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Datanerd

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A very fine bearded economist. Chattanooga, TN; near Washington, DC; and New Smyrna Beach, FL. Profile pic is of a gator next to a canal, banner is of roseate spoonbills, both at Merritt Island NWR.

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i've been losing my mind over this ever since chris rufo started just openly tweeting out his game plans. and it just didn't matter! people were still somehow falling for it! AAAaaAAaaAaAaAA

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Clay Bennett is a national treasure.

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Won't that be an offense against state sovereignty? At least as great as requiring a court to consider evidence of innocence when a person sentenced to death? I know, silly me.

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Jackie Barbosa's avatar Jackie Barbosa @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social
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If anyone wants to understand why Mexico has such problems with corruption, it's LITERALLY because their Constitution actually PROHIBITS prosecuting presidents, sitting or retired. That has meant Mexican presidents can and thus generally do whatever they want, legal or not.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Datanerd's avatar Datanerd @datanerd.bsky.social
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LOL, remember the trucker "People's convoy" that threatened to shut down the beltway? They got halfway down 270 and then Nope! on out of there.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Good for her. Do it.

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This deserves a Pulitzer About how you ate a pullet, sir.

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I thought that was a pack of Lucky's over there, instead of NGKs.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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I'm calling on Arthur Gregg Sulzberger to step down as publisher of The New York Times. his recent performance proves he isn't up to the task

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Datanerd's avatar Datanerd @datanerd.bsky.social
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If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don’t explain it

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I was thinking if they're going biblical, we might have a problem. "But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to detest."

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Scott Crosson 🐟📈 's avatar Scott Crosson 🐟📈 @fishecon.bsky.social
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Also, I would REALLY like the justices to wade into the red snapper issues we have in the Southeast, because once you get near them, you will never escape and get to do anything else ever. Period. I referred to this as “crossing the red snapper event horizon.”

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Ugh do we have to quit eating catfish? How are we on shrimp?

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Tim Phipps's avatar Tim Phipps @ducs2r.bsky.social
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MS level Bayesian statistics, competent R programmer, and I have written papers on fisheries management policy (for NOAA, as a consultant). I would gladly take Thomas’ seat and wouldn’t accept any bribes until after my decisions. 😉

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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I have read hundreds of NOAA fisheries documents and I can’t recall one that had only six pages of acronyms at the start 😂

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Scott Crosson 🐟📈 's avatar Scott Crosson 🐟📈 @fishecon.bsky.social
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As someone who works at the agency (NOAA) that just lost Relentless, I would like to welcome the Justices to fisheries management 101. I have six pages of acronyms you will need to learn. I’m assuming you have already taken PhD level classes in Bayesian statistics and are a fluent R programmer.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary

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Datanerd's avatar Datanerd @datanerd.bsky.social
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I'm reminded of what JFK said, DC is a combination of northern charm and southern efficiency, and why Derek Brown named his bourbon bar Southern Efficiency.

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I'm reminded of what JFK said, DC is a combination of northern charm and southern efficiency, and why Derek Brown named his bourbon bar Southern Efficiency.

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That was the guest arrow, kept in the front bathroom, and no one could touch it.

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I had a place that I couldn't pop popcorn and run the microwave at. How am I supposed to melt butter for the popcorn? Other than wait 20 seconds after I finish popping popcorn like a peasant!

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Btw, I think I get this combo of anxiety and energy from my mother who was usually the long distance driver on family road trips. My dad would drive for an hour, then turn it over to her and lean back and sleep in whatever position he was in.

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Jesus. I can't sleep when flying, and I would love to be able to. At least I got to watch the first season of ST:Strange New Worlds when I flew back from Spain earlier this month. But I would love to be my wife, who will between 30 minutes and 2 hours in go to sleep, and wake up rested when we land.

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I keep hoping this isn't the case, and then it keeps being the case.

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Dan Davis's avatar Dan Davis @bindlestaff.bsky.social
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The AI facility in Musk’s new Gigafactory in Texas will house 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Each one consumes about 3,740 kWh annually. So *just to power the GPUs,* Musk will need 187GWh per year. This is higher annual consumption than some entire countries.

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Datanerd's avatar Datanerd @datanerd.bsky.social
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North: Edinburg, Scotland East: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) South: Singapore West: Nanaimo, Canada

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I used to use Jimmie Rodgers "Waiting for a Train."

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I'm pretty sure Jeff Davis did all of the "besmirching" of his reputation himself, by being president of the Confederacy.

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Gerry Doyle's avatar Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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to put it another way: putin agrees to get involved in a land war in asia

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Angry Staff Officer's avatar Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social
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3" ordnance rifle from Hall's 2d Maine Battery final position on Cemetery Hill, adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial "that we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain..."

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Turn off the lights, perfect, no notes

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SlacktivistFred's avatar SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social
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Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

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Really pissed him off when the 11th commandment was “Take it Easy” and Frey & Jackson Browne got the credit.

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Bill Childs's avatar Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social
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The Twins won both a game and a headline, nice

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Why is the small more expensive than the large?

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Eh, Russian stuff has been subject to worse corruption with people stealing brass and tires for resale, so NorK stuff may be a step up.

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Eh, Russian stuff has been subject to worse corruption with people stealing brass and tires for resale, so NorK stuff may be a step up.

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This was not on my bingo card for the Ukraine War.

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Nick Brumfield's avatar Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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That North Korea is Russia's artillery shell sugar daddy is honestly hilarious. It's like it's been training for just this one specific moment for 70 years.

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When I was 25 and despairing a mentor mailed a photocopied version of this photo along with a letter to me. I think about this photo regularly. Photo at Kent State, May 4, 1970

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