Ron Hay
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The 2020 US elections were a reality check for how fragile the legitimacy of elections really is. This is something that paper ballot advocates have been beating the drum on for decades, even before Bush v Gore.
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@RichardDawkins My favorite mind-blowing fact (that I probably realized while reading one of your books, or maybe Gould's) is that, over hundreds of millions of years, none of my ancestors ever failed at reproducing.
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There will come a time when you will be the ancestor of either every human on Earth or none.
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They all have something in common. I can’t quite put my finger on it...
NowThis Impact@nowthisimpact
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected Texas’ lawsuit to overturn the results of the election. These are the 126 GOP members of Congress who supported it.
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@PalmerReport Doesn't matter, this is just a prelude to give Trump a reason to pardon himself - Barr isn't suddenly done with Trump, he's just been working out the details on how to pull it all off.
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Who's involved in Donald Trump's pardon bribery scheme? palmerreport.com/analysis/whos-…
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@ID_AA_Carmack As fellow 50-year old, the 1940s to us as kids are like the 1980s to current kids.
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When I was young, the 1940s were the truly ancient times of golden age comics. At 50, "25 years before I was born" sounds quite recent, and 1776 is now only "a few lifetimes ago".
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Damn, my options are limited here.
Ryan Teague Beckwith@ryanbeckwith
If your last name was a store, what would it sell?
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If your last name was a store, what would it sell?
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@paulg Serious questions: If one group has worse ideas than another group, would we be seeing a similar phenomenon? Do we need to allow people to freely, continuously express their flat earth beliefs in all forums? How do we differentiate between good suppression and bad?
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The pattern here is strong evidence (as if we didn't already know it) that the pressure against the free expression of ideas is coming predominantly from the left.
Timur Kuran@timurkuran
Americans like to think of the US as the “land of the free.” But a majority are now afraid to speak their minds. Strong liberals feel least intimidated. But even 40% of them think twice before expressing an opinion. (Source: Cato 2020).
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One thing I didn't get about technical fields as a kid is that rigor is the standard ideas have to meet, not the source of them. The source is often the cheesiest sort of guessing.
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@paulg Balance is something that can be improved by strength training - stronger muscles can move faster as well as accelerate better. jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpts/2…
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My friend Trevor Blackwell, who made the first dynamically balancing biped (paulgraham.com/anybots.html) told me that a 6' man has to move his feet in ~400 ms to avoid falling. I wonder if sometimes, when old people fall, the root of the problem is not balance per se but speed.
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@anthony_s77 Polling is just ... polling. 2016 fell well within the margin of error. It doesn't predict, it just informs! Best not to pay too much attention to it.
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Am I the only one who has completely lost faith in polling? After 2016, I generally just laugh when I see them.
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@A2Slauson Good idea to let people know that school at Slauson starts next Monday, rather than after Labor day as expected by incoming elementary students! (Nearly all parents I know were surprised by this fact!)
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Slauson families: A NEW Zoom link was sent out today! Please contact Mrs. Chabot (chabot@aaps.k12.mi.us) if you did not receive an UPDATED link today!
Slauson MS@A2Slauson
Virtual Grade-Level Parent/Student Orientations 6th Grade Orientation: 8/26 @5:30PM. 7th & 8th Grade Orientation: 8/27 @5:30PM. Zoom links were shared with parents via school messenger on 08/21. Please contact Mrs. Chabot (chabot@aaps.k12.mi.us) if you did not receive the email.
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Ron Hay retweetledi
THIS. NEEDS. TO. GO. VIRAL.
#TrumpCantRideABike twitter.com/evan_eggers/st…
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Ron Hay retweetledi
These #DailyFastTests can stop the pandemic.
(Yes, you read that right)
Keep tweeting, retweeting, posting on FB, talking about it with friends, asking about it at work - every small conversation helps to help create a groundswell of awareness and support.
#RapidTestsNOW
Michael Mina@michaelmina_lab
To save society from this virus, we need to focus on daily fast #COVID19 tests. These are more critical now than even vaccines Forget the headlines! These are not less accurate. They are perhaps MORE accurate to tell when transmitting Ill explain 1/ nytimes.com/2020/08/06/hea…
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@JohnCleese Your tweets were one of the things that got me through the beginning of the pandemic, and it turns out you were twitting from my hometown, Ann Arbor!
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@A2SchoolsSuper I hope you are following @linseymarr
and @j_g_allen - they have real ideas for how to open schools. How are you addressing ventilation?
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@cwgabriel I read this when it originally went live. How old does that make me?
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Ron Hay retweetledi
I'm guessing fellow fan, @pattonoswalt might enjoy this.🤓
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