David Burbach

A reasonable concern beyond how high the heavy spray is reaching is the possibility of a landslide, especially since the quake might have already destabilized slopes. Cool as it would be to film getting the hell away makes sense

YouTube video by In Context A man walking his dog captures footage as the tsunami strike Kamchatka’s coast last week.

TSUNAMI: video of the recent Kamchatka tsunami hitting a nearby shore with ocean-facing cliffs. My sense of how high is "safe" just changed 😱, and this was likely a good deal smaller than the Cascadia tsunami (OR/WA) will be

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ChatGPT, what will it do to health insurance usage if everybody gets paid a wad of cash for every prescription called in?

ChatGPT, how do you fake the symptoms for lipodystrophy?

ChatGPT, how do you do a kickback with your doctor? Is it like money laundering?

The govt layoffs would not necessarily track business conditions trends, but would still represent lost consumer spending, so I guess depends on the question you want answered. I probably wouldn't say "skew" since it's always been the case that fed / state / local govt jobs count

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Two thoughts:

1. This makes sense as a source of revision that wouldn't be caught in conventional adjustments

2. A lot of the govt layoffs are still to be counted as 150,000 feds on Deferred Resignation count as 'employed' until 9/30

The Stephen Miller plan for America is to make the nation dramatically poorer in the aggregate in order to shift which types of people are the wealthiest and most influential.

The idea is to make America a gigantic Alabama.

To put in terms for milwonk followers, this is like I posted : "My strategy can win the war if the US Navy has 50 aircraft carriers and operates B-52s off of them. Perhaps the Navy has 50 today? Who can say. Congress should demand they count. I am a credible defense expert"

As a reader, when I see a critical and easily knowable factual question left unanswered in a paper, I wonder why the authors didn't bother to look it up. From a standing start it took me a couple of minutes to see an estimate of remaining fuel on Juno, which is far far short of the requirement

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The "usually" ought to be a law for safe identification purposes. Now I'll have to dissect oblong fried objects to see if its something I want to eat or not.

They want an America that is less connected, less culturally rich, even less economically rich.

They also specifically hate college towns as blue islands in red states.

Are those fried pickles? Long ago changing planes in CLT I was served a bbq meal with things of that shape, and I assumed they were oblong hush puppies since the thought that someone might deep fry a pickle had never occurred to me. Quite a shock to bite into it.

I am loathe to appear to defend ICE, but since this is getting attention today, the student loan forgiveness ICE is advertising is the regular PSLF program that applies to any government job, not a new ICE-only forgiveness.

The huge signing bonuses and other perks are indeed ICE special.

It’s not just the dollars. It’s the goodwill the US generates, the connections we create student by student—what a devastating loss

Economist discovering there are things that have been written beyond what is cataloged in EconLit

I mean, yes, I'd rather have Summers out there criticizing Trump's authoritarianism, but for gods sake I wish people would understand how this works

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I will note again that just a week ago when the question was Trump using federal power against academic departments *other* than Economics at Columbia or Harvard, Summers went out of his way to say it sounded like a good deal to him

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

And @radiofreetom.bsky.social scoffs at quantitative social science

"Kurtzman era TREK is measurably “dumber” than its Roddenberry and Berman era counterparts"

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

“Ms. Easterly’s rise in elite policy circles over three decades and her sudden fall at the hands of Ms. Loomer, 32, tell the story of how Washington is changing during Mr. Trump’s second term and why it might never be the same.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

I tell people to take your kids out and look at the stars, now. It'll be like living next to a busy airport soon enough, but everywhere

He obviously has an interest in making himself look good but there's reporting that's the sort of thing Vivek intended when he joined up w Musk for DOGE

I.e., dont look at him as a "new law grad"

Look at him as "experienced right wing blogger who unlike most bloggers can be appointed to attorney jobs"

I think the evidence is that Trump personally likes what this guy has to say. While he hasn't been a household name here, from various articles Ingrassia has been one of Trump's most frequent reposts on Truth since 2021

While I've worked for DOD my whole career I have a lot of grad school era friends who've had very successful IT careers, and... yeah lol.

( apologies to any loyal Kaiser Wilhelm II subjects somehow still around for getting dragged into this one, I'm willing to let 1918 by bygones )