Your father is not coming on anything!

Maybe not. You will have the same number of tax preparers chasing less work. Through the magic of the Free Market™️, shouldn’t that mean pressure to reduce prices? We can only hope.

Not quite. I think you may be referring to their genome transplant. They used a natural cell and completely replaced the original genome with synthesized DNA. Whereas this project did not rely on existing cellular machinery.

DO. NOT. FUCK. WITH. LIBRARIANS.

(they are organized and they will hurt you)

It’s like, their whole thing!

By any chance are you a fan of Strong Towns? If not they are very active in trying to kill Stroads

Gwynne Shotwell deserves quite a lot more credit for SpaceX than Musk. Someone has to keep the place running until the ketamine clears his system.

A ‘stern talking-to’

This is sad news. He was deeply influential and at the same time a somewhat obscure author. At least, in my experience, he didn’t have the name recognition other - dare I say lesser - authors had.

One lesson I learned as a young person from reading A Fire Upon the Deep was to never believe anything just because it was on the internet. That alone makes his legacy worth remembering.

We have had few overt attempts to intimidate voters in Colorado. Candidates don’t get to just pick their voting locations. That’s a very complex decision that involves multiple overlapping government and volunteer organizations.

No, the enemy here isn’t MAGAts flexing at a polling place, it’s apathy among the general populace. A major part of our efforts is just educating people about how it all works, not necessarily getting them to vote a certain way. Finding someone who is willing to engage more fully in the process is how we measure success.

I volunteer for a local Democratic Party board and we are seeing an uptick in volunteer interest quite early. We are preparing by improving our processes so early volunteers get trained well in hopes we have a bigger army for GOTV efforts closer to the general election.

I mention this to say it isn’t hopeless. Voters are made by knowing other voters, it’s a socially reinforced activity. I gotta try anyway

Move over bacon. Now there’s something meatier!

That’s exactly right, you have to know enough about the subject to smell a bullshit answer.

It’s great as a mental prosthetic. When I am tackling a new complex topic like say a new cloud platform I’m learning, i can test my understanding of the implications of a change to the console settings. I tell it what i think and ask it to check my understanding. Really speeds up my learning, but I don’t rely on it exclusively. I will write my own dang emails, thank you.

It’s a good start! Keep em coming

I respect people. If a person I respect has property, by the transitive property, the property gets a sort of respect.

I’m so conflicted. The cops ordered this. They would have charged him for disobeying. But he also gave a lot of ketamine under sketchy circumstances where he could have claimed a medical reason for refusing. But I know what paramedics make and it’s not enough to weather a legal challenge unscathed.

Nonetheless, Elijah McClain is dead because of his direct action. Being aware of nuance doesn’t help that one little bit.

It is interesting. I think the negative perception here comes from the fact that ‘street smarts’ are often contrasted with ‘book smarts’. It is frequently expressed along with other anti-intellectual sentiments and is too often racially-tinged.

Calling a minority that in a ‘book-smart’ profession in the US is a tone-deaf party foul at best. I think the term ‘back-handed compliment’ is apropos.

Calling a highly educated person in a profession that requires that education ‘street smart’ denigrates that education and that person’s accomplishments.

We do need to give them the Ma Bell treatment.