His political career is surely over, but a new career is opening! Similar skill set, quite likely...
Had a German Shepherd watching me solder earlier today. Head tilted and one eyebrow raised.
Harvard-Harris poll December 2023 - some of the most shameful, dishonest push-polling I've seen. Very embarrassed to have worked in this field.
"Do you think Donald Trump is a threat to
democracy if he is elected president or is he not
a threat to democracy if elected?"
Keep priming with "threat! threat", and you can totally save Biden and globalist neoliberal imperialism with him! /s
"In this conflict do you support more Israel or more Hamas?"
False choice between a nation-state and a terrorist organisation should get the pro-genocide numbers up!
"Do you think that Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors or is that a false ideology?"
Dishonest, false choice here, forcing participants to side with either the Netanyahu Genocide or the Nazi Genocide.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans between 18 and 24 couldn't find a "fuck you, neither" option, and so went with saying its true that Jews are a class of oppressors!
🫡
Well done, Gen Z!
Cue insincere hand-wringing among the political class and howls for additional censorship of young people.
CAPS @ Harvard, you are not researchers, you are shameless shills with the integrity of politicians, hiding behind the reputation of past colleagues. Drown yourselves, but offshore you so don't taint water catchments.
https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HHP_Dec23_KeyResults.
That's a fairly innocuous example, but "the market" passed that milestone a generation ago.
In 2018, Grindr was caught red-handed selling customers HIV status to advertisers (along with everything else). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/grindr-hiv-status-privacy
No consequences. I'd guess 90% of popular apps would sell everything to anyone with a credit card. No law can bind a multinational, it seems, the only solution is self-custodying almost everything.
And what normie can do that?
Q: "What's the difference between a populist Libertarian, and a predatory Fascist?"
A: "Inauguration"
That's very cute, but OMG heavy passenger rail costs a LOT to run. Costs taxpayers, usually, who have little say.
Would have been better for all concerned if they'd just given her a book of prepaid taxi vouchers.
Or bought her family a house closer to her school. Two houses, even.
Truth.
Trump was the least-harmful President they've had since at least Bill Clinton, maybe since Eisenhower.
But he has poor-people taste in furnishings and decor, and he doesn't support the team. At least not reliably...
"Monstrous yet strangely-adorable Kaiju sets up lair under London Bridge"
TV series wen???
53% of those killed by Hamas were military targets?
That is a terrifying level of professionalism, especially since many of those were embedded in Israeli settlements.
The USA and Russia struggle to hit 50% even when they're trying...
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But looking at what US-ian posters are paying, I think I got a pretty good deal. They weren't even the cheapest tyres.
I have previously taken a car on the ferry across Bass Strait to have major work done in Tasmania (60% the price of Melbourne).
Disturbia my friend, I think we should be looking at outsourcing our car repairs to M'sia next time! :-D
Interesting, dont have that one of Graeber's, will read.
Cloudflare link for anyone else - https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedbfzbq3fcggxje2zru3ci4oqers3o6v6c7ljr5vestoh6bv5yfbs?filename=David%20Graeber%2C%20David%20Wengrow%20-%20The%20Dawn%20of%20Everything_%20A%20New%20History%20of%20Humanity%20%282021%29.pdf
Big spiders are smart, and they only pick the fights they can win.
Pre-COVID, I used to share an office with Wolf. We had a great working relationship - she'd keep out of sight in her hole and not bother me when I was working. But if a noisy fly came in, she was after it like an eight-legged terrier!
The Moon is a harsh mistress.
The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, even more so.
Good article.
Getting that CaO out of the particles would be a neat trick!
You could calcine the CaSO4, again, to drive off SO2/SO3 and make sulfuric acid with it, but the economics would be unfavourable even with the government paying for the energy.
Forwarded it to a client, he'll love it.
Is Big Pharma Over-Selling Depression?
It turns out that Big Pharma has been sponsoring research on treatment-resistant depression for some time. And despite only mixed supporting evidence from clinical trials, they’ve managed to foist new drugs on unsuspecting consumers that exhibit a host of side effects, some of them potentially dangerous.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/14/is-big-pharma-over-selling-depression/
Its only a "drug of dependence" after a tax-free black market springs up.
I know far too many people who are on antidepressants, and zero who have kicked a habit...
Bought porterhouse steaks for AUD$21 / kg.
Day-um...
About half what Porterhouse was a few months back, and cheaper than I've seen in a decade.
(Minced beef and other cheap cuts still going up. )