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• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  I tried it. It went exactly as you would expect. Me too. I tried on a couple topics I know reasonably well that have appeared on the net and in the literature. Also my own bio (I have a...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I ... am claustrophilic -- small enclosed spaces are comforting for me I thank you for the new word. Presumably any -phobic word has a dual -philic one. Most useful....
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  Asimov was a notorious sex pest. Like Feynman and others. How to separate out the good things they did from the bad things they were/did?...
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  high-lipped plates like these I plead woeful, probably provincial ignorance, but do the high lips have a functional purpose? Containing brothy foods, food that's given to getting away like rice...?...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Что делать? is the original Russian title of Lenin's 1902 novel, which usually gets translated into English as "What is to be done?" True, but the literal translation, "What to do?" is pithier and, IMO, better....
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  Russia isn't going to conquer Ukraine easily, so the supposition is that by the time they beat down Kiev they'll have built a war machine that can keep on rolling west. At which point they'll hit the NATO border...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Well, another LGM pointing to a NYT article about Trump II: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/12/recognizing-the-trump-threat People seem to be picking up on the question. But, Что делать?...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  And then they'll go full guerilla. I think preparations for that have been ongoing since the earliest days of the invasion. As of Friday, those white LM-100Js have made ~ 420 trips to four Eastern European sites: Nowe Miasto...
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  The bad precedent was that you can get tossed for any reason without having done anything against the law. Refusing to wear deodorant or similar. That's also how impeachment works in the House. There's no definition of what constitutes an...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  More along the "be afraid, be very afraid" line concerning Trump II: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/opinion/insurrection-act-trump-president.html [The Insurrection Act gives] the president the ability to call out the National Guard or the regular army “whenever the president considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  IF any government seizes power by force you've still lost democracy, even if it prevents an authoritarian Trump from taking office. I reply as an USian, but the American revolution comes to mind as a possible counterexample. Granted, the...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  On the prospect of Trump II, see the links to pieces by Kagan and Petri in https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/11/the-dictator-in-waiting-is-oranged-rested-and-ready...
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  How true & how dangerous is this? Very and very. He already started down that path in his first term and would have plenty of help completing the job in a second term....
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  Another view of the whole thing that I read is that the judge set it up to be overturned... Yes, that's my impression. What her motives were I'm not sure about; could have been personal, could have been wanting...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I fear that if Trump manages to get elected in 2024 the U.S. will fall to the NAZIS. I suspect that a fair number of serious-minded people have come to the same conclusion and are waiting until June-ish 2024...
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  You have to go back to the breaker for those. You really should do that. At least that and maybe trip the master breaker if circumstances allow. And even then they might be miswired. This very week we found...
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  Yet another zombifying parasite: https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/34/6/960/7250300 the ant Formica polyctena (Förster, 1850) by the brain-encysting lancet liver fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum (Rudolphi, 1819). This fluke induces ants to climb and bite to vegetation by the mandibles in a state of temporary tetany....
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  there are both MD/PhD and PharmD/PhD programs. There are also in the US programs that let a PhD get an MD on a fast-ish track. For reasons I don't understand, extra-US universities are frequently involved. From the bio of...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  its sunshield is entirely passive Because I can't stop myself from doing it, I note that this discussion is relevant to the question of optical and IR stealth in space. Not quite the same thing, but not too distant....
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  I suggest you look into how JWST was designed to deal with heat rejection... Also and AFAIK, its sunshield is entirely passive. If needed, the sunlight the sunshade is shading against could be used to power a refrigerator /...
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  where a person not elected to the assembly can become the (non-voting) speaker. As I understand it, the HoR is one of those, and if so, I cannot imagine that option is not being explored right now. Yes, the...
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  Flight Recorders are very defensively designed, and since such a button or electrical circuit might get activated during a crash, This kinda sounds like considerations pertaining to the fuzing and firing components of nuclear weapons. AIUI, Sandia Laboratories specializes...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  US nukes returning to RAF Lakenheath? https://fas.org/publication/increasing-evidence-that-the-us-air-forces-nuclear-mission-may-be-returning-to-uk-soil/ Might could be a plot element....
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  https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1003947 Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings News Release 9-Oct-2023 University of Leeds An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analysing ancient tree-rings found in...
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  There have been noises off and on about aluminium ever since it came into use for making saucepans, Calderos, cast aluminum pots resembling Dutch ovens, have been widely and frequently used in Latin America for many decades, probably more...
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  Now, Israel is quite capable of wiping Gaza right off the map We have come into times when such things are, alas, not beyond consideration. 2024 could be even more horrible than 2016 or 1939 or other anni horribiles....
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  have used IFF Mode 3A to track aircraft through finals and half-way down the runway before the pilot turned it off Where there are ADS-B receivers within some tens of kilometers of the airport, you can see the airplane...
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  They'd been rewinding and recording over the same tapes every day of operation for something like 20 years, I normally shy away from technological fixes, but in these days of cheap terabyte storage, I don't see why every train...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Most likely the benefit of having a printed bible lay in textual inerrancy, without any risk of copying errors (as long as it had been properly proofread). Perhaps getting a bit off topic (we're not at 300 yet, are...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  movable type would be around a looooong time Our type of type, lead, tin, antimony etc., perhaps. But there are other types of type that have been used, e.g. wood, that might be harder to find across the megayears:...