EdamAnchorman

To me, his voting bloc is very logical. Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but I see a large chunk of people (not all obv.) who are rabid about him (not necessarily establishment R voters) as people who: Are fed up with the government for whatever reason Are fed up with what they see as the "status quo" for whatever reason Feel marginalized for whatever reason (sometimes because of their own deficiencies or faults and lack the ability or will to look inwardly and recognize said deficiencies, so they blame others (minorities taking my jobs, system is holding me down, etc.)) Have never or rarely voted before because of the above reasons In Trump they see someone who (rightly or wrongly): They feel represents them as an "outsider" in the established political system, and will thus fight for them Makes it OK to outwardly act like they inwardly feel (racist, xenophobic, overall hostile, etc.) I'm probably missing tons of stuff here, but I feel like he allowed tons of new voters of all ages who felt like no candidate represented them and their feelings / values to "join the party". As far as the media goes, left-leaning media just pours gasoline on the fire every time they report on the next "outrageous" thing he does, and that we should all be so outraged at him. Of course this is because they get more clicks / eyeballs / money if they report in this manner vs. fact-based reporting where emotions are checked at the door. IMO, this will not change as long as money is what's driving them unless something very drastic happens, more drastic than what we've already seen. In the end, I feel like the current climate of large and accelerating wealth gap has created a climate where something like this is much more prone to happen as more and more people are disillusioned as they see the economy doing relatively well while the rich get richer and they either are stagnant or are becoming relatively poorer.

Just finished this thing today. It's a BEAST. Recommended.

Why did they make a bust of his mom and put it up on the wall in Congress?

Did he step on a pop-top?

How did that convo go, I wonder? WIFE: I just love riding in an open-air boat through Venice YE: Hey babe how 'bout a beej? WIFE: *sighs*

Damn, this sucks. They produced some of the best drone music, IMO. I consider myself very lucky to have seen them live twice, including this amazing show:

Great, now India just needs to put someone's uncle on the moon and there will be 100,000 Indians moving there within 2 years [/sarcasm]. To be clear, I kid because I love, I spent 4 months living in India and loved it.

She lost me at "Jourdan". What a dumbass name.

I'm a chemical engineer by training, but this paper is on visual and haptic human perception of the viscosity of liquids.

Try making a burger out of your phone and a bun and opening watmm like that.

Just submitted a paper for peer-review and hopefully publication.

fixed

[burger]DAMN[/burger]

About to fall off a cliff at Skellig Michael.

Lump sum, invest some, save the rest. Buy a slightly nicer but not huge house near my current house and maybe another house in the Pacific northwest. Keep my job but renegotiate my salary down to something like $20 per year and tell them I'll continue working (because I actually enjoy what I do) but that I don't have to go to any stupid fucking team building meetings or participate in performance reviews or any of that incredibly asinine bullshit.

Looks like he found that limit

https://framed.wtf/ Click on the calendar icon to do previous puzzles

Assteroid City

https://www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/

Just finished season one of Fargo (I know, just a tad late). I can't help but think that the part in the finale where Gus pulls tacos from his mail bag was an homage to the "taco mailman" sketch from MTV's The State.