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a.k.a. Matt. Physicist, conformal bootstrapper, and #1 Leonid Kantorovich respecter. Idaho → Colorado → Connecticut → Italy. he/him. Unionize the radiation lab!
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The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias

Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican

And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
that's ...not how I'm using it? I was talking about Bell's theorem
I would call this a skill issue, but my idea of "fun" is so warped that I don't even regret grad school, so maybe there's something to it
the problem with the Twitter/Bluesky schism is that Twitter feels increasingly immoral to use, which Bluesky provides an alternative for, but a social media site, fundamentally, has to feel fun, which is where Bluesky falls short
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okay so. setting aside all the rest. this is a good example of the weird "back to the past to the future" aspect of reactionaries. they want to structure families "like we have for 99.9% of human history" but they also want the .1% of history where "billionaire military industrialist" is a thing
Palmer Luckey is having a pro-pedophile crashout
thanks. I think the viscosity of aquafaba is way closer to egg whites than pineapple juice is, but I'll keep that in mind
would try it myself, but the liquor store is closed and I'm not going to waste the good scotch on this
anyone had luck subbing aquafaba for egg whites in a whisky sour?
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I would like Gamers who participate in Discourse (extremely derogatory) to tell me what they think is a reasonable price to pay, on a per-hour basis, for entertainment. No more vibes, put a number on it.
pretty rare. Yours is the first I've heard of in physics, though supposedly it's a little more common outside science
the annoying thing is, QM has much more structure and regularity, but is ontologically much weirder than you would ever think from listening to the woo/grifter types
also, everyone knew he owned a farm before this, right? that's not "working class"
I really don't care if Platner was "fake working class" or had rich parents or graduated from prep school. FDR went to fucking Groton.

The problem is that his history of erratic behavior suggests he won't be a reliable vote for progressive agenda items.
"introducing Ani, a new chatbot powered by Grok" i should not have to learn about this to understand current events. fuck you.
it's even weirder when you condition on the other variable
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my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.
blood-and-soil nativism repels me on a cellular level
right, but most of that number is people with XX chromosomes and CAH
yeah I think you made the right call there
tangentially: I was thinking of getting the Ising critical exponents as a tattoo, but then it turned out Δσ has a 1488 in the decimal expansion
with the way edpol is going, it'll be lib-coded in a few years anyway
then i think you're kind of obligated to, lol