@admitsWrongIfProven my guess is the solutions of differential equations are precisely what you contemplate when you are urinating.
the big inscrutable bill, apparently. https://mas.to/@FantasticalEconomics/114623017936090659
@light i prefer a considered preference for democracy and rule of law rather than a kind of sudden intoxicated devotion.
maybe someone should found a university that — i know this is novel — would be governed by its faculty.
do the “deep research”, “agentic” AI tools know how to avoid AI slop?
i prefer not to be anything pilled.
credit rating agencies, but for how much we should credit public figures' utterances.
@mlazz @drahardja see also Herfindahl-Hirschman Index https://www.justice.gov/atr/herfindahl-hirschman-index
@marick @GeePawHill @RonJeffries you are! takes one to know one! you definitely definitely are!
@marick @khinsen Note also that the chart you’ve linked to is civilian employment. The DoD decline does not reflect a smaller army (there may have been, but that’s not this table), just fewer DoD civilian workers. I’m not sure why you’d want to break that out of civilian workforce and describe its reduction as masking an increase in other departments. 1/
@marick @khinsen As you say, contractors “don’t count” to the ideologues, so we’ve deemed a so-called “mixed workforce” a virtue despite high cost and the fact that it’s severely impaired state capacity as nothing is learned, every project is a new contract, started by overpriced consultants, effectively from scratch. As people like @Alon have carefully shown, consultantifying government hollows capability. 3/
they may come off as innocuous, but poets have very deep connections to organized rhyme.
This post is based on true events.
“Constitutionally, Congress is a superior branch of government to the presidency, and it is explicitly designed to check the president.” @davidfrenchjag https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/opinion/trump-judges-federalist-society.html
// yes.
@marick @GeePawHill @RonJeffries there *is* a dark side of the moon with respect to that light reflected from earth. it does get sunlight, but no earthlight.
cynicism and wisdom are not synonyms.
@jonathankoren just leave it, don’t go through it, it will break your heart.
free-floating nostalgia can be painful.
far from anti-elitest, MAGA is a conspiracy to make even the most predatory elements of the erstwhile elite look good by comparison.
they take every warning as an instruction manual.
never actually throw your scapegoat off the cliff. you will find all of a sudden you have no one but yourself left to blame.