An empty rowboat?
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If you are cruel enough, they will either straighten up and fly right. Or wither away and die miserably.
In any case it’s a win.
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And SpaceX keep blowing up rockets.
I mean, keeps having unscheduled rapid disassembly events.
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However, I’m sure St Helena is available. I’ll chip in for his one way fare.
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He’s nowhere near as intelligent or cunning as Napoleon.
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That’s nice. I’d like to use LLM to prove the twin prime conjecture. The top mathematicians in history have failed at that but I’m sure an LLM is better than those losers.
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Perhaps some really really big fans to push the air back into Canada?
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By this logic, I could be British. My great great grandfather emigrated from Yorkshire in 1840. And genetics shows virtually all my ancestry is from the British Isles.
And I love Jane Austen. Sign me up!
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Exceptions for emergency medical transport. Otherwise, yeah.
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They should try Hardee’s. Lots of people driving pickups eat grease-laden breakfasts there.
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Well, maybe Jesus will be compassionate and heal those noisy brats. After all, he cured blindness and leprosy, so a little ADHD would be doable?
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It’s very okay there. The American Southwest desert is a remarkable place.