Gopher

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Owner of 1 dog, roommate to 2 cats, godfather to 1 bird.

Fan of Trek - old *and* new.

Currently obsessed with Lego.

Reads books - like, on actual paper. Mainly scifi.

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Windmills drive down real estate value THAT much?! Wow, I support them even more than I already did, now!

NEW: I explain how a throwaway line about windmills in Project 2025 shows there's absolutely no way Trump wasn't directly involved in crafting the fascist plan. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

According to Trump, based on no particular evidence, Biden may be taking performance-enhancing drugs. If there's drugs that make presidents better at being presidents, they should be mandatory for all presidents. Governing isn't a sport, it's a very important job.

with the Lego double-points thing starting, decided to go ahead and order the UCS AT-AT I'm planning to build after I tear down the UCS Falcon. I *may* have also impulsively bought the to-be-discontinued Mos Eisley and Landspeeder sets 👀

"People don't want to participate in polls, and when they do they often lie, so we tweaked the Lie-o-matic 9000 to pretend to be them by training it on their internet comments which are definitely 100% not lies." cool plan, bro.

Pollsters are simulating political surveys with AI because nobody answers the phone: ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi... "The big difference between humans and AI agents is that the AI agents always pick up the phone..."

Using AI for Political Polling – Ash Centerash.harvard.edu

This week I plan to start reverse-assembling my UCS Millennium Falcon, going through the manual in reverse and re-bagging the pieces in something close to the original packaging. Will be exhaustively photo-documenting the process as I go. Then time to find it a new home, and buy myself the UCS AT-AT

Real Zoolander, "But why male models?" energy here. I hear you slept through most of the trial, but surely your lawyers had a legal aid summarize the trial in your preferred bullet-point format for you each day?

Starting to make some headway with a dedicated space for working on Lego projects. Everything is a work in progress and still evolving, but it's finally starting to come together! Really want to find some shallow, letter-sized drawers... Details in comments.

Sometimes I'm sad that I came so late to Lego Modular City kits - so many old sets I'd have to pay out the nose for now! But I'm coming to think it's a good thing - it's encouraged me to be creative, instead. Working on a custom build with a Chinese restaurant on the ground floor and offices above.

During that era, I told a (first) date one time that I was a bit of a nerd. She responded by gasping and saying "No you're not! Never say that about yourself! You seem really cool!" And I knew right then it would not work out between us. 😆

Nerd culture in the early 2010s was a weird time, I remember the time I talked to a guy who had recently graduated from MIT at a party and told him my dad was an engineer too, and, you know, I’m something of a nerd myself, and he DREW OUT A LOGIC PUZZLE for me to solve and said “Prove it.”

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“‘I meant,’ said Ipslore bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?’ Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.” - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

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