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Has he mentioned 'Croc Rock'?
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It was mentioned, but I didn't listen closely, and it was a brief quip about it. Where to put prisoners doesn't interest me.
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the government falling out with SpaceX is worrisome. But not as much as the people calling to nationalize SpaceX. Yikes!
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Don't know why anyone ever thought it would be good to put both of those similar (big) characters into the same room. They have misaligned interests, and when you're that powerful, even smallish misalignment is a big deal. The threats are empty.
I'm on the "don't spend more than you make" end of that debate though, and all spending bills have always been gross and corrupt.
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07-01-2025, 04:33 PM
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I hope it's kayfabe
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The portrayal of events within the industry as real; the portrayal of professional wrestling and the accompanying storylines as not staged or worked.
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I suspect the debt ceiling going up is a wash if the Fed drops the prime rate.
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07-01-2025, 05:41 PM
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I'd rather view Anastasi than Scott Adams.
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LaurieWired put a new video up 3 hours ago.
GREP and it's connection to the Federalist Papers.
edit: Listening to 2884 now. He agrees that growth tempers the debt.
2nd edit: China not expansionist is debatable.
'From Tibet to the South China Sea, West Taiwan must be free'. Taiwan has a better claim to the mainland than China does to claim ancestry to the American Indian. China Just Claimed the USA - WW3 Just Got More Real -- laowhy86
3rd edit: Is the 'quantum matter transition technique' story about spintronics? No:
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Quantum Discovery Could Make Electronics 1000x Faster
4 days agoNortheastern discovery in quantum materials could make electronics 1,000 times faster Researchers using controlled heating and cooling, or "thermal quenching," were able to make a quantum material switch between a metal conductive state and an insulating state.
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but in other news:
So... Are these additive or multiplicative? IOW 2000x or 1,000,000x? With electron charge or spin?
Hang onto your hat, it could be a wild ride.
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07-02-2025, 09:20 AM
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Computer faster: flops or clock? One is easy, the other not so much
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casual notes from the underground:There are some "experts" out there that in reality don't have a clue as to what they are doing.
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07-02-2025, 12:42 PM
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The major topic today was framing happiness and charity, within a prioritization context. SA pointed out that 600M people live in poverty, and yet we're not collectively giving all our resources to the 8% of people who have nothing. We manage to live happily despite knowing there's poverty we're not charitably solving (it's being continuously solved due to the world becoming wealthier over time). https://worldpoverty.io/
The implication is how do we place more care for those who are not entitled to it, who also have it better off than the most impoverished?
As always, I find it annoying when Scott talks about science/technology, which I don't think he has any actual interest in (which is why he's an artist). His low information take is that we know PV electricity makes sense to massively add to our grids, because why else would so many other countries and energy markets be adding it if it wasn't the economical choice? He conveniently leaves out that Germany has the highest energy prices due to having invested unwisely, or that my utility has never invited me to pay less per kWh by adopting wind. Then he goes on to "debunk" the "solar doesn't work at night" "myth" by pointing out that batteries are an invention that exists, and continues to undermine that point by speculating that our understanding of chemistry will eventually make them much less sucky.
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SA is filming a discussion with JBP today. JBP isn't my favorite host, but I look forward to listening. My guess is it will be a couple weeks before it's aired.
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Wow, the Scottster is noticing. Eposode 2887at t=3255. I hope that doesn't get him in trouble.
Also looking forward to the interview.
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Episode 2889 at t=3249
He reports something the subtitles report as Tig Gandi, affecting 60% of cat owners. I'm thinking T. (for Taxoplasma) Gondii. Half of 60% are cra-cra.
At the end he admitted he has eleven followers on Locals.
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07-07-2025, 12:36 AM
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Episode 2889 at t=3249
He reports something the subtitles report as Tig Gandi, affecting 60% of cat owners. I'm thinking T. (for Taxoplasma) Gondii. Half of 60% are cra-cra.
At the end he admitted he has eleven followers on Locals.
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I suspect the toxin is of the cultural/mental variety, and not a discretely identifiable organism. I know a few who suffer the cra-cra and do not have cats, though anecdotal evidence is the lowest quality kind. The one common denominator in my anecdotes is "higher education".
Somehow my early contempt for our educational institutions was right, even if not fully informed, and prior to the more contemptuous dogma.
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