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Sign of the times.

A spike in gas prices is one of the few times low info voters tap into a broader information ecosystem.

This is why I think Booker and Kelly et al are spouting out all the populist / fiscally illiterate bills right now.

Marginal but important voters are among them.

People see their gas prices went up, tune in for a week or two and remember they hate Trump. It’s why I assume you saw so many Dems throwing around fiscally illiterate red meat populist bills over the last few days.

That’s the audience you’re trying to reach and they’re by definition marginal.

We’re at the point in the political calendar where even the equivalent of a TACO scenario comes with costs for the administration.

This war will be shorter than people expected two days ago but longer than people expect now

I think it’s going to make more normal people tune into politics during a midterm year earlier than they would otherwise.

Which is marginal but probably important.

The Chevy contract was given to a prominent Republican donor, Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports in North Carolina. It was not completed, meaning that other companies were not allowed to offer proposals and prices that they could fulfill the order for. An additional $174,000 to $230,000 was given to three companies to wrap the vehicles in their new markings.

That’s exactly what it is. You have to remember that car dealership owners are load bearing parts of the R coalition.

Also lol at the examiner getting “non compete” wrong here.

Morgan Wallen is playing in the background.

All the best to his recovery but I did laugh out loud at “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”said as a joke by someone actively having a stroke.

Just good humored response.

Yeah that’s the worrying part. :|

The most incel shit imaginable good lord

I think our president is signaling that he’s gonna do the thing he did with Covid and just pretend it doesn’t exist despite huge consequences to the polity, his government, and eventually himself.

Hope I’m wrong on that and welcome feedback etc

He’s completely correct, it’s just… there’s a lot going on here.

A delightfully quaint way to describe it.

Like, all outcomes on the table from Iranian capitulation to Iraq 2.0 but worse, but this is his way of taking the covid thing and just *putting it somewhere else*.

This means that it’s no longer Trump’s fault that gas prices go up.

I half wonder if that’s the entire purpose here.

False Alarms and Missed Events: The Impact and Origins of Perceived Inaccuracy in Tornado Warning Systems Theory and conventional wisdom suggest that errors undermine the credibility of tornado warning systems and thus decrease the probability that individuals will comply (i.e., engage in protective acti...

From a forecast communication standpoint, this event highlights the asymmetric costs of false alarms and missed events on trust - perceived repeated false alarms can chip away at forecast trust but a single perceived missed event can devastate trust (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) 11/16

Yeah I started writing protocols and counting N95 masks, panicked, that sort of thing.

Oddly enough I knew we were cooked when the Iranian minister of health went on public broadcast telling everyone that everything was fine while was clearly very sick with COVID.

There were many polite and legal fictions we used to justify our continued way of governance.

getting serious replies to my Travis Kelce jokes so here are the facts of the case:

has Kelce's play dropped off: yes

is Kelce good enough to keep playing in the NFL: also yes

should Kelce keep playing football after the world's wealthiest, most popular musician wrote a song about his penis: no

alright well

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

woah woah woah slow down there tiger

Interesting they filed in a San Francisco court, you’d think this would end up in the court of federal claims since it involves government contracting.

Unless this has all been done completely separate from Anthropic’s government contracts? Somehow?

I’ll try and pull the complaint.

Zilong Ji, Huiwen Zhang, Rokas Stonis, Neil Burgess doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.08.710351 During random foraging, the positional signal decoded from entorhinal grid cells exhibits left-right theta sweeps, alternating from one side of the heading direction to the other across successive theta cycles. Here, we report that theta sweeps are topographically organised along the dorsoventral axis of the medial entorhinal cortex, with the angular deviation from heading direction increasing gradually from dorsal (smaller scale) to ventral (larger scale) modules. This gradient coexists with a corresponding dorsoventral increase in angular deviation decoded from theta-modulated directional cells, which drive grid-cell theta sweeps. These phenomena parallel a broadening of head direction tuning and increasing occurrence of theta cycle skipping in single cell firing along the dorsoventral axis. Computational modelling demonstrates that these patterns are consistent with continuous attractor dynamics and a dorsoventral gradient in firing rate adaptation. These results highlight how theta sweeps can simultaneously represent multiple potential future locations and reveal a clear neural mechanism underlying this process.

big, if true

finally, i have been talking about the dorsoventral gradianet of theta sweeps in medial entorhinal cortices for years

To clarify, sure, Shi’i Islam affirms the principle of hereditary succession, but as far as I know *only* for the office of Caliph/Imam, and from a single family line.

In (most) other situations, the proto-Shi’i and Shi’i have bitterly opposed it - esp in monarchical/mere political succession.

If only I were patient enough to read!

Would it be fair to view this as the “Iranian regime chose hereditary succession not out of dedication to the idea of hereditary monarchy, but as a reflection of political realities and messaging necessity”?

Long term implications of that I’ll leave to you but seem interesting.