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Nominating him for the purposes of public humiliation/education and electing him speaker are two different things...
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Yes. But that’s precisely why they should publicly have their noses rubbed in the consequences of their actions....
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Someone (Kevin McCarthy?) should nominate Matt Gaetz as Speaker. The nominating speech: “He broke it. He can fix it.”...
Commented on Strong and Stable!
So, in 44 days Truss has seen the Queen die, the pound die, the Conservative Party die, and given trickle down economics a massive heart attack. ….Three times is enemy action. Congratulations Comrade Truss....
Commented on Omicron
Re infection rates of COVID variants: Presumably the variant after Omicron will be Pi. Will that be 3.14159 times more infectious?...
Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
The Montague St Bridge in Melbourne is a regular truck killer. It has its own website - http://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/ - the first truck stuck after our latest lockdown was celebrated as a return to normality. https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/image/ico-montybridge.jpg...
Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
You’ve misunderstood the point gasdive was making. Australians like good coffee. So much so that McDonalds was losing business because they were selling the international standard dishwater here. (and Starbucks couldn’t make a go of it). So McDonalds has decent...

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ilya187 commented on I should blog more, but ...
@ 1834: My wife's immediate response when she saw it: "Store an MP3 of a gunshot on your smartphone, and play it"...
Heteromeles commented on I should blog more, but ...
My wife's immediate response when she saw it: "Store an MP3 of a gunshot on your smartphone, and play it" That's a reasonably sane proposal. Although it needs to be loud, so speakers would help. Strobe lights might help too. My (illegal!) but low-tech idea was fireworks and firecrackers. Properly made, they go through metal detectors and don't look like guns. They've also been militarized by the Ming, so it is about going medieval on an active shooter's ass. Figuring out what to store them, how to deploy them, and keeping them from used for...amusement... are major challenges, of course....
JohnS commented on I should blog more, but ...
To quote Gomer Pyle USMC, "stupid, Stupid, STUPID!"...
David L commented on I should blog more, but ...
Figuring out what to store them, how to deploy them, and keeping them from used for...amusement... are major challenges, of course. Back when my 30 something son was a teen he used one of our large travel suitcases to store a bunch of fire crackers. I went ballistic on him. He should have known better (we were very frequent flyers) and suddenly realized my point. Toss one big travel bag into the trash. There was residue inside the bag, the seams, etc......
Heteromeles commented on I should blog more, but ...
Heh heh. I should say that my preferred method for dealing with mass shooters is to radically limit the availability of guns that.could be used that way, and to make sasumata readily available to control people running amok with coldarms instead of firearms. (See https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/vault/after-slaughter-of-19-disabled-japanese-caregivers-learn-ancient-weapon among.others. There are videos of sasumata being used against knife attacks in real life) Alas, I live in the US, not Japan. So I’m trying to help others figure out how to deal with gun violence without being highly trained shooters themselves. If my solutions seem insane, it’s in part because the situation itself is...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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