John Scudder

Not stipulated that “it suspects” is the correct formulation. It would be correct to write “it says it suspects” or “it claims it suspects”. There is no basis for the assumption of good faith implicit in what you wrote.

Not an ocean, ok. But everyone knows the Great Lakes are seas. Duh. And your map is about THE SEA.

Booyah.

ISTM it’s fair to say the Senate Repubs own the shutdown because they could pass the present bill with their own votes alone, and the House Repubs own it because they could reconvene and negotiate. So in toto, the Republicans own it, lock, stock, and barrel.

I’m obvs not OP but AFAICT if they wanted to negotiate like oh say every Congress ever in the past, they would need the House. Sure, narrowly about passing the present text it’s about the Senate.

I would never claim to speak for “the people” (I suppose that’s why I’ll never be a politician) but that sure resonates with me.

“The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat”.

I see it’s time to break out Harry S Truman again (www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...)

A dangerous allergy to tiny little crowds or being booed?

As I recall, the argument is the marginal cost to send is nil and the value of reeling in a single mark is substantial, so even if you have to send out a million texts to get one response, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But also, no.

Yeah, if I were an alum of one of these once-proud university systems I’d be pissed.

Students who have a choice will avoid Texas as well. Source: my kid is a high school senior, and I know what factors they’re considering.

You’re clearly right that state leadership won’t care, though. See also Florida.

As before, positive feedback couldn’t be pigeonholed to a particular type. Young, old, Mercedes, jacked-up trucks, delivery vans, all ethnicities.

The vibe was positive and joyful.

Both times we had protestors spread out along the main road leading to the Michigan stadium on a game day. This time I counted two middle fingers and one incoherent rant, out of thousands of cars over the course of two hours. I forget the count from last time but it was more than single digits.

Unscientific impression of this morning’s Ann Arbor protest: overwhelmingly positive response from passers-by AND an order of magnitude less negative response, compared to a similar protest in the spring.

What he said.

Happily (?) the company has a moral-hazard-as-a-service URL rewriter that takes all the guesswork out of it and encourages me to blindly click URLs I receive in random emails, because they promise to take care of the thinking.

There may be a more suspicious way to start an email than,

"Dear Team Member,
This is not a phishing email,"

but I don't know what it is.

Sometimes out-of-sequence delivery is just a minor oops. One can imagine a scenario where it could cause major heartburn though. Fortunately my incident was of the former variety.

I was today years old when I found out Apple Messages or iMessage or whatever it’s called this week doesn’t guarantee in-order delivery of messages.

With what feels like increasing frequency and urgency I get emails telling me “John, you’re on a roll on LinkedIn!”

Bro, I am not even on an English muffin on LinkedIn. I ignore it as much as I can. I’d call it “benign neglect” but I’m not sure about the benign part.

Now that you mention it, the arrows provide an extra extra layer of redundancy.

Where else would they be?

Right. That’s the rub.

I say this as someone who generally is unsympathetic to the ZOMG POPULATION DECLINE position. After listening I’m not a convert but I’m putting the book on my reading list to see if the author can do a better job of making his case in long-form. It was a decent ad for the book, at least.

I’m going to hazard a WILD GUESS here that some of the people commenting didn’t listen to the interview.

I’d back any candidate running on this platform.

Holy shit, this is amazing

Great way to ruin an economy though. Maybe there was a typo in the mission statement.

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This seems right. www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7...

It’s almost as if there’s some key difference between these categories. Maybe having to do with whether their work is to uphold the law, or to violate it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯