seems more like higher ed admin, which to me seems like a distinction worth making? Every time I find 'faculty votes 99-1 against admin idiocy' when the headline says 'higher ed group makes deal'
Please checkout @sodrock.bsky.social for a thread about why this article's conclusions are wrong. Apparently the Wired article writer has a history of this, including MH370 being done by the US military somehow...
I dunno if this counts as misunderstanding on my part already, but mamdani-level expectations of el-sayed feels like a mismatch with the whole 'nyc mayor being uniquely powerful alone' and 'us senators uniquely powerful in ways not utilized for many decades and also in different more hidden ways'
The obvious answer is that these are different constituencies and so should have different representatives. Each House district shall have an absentee rep, a mail-in rep, and a same-day rep. The mail-in rep can only vote in Congress via mail-in
as in, this dude has a decent chance of being able to pull a USG if needed. While angrily carrying a notebook around to jot down all his newly inspired fiction ideas that he won't have the time to write b/c of whatever bs landed him there
read something a few days ago about real war winners being rando people who'd rather be doing anything else so they're here to mop up the raving warriors and get it done with
Never thought it through but have read Bailey was operating as a public bank - intent isn't profit it is investment. He was stuck b/c unlike a properly chartered public bank, he had to get resources from higher up that were hostile to his intentions, kinda of like the USPS of the past two decades
Discussing the Odyssey is a sport that demands you be in it for the long haul, you can't just walk in and win, you think long term. Think like a Marathon, but even longer, a....Odyssey
These people - particularly the ones with loud voices - are already lost. It would take specially trained mental health specialists and still luck of the roll to make any headway. Nothing less, including you or me, would suffice.
The only use of talking to these people is not to benefit them in any way, but to understand whatever systemic pressures set the stage for (but do not absolve them of) their foolish amorality and work to prevent that from damaging the next generation.
