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Posts by MattBille

Using it for hip pain (torn labrums on both sides, awaiting surgery). Effective: not quite on the level of OxyContin but a definite help. No side effects so far. Expensive: took some work by the docs to get approval for a trial prescription. Thumbs up.

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True, although no management of large government organizations. (Chairing the most disastrous Presidential primary campaign in history doesn't count.) Be prepared: The Republicans are going to hammer the staff abuse and put her husband on the news.

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That's a fair point. The question than is who can move the needle: I'd LIKE to think it's the person who can argue they have proven the abilities. Being in Congress proves zilch about your capability to run a state.

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Depressing, but also I wonder what the response from an older cohort would be: whether it's become more or less acceptable to be sneaky/pushy to get sex. Id like to think older men like me were a bit less scummy, but I don't know.

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The Democrats, it seems to me, do nothing but call out Trump's corruption. They need to keep doing that, of course, but they need to articulate how they would prevent corruption while delivering progress. They're not as good at that.

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I don't think her staff calls her "sweet." Or "great." Dems need to unite behind someone with actual experience running a large government organization. Beccarqa perhaps.

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Gorilla warfare rarely makes the news :)

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My daughter wrote to me about how many people in her FB feed thought the mission was fake, concluding "Natural selection is failing us."

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It would not be the first time an intelligence agency leaked about a capability as misdirection to cover up what they had really used. Just making this example up, but if you had used sources in the Iranian military you didn't want anyone looking for, this is the kind of thing you'd say.

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That we have discovered a half dozen species in this century and may find a couple more would have stunned Melville, although he would have asked, "Do they have much oil in them?"

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Yes. He had no idea how many species there were: everything that was not a sperm whale got lumped into a handful of species because they didn't matter.

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The whale facts are the best part for some of us! Many are outdated, but they show how whalers and "men of science" viewed these awesome creatures.

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I understand the concerns about Earth law enforcers or soldiers, but they would make highly useful assistants for astronauts on other bodies. They could scout terrain, tote heavy equipment and rock samples, carry spare oxygen, perform rescues, and much more.

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Hmm. What were ancient people looking at if the moon is a hoax? Sone people are bizarre. I told an Apollo denier I watched the A-11 launch with my own eyes: he said "But you didn't see them land." Well, true, NASA wasn't taking 9 year-old astronauts.

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The timeline is optimistic, but I can envision the first robots testing resource extraction and building techniques being there in 2030. To move on, we need a legal regime. Current treaties work for a small base doing science, but long-term habitation with major extraction needs new agreements.

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You can only do it by deciding what matters to you most is near-term domestic market share, rather that global competitiveness, preparation for a non-ICE market, or even your company's long-term health. Your quarterly profit numbers respond best to the former. This is 1970 replayed.

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When I first read of moving USFWS HQ out of DC, I thought it might be good, given how DC bureaucracies strangle innovation. But details show the plan will be destructive: indeed, it can only be construed as DELIBERATELY destructive to the agency's knowledge, scientific capabilities, and outreach.

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They are scared: that she'll appeal enough to the younger, "lefter" wing of the party to get nominated (could happen), but then lose the center (such as it is) on experience/accomplishments to even weak nominees like Vance or Cruz. (She won't be VP: nominees don't like VPs who draw the spotlight.)

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That's a fair point. But no one has gone from being a Representative only to the White House since Abe Lincoln, and those were pretty unique circumstances. Democrats will hammer her on electability in the primaries.

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The Senate should be her goal. A Presidential candidate? She has a genius for media but no managerial experience and no major legislative accomplishments. No one, however talented, can jump House to White House without either of those.

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Dr Alice Gorman highlights a little-known aspect of the Artemis mission, and one I had no idea about: the inclusion of Sasquatch by the Canadian Indigenous artist who created the CSA astronaut's patch as a symbol representing one of seven traditional values.

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#HorrorWritersChat A favorite concept of imprisonment - one hard to pull off but used in films from Jaws to the underrated indie The Burrowers - is being imprisoned in the open. You can move in any direction you want, but the threat is faster: you are still contained.

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The one whale loving solely in what out government is calling the Gulf if American, and we're not going too protect it. The irony is revolting.

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Another reason to take deep-sea mining off the board, although I assume they could find other "scientific" cover missions within legitimate marine research.

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- Page 103, scientific thriller Apex Predator, February 2027 from Blackstone

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"That head-butt was something," Geoff said when Renee's breathing had returned to normal. "Where'd you learn that?"
"Joe Ledger novel," the geologist said. "Bastard made a pass and then crowded me into the corner, so I acted scared and then nailed him. This is why I'd rather be out breaking rocks."

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I've no expertise in the subject matter, but shouldn't journals, to be indexed, have to identify an individual editor responsible for acting promptly on potential retractions?

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That's what aircraft carriers are for.

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This is insane.

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