I used to wonder how Lysenko pulled all of that off. Like, they were backward days in a backward country, and the whole world was still just kind of getting the hang of science. But now, here’s RFK Jr who doesn’t even believe in germs, filling our science administration with lackeys, half the country cheering him on, and I’m thinking that university grant departments are going to be getting Political Officers soon.
It’s time for America’s Great Leap Forward.
The firings will continue until the numbers look good.
I think a good part of MAGA are just contrarians: they’re against everything, but especially against anything that seems vaguely mainstream. Trump speaks that language complete with uncomplicated villains and one-sentence solutions. Trump is against his own policies as soon as they’ve taken hold. That’s how he keeps his base - [It] is bad, because of [these] people, but I’ll fix it.
He can’t commandeer Epstein that way, because every possible Epstein-villain group includes Trump. The disciples who can still support him are stuck with the ‘God works through flawed messenger’ narrative, and that doesn’t work on the contrarians. ‘Flawed messenger’ is for the evangelicals who have an actual agenda and see Trump as a tool to work that agenda.
He may not be [legally] able to do whatever he wants, but SCOTUS has said he can’t be prosecuted, or even questioned, for anything he does, so what exactly stops him? Just that, sometime after the fact, if they get around to it, a court might reverse his action. (until SCOTUS gets it on the shadow docket)
Laws without penalties are just gentlemen’s agreements.
I suspect that tech management & executive culture has learned & become accustomed to exploit the mental health of their employees. Software and tech are stereotypically jobs well suited to neurodiversity and ADHD, and those people are prone to hyperfocus & long hours and may benefit from tight timelines. If management just gets used to recruiting for autism/adhd, then develops management strategies that work well with that population, it’s going to be difficult as the field matures and attracts more neurotypical people.
I used to tell my mentees that no one was going to explicitly tell them that 10, 12, 14 hour days were mandatory. That long hours were not a metric for success. It was that they would be competing for jobs with people who really did want their life to be their job and would happily spend that much time working, because that’s all they want to do. It’s only when the pool of available jobs grows beyond the number of those obsessive workaholics that they have to start hiring people who have any interest in work-life balance or collective bargaining.
So, the same reason I have a dog and not a unicorn.
I mean, if I have to choose between a genocidal neoliberal and a genocidal fascist, I’ll take the neoliberal.
What I really want to know is why can’t we have a party with popular, mainstream, progressive policies? Just sitting here hoping that Mamdani can hammer some sense into those morons.
Lol. You think this court cares what happened in 2013?
People will accept either intelligence or stupidity. They will pay for a flattering sycophant.
Genocide is not a good solution to high food prices.
Sausage has the extra benefit that it’s already seasoned, so you don’t have to add extra.
I think they mean Navy SEALs, not pinnipeds.
While only ~10% of corn is human food (including corn syrup), the rest is about evenly split between ethanol production and animal feed (~45% each). https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-grains/feed-grains-sector-at-a-glance
I mean, ethanol for fuel isn’t great, and it represents most of the new corn consumption over the last 20 years, but an enormous amount of US corn goes to pigs and cattle.
I expect the signing bonus has a clawback or isn’t paid until some vesting period. I wonder how long you can sit on your ass at $10k/month before the government bureaucracy gets around to firing you.
Back in the day, I shopped at the one grocery store in a bit of a food desert. They’d have all…I don’t remember 10? 12?..checkout lines open all day, and you’re still guaranteed to spend half an hour in line. If they could have replaced 2 checkout lines with 6 self-check kiosks, or 4 & 12, it would have helped a lot, but they hadn’t been invented yet.
Now, I shop in a better neighborhood where they have 6 kiosks, one staffed checkout, and 8 lanes closed. Start with a technical solution to a real problem, and some MBA is going to come in and figure out how to turn it back into a problem.
I don’t hate self checkouts, I hate the people who use self-checkouts. The mom with a cart filled with food to feed 4 people for a week, holding a baby in one hand and trying to scan and bag with the other. The guy apparently shopping for his whole apartment complex, scanning 4 items, paying for them, then scanning 6 different items, slowly working his way through an overloaded cart. The Gen-Z narrating each item into their phone for some reason, also struggling to bag items single-handed.
One of them isn’t bad, but two of them will strangle the entire kiosk farm, and make it seem like everyone is a self-absorbed idiot. Never go grocery shopping on a weekend morning.
I love that, not only did he doubt that it would be a 76-letter word, he just casually laid out his own word which (to this non-german speaker) seems like a perfectly plausible interpretation of “no pestering the Sven swan zone.” Makes me want to learn German, just so I can litter my own house with improbably specific, single-word German signage. “Do not feed the cat kibble before 8am”
ed: OMG, they’ve convened a whole committee to optimize the language of this apocryphal sign. Germans are the best.
Yeah, I would have thought student loan debt to be disqualifying for thugs. Maybe they’re focused on dropouts.
Probably edited by the Guardian. They don’t do as much sanewashing as US media, but I don’t think anyone but comedians quotes Trump verbatim.