dr-frogbat.bsky.social
Dad, scientist, nut. Navigating an increasingly crazy world and trying to leave it better than I found it.
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This is how you get mutiny.
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I can’t help but admire the enormous chutzpah required to do what he did. The ability to bullshit so smoothly and effortlessly is truly something to behold. It’s compelling yet horrifying, like an elephant with explosive diarrhea.
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The democratic leadership is still cowering in terror over Ronald Reagan and clinging to the Clinton preemptive compromise (“triangulation”) tactic driven by polls and focus groups. It’s the opposite of leadership. Pounding on simple themes like this one that connect with people gets results.
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Maybe sending the message that threatening the families of GOP politicians is the way to get results isn’t a good idea. Giving in to threats simply invites more threats, and also invites acting on them. Simply obeying the most credible violent lunatic is no way to run a country.
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Slapstick Fascism
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McHatin
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Except for the “almost,” which should be “completely."
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I too entertain my family with Columbian Marching Powder.
Anyone roaming DC with that kind of cash is buying legislation or drugs.
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Another crucial lesson from this Harvard situation: There is no plan B. Trump's team had no idea what to do if Harvard said "no fuck you."
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
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"Enshitification" is real.
It's not your imagination. Things really are getting worse and more annoying. Definitely on Windows, and even on Mac, also with Google, iOS, Android... everywhere.
Anyone denying this doesn't actually have to get real work done.
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These statements are never followed up with concrete policy proposals to expand mental health coverage, improve the ability to detect potential problem individuals and get them help, or even simply effective security measures for schools. Because they simply don’t care.
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The audio is rubbish. Should have just been Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees. You can tell by the way he uses his walk he’s a woman’s man, no time to talk.
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They did something similar in the past:
Customers who complained about poor battery range were sent to a “diversion” customer support team whose only goal was to stop the customer from receiving any service, and lied that they did diagnostics and the car was fine
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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If corporations are persons they ought to be able to go to prison. In practice that would be the board of directors, which is fine with me. Until there’s an high price for this behavior, extracted from the people who actually benefit and who have the power to prevent it, nothing will change.
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America holds world championships without inviting any other countries. And when we do invite other countries, it’s often just Canada.
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That’s 16% of the population. Presumably some came from outside the immediate area, but even if they only hit 10% it’s staggering. That’s a number that would be impressive in deep blue areas.
Maybe hope isn’t just for fools and little children.
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All the anarchists I know (quite a few) have lots of rules for personal behavior and who they will associate with. They do not impose them on others or tolerate those who attempt to impose rules on others, that’s what makes them anarchists. It’s anti-authority not anti-order or anti-structure.
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Two things that break free markets are evasion of responsibility through limited liability, and monopolies. The former is sacred. The latter is the top priority for Trump's backers.
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The conservative/libertarian stance on government and the economy has always been a mask. If they were serious they’d be talking about the biggest market intervention: the joint stock corporation, which is a means of evading responsibility for consequences of choices made for profit.
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The more I hear about this Great Replacement and the more I see of the people fighting it the more I want it to happen.
Is there somewhere I can sign up to volunteer?
I’d email Soros myself but I can never remember if his email is [email protected] or [email protected]
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Civilization will end due to miscounted beans.
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I’m an experimental physicist and I shop Adafruit for certain items in preference to DigiKey or Mouser. I hope they survive. It’s one of the few suppliers I still have positive feelings towards.
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The principle of “watch the hands, not the face” applies.
They talk about money a lot because it's not zero sum. Win-win is possible. But power is zero sum, and money buys power. They win if everyone else loses a larger percentage because power is about relative wealth.
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Digital archives require constant maintenance because even the best digital media decay hundreds of times faster than paper, even under ideal conditions. The maintenance erases any savings. This is a perfect example of “fixing” something that isn’t broken and making it worse.
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The Apollo raw video data was nearly lost because NASA failed to keep copying it to new media as the old ones decay for example. If the data is important, hard copy is a must. Digital data is convenient but is very easily lost. The requirement for constant maintenance erases any up front savings.
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And that server has to be maintained and upgraded constantly or the information will be lost. Digital storage doesn’t last very well, maybe 30-50 years. Paper properly stored (just control of temperature, humidity, and bugs) can last for literally thousands of years.
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I heard from Ron Vara that Navarro is very smart, so I checked with Aron Var, Rav Naro, Ran Varo, Arro Van, and Aoa Vrnr and they all agreed.
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we wake up we PLAY