He seemed an odd choice from the start given zero relevant experience.

This post will only speak to a certain segment of the population but for them it's pure gold!

I moved steadily left as I got older too but it's been interesting seeing how other friends from college evolved. It wasn't always in the direction I expected.

And? The Boll Weevils were aligned with his policies even if they hadn't officially changed parties yet. I moved down south near the end of the Reagan presidency and at that time southern dems were more conservative than a lot of NE Republicans.

2/2 problematic than the first IMO since it threatens American democracy. And yes intervening administrations could have done something about these. Dem administrations made progress on deficits for example only to see it reversed by Rs. No one has done much about the second issue though.

1/2 I voted for him twice. Like all Presidents he did some good things and some bad things. In his case the worst things played out over long time scales and are very bad indeed. Giant structural budget deficits and policies that promote extreme concentrations of wealth. The second is more

Also semiconductors, high performance computing, materials science etc.

The Energy Department has historically been perhaps the single largest source of funding for the physical sciences in the US. Which hasn't been a boondoggle at all and has generated enormous ROI.

Is passage still subject to tolls?

Back in the 90s the American Physical Society held it's annual March meeting, the largest meeting of physicists in the world, in Vegas. It's good for conventions with low rates because the hotels figure they'll make it back in gambling. Except they didn't because physicists understand statistics.

I live in the south and IMO she's the one who doesn't understand it.

It's astonishing to me that Congressional R's can look at this and think ignoring it is OK. Even if for no other reason than electoral self preservation.

Cooper has won 6 statewide elections in NC for AG and Gov. He even won in poor years for Dems so I don't think the race was ever really a tossup. But good to see the way things are trending.

Interesting framing in that article.

"Iran’s unlawful mining and other unlawful conduct created the crisis in the Strait."

I mean a badly thought out attack on Iran might have had something to do with it too.

If the US Navy opens fire on or boards and impounds an Indian or Chinese vessel in order to enforce the blockade that seems like it could open up another whole can of worms.

While Obama was a generational talent one can't ignore the favorable environment he had in 2008. Republicans not only lost the Presidential race but got wiped out across the board. 2028 is a long ways out but I'm betting national conditions are closer to 2008 than 2016 given the way things are going

I keep wondering if electoral self preservation will ever kick in for elected Republicans. But Trump at 35% doesn't appear to be enough motivation for any of them to break ranks so it's probably never going to happen.

The US government is more likely to change because of economic problems than Chinas. Trump has made lots of threats and then backed off from them. Maybe this time is different but I guess we'll see.

They have plenty of economic options that would work by causing serious pain in the US and making Trump back off. Those would hurt them as well so it's not a given they would use them. But they definitely have options.

China has a lot of ways to retaliate besides direct military action.

Opening fire on Chinese vessels would be another level entirely of escalation.

Given that a good number of the vessels Iran is allowing to transit the strait are Chinese it seems it also increases the chances of escalation.

So does that mean the US Navy is going to fire on the Chinese vessels Iran is allowing to pass through the strait? Because that seems like it could go very badly.

That should have read in my 60s.

I got the occasional tweak or injury that would bother me for a while but they would heal up and I generally felt pretty good until my 50s. Now in my 50s something is almost always stiff or achy.

I was an athlete and we got 1 credit hour per semester for playing our sport. Was definitely my favorite class!

I remember reading the Santa Clara serology paper at the time and while I have no background in medicine the statistical assumptions in that paper were so bad I had a hard time believing senior people could screw up to that degree. Unless of course it was deliberate.

The use of "virtue signaling" as an insult by some is baffling to me. But I suspect that set of people has a strong overlap with those who "vice-signal".

Yup. With one accuser there's a chance (albeit a small one) it's a frame job. With 4 the chances of that are non-existent.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...