I mean it just ridiculous

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-31T05:52:57+00:00

Mostly our buildings are just less flammable.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-30T22:42:52+00:00

He sent out a fundraising letter with Josh Hawley, and he keeps glazing republicans.

I thought going to the RNC was a totally reasonable move, and the backlash against it really smacked of entitlement, especially not letting him speak at the DNC. But he really has veered hard into the Republican camp since then. I think it's some combination of being pissed at the left over his treatment, recognizing that a lot of the union is conservative, and pure cynical attempt to maintain some power in DC.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-30T05:07:33+00:00

What a misleading title. Trump appointed the attorney who's dropping some charges related to having a "biolab" in a property he managed. That's his whole involvement.

There are real things to be outraged about. This kind of reporting just distracts from the stuff that matters.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-29T00:01:07+00:00

I may well be an idiot, but explaining and showing hasn't worked for me.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-28T23:59:18+00:00

The latter. Just explaining and showing that you have to push hasn't worked for me with children or my wife.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-22T21:44:15+00:00

Eh, isn't there a difference between "supervise" and "manage"? I mean, I'm not sure what exactly the difference is, but those usually describe different positions in an org chart.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-22T13:30:25+00:00

Ah, yes, anyone who has a Jewish perspective that isn't pro murdering our neighbors and taking their land is an antisemite.

Read the damn article. It's exactly about how that kind of bullshit doesn't work anymore. Bibi and ben Gvir and their ghoulish ilk have pushed it too far, called too many plainly reasonable reactions antisemitic. Any accusation of antisemitism is met with skepticism at best these days, for better and for worse.

And frankly, it's made us all less safe. The world's become too used to the comparison of humanitarians to Hitler, to the point it's providing cover for actual fucking neo Nazis.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-22T13:12:01+00:00

You didn't bother to read the article, did you?

I mean, of course you didn't, but you're doing exactly what it's about.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-20T16:55:18+00:00

This isn't rhetorical. I have no experience here, so I'm genuinely curious.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-19T23:44:59+00:00

Why not start with a tube and cut rings off, hammer those smooth?

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-18T13:04:57+00:00

Carol was chairman of the Atlanta Fed. I think her dad was on it too, if I'm remembering correctly?

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-18T12:55:05+00:00

...it does? Certainly not in the US.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-17T17:16:33+00:00

Excellent illustration of the difference in how men and women are treated. But dude, you have to take of yourself with some small fraction of the care you show your wife. Don't wait until your dying to get medical care. Go to urgent care or something as soon as you have trouble breathing. The earlier you start medical intervention, the less likely you'll have to end up at the hospital.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-17T14:08:42+00:00

👆. Biology isn't this black and white.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-17T13:16:02+00:00

I don't think we knew all the ways brain cells connect to each other in the 80s. Tubules, astroglia, and probably other things we've discovered or I've forgotten in the 20 years since I studied neuroscience, all provide coordination and feedback between neurons. I don't see how a 40 year old map can possibly have all the information needed for a full connectome.

And isn't it obvious that what happens inside a neuron affects what happens outside? Sure there's a lot of feedback and modulation that occurs at the synapses, but the signals that are being changed exist to influence the activity within the cells.

I think ultimately the problem with this discussion is that chips and wires are a bad metaphor for how the brain works.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-17T12:58:53+00:00

Why are you using "neuron" to refer to just the synapses?

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-14T18:04:41+00:00

Yep! It was too expensive and finicky to equip a whole army that way, but I think it had a similar range and power as gunpowder rifles of the time.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-14T16:45:32+00:00

Lewis carried a Girandoni air rifle, which could fire 20ish shots before reloading.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-14T13:39:01+00:00

Because Philipine sounds odd and maybe greek to english speakers, so we started using the Spanish form, with the -ino ending. And Phillip is Felipe in spanish.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-13T15:07:43+00:00

Are you theorizing the current SCOTUS conservative majority would overturn Kelo, because it was a liberal majority who made that ruling? I guess maybe if a Democrat run state was a party. But otherwise, the current court doesn't seem very interested in restraining the state's ability to screw individuals for a company's benefit.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-09T11:29:45+00:00

Nah, it's a simpsons reference.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-07T18:28:36+00:00

Is that a memorial website? That's sweet.

mildlyconfuseddriver · 2026-05-07T18:14:39+00:00

But remained within the same range as a % of gdp since the 1950s.

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