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Was + ~40.

That's right. And highly constrained by the state's transitioning politics.

Manchin was never this. And a lot more calculating (not lazy). And whether folks like it or not, was a dependable vote on the majority of things where he had the latitude for maneuvering.

This. But the subtext itself has some lessons. 1. She was not fired for performance, but for the way she was making the admin look. 2. Heat from D's is bearable, heat from R's is not. Were Congress feeling it's oats with a willing majority party, they could repeat this ad nauseam.

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Don't know about the varasity of this, but it is definitely in line with a view of work that consumes your entire being. A bit like the German soldiers on meth in WWII. Come to think of it, why not meth? It'll be great until they rip the wires out of the walls.

Was saying similar yesterday. The signal in noise point is a good one - and evolutionary cognition already tells us we're predisposed to pattern recognition (even in its absence). Probably putting that on overdrive with LLMs.

A death march toward theocracy.

Ha! Well played.

Don't forget they will need a grant and workplace training first. And likely, file their Conflict of Interest and IRB forms before getting started on their projects, even if not canceled.

He is Jeffrey Lord from the first time around.

💯 I think some folks think these disparities (between resourced and not) will be ameliorated with LLMs. After all, the prolific LPU person is still gonna LPU, just more. I think it's more likely that these will shift Research foci than eliminate an inequality, with opportunity costs.

Even better. Well played Sir.

MASH might be the GOAT.

Jefferson told us as much from outset.

Actually, I think there are quite a few empirical laws, and this is one of them.

Or a way to combine thinning soaps into a larger soap.

A fine reason.

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These are hard arguments for citizens. Does the thermostat (what you're describing) have anything to do with the constitution? I don't think so. At best, it works in spite of it. And second, it'd be hard to step back from this after it's over and think, yeah, the system "works."

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Probably could have stopped at "is."

Kind of looks like it belongs in 1970s Moscow.

And from the Fed in Dallas... Unreal that they plotted this, eyed it, and released it. Not inspiring a lot of confidence in their foresight. Definitely going into the example bin for data viz.

Oil and gas* - its all a pile.

And for opponents, the key difference is the pocketbook effects are immediate (water availability, electric rates, and grid reliability). So, opponents need not rely on environmental arguments. 2/2

I think this is why we are/will see state government begin to pre-empt local government. Similar trajectory as injection wells in pile and gas. They are losing the messaging battle. 1/2 #datacenters 🔌 💡

Came to say the same.

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