tiddlydump

Data Scientist, R enthusiast

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@ATCarrMath @miniapeur My high school physics teacher always threw in at least one silly conversion problem on tests. Furlongs per fortnight is a memorable one.

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@whignewtons I heard you, Sarah, even if nobody else did

[Dan King 🇺🇦 @Kinger_DC]

Today, @IJ filed a cert petition asking #SCOTUS to hear our First Amendment case challenging Mississippi's near total ban on advertising medical marijuana.

If a product is legal, it should be legal to talk about that product.
https://t.co/SJcosUhfHl

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Counterpoint: what if I'm a huge dipshit?

In that case, I might find it interesting.

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

There’s absolutely nothing interesting about a Yale Law grad at a prestigious law firm married to a Stanford MBA management consultant moving to DC in 1995 and 30 years later living in a house now worth $2.4M

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@AlexNoonan6 "Ooh a military engagement!"

*Looks inside*

"Aww man, it's just logistics again"

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@AlexNoonan6 Enjoyable as a movie. Shouldn't be considered an important historical film, of course.

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@KenKirtland17 "hEr ClOtHeS wOuLd WrInKlE fAsTer In SpAce"

If these people could write a newsletter that curates their hottest takes, I might check it out

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@Tyler_A_Harper @jasonwblakely A shift people are still pretending didn't happen!

That's the truly amazing part -- a total unwillingness to look reality in the eye and pause, if only for a moment, to consider how we got here.

[Patrick Jaicomo @pjaicomo]

Due process is important, even if it protects bad people.

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@Josh_Merfeld Yeah there's no excuse. These are supposed to be catching caring professions. Where's the humanity?

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@Josh_Merfeld All the hate health insurance companies get masks that hospitals are often run by gigantic assholes.

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@besttrousers We're getting dangerously close to calls to "uncuck the S&P 500", which is a sentence I never thought I would type.

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@pjaicomo Corrupting or youth with citrus.

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@charlescwcooke @JonahDispatch @kyrstensinema The political geniuses who thought "why would Dems want a Senate seat on WV?" are playing their own 6D chess.

You make your coalition bigger by chasing off your moderate members, you see.

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@StatsLime This is peak masculinity and some of y'all can't handle it

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@hhp_9x You're assuming things not in evidence.

When someone is punching themselves in the dick I don't feel obligated to give them bonus points when they stop.

None of this was pressing, and none of it needed to happen on Twitter.

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I'd be so embarrassed if I posted this, I would change my name and go into hiding

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself.

I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found.

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@RexDouglass You'd expect people from the biggest states would have the most invested in Federalism, but it's the opposite! CA / FL / NY / TX have the most to lose in our current system and instead of working to disarm they're in the lab developing new weapons.

It's incredible.

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@RexDouglass Sadly, this is true.

There's no desire for long overdue reform, just a longing to be the ones wearing the heavy boot of the State.

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@laura11D It would be even better if the US had the *more effective* sunscreens available in the EU. I'm no fan of the EU's regulatory hellscape, but even they've managed to get this right.

Wear a hat and sunscreen you fools!

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@hhp_9x Use the cloud, because it's 2025? If that's a problem / you need to be air gapped, don't do it while traveling.

This can't both be **so critical** it needs to be done while traveling, but also not at all critical such that you can willy nilly crap out a result that's wrong.