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A one time thing, that just happens a lot….
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The rain here never stops.
It…
NEVER…
stops…
💧🌧️
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Another one of your best podcasts.
I’ve noticed your best ones have a high amount of discussion of taxonomy of the guest’s field - which one would not expect of a physicist who customarily look for general principles.
(Great few minutes on life vs entropy!!)
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It really helped the artists connect with their fans. 🤣
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I wonder if AI will be able to switch fields at some point in its course of progression? 🤔
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I remember…
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The tariffs will be reconciled to a GST/VAT tax.
A GST tax is the dream of every billionaire! Why? GST is a regressive tax that taxes daily consumption (like food and clothing) unlike the current progressive code that taxes wealth&income.
A Faustian choice will be floated between GST & Tariffs.
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These tariffs will be reconciled to a GST/VAT tax. A GST/VAT tax is the dream of every billionaire!
Why? GST is a regressive tax that taxes daily consumption (like food and clothing) unlike the current progressive code that taxes wealth&income.
A Faustian choice will be floated b/w GST & Tariffs.
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Interesting, but I’m just not convinced enough to update my priors about Fox News just yet. 😉
Most likely it’s just a spurious deviation from the mean….
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Listening to this album always makes me feel good. Hell, just seeing the album cover makes me happy. Like seeing an old friend.
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Wow!
That’s so cool! 😎
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The administration (Musk et al) will use AA5342 as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
I’m an American pilot living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system). I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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Over a year ago I bought a Henson. (I was using one of those Gillette multi-blade things.) I can tell you that I have been completely delighted with using this product. It just preforms in a simple satisfying way…
+ for daily shavers
+++ thick/wiry beards
Is my recommendation.
Thanks Canada! 🇨🇦
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I believe that would violate the Comstock Act.
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The administration (Musk et al) will use this crash as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
As an American pilot living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system) I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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The administration (Musk et al) will use this crash as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
As an American pilot living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system) I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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The administration (Musk et al) will use this crash as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
As an American pilot living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system) I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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The administration (Musk et al) will use this crash as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
As an American living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system) I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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The administration (Musk et al) will use this crash as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
As an American living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system) I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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The administration (Musk et al) will use this crash as an opportunity to declare war on the FAA and privatize ATC services and gut the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF).
As an American living in New Zealand (that has a privatized ATC system) I STRONGLY give counsel against that idea.
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I love how your podcasts include not just physicists, but philosophers, biologists, astrophysicists, sociologists….
Your best podcast have been (to me): J.P. Allison, Acemoglu, Penrose, and Kip Thorne.
Please don’t ever stop. 🙏
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This is the most inspiring Mindscape you have produced. I can tell the taxonomy of JPA’s body of work was immense for a physicist to synthesize and keep on subject, but you did a GREAT job. JPA’s ability to speak directly and simply in terms of gas, brake and ignition gave me goosebumps. U ROCK! 🤘
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Catch 22
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Similar journey.
Eraserhead in HS. I had a hard time enjoying it but I knew it was kinda important.
Elephant Man really caught my attention
Fun fact: I use to live in North Bend, Washington (outside Issaquah) which is the town of “Twin Peaks” in the opening credits.
What Did Jack Do? is so funny🤣
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In NZ for “cyclist’s protection” they are just laying concrete sleepers between bike lanes and traffic. That’s creating wheel and peddle catch hazards and breaking bones, by bracketing the biker between two low, hard curbs that often end abruptly by funneling the biker straight into a parked car. 😱
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Surrender you dignity….
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It’s been a cool, rainy summer here in Aotearoa/NZ, and I’ve been thinking the same thing…
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The Cramps
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Telephone books.
A folding Atlas map in the glovebox.
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Science is forever on the back foot because it must always make a measurement to get the ball rolling. This upsets the quantum apple cart. The universe, on the other hand, has the luxury of never having to make a measurement to get started.
Like original sin we are cursed with original measurement.
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3.6% of 8 billion is 288,000,000, btw.
(That’s Approximately 85% of the U.S. population.)
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I grew up in the USA. I’ve immigrated to New Zealand. Crossing a border to live is one of the hardest/stressful things I have done… & that was just US to NZ.
If you look at a map, the majority of human suffering occurs at a political border.
People leave their homes for a lot of reasons…
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It’s not uniquely American. I live in New Zealand…
Here, as well as the U.S, ignorance of a subject is a folksy way of expressing the sincerity of your belief in that subject. (e.g. No, I haven’t seen the data/report/paper, but let me tell you, I firmly believe in my position on the subject.)
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Ethan Siegel writes about how the universe is ultimately too homogeneous and isotropic for Timescape models to explain dark energy and can’t hold a (standard) candle to LCDM. 🕯️✨
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The technicalities are intimidating. It will be interesting to see if “Timescape” can fit other evidence of expansion and provide its own unique (testable) predictions.
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
Hats off to Dr Wiltshire et al & all those who continue to bite at the elephant.
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@ryanridden.bsky.social Dr Ryan Ridden, a co-author on the paper, gives a simplified synopsis of the Timescape model here:
youtu.be/YhlPDvAdSMw