drklassen.bsky.social
Mars clouds scientist, physics and astronomy prof; Episcopal lay minister; genealogy, RPG, LotR, comics; he or they pronouns
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I assume by "millenia" for the USA he means "105 years". Since the USA functionally had open borders** until about 1920. All my ancestors basically just walked on in and went wherever they wanted.
**Well, assuming you weren't Asian...
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Nice!
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And he's super useful because 1) he is an idiot, and 2) he's a narcissist and demands fealty from everyone. So he's willing to break laws and norms they want him to break because it also feeds his ego.
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Harms... how?
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The really scary bit is, it really isn't even trump, it's his Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation handlers that are really grabbing all the power. He's just signing things for them.
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Clinton and Harris were right.
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I'm guessing he thinks there are hurricanes on Mars.
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Yup; just gonna tap the sign again...
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I recommend this book to everyone I can! I usually lead with "and the lawyer coauthor is a libertarian"
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...and arrest the plant *owners* and *managers*.
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That is beautiful! I love this image and it would be useful for teaching astronomy, too.
Of course, we tried just changing units of things to avoid big numbers. But even in solar masses, galaxies get to billions. *sigh*
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Both my grad school and my current institution have brown and gold as their colors because both of them razed a field of brown-eyed susans in order to expand their campus.
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www.schoolhouserock.tv/Rufus.html
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It's going to hit 300k deaths. The man-boy is a ghoul.
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Shoot on man on a street -> charged with murder.
Kill 300k people -> 🤷♂️
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This is great. I think the *largest* district size we should ever accept would be a double-WY rule: WY gets *two* Reps, and that sets the ratio. Cube root rule would be OK.
I hate the "can't add them all at once" BS. We've suffered with too few for too long!
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With all due respect, do seriously not realize that Dems have *no* say in how the SecDef runs his department?
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What do you want them to do here?
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Even when fascists try to be nerdy, they get all on point. In LotR they were used by Sauron to enthrall and dominate Saurman and Denethor.
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Because if they're fascist shadows, they're good shadows.
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This is why he's have the DoD get the gift, not him. :wink wink:
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...where the old giant oak used to stand on the corner of the old Dawson place that the Taylors now own...
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The one I worked at (mid 80s) in Saint Paul MN had a giant wall map of the metro area so we could answer those questions for directions. And the tow drivers could plot their courses.
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Or, like, have her aides read it and give her possible issues.
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They really think of FDR as a class traitor. They just can't see that *everything* he did was to help preserve the upper class because without his marginal reforms, the guillotines were on the way.
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They don't have to be....
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So you have no clue what fascism means. Got it.
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Well, that's a lie.
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No
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The DNC followed its rules as written. That you didn't like that is moot. Do you *really* think the RNC was going to redo all its primaries if trump had died before the election?
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Can we go back and do the same with Reagan?
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There are only crappy servers because server pay is crappy.
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If you think 10% is great, stay home.
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I've never had service that sucked in Europe.
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I've stopped rating and just do blanket 20%+
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You only have to read a few comments by folks who think it is correct for servers to have to dance for them to realize how horrible the situation really is.
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Absolutely!
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We'd be FAR better off setting up strip-mining on the Moon or crunching up asteroids for rare-earths. There's at least a return on those expenses.
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I don't think this is something the average person really gets. I tell them: think of the most dangerous place you can on Earth (not critters, just environment) and how quickly you will *die* there. Everywhere on Mars will kill you much more quickly.
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Thank you! My wife insists they are "lighting bugs" so this is pretty much the only thing we constantly argue about.
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And what he isn't killing he's giving to Musk
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If the people want to move and the cartels are helping them, that is *not* human trafficking. Please go learn something.
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Even more so if it's to a gulag in a country that's not their country of origin.
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I know that is exactly what citizens already here said about your ancestors when they arrived and were allowed to freely enter.
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How do you know if you don't present evidence?
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I'm watching for Kaitlin to break now. When he compared deals to negotiating with his partner that broke her up. This one it looks like she's already grinning waiting for something.
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Kaitlin is clearly on to you now, as she's introducing you she's running through her mind what funny thing you're going to be saying. On top of all the great econ stuff of course.
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