Emil Briggs

LOL. It has been entertaining in a way not usually associated with trials.

Perfection.

I've never thought that but yeah I've been worried. Tonight's results give me hope but I think increase the chance of something extreme from the R's.

My wife doesn't understand why I like listening to music in a language I don't know but this is a good explanation.

Any gains Dems make right now are far more likely to come about because of a backlash against the current administration.

If you look at this military record it makes sense. He was an infantry officer but never completed Ranger or Airborne school. Never served in any leadership position above the platoon level. Clearly substandard and he's trying to compensate for his feelings of inadequacy now with these workout vids.

You need to know what interests they value the most. For a substantial part of the population it's not economic.

I wonder about the cognitive dissonance that lets Trump supporters with even a minimal knowledge of networking square this statement with their belief that he's all there mentally.

Maga defense of that cringe worthy workout video he posted is just as bad. Their typical response to criticism seems to be "He's 45 and you think you could do better". Well I'm in my 60s and yeah I can do better. But how many pullups you can do is irrelevant to running DOD.

Actually that bit about secession might not be a bad idea. After a few years without the subsidies blue states provide to red states they would likely come crawling back.

Anecdotally the one in Raleigh today was much bigger than the one in June which I also attended. There were people there who normally don't pay that much attention to politics other than right before an election.

Labels aside I'm curious how the effort to portray Portland as a war torn wasteland is going with the general public. Portland metro area pop is over 2 million. So it's a good bet the vast majority of people know someone at most 1 or 2 connections removed from a resident who will make clear it's BS.

I hadn't seen the Pitzer essay. Thanks for pointing it out. And this sums up the current moment quite well.

"Critically, it also gives him an understanding that sometimes — often — things are simply bad and won’t get better for quite some time."

Hegseth's personality disorders would be fascinating if he wasn't in his current position. He's obsessed with appearing fit (even though his workout video showed he's nothing special) and he seems to project that obsession onto others.

There are normally limits on the number of credit hours you can take per semester though. So using them for something that won't contribute to your degree is almost unheard of. Unless of course there's another motive.

That looks like a pretty lethal tote bag though!

And speaking just from personal acquaintances I can testify there were plenty of liberal leaning lawyers who kept defending the court well past the point where it made any sense whatsoever.

Speaking of Nobel Prizes maybe the committee could offer Trump the prize in medicine for Operation Warp Speed, if he fires RFK and restores all the health research funding that's been cut. Won't happen of course but his ego is so large I think he would jump at it.

Reagan caused enormous damage to American democracy but it had more to do with changes to tax law and SEC rules than the fairness doctrine. As Justice Brandeis noted.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both".

I seem to recall a movie that started like this.

that could certainly impact student evaluations and subsequent student success. Less of an issue in grad school where motivation levels are higher and talent level is more evenly distributed.

Interesting results but I wonder how it looks when you factor in student ability. What's good for one tier may not be good for another and could skew the results. My experience as a teacher showed me that teaching to the median ensured you were moving too fast for some and too slow for others. And

For sure it takes time to learn enough to reach that point. It still happens though but generally at the graduate level.

Absolutely. But I do think Feynman needed some structure around him at that age which was provided by the University setting.

It doesn't happen very often. But there is a theorem in my field named after Richard Feynman, who was a 19 year old undergrad when he developed it. Not many Feynmans out there though.

Yeah print media gets some things wrong. But there is plenty of video of him saying pretty awful shit so I think we know where he was coming from even if he was less blatant about it than some others.

I saw this easy rider a few years ago in Colorado.

Hmm how is this supposed to work? I mean just quoting stuff Charlie Kirk actually said makes him look pretty terrible. Will people get in trouble just for accurately quoting him?

Ah but what are the conditions? If properly chosen they could include almost all adults.

Good update. There's a category of mass shooter I don't think this applies too though. Thinking of someone like Cho the VT shooter who had a long history of mental illness. And, at least for that category, it does seem possible to do something about it if we are willing to put in the resources.