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@egnowit

Interests include quiz bowl, Boise State University, math, sports, religion, politics and indigenous communities.

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Or Obama, trying to negotiate with Iran a decade+ ago.

09.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is a rare β€˜fire rainbow’ spotted over the Rocky Mountains, created when sunlight hits ice-crystal clouds at just the right angle. Seeing a fire rainbow requires extreme luck.

08.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

My brother made pesto for me once from nettles.

08.03.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I think two can play this game. If you want lentils, ask for peas.

08.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy birthday!

08.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd imagine that as CiC, it's probably fine? But I don't know protocols.

08.03.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He wore the dress white cap, and not the casual red.

I guess there was no formal black one.

08.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have a more-complete followup story that was the one you wanted to write?

08.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You might be thinking of a flat of Hormel, not a strait of Hormuz.

07.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BRB, changing my name to Colin Potus. I hope I can count on your vote.

07.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Somebody check to see if he has accounts on polymarket, and if he recently made wagers on capturing Maduro or attacking Iran.

07.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what the people voted for.

07.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm 53.

(But I'm not on dating sites.)

07.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't find out about him until my late 20s.

07.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe. Ah, looks like that's it.

Like I said, I don't live there any more, so I don't know the numbers, but I do know the construction. (I grew up in Burlington, so we rarely would take I-77, and I got it confused with the new construction.)

07.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn't it extended, like, northwest of Winston-Salem up into Virginia somewhat recently? Or is that a different highway? I no longer live in that area, but my family still does, and I know there was construction there for some interstate system.

07.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a weird map. It includes the I-77 extension across western NC that was completed sometime in the last 10 years (I think), but not the I-40 extension down to Wilmington, NC, that was completed in the 1980s.

07.03.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When I saw this, I had to look up how many satellites are currently up there, and this exceeds the current number of satellites by orders of magnitude.

07.03.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, the reporter's the one who shot and killed the other guy, and he says this is a model of how reporters should be handling their differences?

07.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Or maybe unless you eat birdseed on the trails.

06.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have e-mails older than my college kids.

(And this isn't even my first e-mail account. There were a few I had before this that are now defunct.)

06.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming processβ€”which LLMs mostly eliminate, imoβ€”is fundamental to doing *good* work.

05.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 1098 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 33
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In one of the articles posted, it says that anything to the east or south of Iran was probably the US. (Which makes sense. Israel is striking from Israel, so they'd more easily reach targets in the west. The US is striking from ships and bases in the south, so they'd more easily hit those.)

05.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It can also go wrong when the target is mis-identified.

05.03.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists Create the First Map of Deep Earthquakes Beneath Continents - Eos Scientists once thought Earth’s continental mantle was too weak for earthquakes. A new global map of 459 deep tremors suggests otherwise.

Southern Idaho emerged as the most prolific mantle-quake region in the lower 48 states.

eos.org/articles/sci...

05.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have the markets been above 50K since Bondi (or whomever) pointed to the market as being over $50K?

05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what I heard.

05.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And he described it as de-escalating.

05.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At least he doesn't have qualified immunity. Maybe he can be sued or charged wth assault.

05.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

05.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0