sluntz.bsky.social
Science writer and (non-government) election administrator.
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Particularly pelicans surfing on the front of the "inland tsunami" entering Kati Thanda.
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Well this got you a follow from the other side of the planet.
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If we charged royalties like countries such as Norway have done, instead of letting companies take the entire profits we could be exporting a fraction as much fossil fuels and still be paying for a lot more infrastructure, a point the Greens and others have made for a long time.
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This does show he was fooled by the right-wing fraudsters, rather than amplifying them for profit or cultural reasons. Both are bad, but I do feel some sympathy for someone killed by those he thought were his tribe. Those who promote Ivermectin but run to real cures themselves are beneath contempt
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I thought film makers liked filming in sunny cities pretending to be rainy ones. Vancouver seems ill-equipped for the role.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvfc...
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Friends who have worked for the AEC tell me this sometimes happens when someone is absentee voting but the poll clerk screws up (or the voter tells them wrong address) and they are given an absentee vote for the wrong seat, but still in right state.
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Ah, I see it is again. Thank you.
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Thanks, that's useful to know. Do you have a position on the cost/benefits of influenza vaccination, both in children and in adults under 60?
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I feel bad about asking because you provide such a great service, which I only occassionally donate to, but is there a reason results have stopped updating on your page since Friday? It's so much easier to find certain information than on the AEC site.
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I guess the danger is if people don't bother to spend the two hours checking, but it does seem like a way to even up the disadvantage non-English speakers currently suffer.
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"Shortly thereafter, a private donor came away from a meeting with Ilana so impressed that he dedicated his substantial UATX donation to our new project." suggests the credulism runs both ways - a UATX donor just assumed the institute would be pushing rightwing culture wars by stealth.
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Writing a paper with AI certainly strikes me as unethical in the extreme, but I'm wondering about translating it. Clearly that should be made transparent, but is it unethical to use AI to translate a paper into a language you don't speak?
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I wonder if Suzanne Collins could sue for breach of copyright? Probably not, as the idea goes back so much further.
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Better leave it a while for the pesticides to wash away. gizmodo.com/the-surprisi...
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Even in WWII the forces literally fighting facism rotated their forces out, had singers and comedians come to entertain the troops etc, becuase they learned soldiers who took breaks were far more effective than those that didn't.
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Yes. And it's infuriating, because this is coming from someone who is on the left, yet he's partially defending RFK Jr because he thinks Fauci is the greater evil.
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I know one person who is convinced of lab leak. He believes epidemeologists and virologists are a cosy club who are excluding outside voices that say what they don't want to hear, and therefore were taking inadequate safety precautions. Lab leak would make him feel vindicated.
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I hear Elmo's looking for a job.
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Outstanding reponse.
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My understanding is that a decade ago the write to revoke consent was specifically written into law in 49 American states. (As well as all those in Australia, where I am from).
So I'm pretty sure it was "herd of".
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Idealism, but also because it poses challenges that many people find more intellectually interesting than some other fields of medicine, where problems may be more repetitive. I have a nephew studying medicine and planning on going into public health for both reasons.
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Sadly, probably not true. www.iflscience.com/did-covid-19...
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She does sometimes ask interesting questions I haven't seen anyone else ask. But then she tries to answer them with completely skewed samples or otherwise inadequate data and seems to think this tells us something.
But credit for admitting her mistake. If only more would do so publicly.
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It stopped me, and for years afterwards I couldn't think of another example. Whereas today, I think there'd be lots of boys with Sam Kerr jumpers or Taylor Swift items etc. I think that is a huge change, but unfortunately, it's making the manosphere even more scared and angry.
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30 years ago I was telling some friends a story about a boy who lined up to get an autograph from a professional basketball player, wearing her jumper. One friends stopped me and said, You're saying a boy has a female role model?"
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Might not mean much to most people, but a giant of Australian science, and the author of a very influential book about climate change.
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I had my telescopes out for a fundraiser for the Transit of Venus and a friend of a friend turned out with someone she was obviously dating. He looked through the (safe) telescope, thanked me, donated and left. I turned to someone next to me and said, "Was that..." and he nodded. Tim Flannery.
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Kind of summarizes it doesn't it - they're more worried about the Democrats taking the House than foreign spies, because their real enemies are the Democrats.
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Relevant to point out that people use the word "capitalism" to mean two similar, but significantly different things. I have noticed that most people who use the word in one way don't seem to understand that others have a different meaning, and this creates vast incomprehension and hostilty.
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Also, I know the US doesn't chase drunk drivers as hard as we do in Australia, but hasn't he just admitted to a serious crime?
(I think penalties when caught are higher in US, but much less likely to be caught because no random breath tests etc).
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Oh this is awful news.
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Doesn't use the word "crazy" but I think "wilder" is a synonym in "Wilder than her", written by a man, but made a modest hit by a woman.
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There are two electricity-generating nuclear reactors in South Africa, opened 40 years ago. No more are being built outside Egypt. Others exploring it, but will probably back off once they see the costs.