Saganomics
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Hey I'm Mitch, some guy with an engineering degree, a construction job, a lot of cats and a house full of projects that's a local Democratic chair.
📍Massachusetts
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
While RFK's decades of anti-vax work would be extraordinary in the field of opportunism for attention, it is definitely a thing people do. I've seen people become soldiers for causes they don't believe in the substance of because they do believe in getting invited to parties with important people.
The anti-vax stuff made him relevant in a way that he was never going to be as an environmental lawyer. The drug arrests meant that he couldn’t realistically get involved in the family business, so he had to find another way in.
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
While RFK's decades of anti-vax work would be extraordinary in the field of opportunism for attention, it is definitely a thing people do. I've seen people become soldiers for causes they don't believe in the substance of because they do believe in getting invited to parties with important people.
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There’s a lot to rip on here but let’s not miss that it used an elevation drawing of a patio door and decided that was a deck on the floorplan
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
There’s a lot to rip on here but let’s not miss that it used an elevation drawing of a patio door and decided that was a deck on the floorplan
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Point being that nuclear weapons are not actually that complicated to build, although a good thermonuclear weapons (and miniaturized to fit in a delivery system) does pose more of an engineering challenge
It’s getting the plutonium that’s the tricky part
It’s getting the plutonium that’s the tricky part
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Point being that nuclear weapons are not actually that complicated to build, although a good thermonuclear weapons (and miniaturized to fit in a delivery system) does pose more of an engineering challenge
It’s getting the plutonium that’s the tricky part
It’s getting the plutonium that’s the tricky part
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Building nuclear weapons is so dead simple that they were able to do it with a few thousand guys in the desert of New Mexico with early 1940s machine tools.
Obtaining the HEU or weapons grade plutonium? Yeah that took hundreds of thousands of men and the energy output of entire dams.
Obtaining the HEU or weapons grade plutonium? Yeah that took hundreds of thousands of men and the energy output of entire dams.
No.
I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.
FURTHERMORE!
The basic principles are well understood & published.
ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
I promise you a (surprisingly) few hours w/a decent search engine will get you much more useful info on building nuclear weapons.
FURTHERMORE!
The basic principles are well understood & published.
ChatGPT isn’t gonna be able to tell me measurements much less be able to crap out some HEU.
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Building nuclear weapons is so dead simple that they were able to do it with a few thousand guys in the desert of New Mexico with early 1940s machine tools.
Obtaining the HEU or weapons grade plutonium? Yeah that took hundreds of thousands of men and the energy output of entire dams.
Obtaining the HEU or weapons grade plutonium? Yeah that took hundreds of thousands of men and the energy output of entire dams.
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incredible to see the U.S. right echoing the Chinese Communist Party.
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
incredible to see the U.S. right echoing the Chinese Communist Party.
As someone who has spent the last decade working in commercial and industrial HVAC the Data Center Water Discourse is disappointing. It's become a Glonzo idea. There being water shortages due to it being eaten by DC's is about as true as a electrical rates being hiked by Glonzo eating power lines.
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
As someone who has spent the last decade working in commercial and industrial HVAC the Data Center Water Discourse is disappointing. It's become a Glonzo idea. There being water shortages due to it being eaten by DC's is about as true as a electrical rates being hiked by Glonzo eating power lines.
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I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
Also I rather resent a guy who used his platform as a Gawker/Deadspin columnist to argue against voting in 2016 opining on how to win elections. Someone who doesn’t take the power consequences of elections seriously would advocate an approach precepted on people not taking the outcomes seriously.
Beyond the fact that this has been tried without success, left leaning voters often don't care enough which party the Speaker or Majority Leader is while right leaning voters get that it's THE electoral bottom line and will vote for a Republican that will elect a Republican Speaker/Majority leader.
Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Also I rather resent a guy who used his platform as a Gawker/Deadspin columnist to argue against voting in 2016 opining on how to win elections. Someone who doesn’t take the power consequences of elections seriously would advocate an approach precepted on people not taking the outcomes seriously.
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If you think that the absence of the rule of law means that the powerful people you hate are going to be strung up instead of people like you, you are dangerously stupid
Sorry we tried it the other way for 30 years and everything got worse. String em up. If one or two executives get caught in the crossfire I genuinely couldn't give less of a shit. All those people in Grenfell are dead and it IS someone's fault and they GOT AWAY WITH IT and it'll happen again.
As an American living through our shit right now, I am really uncomfortable the idea that a better justice system is one that allows for the government to quickly dole out punishment when it’s politically expedient. The lack of repercussions for Grenfell is terrible, but think this one through a bit
November 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you think that the absence of the rule of law means that the powerful people you hate are going to be strung up instead of people like you, you are dangerously stupid
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TPUSA is an organized faculty harassment network and every university administrator who is good at their job should be trying to remove the organization from their campus. If I was a professor I would be terrified of any student who is a member because they are trying to get me fired for wrongthink.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
TPUSA is an organized faculty harassment network and every university administrator who is good at their job should be trying to remove the organization from their campus. If I was a professor I would be terrified of any student who is a member because they are trying to get me fired for wrongthink.
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This is a scam to separate Michael Bloomberg types from their money
Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system. n.pr/48mmSlu
An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is a scam to separate Michael Bloomberg types from their money
Beyond the fact that this has been tried without success, left leaning voters often don't care enough which party the Speaker or Majority Leader is while right leaning voters get that it's THE electoral bottom line and will vote for a Republican that will elect a Republican Speaker/Majority leader.
Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Beyond the fact that this has been tried without success, left leaning voters often don't care enough which party the Speaker or Majority Leader is while right leaning voters get that it's THE electoral bottom line and will vote for a Republican that will elect a Republican Speaker/Majority leader.
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The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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"we predict the coming year will have a vibe of grayish despair."
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"we predict the coming year will have a vibe of grayish despair."
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Olivia Nuzzi has blood on her hands through RFK jr's policies and should be seen in the same disdain as Walter Duranty.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Olivia Nuzzi has blood on her hands through RFK jr's policies and should be seen in the same disdain as Walter Duranty.
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Propaganda works
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Propaganda works
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another data point for the evaporation of journalists' ability to feel shame is how Ben Domenech's Malaysian payola was seen as something embarrassing and now taking money on the sly to do PR for foreign governments is something our media betters think you'd be stupid not to do
begins here, over this article: www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
another data point for the evaporation of journalists' ability to feel shame is how Ben Domenech's Malaysian payola was seen as something embarrassing and now taking money on the sly to do PR for foreign governments is something our media betters think you'd be stupid not to do
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once a Green (US) always a Green (US)
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
once a Green (US) always a Green (US)
Although I had been a big Warcraft fan - 1, 2 & 3, I did not initially get WoW. I was a college sophomore, and my roommate got it. He had been a decent student despite an alcohol problem. Over the spring semester, WoW solved his alcohol problem, but his grades horribly cratered. I never played WoW.
On this day in 2004, World of Warcraft was released in North America.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Although I had been a big Warcraft fan - 1, 2 & 3, I did not initially get WoW. I was a college sophomore, and my roommate got it. He had been a decent student despite an alcohol problem. Over the spring semester, WoW solved his alcohol problem, but his grades horribly cratered. I never played WoW.
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.