Steven Balbus
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The Romans would’ve just dug another strait.
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@kinsellawarren I like forward to one obituary above all others.
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@KingMntungwa The bovine trans counsellor did one hell of a job.
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@Mishi_2210 The killing has nothing to do with the arithmetic.
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Everyone says 20 ,but that’s not the real answer
If you solve this, you’re in the top 1%
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The war against Iran's Islamic regime was justifiable for any one of many reasons: they were building nuclear weapons, they are funding terror groups, they have brutalized their own people.
It's a just war for those reasons. But the wrong leaders have overseen it, which dooms it.
If Trump falsely declares victory and withdraws, things will be worse than before it started.
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@EylonALevy It’s a problem, but nowhere near our biggest problem. We’re busy with Ukraine right now, a much bigger problem that the US insisted we make our own, and so we have. You guys have got this one 👍🏼
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The Iranian regime is a direct threat to Britain.
In 24 hours:
1️⃣ Fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia
2️⃣ Two spies arrested for entering nuclear submarine base in Scotland
3️⃣ Spies on trial for monitoring synagogues & Jewish schools
Still think it’s not your problem?
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@joni_askola Trump (and his “brain trust”) seem not to have understood Western economic vulnerability to disruption in the SOH.
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The paradox of this war is that Iran’s military has been deeply unimpressive, yet it completely cornered Trump.
For Tehran, this fight is existential. For the US, it is not.
Combine their willingness to go further with Trump’s abysmal planning, and it results in total disaster
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@joaquinbarroso An editor doing his job, instead of acting like an editorial secretary, would indeed intervene at this point and accept the paper with perhaps a very few additional references.
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I'm so mad. Once again, got a paper accepted, but Ref2 wants me to add 4 references all having a single author in common, whereas Ref1 suggests 6 with another common author!
This unethical behavior should be stopped by the editors.
Should I say who those authors are? Thoughts?
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Homer Simpson level planning in the Presidential office. Doh!
Joni Askola@joni_askola
Going to war with a country, then immediately floating the idea of lifting sanctions on its oil to prevent your own economic collapse, is the definition of strategic failure
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@Math_files They move in straight lines…except when they instantaneously change their direction to keep within a circular boundary.
I could describe a circular orbit in exactly the same way: straight lines that change direction after tiny time intervals to stay in a circular path.
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It appears circular, but the balls are really moving in straight lines
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@jwilcox79 Even if he were not a 34 time convicted felon. Even if he did not lead an insurrection that resulted in many deaths. The fact that we are a country that could even conceive of elected him twice, let alone do it, is brutally damning. That won’t change. We are who we are.
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Heard this from multiple people I know in Europe: Bringing Trump back (after Jan 6, etc) broke their faith in the American electorate.
And they can't allow long-term trust (and alliances, etc) if voters in, say, Wisconsin might go insane every other election.
Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom
We could argue that Trump 1 was a one-off, a freak occurrence. But electing him *twice*? Raises reasonable questions about what kind of electorate would do that.
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@S___Elliott Purple Noon. (French version of The Talented Mr Ripley.)
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Movies are that are better than the book:
No Country For Old Men
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Strangers On A Train
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@joni_askola He’ll make the concessions, and promptly declare a victory, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
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Trump is now cornered in the Strait of Hormuz.
He is forced to choose between massive military escalation and embarrassing concessions in order to restore global shipping.
Stumbling into this severe bottleneck is a textbook example of strategic failure
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@mathemetica An old puzzle is to note that the hands of a clock are together at noon; at what time will they be exactly together again? The answer is 12/11 of an hour later. Then 12/11 of an hour after that…See why?
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Mind-Blowing Clock Math: Connect the tips of the hour & minute hands every minute… and this insane 11-lobed flower explodes onto the screen!
Who knew your wall clock was secretly drawing perfect geometry?
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@LuizaJarovsky Yeah, well, I’d have to at least look at the books to know. In the meantime, I benefit enormously from reading what AI has to say on topics I wish to know more about, and then thinking about whether what I’ve learned makes sense in the overall scheme of things.
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@WKCosmo I’m always astounded that the needed information is right there in the very definition of the commutator of the covariant derivative.
You take a simple projection along U^mu, manipulate things a bit, and out drops the heart of the singularity theorems. Too good to be true.
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