Greer
@thegreer.bsky.social
Pilot. Archaeologist. Probably bored.
If my opinions differ from yours assume I'm being sarcastic.
He/Him
If my opinions differ from yours assume I'm being sarcastic.
He/Him
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Similar thing for me and the NICU.
Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet.
These people are deeply unserious.
Signed, another economist who generally likes markets
Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet.
These people are deeply unserious.
Signed, another economist who generally likes markets
Reminds me of that time I needed emergency appendectomy & I was on morphine & the hospital billing guy came to my room to ask me to pay the copay upfront
I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again
Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally
I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again
Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Similar thing for me and the NICU.
Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet.
These people are deeply unserious.
Signed, another economist who generally likes markets
Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet.
These people are deeply unserious.
Signed, another economist who generally likes markets
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Congress strips right-to-repair from military spending bill
: A win for the contractors
www.theregister.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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My career in bioinformatics *did not exist* when I was 18 years old. I joined a brand new field in my mid-20s, and had to be flexible and creative. Trying to get by with a narrow slate of skills considered relevant in the mid-1990s would've been hopeless.
Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My career in bioinformatics *did not exist* when I was 18 years old. I joined a brand new field in my mid-20s, and had to be flexible and creative. Trying to get by with a narrow slate of skills considered relevant in the mid-1990s would've been hopeless.
"Even shitty person/time period had some good points compared to <current situation>," is not necessarily an unuseful rhetorical approach, but you have to be real careful with it lest you let the bad be assumed while repeating out loud the relative good.
its like people havent looked at how reagan and bush ii were rehabbed in the popular culture, even nixon towards the end. these memories of how shitty people are do not stick. sorry, but they don't. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
December 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"Even shitty person/time period had some good points compared to <current situation>," is not necessarily an unuseful rhetorical approach, but you have to be real careful with it lest you let the bad be assumed while repeating out loud the relative good.
Obviously Trump would petulantly walk out if you pressed him, but you can't accept this answer.
And until he gives you a better answer this should be the only thing the interview is about.
And until he gives you a better answer this should be the only thing the interview is about.
Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States having absolutely no idea who he is pardoning, nor why.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Obviously Trump would petulantly walk out if you pressed him, but you can't accept this answer.
And until he gives you a better answer this should be the only thing the interview is about.
And until he gives you a better answer this should be the only thing the interview is about.
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CHOTINER: As to the matter of your secret identity—a journalist, is that right?
SUPERMAN: Some people have speculated that, I guess.
CHOTINER: It's true, isn't it, that although I've interviewed you several times, we've never actually been seen together.
SUPERMAN: …uh…
CHOTINER: [removes eyeglasses]
SUPERMAN: Some people have speculated that, I guess.
CHOTINER: It's true, isn't it, that although I've interviewed you several times, we've never actually been seen together.
SUPERMAN: …uh…
CHOTINER: [removes eyeglasses]
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
CHOTINER: As to the matter of your secret identity—a journalist, is that right?
SUPERMAN: Some people have speculated that, I guess.
CHOTINER: It's true, isn't it, that although I've interviewed you several times, we've never actually been seen together.
SUPERMAN: …uh…
CHOTINER: [removes eyeglasses]
SUPERMAN: Some people have speculated that, I guess.
CHOTINER: It's true, isn't it, that although I've interviewed you several times, we've never actually been seen together.
SUPERMAN: …uh…
CHOTINER: [removes eyeglasses]
I feel there's also a part of this being a natural evolution/escalation of everyone carrying The Internet around with them.
Why know an answer when you can just look it up?
And now why look something up when you can just ask a chatbot?
Why know an answer when you can just look it up?
And now why look something up when you can just ask a chatbot?
the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I feel there's also a part of this being a natural evolution/escalation of everyone carrying The Internet around with them.
Why know an answer when you can just look it up?
And now why look something up when you can just ask a chatbot?
Why know an answer when you can just look it up?
And now why look something up when you can just ask a chatbot?
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Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.
Separate and equal branch and all that, but the President is just Congress' middle manager. Their power is derived from their duty to enact Congress' will.
The President's real main job is to be the accountable person when Congress has questions about why its will isn't being enacted.
The President's real main job is to be the accountable person when Congress has questions about why its will isn't being enacted.
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Separate and equal branch and all that, but the President is just Congress' middle manager. Their power is derived from their duty to enact Congress' will.
The President's real main job is to be the accountable person when Congress has questions about why its will isn't being enacted.
The President's real main job is to be the accountable person when Congress has questions about why its will isn't being enacted.
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to quote myself on this
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
to quote myself on this
Somewhat an aside, but also kinda not:
This is an export tax, and should not be permissible absent Congress.
Between tariffs, export taxes, equity stakes, and a bonkers regulatory environment, the cost of doing business in the US is going way up and, more importantly, becoming unpredictable.
This is an export tax, and should not be permissible absent Congress.
Between tariffs, export taxes, equity stakes, and a bonkers regulatory environment, the cost of doing business in the US is going way up and, more importantly, becoming unpredictable.
Trump is doing everything he can to accelerate the end of US hegemony, while actively helping China and Russia.
He is a true traitor to the United States, and the China hawks who voted for him were played like little children
He is a true traitor to the United States, and the China hawks who voted for him were played like little children
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Somewhat an aside, but also kinda not:
This is an export tax, and should not be permissible absent Congress.
Between tariffs, export taxes, equity stakes, and a bonkers regulatory environment, the cost of doing business in the US is going way up and, more importantly, becoming unpredictable.
This is an export tax, and should not be permissible absent Congress.
Between tariffs, export taxes, equity stakes, and a bonkers regulatory environment, the cost of doing business in the US is going way up and, more importantly, becoming unpredictable.
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This is your casual reminder that executive orders are not laws.
EOs are directives meant to manage the operations of the federal government. Not state governments.
The states that even deign to acknowledge this are the ones who actively WANT to. No one's forcing them.
EOs are directives meant to manage the operations of the federal government. Not state governments.
The states that even deign to acknowledge this are the ones who actively WANT to. No one's forcing them.
BREAKING: Trump says he will sign an executive order this week that will limit states’ ability to regulate AI.
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This is your casual reminder that executive orders are not laws.
EOs are directives meant to manage the operations of the federal government. Not state governments.
The states that even deign to acknowledge this are the ones who actively WANT to. No one's forcing them.
EOs are directives meant to manage the operations of the federal government. Not state governments.
The states that even deign to acknowledge this are the ones who actively WANT to. No one's forcing them.
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Me making my bed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me laying in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me laying in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Me making my bed: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me laying in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me laying in it: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
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On behalf of myself and every other adoptee I know: fuck you.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
On behalf of myself and every other adoptee I know: fuck you.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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RVTURN to jimmy carter's proposal to make the attorney general an independent office with a five to seven year term
bring back the tenure of office act imo
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
RVTURN to jimmy carter's proposal to make the attorney general an independent office with a five to seven year term
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Excluding young adult sports and old programming languages, which I feel are cheats for this prompt...
I kinda hope to not again need to differentiate bone, stone, and ceramic by taste.
Excluding young adult sports and old programming languages, which I feel are cheats for this prompt...
I kinda hope to not again need to differentiate bone, stone, and ceramic by taste.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
While I'm hesitant to ever confine any skill of mine to the dustbin as Shit Does Come Up, I feel it is very unlikely that I will ever be asked to do column chemistry again. It remains useful knowledge however.
While I'm hesitant to ever confine any skill of mine to the dustbin as Shit Does Come Up, I feel it is very unlikely that I will ever be asked to do column chemistry again. It remains useful knowledge however.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Excluding young adult sports and old programming languages, which I feel are cheats for this prompt...
I kinda hope to not again need to differentiate bone, stone, and ceramic by taste.
Excluding young adult sports and old programming languages, which I feel are cheats for this prompt...
I kinda hope to not again need to differentiate bone, stone, and ceramic by taste.
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The idea the president has a popular mandate and accountability superior to Congress would have been baffling, infuriating, and heretical to the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution, and this is obvious to anybody even glancingly familiar with what any of them had to say about it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The idea the president has a popular mandate and accountability superior to Congress would have been baffling, infuriating, and heretical to the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution, and this is obvious to anybody even glancingly familiar with what any of them had to say about it.
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chuck schumer quoting bill maher saying "palestinians should just accept that they lost the war, the way the serbs accepted that they lost kosovo" is a sentence custom-designed to turn me into the joker
My apologies I forgot he was actually just positively quoting Bill Maher, who says that the Serbs and Muslims got over it
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
chuck schumer quoting bill maher saying "palestinians should just accept that they lost the war, the way the serbs accepted that they lost kosovo" is a sentence custom-designed to turn me into the joker
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Has drugs ≠ Making war
These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it.
There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.
These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it.
There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.
“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Rep Adam Smith told me, calling it “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”
More details on what the video revealed here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
More details on what the video revealed here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Has drugs ≠ Making war
These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it.
There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.
These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it.
There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.
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Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
The unitary executive theory kills people.
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this is your fault, Bill
personally, specifically, your fault
you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it
you own this and I hope you choke on it
personally, specifically, your fault
you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it
you own this and I hope you choke on it
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
this is your fault, Bill
personally, specifically, your fault
you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it
you own this and I hope you choke on it
personally, specifically, your fault
you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it
you own this and I hope you choke on it
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The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...