Thomas C Veatch

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[Thomas C Veatch @t_tcv]

@charise_lee The thing with all the Trump criticism, much
warranted of course, is that the American system is about choosing not the good but the least worse: hence the left is seen as Even Worse.

However bad the Don, Even Worse the Dem. Think about it.

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@Brad_Setser Reminds me of a Chinese emperor’s retort to a British request for balanced trade: “We don’t want anything from you”, which led to the Opium Wars. Could you find any numbers behind that earlier imbalance? What about Roman trade? If so ancient, what causes could be so stable?

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@gintamarxism Because it is the foundation of cognitive science. Logic and structuralism applied to anything.

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@FishkinSykes @TheEmissaryCo A nice lady I met shopping in Delhi this year said Indians with new US MBAs are going back to India for their careers because the offers are better, there is more growth, career outcomes are better.

So some are “going home” (to make bank). India is exploding. Think about it.

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@EndGenocideDan Phonetic drawings can communicate the sound symbol correspondence to illiterate people with little formal teaching. Could the Rohingya benefit from self study, basic, phonetic, literacy materials? https://t.co/uq4HUq8ObF

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Hurrah for the fall of Assad!

Freedom and human rights for Syria!

The US should ACTIVELY support the settling in of a new modern democratic regime. Active and diplomatic support now, when all kinds of bad actors are seeking to sink their claws in, will pay off long term.

[Thomas C Veatch @t_tcv]

If T is Narcissist in Chief, RFK and Elon will shortly be revealed as Useful Idiots, good for the votes they bring but to be fired or silenced like any Apprentice when they inevitably speak the intolerable (ie truth) to Himself. Any bets on how long it will take?

[Thomas C Veatch @t_tcv]

Alcoholics practice denial because they cannot tolerate being in the real world, it’s too painful. It’s so easy to just insert NOT or switch I and YOU in any sentence, then everything becomes okay.

[Thomas C Veatch @t_tcv]

Anyone who owns one dollar free and clear with no debt actually owns more than SOME percent of the population. Everyone who owns zero or is in debt adds zero or less to the wealth of this group: zero or less in total, by definition. Does anyone know the actual percentage?

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Deniable provocation

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@nntaleb @Kaju_Nut Worse yet, negative dimensionality. https://t.co/h4hR2Mk8lS

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@samkirkham Delighted to see this work, which evokes Veatch 1991 (eg https://t.co/jhj2rrRiam) which argued for a glide slot in English vowels to capture length and diphthong structure and the merger of short vowels before /r/.

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@realDonaldTrump Blatant intimidation, aimed at the gutless by a petty tyrant, to make sheep of us.

Oh say, can you see, does that star spangled banner still wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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@AmyClukey In the UW grad library reading room with 142 young heads bent over the many long tables under the high arches I counted heads and books: 7 books were out, at least 4 actually being read. Everyone has laptops, many phones, many headphones.

Books have become fully obsolete.

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His mission, to 1) isolate, 2) energize, and 3) caricature a declining, ethnic-minority, core constituency. How? 1) alienate potential allies, 2) incite hatred, 3) play a buffoon character in the persona of that minority.

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#DemocratMeme Donald Trump is a Democratic Party plant intended to destroy the Republican Party for a generation.

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@ianmiles 3:1 females to males ratio.

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@karpathy Hence emacs.

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@TheBabylonBee They IS.

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@JoePompliano Did I miss something? Where was the “violence”?