M. Scott Chambers

Novelist and generally hilarious person.

My novel, Future Imperfect, was named a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews. Check it out if you are so inclined.

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It was only a matter of time.
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Tired of mosquitoes this summer? CNN has some very bad ideas to help, including genetic engineering and putting insecticide in the water supply! https://t.co/fKdIntF5Rg

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@HistoryBoomer Speaking as one who plays video games, I must sign on this statement. Gamers are pretty thick and no one should ever listen to their takes on anything.

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@JackDiven @AP Not being facetious at all here, but the actual details of the agreement.

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@bendreyfuss This shall be added to the bottom of a very long list of things Catholics must answer for.

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@herschel0063574 @amelia_tweetz Please tell me you're joking.

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@zplerhop @Vegas_Ralphie Since Republicans are already starting to blame the terms of the deal on JD Vance, it would be the funniest thing ever if the Nobel Peace Prize was given to him.

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@bendreyfuss Alas, there would only be temporary peace before the great Twink-Bear Civil War broke out, and the straights who had defected would just be hopelessly out of their depth.

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@SanchoPanzy @EHunt48483 @HistoryBoomer ...who were then wished into the cornfield.

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@SanchoPanzy @HistoryBoomer ... the people that keep nominating Donald Trump are marginalizing and isolating radicals?????

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Hey, @JDVance, that's an awfully large bus cruising down the street. Maybe don't stand so close to the curb...

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I am pleased to hear the memorandum of understanding with Iran to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open has been agreed to. I will be watching closely the ensuing negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program and other matters.

I am somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.

Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be sent to Congress for review and a vote. I look forward to reviewing the final product and I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners, be part of the process in presenting the final deal to Congress.

Congratulations to all in getting us to this point. Time will tell.

[M. Scott Chambers @mscottchambers]

@clairlemon It's precious that you think most people working in the mass media today understand those distinctions.

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@cold_fire7 They also made his skin darker, a bad decision in a movie that already had pretty racist undertones.

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This is why everyone hates logic professors.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

So the argument technically satisfies the requirement for validity. It is, as logicians say, vacuously valid. 9/9

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@HistoryBoomer A stark raving sane take if I've ever heard one.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

Trillionaire discourse...

Look, life is always unfair. I'm sorta ok with our current system because capitalism with reasonable guardrails seems best at creating prosperity for the most people.

Other systems we've tried have killed millions (Yo Mao!).

Yes, this system creates rich people. Sometimes super rich people! That's not new. Marxism had commissars, feudalism had kings and nobles, and Egypt had pharaohs telling the fallahin to pile big rocks on top of each other for three thousand years.

So we have mega-rich folks. But we also have a prosperous middle class, life expectancy is up, education is up, and—according to Our World in Data—the poorest of the poor have dropped from 80% of the world's population to less than 10%.

My problem with all the people who want to drastically 'fix' our system is that I think they dream of some 'good' bureaucrats who will decide where the wealth 'should' go, and that terrifies me. I don't want HR types micromanaging how the means of production should be run. The Great Leap Forward tried that, and 40 million people died.

None of this means I believe in unfettered capitalism. We need rules, regulations, and taxes. We can tinker a bit. I'm down with maybe taxing the rich more than we have. I hope smarter people than me have some ideas about what would work there. And I pray to Buddha that other smarter people are making sure the market doesn't collapse because the frenzy around the SpaceX (and OpenAI and Anthropic) IPOs has led to massive overvaluation.

Finally, it worries me that it's the corrupt Trump White House that's keeping an eye on everything!

But what can we do? The alternatives are (probably) worse! And what do I know? I'm just a low-rent history professor trying to figure out the world and jabbering about it to his audience of 4,000 humans and 23,000 bots!

Thanks to the 14 of you who read to the end of my maunderings! Good luck to us all!

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@sociohoeologist @benryanwriter I don't know. I can't read people's minds or otherwise know his intentions. But regardless of the mysteries of the human mind, what he said is correct and nothing about it was inappropriate.

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@randysoforenko @HistoryBoomer If I were neurodivergent, I wouldn't want to be patronized by people who were far less successful than me.

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@HistoryBoomer I kind of feel like worse things have happened recently than some weirdo getting a bit richer. Sure, maybe it's a bad thing, but it's moving to the bottom of quite a long list, and I can't see getting fussed about it anytime soon.

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@benryanwriter Even if it were because it was a gay club, it would be an anti LGBTQ+ attack. It would just be an anti-gay attack. We have to stop treating the two as synonyms.