opinionhaver.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I’ve assembled a rag tag team of rivals composed of rough around the edges misfits for a vital mission. It’s going horribly, they can’t work together well and professionalism is sorely lacking, what the hell was I thinking

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

Embrace the arrogance of your 30s. I do not care what the zoomers are into because they have garbage taste in everything, music, film, and video games all peaked when I was 28.

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

Wandered into an open bar wrestling (?) event held in a museum (?)

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

There were probably plenty of viziers who were totally trustworthy. No one ever talks about them. A few guys gave the whole viziering profession a bad name.

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

This isn’t my domain of expertise, but it seems like a lot of AI regulation proposals are chasing the wrong ball, trying to regulate specific aspects of algorithms or models, rather than focusing on the more important issue of liability. Establish you can’t use it to escape that and it gets easier.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Oh yeah, like “Alberta” is a real place 🙄

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Not that he doesn’t have more than enough to go around, but man are the fights when Elon kicks it over the inheritance gonna messy as fuck

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

Let’s game things out a bit: if in 2028 we turn things around, what’s the single largest pot of federal money that: -can be fucked with without breaking society/killing lots of people/economic collapse, etc -only benefits constituencies that are extremely republican and aren’t in swing areas

submitted 8 hours ago • 32 comments

sankey diagrams: tedious to make, confusing, gimmicky snakey diagrams: invoative, attention grabbing, tying down the snakes shows real confidence in your data

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Is avowed good? I like action RPGs, but am a dumb console ape who doesn’t want to have to play with a spreadsheet open to optimize my hectal flow or splorg ratios, I want to hit the bad men with swords and zaps.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

I think the older Dems are genuinely good at managing a raucous caucus and moving hill creatures around to where they need to be. Very good, in Pelosi’s case. But that’s just not the game anymore, that’s not what the moment calls for. And what replacements they have groomed aren’t ready either.

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

every right wing party in the western world especially anglophone countries, probably has a groypheized staffer class at the moment, especially young ones

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

Marker: If there is a ‘fever breaking’ moment for Trump (recession, shocker special election result, etc) and it becomes clear that there isn’t going to be a thousand year trumpenreich, you’re going to see a scramble of belated efforts from places like SCOTUS to prove they are totally independent

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

I feel like I wouldn’t experience any adverse consequences from prolonged exposure to microgravity. Just don’t think it would effect me.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Does holding a security clearance gives the govt the right to piss test you at any time? If it does, next dem admin should unironically spring surprise inspections on every VC with a clearance. Tons of them will pop hot, yank their clearances, make them liabilities to their firms.

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

The Republican Party has been the motivating force behind most visceral patriotism in my life, because their efforts to destroy the cosmopolitan liberal democracy in which I was born have made me realize that I am in fact quite attached to it, and willing to countenance a lot in it’s defense.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

“Actually come to space, pussy” is a pretty funny dunk on Elon Musk, gotta admit

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I hope Elon Musk’s adventures in the public sector result in him receiving exactly what he deserves, in a nationally televised ceremony.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Not all of the “do we use too much woke language?!” is just education polarization, but easily more than half of it is, I think.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"trump take egg!" I shout as I crest the hill. a bullet strikes me and I fall. my brother in arms behind me takes my rifle from my weakening grasp. "trump take egg" ,I mumble as the color leaves my vision. "trump take egg", he reassures me as he gently closes my eyes, before rejoining the advance.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

guess not everything is priced in after all

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

#rstats is there a good guide anywhere with packages/tricks for working with larger datasets in R? I'm working with a dataset of a couple million rows, which is substantially larger than I'm used to, and running into a lot headache/dead time as I wait for things to complete.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

one thing that does irritate me a little about senior academics complaining about research integrity, p-hacking, etc. (concerns that I totally agree with) is like, I wanna see how many manuscripts with null results you've recommended for publication as reviewer/editor.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

creating a "chill work vibes focus" online audio stream, waiting for it to get popular, then inserting the slack DM noise into the stream at irregular intervals, just at the edge of the audible range

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fec... Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

whoa this kicks ass

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

even if it did, a guy with (no offense intended to him, I’m a fan of both) a newspaper column and podcast is not the democrats saying things “as a party”!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Let’s go 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 . I would like this evidence of integration and attachment to be noted for any IRCC officers watching.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

reasonably prominent political scientist who has a very silly name (it's not a non-english name that sounds funny, I'm not being an asshole, this is a white person). I work in their area and have applied for a couple of things that they supervise and always am taken aback by it a little.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

the amount of tech-right people turning on trump/musk is mildly surprising to me, might be heading back to a situation where the party coalitions are minorities and one kind of racists vs. another kind of racist

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

a kinda funny thing is that US-Canada unification probably wouldn't be an impossible task for a unified US FP establishment willing to spend like 3-4 decades seriously working at it (no, this isn't saying 'it would be good!'). before president idiot ham baby made it his cause, anyway.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments