Jason Merkin

Jason Merkin

@jasonmerkin.bsky.social

dad and scientist. wrestler and cyclist. probably too sarcastic for my own good.

184 Followers 891 Following 25 Posts Joined Aug 2023
10 months ago

this would presumably have a pretty dramatic effect on court-shopping and directing cases to people like Kacsmaryk, no?

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10 months ago

The modern nfl quarterback has just wholly passed the Chicago Bears by. A lot of mid qbs have had 4000 yards yet no Chicago qb has.

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10 months ago

"chicago got a pope before they got a 4000 yard passer"

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10 months ago

US exports to Canada and the EU have cratered. But US exports to El Salvador are booming.

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10 months ago

missed opportunity to call it "pretty rad"

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10 months ago

"Be patient" is what no president has ever said when things are going well.

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10 months ago
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GitHub - ArcInstitute/xsra: An efficient CLI to extract sequences from the SRA An efficient CLI to extract sequences from the SRA - ArcInstitute/xsra

Extracting @NCBI SRA files with fasterq-dump can require 17x the size of the accession while decompressing. Our new tool xsra extracts sequences at 5x throughput with significantly less disk usage, built-in compression, and optional BINSEQ outputs

github.com/arcInstitute...

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10 months ago

how does it compare to specials in 2022 and 2024?

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11 months ago

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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11 months ago
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

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1 year ago
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Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.

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1 year ago

The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.

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1 year ago
Photo of Elon Musk and his little booger picker making Trump their cuck in the oval office. Trump is either making a poopie in his pants or slowly realizing that he's not really in charge. Or both. Could be both.

[record scratch] Yup. That's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. See, I wanted revenge on Joe Biden. And this guy said he was the richest man in the world and he'd help me. He'd even let me sit in the chair and play president. He said I wouldn't even look like a cuck...

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1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember when SJP was up in arms crying genocide and ethnic cleansing. Now the president they helped elect is pushing for actual ethnic cleansing.

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1 year ago
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The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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1 year ago

“I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.”

Brilliant.

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1 year ago

I suppose, in retrospect, that the time he sent an armed mob to kill people he didn't like, including his vice president, might have offered some hints to his character, but that's really just hindsight talking.

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1 year ago

Point well taken though. The lines are probably from Mexico, and just wait till we get tariffs on Italian imports

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1 year ago

It's not that bad. It's only about 10% more expensive, assuming half the alcohol is mezcal.

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1 year ago
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The Leaning Tower of Treason.

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1 year ago

only when measured in Kelvin

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1 year ago

Love it.

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1 year ago
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Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

Terrible.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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1 year ago

I wonder what Afghan vets think about this.

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1 year ago

my crabbiest millennial view is: I see you sent some kind of 'voice note' in this chat window, too bad I'm not listening to it because this is a chat window

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1 year ago

Theory i read was.....expected crowd size

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1 year ago

also, be from one of the preferred ancestries or countries. immigration law had strict quotas on "undesirables"

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1 year ago
Elon Musk tweeting:

woke_mind_virus found at 127.0.0.1
woke_mind_virus deleted rm -rf

When you pretend that you know how to use Linux

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