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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:03 UTC

In other Heritage Foundation news:

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:07 UTC

When domestic pigs get out, they go feral in a single generation. When dogs get out, coyotes start behaving like domesticated dogs in one generation.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 03:18 UTC

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:02 UTC

(it probably wasn't actually quicksand in retrospect, just mud, but all the news reports documented is as such)

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:01 UTC

The reason it seems like every movie and show for 70 years treated quicksand as, like, this everpresent deadly threat is that Grace McHugh and a cameraman died drowning in quicksand on the Arkansas river in the first on-set death in Hollywood history.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

(I am not, however, spending any time looking through horrible, terrible reference images to confirm that)

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

Yeah, I don't really want to give him any credit, because that was somehow the least worst part of the story, but the carcass really does look like a goat to me.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

Grass will not make you less grim about the mouth nor dry the damp, drizzly November in your soul. Quietly take to the ship.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:24 UTC

just out here quietly ensuring that every house I've ever lived in has a climate controlled crawlspace...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

Oooh. I am really excited by the new RP2040 Adalogger from @adafruit.com. A nice little upgrade and a $5 cost reduction on the OpenCTD: www.adafruit.com/product/5980

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

Sure would be embarrassing if Trump's Supreme Court had previously determined that the president's actions on Twitter weren't official acts of the president?

www.scotusblog.com/2021/04/just...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

Yeah, small batch "farm pets". Anyone buying 1000 birds is going through a real hatchery.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

Tractor Supply doesn't really survive as a suburban lifestyle brand. It needs chicken people. And chicken people are overwhelmingly delightful weirdos.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

The thing about Tractor Supply is that it's recent growth is driven almost entirely by chicken sales, to the tune of 11 million chickens a quarter. Chickens, famously, are pretty good at making more chickens. Lowes, which has a pretty good DEI record, now sells chicken feed and supplies.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

Which is not to say that deep-sea mining couldn't contribute to climate change mitigation in the future. It very well could! But it is not a solution to the current climate crisis and it is not an industry that needs to be rushed into production before we know more about its environmental impacts.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

The next deep-sea mining meeting is happening in 2 weeks in Jamaica. So, just to pre-empt the almost certain dominant line we'll hear from the mining companies: There is absolutely no serious projection for deep-sea mining that contributes meaningfully to climate mitigation before 2050.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:45 UTC

Canadian friends recommended that we plan to immigrate and would be welcome in Canada and I had to gently remind them that Canada does not want people with chronic disabilities and would absolutely not welcome my family. We stay. We fight. We support our local underground open insulin lab.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

The Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service can pin you to the ground and staple a mask to your face if Emperor Biden, Caesar Americana so desires.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

CDC is also part of the uniformed service, FYSA.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

Make the Civilian Climate Corps the ninth uniformed service and direct them to enforce emissions standards. Chevron ruling is irrelevant to Caesar Americana.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

Amazing.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

Not for nothing, but NOAA Corps. is one of the eight uniformed services. Biden has unlimited power to direct NOAA to regulate fisheries through imperial fiat. Caesar Americana.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:14 UTC

One day I'll pull off my dream D&D campaign: an adventure where one player and the DM are secretly playing Cyberpunk while the party is unaware that they're really in a fantasy MMO. They're doing normal D&D things while the netrunner tries to break the program through increasingly broken metagaming.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

Trump couldn't defeat Biden when he was an incumbent, with the full weight of the justice department, and a massive, SCOTUS sanctioned conspiracy to undermine the election. And now, at the pit of his popularity, the GOP thinks he can beat Imperial Biden, Caesar Americana?

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

It was fabulous and I can't even begin to imagine how weird it must have felt to publish that story and then watch the pandemic unfold.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 10:27 UTC

And Beryl has now become the earliest Category 5 hurricane in history. My heart goes out to the people in its path. This is bad. Very very bad.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:27 UTC

Hi, I'm 40 and I'm the guy in the background using R to get Angelo's projects done.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:12 UTC

So @chuckwendig.bsky.social is a staggeringly good writer, but man do I regret deciding to read Wanderers *this* week.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:30 UTC

"I can be trusted with this near unlimited power, Donald Trump cannot" isn't the message that will get much traction among the Bluesky political junkies, but I suspect it's a pretty effective statement to folks who aren't terminally online.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

I was thinking exactly that: team building/science training activity.

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