Datanerd

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A very fine bearded economist. Chattanooga, TN; near Washington, DC; and New Smyrna Beach, FL. Profile pic is of a gator next to a canal, banner is of roseate spoonbills, both at Merritt Island NWR.

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Cheese Caves and Food Surpluses: Why the U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheesewww.farmlinkproject.org Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept...

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Taka Hanazawa

There should be a refrigerator full of sandwiches at every publicly accessible Federal facility. This includes post offices, military recruiting centers, IRS offices, WHATEVER. The sandwiches are not very good, but, & this is KEY, they are absolutely FREE to anyone who wants one no questions asked

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POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

Postal banking FTW!

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People complained that Chengdu zoo was letting their clouded leopard get fat, their expert explained "This cat is like thirty years old, that's twice as old clouded leopards GET, and he's just had major surgery. Making him lose weight would do WAY more harm, just let him have this."

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Gerry Doyle

i've been losing my mind over this ever since chris rufo started just openly tweeting out his game plans. and it just didn't matter! people were still somehow falling for it! AAAaaAAaaAaAaAA

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Popehat

If anyone wants to understand why Mexico has such problems with corruption, it's LITERALLY because their Constitution actually PROHIBITS prosecuting presidents, sitting or retired. That has meant Mexican presidents can and thus generally do whatever they want, legal or not.

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Good for her. Do it.

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I'm calling on Arthur Gregg Sulzberger to step down as publisher of The New York Times. his recent performance proves he isn't up to the task

If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don’t explain it

If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but dont explain it

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Also, I would REALLY like the justices to wade into the red snapper issues we have in the Southeast, because once you get near them, you will never escape and get to do anything else ever. Period. I referred to this as “crossing the red snapper event horizon.”

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Scott Crosson 🐟📈

MS level Bayesian statistics, competent R programmer, and I have written papers on fisheries management policy (for NOAA, as a consultant). I would gladly take Thomas’ seat and wouldn’t accept any bribes until after my decisions. 😉

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Scott Crosson 🐟📈

I have read hundreds of NOAA fisheries documents and I can’t recall one that had only six pages of acronyms at the start 😂

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As someone who works at the agency (NOAA) that just lost Relentless, I would like to welcome the Justices to fisheries management 101. I have six pages of acronyms you will need to learn. I’m assuming you have already taken PhD level classes in Bayesian statistics and are a fluent R programmer.

In a fucked up turn of events, I would use the end of Chevron as the excuse to expand the court and the whole judiciary by pointing out that they don’t have the capacity to hear all the cases they just gave themselves. 27 justices, double the size of the circuits. Huh. Thanks John Roberts.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary

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Gladstone in DC

I'm reminded of what JFK said, DC is a combination of northern charm and southern efficiency, and why Derek Brown named his bourbon bar Southern Efficiency.

Dan Snyder ruins everything (gift link from the Washington Post): wapo.st/45GfZty

Inside the battle to release controversial Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’wapo.st The American release of Donald Trump movie “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, is in question, despite a distribution deal on the table.

I keep hoping this isn't the case, and then it keeps being the case.

to add a little more here, it is not that economic anxiety is fake, it is that it cannot be neatly disentangled from racial anxieties. for instance, if you are doing well but see black people doing better, you may feel anxious on account of your internalized idea of what the racial order should be.

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Yell In a War

The AI facility in Musk’s new Gigafactory in Texas will house 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Each one consumes about 3,740 kWh annually. So *just to power the GPUs,* Musk will need 187GWh per year. This is higher annual consumption than some entire countries.

North: Edinburg, Scotland East: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) South: Singapore West: Nanaimo, Canada

N: Gullfoss, Iceland E: Narita, Japan S: Wellington, New Zealand W: Ozette, Washington

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to put it another way: putin agrees to get involved in a land war in asia

Russia's Putin and North Korea's Kim sign mutual defence pactwww.reuters.com Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a deal with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on Wednesday that included a mutual defence pledge, one of Russia's most significant moves in Asia for years that Kim said amounted to an "alliance".

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3" ordnance rifle from Hall's 2d Maine Battery final position on Cemetery Hill, adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial "that we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain..."

Turn off the lights, perfect, no notes

MAJOR-GENERAL Stanley enters, sings: I am the microplastics found in every human testicle I come from sources various, imported and domestical Although I am unlikely to eventuate sterility There’s no way I can be good news for gonadal fertility

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Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

So, even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments aren't precisely the same across traditions — the text is translated and even *numbered* differently. This law appears to mandate the KJV version — a Bible translation entire Christian traditions reject. apnews.com/article/loui...

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

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Ceejopolis

Really pissed him off when the 11th commandment was “Take it Easy” and Frey & Jackson Browne got the credit.

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The Twins won both a game and a headline, nice

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[P] Cakewrecks, but newspaper

The Twins won both a game and a headline, nice

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Self-Examined

Eh, Russian stuff has been subject to worse corruption with people stealing brass and tires for resale, so NorK stuff may be a step up.

This was not on my bingo card for the Ukraine War.

That North Korea is Russia's artillery shell sugar daddy is honestly hilarious. It's like it's been training for just this one specific moment for 70 years.