Recent content by zeuxis

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.

Can we take over France too? I mean, visiting France is great, but it would be even better without the French.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/

Not wordle, but I had a moment on today's Mini Crossword...umm, whatnow?

Well Musk sure did raise a furor.

If the US has no jurisdiction over people here temporarily, how can they enforce any law regarding them? So they can commit murder and get away with it, because the US has no jurisdiction?

Congrats to everyone on this thread. You've managed to repeat in the course of one day many of the questions raised in the art world over the last century, certainly since Duchamp entered his Fountain (that's the urinal) in an open exhibition in 1917. Is anything made by an artist a work of...