Stephen Ciatti, Ph.D.

Donald Trump - the English translation from Latin for “Butthurtius Maximus”…

Just next-level unintentional comedy gold from the purchasing fool; “We expected that it would have the integrity of the president of the United States…” -my dude, it sure does! In every possible way, this POS watch reflects the POS in the Oval Office. Poor quality, tacky AF, and grossly overpriced.

Ciatti joins swim’s record-breaker’s club as Hornbeck, Lindberg retire Entering the 2025 NWC Swim Championships on Feb. 16, the only active school record holders, Cole Lindberg (MBA ʼ25) and Anna Hornbeck (ʼ25), were set for their last-ever meet in Bearcat gold. However,...

Amid the current state of the Grifting Imbecile’s nonsensical bullshit, my daughter accomplished something cool! Sometimes we all need a break from the stupidity of the moment.

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A 1-star review for Google Maps and the “Gulf of Toddler Tantrums” it is. What a farce.

Almost inevitable. His metrics and eye test were poor for a large chunk of his Kraken tenure, especially this season. He seems like a great guy; I hope he succeeds wherever he goes! But the Kraken won’t pay $10.9M for goaltending to have 35 & 31 in net next year. Net belongs to 35 now.

Bob Uecker, Hall of Fame broadcaster and revered baseball personality, dies at 90 In a sport he adored, Bob Uecker was "Mr. Baseball." In Milwaukee, he was just "Ueck."

Growing up in Milwaukee in the 70s and 80s, Ueck was the soundtrack to my summers. All of my roadtrips across WI when I was in grad school in the 90s were narrated by Ueck & Brewer games. Baseball lost an icon. www.nytimes.com/athletic/596...

It’s a really HUGE top!! The spin is actually reasonably fast for an object this size. The precession angle is only 23 degrees or so.

Planets spin due to how they were formed. The process is really cool! And, no friction to slow down the spin.

If earth rotated faster, we would have less wobble. The days would be shorter and the seasons less diverse. If earth rotated more slowly, the tilt angle would get larger, and seasons would vary even more noticeably. Don’t know if this explanation helps - it seemed to help my students. 😁

If you think of it more like a spinning top, rather than as a ball, it starts to make more sense. If you pull the cord hard, the spinning top stays almost vertically upright. But as the rotational speed slows, it starts to precess, or wobble, a bit. That slight wobble is what gives us our seasons.

The Grifting Imbecile did this the last time, too. I used to be a National Lab research scientist. His transition team sent out a questionnaire demanding a list of all professional societies, political activities, who we voted for, etc.
The request ended up dying, as they pled “ignorance”. Not now.

The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed.

Her piece here: https://bit.ly/3Pk1g07

Corruption knows no party boundaries. But the GOP incentivizes corruption at levels that are incredible! Billionaires have little incentive to hedge their bets anymore. What can Dems give them now that is better than what they have? Not much.

The ultra wealthy certainly try to “reduce” the damage Dems can do - hence Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, et al. But it’s hedging. The GOP nakedly pursues oligarchy. No point in hedging anymore. The GOP controls enough now. No need to control Dems behind the scenes. Just support oligarchy.

Of course - but that coincides with the GOP, not the Dems. These jokers don’t want Medicare for All, they don’t want unions, they don’t want higher taxes for more social services. What makes you think they support Dem social policies enough to exchange the financial benefits of GOP?

Wanna know why the system is so fucked up?? Look at this graph. When those lines diverge enough, human history tells us, with certainty, that violence follows. It’s taken 45 years to get here. And we just elected a grifting imbecile that wants to push these lines farther apart.

A fairer system and Brian Thompson is still alive, just wealthy instead of fucking obscenely wealthy. He could’ve chosen a different path with lower profit margins. He didn’t choose that. He willfully chose obscene wealth. He got a different outcome. He is the victim of his own insatiable greed.

She’s not right. Brian Thompson murdered thousands of people. No one cared. Not you, & not Joyce Carol Oates. He was held accountable for his murders in the only way left available to his victims. Avoid future CEO murders? Don’t incentivize massive profits over human suffering.

Corporations will “hedge their bets” by supporting Dem candidates in clearly blue areas. But the execs that run those corporations are as “red” as red gets. They’re wealthy white guys that don’t give a shit about anyone else. It’s not some grand conspiracy. It’s pretty naked greed.

I think you’re giving the wealthy more intellectual credit than they deserve. I’ve met several of these jackinapes. They aren’t that clever or that smart, collectively. Most are like Trump - nepo babies that didn’t earn a thing. Many of them are fascist leaning because it means “more for them”.

Definitely. The obscenely wealthy control the GOP. They rely on the belligerently ignorant to give them carte blanch in the name of “freedumb”.
The Dems are too scattershot to be “controlled” which is likely why they have popular policies but lose elections.
Citizens United was deadly…

Well, Brian Thompson was a murderer that didn’t need any guns to kill thousands of people. Just greed and power.
Gun law reform is needed. We won’t get it soon, but it’s needed.
Perversely, corp execs might tread a bit more lightly as a result. Their own power structure keeps the guns flowing.

Yes. That’s exactly what will happen. This killing did not “solve” the fundamental problem. But it did get the attention of the parasites in a way that caused a slight change in behavior. They reacted. But genuine change needs to happen at the ballot box. We horrifically fucked that up a month ago.

In the age of Trump, let me ask you. What’s your solution? Anything better than the platitude you posed? Trust the system? The current system is what PUT us here. Work to make the system better? Of course. Not easy, and going to get even harder now. A gun shouldn’t be the solution. But here we are.

Aetna changed their fucked up anesthesia policy NOT because it was wrong, but they were terrified they might be next.

If you had Aetna insurance & had surgery, you’d be on the hook for tens of thousands of $ for any complication. Go look at a bill if you don’t believe. Now? Looks a bit different.

Society should not allow the obscenely wealthy such a dominant position - taxes, regulations, rules, etc. UHC cheated desperate people out of services already paid for. The system, instead of stopping it, rewarded them with ungodly wealth. Violence was inevitable because the system is broken.

When the options for justice are all taken out of your hands, you will assuredly encounter desperately furious people that you fucked over that will choose violence. These wealthy parasites fear nothing from the system. The system protects them, it doesn’t hold them accountable. There is the problem

I’ve faced off with insurance assholes many times over coverage we rightfully deserved - wife has chronic illnesses and is a cancer survivor. The ACA prevented my personal bankruptcy, & I personally thanked Pres Obama when I met him. These insurance assholes only under leverage. Nothing else.

Vengeance indeed does NOT equal justice. But justice is not a concept faced by wealthy people in the US. We just voted for LESS justice, in fact.

What happened the next day with Aetna & anesthesia limits? You think they reversed course because they changed their minds on policy? Nope. It was fear.