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Ty Webb

@tywebb82.bsky.social

Data, software engineering, politics, cricket. Temporarily Midwestern.

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I think his former anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage views being purely transactional is part of why it was so easy for him (and some other neocons) to migrate away from Trump and the Republicans.

18.08.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And yet faced with this existential threat the sensible centrists have coalesced around a corrupt sexual assaulter who killed a bunch of the elderly in their nursing homes.

20.06.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's it's pretty reliable for right now is writing small snippets of code that would take 20 mins to figure out yourself. Much easier to verify that's correct vs summarizing a set of sources, but chatGPT is confident either way. Very different user experience for programmers vs everyone else.

26.01.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Clifford Skridlow Clifford Skridlow is the main protagonist in the 1983 comedy film Doctor Detroit. He is portrayed by Dan Aykroyd, who also played Ray Stantz in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and the 1989 sequel, Ghostbus...

Googling the name of the "PhD" before posting would have been a wise choice.

hero.fandom.com/wiki/Cliffor...

27.08.2024 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Except for 1900, or any year ending in 00 that is not divisible by 400 (i.e. 2000 was a leap year, 2100 won't be).

25.08.2024 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we take Trump being 6'3" at face value, this will be the second largest height difference between Presidential candidates in history. Only Lincoln (6'4'') vs Douglas (5'4'') was greater.

24.08.2024 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sen's example of starving vs fasting has always stuck with me.

22.08.2024 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah. That makes sense. Over rating how effective Ryan would be in a debate because he was able to sucker in enough of the DC journalist class.

19.08.2024 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan Requiem for the face and brain of the Republican Party.

Are you mixing him up with someone else? For all his faults, Chait has consistently been a critic of bullshit Republican economics that Ryan exemplified nymag.com/intelligence...

19.08.2024 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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