conductometrist.bsky.social
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He's aged well though, gotta give that to him
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An uninhabited island that is not even a separate country. It's part of Australia. As is Norfolk Island, which gets 29% for some reason while the rest of Australia gets 10%
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Have been trying Kagi in the last few days and pretty impressed so far
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Leaving aside the wtf aspect, fascinating that the video lists melting ice as one of Greenland's threats.
But not because of climate change! No! It's just...melting spontaneously!
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To be fair the "album art" is a concert hall with the seats set out for an orchestra but no actual players sitting in them, which is kind of honest I suppose
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Nah, the oil industry needs it so it'll be safe. Priorities.
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One of the most striking things I remember reading about Hitler is how baffled he was that people were surprised by what he did. He'd been saying for years that that was what he intended to do, and no-one believed he was serious
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Pleasing that you're engaging constructively with your feedback - thank you. I think your first sentence enraged a lot of people, including me. Upper income personal tax rates have been cut repeatedly over recent decades, unsustainably so. Time to fix that.
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Zoe I admire a lot of what you've done but you're way off base here.
I'm in my 50s and in an upper income bracket and my tax rate is way lower than it should be. And the rate of those earning more than me is even more so.
Our problem is insufficient funding of services, not excessive taxation
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Don't give him ideas for God's sake
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It reads like it was transcribed from a speech by Stephen Miller and it wouldn't surprise me very much if that was exactly what happened
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"The shape...has been the case"
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Honestly don't think I was expecting people to continue singing hymns of praise to the leopards even as their faces were being gnawed at, but in hindsight I just lacked imagination
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Well played sir, well played
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I've just been rereading the Circe episode from Ulysses and I don't even know where Joyce stops and reality begins anymore
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The novels that are going to be written set in this era are going to be amazing
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These are not two problems. They are the same problem.
People ignore writing that sanewashes and hides the truth from them; meanwhile those who lean towards insanity can easily find plenty of sources that embrace it. So there's a powerful push in one direction and very little in the other
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Absolutely true; but also - "I love you but OTOH, the drug dealers that got you into this state? Fuck them and the horses they ride in on. They can rot in jail forever."
In this metaphor, that's Fox News and Republican and right wing religious leadership. Something's gotta be done about them.
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The thing that concerns be about this line of thought is that they've always underperformed massively *against Trump*. Once he's not there the field clears.
I'm far from convinced that the American right can't or won't manufacture a new leader. There's a lot of demand for authoritarianism
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That's going to depend on the direction of the change isn't it
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Rest of our lives is many cases a long time still. Historically these things do (often) blow over eventually within an individual lifespan.
But you're extremely right that an awful lot of damage can be inflicted while the storm rages though
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I actually have reasonable confidence that Harris is going to win the election. The question is whether Trump subsequently manages to seize power anyway
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If enough people pronounce debut like that for long enough, then that becomes the correct pronunciation of debut.
Just like what happened to all the other French words in English that no longer sound French but make up most of our vocab nonetheless
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When I see that string of words immediately followed by the word "defector", my brain can't help but read defector with an extra a in it
I'm like "surely that's not a whole blog on that topic"
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Boggles my mind that businesses look at the creepiness of the uncanny valley and think, yes, that's what we want our customer experience to be like
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Mahler and Stravinsky, and I couldn't be happier about it
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I think he did mean that. But tbh my usual instinct to refrain from kicking people when they're down is...slow to activate in his case.
He used a poorly considered choice of words to respond to a true accusation of fabricating evidence to incite racial intimidation. He can suffer some consequences
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Not to mention universal agreement that the Nazis were bad
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You are precisely correct, with one addition - priming the targeted response reduces the time spent with a horrible high fever *when you meet the actual virus*.
Unfortunately, if you're getting the new vaccine, you're priming for something new, and the process needs to start from scratch. :-(
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Ah the courageous "I'll tell an anonymous survey that I hate my wife before I tell her" demographic. You're right, I hadn't thought of them
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There are human beings who would go to Trump ahead of Harris for relationship or parenting advice?!?
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Ah yes because Israel and northern Australia are famously about the same size
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I regret to advise that I had to google it to find out if I needed to be embarrassed about that
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We basically have that in Australia already - not the anonymous/public part, but we do get to indicate both our preferred candidate(s) and then our approve-them -with-gritted-teeth candidate. Results are announced in aggregate.
Mostly the gritted teeth option wins, but not always
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He will declare that there was an attempt to steal it even if he *wins*.
He basically said that the first time
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ROBINSON: Probably leave it as it is
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See eg Australian cartoonist David Rowe:
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Think soccer coach. Lots of important work during training before a game, lots of management work away from the field, and lots of excited but ineffectual gesticulation during the game itself