Rob Shearer
@r.v.cx
Pretty sure I’m right about:
- RFC 3339 dates
- ISO 216 paper sizes
- Fahrenheit weather temperatures
- Dot-grid paper
- End-to-end encryption
- Software engineering being about collaboration costs
Less confident about the rest.
https://linktr.ee/rvcx
- RFC 3339 dates
- ISO 216 paper sizes
- Fahrenheit weather temperatures
- Dot-grid paper
- End-to-end encryption
- Software engineering being about collaboration costs
Less confident about the rest.
https://linktr.ee/rvcx
The idea here is for voters to believe MAGA is “cleaning house”…via infighting between the most transparently ethically compromised reps? And *without* actually losing any reps from their majority?
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November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The idea here is for voters to believe MAGA is “cleaning house”…via infighting between the most transparently ethically compromised reps? And *without* actually losing any reps from their majority?
The border is imo the best example of Dems trying to signal their moral superiority not just over Republicans, but over the median voter. And maybe they were! But that’s the Dem formula for losing elections.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The border is imo the best example of Dems trying to signal their moral superiority not just over Republicans, but over the median voter. And maybe they were! But that’s the Dem formula for losing elections.
If government can’t help businesses coordinate by enacting and enforcing legislation, then there is another option: those businesses can form a cartel.
Do we think the cartel, once formed, will restrict itself to discouraging bribery?
Do we think the cartel, once formed, will restrict itself to discouraging bribery?
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If government can’t help businesses coordinate by enacting and enforcing legislation, then there is another option: those businesses can form a cartel.
Do we think the cartel, once formed, will restrict itself to discouraging bribery?
Do we think the cartel, once formed, will restrict itself to discouraging bribery?
To reiterate: I don’t at all forgive Noem’s insane story about what sounds like a perfectly fine dog that just wasn’t (yet) good at its job. But a pol calling a 14-month-old a puppy hits me like calling a teenager a toddler: just blatantly deceptive. 3/3
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
To reiterate: I don’t at all forgive Noem’s insane story about what sounds like a perfectly fine dog that just wasn’t (yet) good at its job. But a pol calling a 14-month-old a puppy hits me like calling a teenager a toddler: just blatantly deceptive. 3/3
When we said “puppy” we pretty explicitly meant “not big enough to be dangerous”. (This matters a lot when you work with a lot of bully breeds. And former bait dogs.) Ie completely untrained puppies were annoying but fine. A completely out-of-control 14-month-old…a problem. 2/3
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
When we said “puppy” we pretty explicitly meant “not big enough to be dangerous”. (This matters a lot when you work with a lot of bully breeds. And former bait dogs.) Ie completely untrained puppies were annoying but fine. A completely out-of-control 14-month-old…a problem. 2/3
I realize we’re just circling around casual use of language here, but would you ever actually call a 14-month-old a “puppy” instead of just “young” or “adolescent” or a “pup”? At the shelters I’ve worked with, “puppy” had a pretty specific meaning… 1/3
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I realize we’re just circling around casual use of language here, but would you ever actually call a 14-month-old a “puppy” instead of just “young” or “adolescent” or a “pup”? At the shelters I’ve worked with, “puppy” had a pretty specific meaning… 1/3
If anything says “America First”, it’s deepening our entanglements in the Middle East. I see no way this could ever cause problems.
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If anything says “America First”, it’s deepening our entanglements in the Middle East. I see no way this could ever cause problems.
Passports are now linked to a whole bunch of biometric data (and, of course, a photo). The idea that gender is how they’re going to spot an imposter is deeply, deeply weird.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Passports are now linked to a whole bunch of biometric data (and, of course, a photo). The idea that gender is how they’re going to spot an imposter is deeply, deeply weird.
I’m not at all defending writing off a dog as untrainable at 14 months. I am, however, calling BS on trying to pretend a 14-month-old working dog looks like a puppy.
Both sides here seem to be pretending normies don’t know anything about dogs.
Both sides here seem to be pretending normies don’t know anything about dogs.
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Folks on this very thread have cited scientific consensus that you’re wrong.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Folks on this very thread have cited scientific consensus that you’re wrong.