Derek Fox
Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”
- For once, I’m inclined to take this advice from RFK, Jr, to heart
- And there it is!
- Thank goodness kids don’t eat between 7 and 18 years of age
- Trying to figure out what makes these refugees so much more deserving than asylum-seekers from Venezuela, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, Haiti, Syria…
- You can save healthcare costs by managing people’s health better, or by reducing the number of people covered. R’s very reliably go for the latter approach.
- Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
- I feel like this is another thing that never happened before we handed over the keys to the US Federal government to the present bunch of jackasses, and now happens once a week or so.
- “We’ll just terraform Mars,” they say, as they board their private jet to the coast where they will take a 3-week cruise on their superyacht while refusing to sacrifice the slightest bit of their guillotine-ready lifestyle to maintain the habitability of little old Planet Earth.
- Nothing against Buttigieg, but I lived my whole life without this “malfunctioning radar at major airport leads to traffic controllers walking out every couple of weeks” thing that we’re apparently doing now.
- “The days are long and the years are short.” People quote that advice to new parents but I think it’s pretty universal.
- Game Theory: China cannot concede any ground here, or they validate his economic terrorism and put themselves at Trump’s mercy - and the mercy of all successor Presidents. And they don’t care about saving Trump face, either. So no, there will be no deal. US will have to rescind.
- JUST IN: President Trump says the US should lower its 145% tariff on most Chinese goods to 80% ahead of trade talks between the two countries this weekend. cnn.it/3EVJlLC
- “He dons a cap… you don a mitre. He claims originalism… you claim infallibility. He puts one of his in the White House… you put one of yours in St Peter’s. THAT’S the Chicago Way.”
- This was ALWAYS the final destination of the student loan-fueled maximum-extraction instrumentalist STEM-centric vision of college education: Our student-customers demanding the degree & social experience they paid for, with any *learning* treated as accidental if not downright counterproductive.
- Pro-plane crash Pro-measles Pro-cancer Pro-recession Pro-inflation Pro-tax hikes Pro-natural disaster Pro-climate catastrophe
- seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
- Public sexual harassment, automated
- the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
