Recent content by zeuxis

You're pegging Trump?

MSNBC calls Wisconsin Supreme Court race in favor of Susan Crawford.

I'm thinking of starting a scam where the initial hook is that you offer to help people avoid being scammed.

Two more from Radiohead/Thom Yorke. Cover of Can, The Thief Thom doing Neil Young's After the Goldrush

Radiohead have played a surprising number of covers over the years. Here's a webcast from 2007 where they do Joy Division's Ceremony and The Smiths' Headmaster Ritual. And Thom and Jonny just sitting around doing an acoustic version of Portishead's The Rip.

I haven't watched the video yet, but "tired light" has been proposed since the 1920s and has never gained traction in the main stream cosmologies since the Big Bang, and definitely since the 1990s when the universal expansion was shown to be accelerating. There are a multitude of confirmations...

None of this is about overhead or fraud, or even Trump's whims. It is a pre-planned campaign to break the federal government so that it cannot function, and then to use its brokenness as an excuse to fill in the services by privatizing the work. It is a purposeful, HUGE redistribution of...

Last week I did at least twice as much work as Elon Musk, but earned less than 0.00002857142 times as much in earnings.

I agree that the offer of potential pardon can be a quid pro quo. Do this illegal thing for me and I'll pardon you. But so is this arrangement: we won't prosecute you now, as long as you do our bidding, but we reserve the right to prosecute you later, if you stop doing our bidding. Both are...

Blatant quid pro quo. But more than that, the argument is that Justice can and should be set aside at the whim of the President.

Brainworms inhibit hypocrisy detection.

TIL from Strands that a platypus has a stinger.

Trump administraiton litigation tracker: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

We can call the new country Magaza.