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Phil Landmeier

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@ai6yr I'd say your re-write is accurate because demand is there. For example, the State of Pennsylvania has an EV incentive program that they had to put on hold until July 1st when the new budget starts. The program ran out of money because demand is much higher than anticipated.

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Judge who denied girl abortion over grades shortlisted for Florida’s top court - The Guardian apple.news/AH2fEa164TlyVNf7hzF

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Trump’s ‘greatest hits’ of Covid misinformation are read out at congressional hearing - The Independent apple.news/A3gCsRx0YTB2rjfeiIX

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Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Czar Was Arrested for Domestic Violence Last Month - The Daily Beast apple.news/A_y5FIOKjTmuXKJFdMg

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Chris Caple

@gemelliz @Tomthndsh Doug Ford will 1000% attempt to demolish the Toronto reference library and sell the land for condos. His move against the science centre has revealed (again) there are no limits at all to the venality of this government. No institutions are safe, everything is for sale. It's a certainty that plans are already underway.

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Phil Landmeier

@mcnado Yup. The Bundys and Trump hate the government because the government constantly interferes with what they want to do.

Funny how most people, including rich people don't seem to have this problem. Hmm.

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@notsoloud @rmattila74@mastodo.fi @aral Ouch. Well, as the saying here in the US goes, "decisions were made." Hah.

I'll bet he won't make that mistake again. Two mistakes, actually: driving a cop-magnet and breaking traffic laws.

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@oliphant Tolerance does not extend to intolerant ideologies such as bigotry, racism, and fascism, whose very purpose is to oppress or destroy people.

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Matthew Kenworthy

I had to go to Delft for a meeting yesterday, and the train line between #Leiden and #Delft is closed for repairs, so I decided to cycle it on my commuter bike, 25km there and 25 back. The Dutch bike infrastructure is simply phenomenal - I cycled through small towns and through wide green fields on smooth bike only paths for 90% of the journey. Utterly amazing and it was a beautiful evening where I saw the sun set whilst heading into Leiden.

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Phil Landmeier

@rmattila74@mastodo.fi @aral I believe that in Switzerland fines are a percentage of your net worth. Hence the news story of a guy busted for speeding in his Lambo and the fine was more than the car had cost him.

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Aral Balkan

A timely reminder that “punishable by fine” means “legal for the rich.”

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@aral Exactly.

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@oliphant Indeed. This is my email siggie.

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Idaho sheriff is afraid to serve legal papers on anti-government activist Ammon Bundy.

rawstory.com/sheriff-declines-

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RD Hall

How many more killers, how many more uncounted victims?

nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna67794

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Ed Bott

Oklahoma is not OK:

"According to a transcript ... Jennings appears to say that "back in the day" someone could take a 'a damn Black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell'...

"'Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can't do that anymore. They got more rights than we got,' Jennings added.

"The governor called for the resignations of Clardy, Jennings, Manning and Hendrix."

Kudos to the reporter who recorded this horror show.

npr.org/2023/04/18/1170705908/

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Mercedes Allen

"The... judge who overturned the FDA’s approval of abortion pills removed his name from a Texas law journal article... just before his Senate confirmation hearing...

"The article condemned both transgender health care and abortion rights, using Christian Nationalist-inspired language..."

Abortion pill-banning judge allegedly hid his anti-trans journal article before Senate vote - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/aborti

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Phil Landmeier

@johncarlosbaez As mentioned above, the Mayan number system is base-20. They also invented the concept of zero, apparently before anyone else on Earth did, in order to have a positional number system. Also the first of its kind.

A positional number system makes it possible to write very large numbers (billions, trillions) which they did, and to do arithmetic with such large numbers. (Try doing arithmetic with Roman numerals and you see the problem right away.)

This enabled the Mayans to take nightly measurements of the positions of stars and planets using Stone Age instruments (no telescopes) yet end up with extremely accurate results. They did this by averaging thousands of measurements to eliminate the noise from the data. (A technique re-invented by and credited to Gauss). By this method, they computed the orbital behavior of Venus to an astounding degree of accuracy only exceeded in the second half of the 20th century.

I wonder if base-20 number systems, especially with a sub-base of five, show up in other parts of the Americas, too.

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@ramin_hal9001 Well, now I'm puzzled. I pulled up the thread and see my reply isn't there nor the link. But I can see the two comments I was replying to and the comment that mine came after last night.

Haha. Weird. I think I'll put it back in the thread.

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@rudyschwartz@dobbs.town Too bad we don't deal with mental illness anymore.

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