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  1. The Atlantic and Tribune articles are quite different. The Atlantic piece is mostly an explainer, while noting that an outbreak seems to have occurred in Florida, thought to be from Cuban screwworms evading the COPEG barrier. Now it seems the COPEG barrier has failed and is threatening Texas livestock.
  2. So, in one of the several lawsuits challenging presidential authority to set tariffs unilaterally, the Trump Administration is formally telling the Court of International Trade that he is using the tariffs as "leverage" to make trade deals and nothing else. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-states-mount-court-challenge-trumps-tariffs-2025-05-21/
  3. You want to talk about the O&G industry without talking about local and global politics?
  4. I guess you laugh because Trump hasn't committed genocide. True enough. But unlike all those other assholes, who did commit genocide in the shithole countries they took over, Trump took over the richest, arguably free-est, and most stable country in history, and has actually thrown the entire country into reverse at an alarming rate. He'd commit genocide in a heartbeat if he thought he could get away with it and it would help his ratings. But because he probably can't as it currently stands, berating national leaders will have to do.
  5. Yeah, true. For reference, past pardon attorneys have been seasoned criminal practitioners attuned to systemic flaws in sentencing and the courts more generally as well as criminal psychology and evidence of rehabilitation/tendency to recidivate. Given that their role is to assess people who have been sentenced over-harshly under flawed regimes (crack disparity for example) and/or who are deserving of early release or pardon. It should be a highly respectable and important position. Of course, they are often largely ignored for political expedience. They are rarely tools of expedience. Leave it to Trump, though.
  6. And independents that are actually independent are dumb as fuck and don't know shit about fuck. I saw an NYT article about the huge number of independents that don't know what's going on, currently.
  7. Has any national leader, ever, berated another national leader in a public forum before? You have Norks, Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Tojo, Mao and on and on. Just a plethora of assholes and psychopaths, none of whom can top this psychopathic asshole for psychotic assholery.
  8. She is an horrid cooze.
  9. More on this. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2025/05/13/jbs-meatpacking-history-of-bribery-prepares-ipo-batista-brothers-joesley-batista-wesley-batista/ Joesley and Wesley Batista, the billionaire brothers behind JBS, went to jail after paying off more than 1,800 politicians in their native Brazil and have struggled to launch a public offering in the U.S. But after one of their companies donated $5 million to Donald Trump’s second inaugural, their SEC troubles miraculously disappeared.
  10. Jesus Fucking Christ. That assclown, with no criminal and barely any actual legal experience, is the United States Pardon Attorney. https://www.justice.gov/pardon
  11. Does she have some legislation pending relating to this? Or just being an attention horse?
  12. She seems to be one of those certain types of Jew that seem to be quite gullible. I'm not sure what the defining characteristic is, but it seems a goodly percentage of those with Hebrew surnames outside Israel are a bit whacked out.
  13. Or maybe just DT.
  14. "Conservatives" get to spout counterfactuals but without getting shouted down by the leftists.
  15. So, corporate interests couldn't be bothered to eat a few percentage points of inflation for the good of their fellow citizens. But they'll gladly eat a full 10% or more to shield this fucking jagoff from the consequences of his actions. Shareholders should revolt.
  16. I think it goes back much further than 80 years. For whatever reason(s), the Tsarist monarchy was super-resistant to the Enlightenment and stayed locked in to about the 15th century or so relative to European monarchies. Arthur Koestler, a former German communist writing against Stalinist communism in Darkness At Noon, called it "vivisection morality," a willingness to cut on a living being in the name of "advancement." But Stalin was less an aberration than a reversion to Russian mean. Some Anastasis-style Russian apologist called this "Russian racism," but there's something going on over there that's not good and has been there for a long time.
  17. Also Gust Avrokatos.
  18. There are a whole series of Bob Lee Swagger books that are pretty good. I like Michael Pena and Levon Helm made that movie. Ned Beatty waddling around was pretty funny too.
  19. So here's a question for the Daktaris. Is there any "normal" mental deterioration with age, or is it all "dementia" of varying degree?
  20. Interesting that that credits it to the 40s. A lot of American Music/Femmes from the 19th century pretty strongly resembles bluegrass, to me anyway.
  21. So, all through undergrad, I called my profs "doctor," and so did everyone else. I tend to call expert witnesses "doctor" also, which is the only non-personal contact I have with PhDs. It took some adjustment not to call law school profs doctor. The whole "Dr. Jill Biden" thing is a scam that works on people who've never met a PhD.
  22. The patent discloses a specific strength (UTS/density) for this stuff of 300-500MPa*cm3/g, while steel is 50-255. So 10x is stretching a bit, but supportable. Jimmy has an MSME. I imagine he knows that, although he's a vibration/acoustic guy. We don't deal with wood much (that kind anyway, hey oh), but the density of wood is roughly 0.1x that of steel. So achieving a lower-grade steel-like UTS supports the notion, if just barely. And I guess in most cases, "structural steel" is lower grade. Also, like fiber-composite, there's a directionality to the strength (weaker transverse to the grain). That works for composites because of their near infinite formability. Less so for wood. Looking at this guy's patents, he was apparently originally looking at reducing the weight of wood, but then hit upon compressing it and wound up making it stronger.
  23. Bluegrass isn't country? Fairly serious question. Also, relatedly, Hank Williams.
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