jacd.bsky.social
Trying to figure out this whole Epidemiology thing on the West Coast of the US (Olympia, WA). Father of a great kid and and two cats. Lucky to have a tolerant partner.
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Fun, scary -- kind of think it might be the latter
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But a full company of ultramarines is cool. Happy gaming!!
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Ah — fair enough. My bad 😀
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I am not sure I can complain about any Ultramarine chapter, given my Roman history interest, and I am pretty sure that the Emperor's Spears are Ultramarines
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No
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Then I expect that lawsuit to go poorly
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If this means Rome always has about a dozen active competent or semi-competent generals, plus reserves in the senate, it also makes the length of time before it experienced a proper coup less surprising. Everyone is replaceable
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Isn’t Nazi going to be awfully close to opinion? Seems hard to imagine you get to actual malice here unless you think Musk has a strong argument not to be a public figure? But as both a CEO and a senior advisor who give press conferences that seems like a rough standard to meet??
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It is really great to see you pushing public health in such a cool new way! Bravo
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And how often can he do it? Could he mimic an Orc during the sack or is the bright light show required?
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The plan is so bad, even without the logistics. With the abilities that the antagonist shows with elven soldiers and others in later episodes, an army filled with mental domination fodder is basically the last choice that you'd ever bring to deal with this issue.
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Imagine having a University job be a BACK-UP plan?
These are hard jobs to get, involve a lot of hard work, have many more openings than qualified/gifted applicants, and it is a sector that is undergoing . . . stress . . . at the moment.
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The general trend of houses in my area (Olympia) has been jaw droppingly fast rises. My wife wants to buy one and I just look at the costs and feel queasy. Something is likely to break.
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My wife is ELCA and they are very interested in hunger/poverty here in Olympia. They are also very light on the religion in terms of helping, except perhaps insofar as it is what brought them into contact with each other.
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It is really hard to destroy and replace institutions without leaving a blueprint for others to do the same. Not to mention how hard it is to get the replacements to work as well or better then what you’ve replaced
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After school care being canceled really is the worst
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Not a GWB fan?
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That sucks but I bet the new post will be lucky to have you. I will miss the legal explainers but the people of Hawaii will gain a strong advocate.
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CPI has gone up 36% in the same period. This same period has seen a dramatic rise in the unhoused.
Seattle is even worse in terms of housing cost inflation
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Housing is one place that things are out of control here in WA state. In my locality, houses have uniformly doubled in price in the last ten years (mostly in the last 4-5 of that).
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And yet that wasn’t the low point of the battle. I like a lot of RoP but that sequence just did not seem well developed
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Legal explainers and grounded takes
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Yeah. History has a lot of insulation but it is never great to be in a field with a general financial crisis, even if you aren't in the epicenter
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Definitively manages to at least provide a distraction to all and sundry to reduce the risk of productivity and focus.
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It's a tough design call. "make anything you want" includes "make me very powerful" or "make me without drawbacks". I like the 5E design space which seems to have rejected class niches but 3.5E is tricky
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I thought that was part of our charm?
More generally, I wish climate and weather would be a lot less conflated — there was wacky weather 50 years ago too when I was a wee one
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Yes. The danger of political engagement is that it is never great for your institution to partisan coded. It's only ever ok if everybody agrees that you are necessary (police) or if you have independent sources of support.
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But, to be fair, what if Math is her favorite class? I loved math as a kid and that'd be the class I would least want to miss
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This is absolutely true, especially with the ones that are intended to slow people just coming off highways
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It is a good feature that long term residents don’t need to keep legal records of all of their ancestors
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As a practical matter, you can also end up with stateless people (bad) and it asks other questions: like why is being undocumented the only crime that alienates citizenship in one’s children or how many people might have an undocumented ancestor?
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Or the happy new future where you get to experience Hawaiian ice skating . . . 🤔
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😳 Definitely not the lowest calorie beginning to the diet.
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That second one is awesome — I hate showing up “late” when joining 10 minutes before the start time
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Happy Thanksgiving, Greer!
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It happens to all of us! Where does the time go?
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Hard to do without a fixed exchange rate and the consequent arbitrage opportunities, especially as Bitcoin is inherently deflationary