Does anyone else hear the bass line of Fugazi’s “Suggestion” from 1988 in the bass line of Hotel Ugly’s "The Ballad of Eddie Jabuley" from 2021? Or is it just me?

When someone worth +200B loses 80M, I don’t worry about his retirement.

Every serious news organization should say “hottest day on record…so far” and end the report with “which is a result of human-caused climate change.”

We have reached the point that congressional inaction becomes treasonous negligence.

Chicago is able to turn a whole river green. Trump could just ask them for the recipe for the reflecting pool.

Hey Uber: I want a “doesn’t stink” ride button, literally. A ride that doesn’t smell like cigarettes.

My punk band “Insurrectionist Slush Fund” is available to play the Freedom 250 concert. Our opening song is entitled “Quiet, quiet piggie”.

My new punk band is called “insurrectionist slush fund”.

Adults not knowing how to respond to an active shooter is crazy…this is taught in elementary school.

This administration continues to inflict generational damage to US science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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My evergreen post: If your policies result in kids getting killed, change your policies. It’s pretty simple.

At some point congressional inaction becomes treasonous negligence.

Hey God: Aim 375 miles to the southeast….

Last scene of Cross season 2 episode 1 is the best depiction of male friendship. 8 words of dialogue.

My evergreen post: If your policies result in kids getting killed, change your policies. It’s pretty simple.

I’m extremely disappointed with the lack of music in the new season of “The Lincoln Lawyer”. The first couple of seasons had a notable and enjoyable soundtrack.

Trump continuing to stump for coal is a great example of how out of touch he is with energy and energy markets.

We should be putting quotes around all government departments now as a matter of practice. Department of “Justice”. Department of “Energy”. Department of “Homeland Security”. Or to quote my favorite movie. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Leadership in science and research has been a fundamental cornerstone of long term economic growth. The damage this administration is inflicting on research institutions will take a generation to recover. to.pbs.org/4qygWgV

White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center

The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 a...

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My son asked me if I knew Schrödinger’s first name. I told him it was either Edwin or Erwin, but there was no way to be certain.

With the suggest that 50 year mortgages are a thing, I am reminded that “Mortgage” comes from old French meaning “death pledge”. Feudalism is back!

2028 musing…does Trump have the ability to truly endorse a successor?

If your policies result in more hungry children, you have bad policies. It’s pretty simple.

My 12yo understood the difference between correlation and causation. “Ice cream sales in beach towns is correlated with shark attacks”. She quoted this while overhearing my podcast on Tylenol and Autism. Is snark hereditary?

Can someone point me to a list of the top ABC/Disney+ advertisers? There is a pressure point here.

A recent interaction on this site reminded me of this: www.astronomynotes.com/bogus-scienc... While this was focused on physics, I believe this to be generally true for other disciplines.

WhatsApp can do simple calculations with units? Today I learned…

Statistically disproving ufos is called the Jobs effect. Whereby an entire population is given camera and video recorders and we still can’t get a good picture.

Hot take: Term and age limits on legislators, judges and government executives. If you aren’t going to be around to deal with the consequences of your decisions you don’t get to decide.

Highly placed government officials now believe that we can diagnose brain worms by listening closely speech patterns. The pattern in question is is characterized by asserting previously disproven medical hypotheses. #LLMTrainingData