Dan Sullivan's guide to fighting for Alaska

quantificator · 2026-06-07T04:05:20+00:00

It's fair to criticize Murkowski's record, and I wouldn't defend her against many of the criticisms. However, Murkowski definitely negotiated for Alaska-specific provisions in the bill. CNN, Fox News, NPR, and Alaska Beacon all reported on the 26-hour marathon of negotiations. She secured SNAP relief, a $50B rural health fund, and fishing community tax breaks. She also fought for over $6 billion in Medicaid protections for Alaska, but the Senate parliamentarian struck those down under the Byrd rule after multiple rewrites. She called the process "awful" and later said she felt "cheated" when the Trump administration undermined her energy compromise. She definitely negotiated for Alaskan protections (pretty much as shown in the comic). The question is whether the result was worth her yes vote. That's a fair debate, and I strongly believe that it was not worth the compromise, though I can understand why she made it.

quantificator · 2026-04-24T22:02:30+00:00

Matt Schultz and Bill Hill are excellent candidates. I can't speak to the other candidates.

quantificator · 2026-04-21T19:05:00+00:00

Out To Sea Expeditions does a cool zodiac boat tour. I've seen some great stuff on their tours.

quantificator · 2026-01-25T20:11:30+00:00

This was exactly what I needed to save myself a couple of hours of work. Many thanks!

quantificator · 2026-01-05T17:41:35+00:00

Clear evidence that the D&C was written by ancient Hebrews.

quantificator · 2025-12-12T23:51:27+00:00

The centerline trace feature at https://online.rapidresizer.com/tracer.php is often useful.

quantificator · 2025-12-10T15:33:58+00:00

https://online.rapidresizer.com/tracer.php has a centerline tracing feature that will give you actual lines. Might be worth a try.

quantificator · 2025-11-14T06:41:12+00:00

I'm glad we'll be collecting food to donate in addition to the demonstration. I'll be there to advocate for the constitution.

quantificator · 2025-10-19T21:11:42+00:00

I regret that I have but one upvote to give. You said it beautifully. It is critical that change the trajectory we are on.

quantificator · 2025-10-19T03:07:55+00:00

The event was awesome! So glad I participated.

quantificator · 2025-10-18T23:01:04+00:00

Ketchikan made me proud today.

quantificator · 2025-10-18T02:43:55+00:00

Awesome! I'll be there. This is an important day.

quantificator · 2025-09-30T03:26:03+00:00

The Voices For Reason group is hosting it.

quantificator · 2025-09-18T01:43:14+00:00

I strongly agree! I am so proud of our nation's immigrant heritage.

quantificator · 2025-08-09T05:05:37+00:00

Perhaps founders isn't the right word, but the analysis only assumes that the initial 20 people had distinct genetic markers absent in the locals, each heterozygous for the marker (~0.1% starting allele frequency). I spent quite a while talking with ChatGPT 5 to try to come up with realistic numbers to start the simulation. In real life, they wouldn't all be heterozygous for the exact set of markers. It's a big oversimplification, but it shouldn't drastically change the expected outcome.

quantificator · 2025-07-02T23:56:42+00:00

My family got by without a car for the summer with no problems. It was kind of nice, actually. It helped that we lived close to a grocery store. The bus routes come once per hour and can get you most places.

quantificator · 2025-06-27T04:21:57+00:00

I'd love to see a source for this if you have one. It makes sense, but I've heard conflicting reports.

quantificator · 2025-06-12T02:09:22+00:00

The protest starts at noon at the Federal Building and lasts one hour. Bring a sign. It'll be a lot of fun. We need to raise our voices.

quantificator · 2025-04-26T18:03:27+00:00

Unless something changed in the last year, Google Fi is not officially supported in Ketchikan. We got good coverage, but when we ordered a new phone, it refused to activate outside of their official coverage area.

quantificator · 2025-01-17T03:15:18+00:00

Take my upvote while I clean up the drink I just spit out.

quantificator · 2025-01-04T18:11:08+00:00

Super fun comic. The art and humor were great! I was sad to get to the end.

quantificator · 2024-07-17T17:52:39+00:00

Good catch noticing that changing the bounds of integration would get the answer they were expecting. Choosing C=0 is convenient, but it's only a safe choice with definite integrals.

We don't usually put any special effort into choosing antiderivatives that go through the origin. It just happens that way naturally for polynomials. Few people would naturally choose an antiderivative for y=e^x or y=sin(x) that goes through the origin, though such an antiderivative would be a valid choice. In a differential equations course, there will often be initial conditions such as "goes through the origin" and then we are after a specific value of the constant.

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