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Comments by Mike Schilling

On “2022: The Year in Science

As science becomes capable of producing more and more effective vaccines, people are becoming less and less willing to use them.

On “Supreme Court Upholds Title 42 Border Policy: Read It For Yourself

Abbot will be happy to ship them refugees to give them standing.

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I can understand a ruling that the lower courts can't override an executive-branch immigration policy, but how is that consistent with allowing

Republican states sued and got a federal court in Louisiana to block the Biden administration from ending the deportations at that time as well

to stand?

On “A Spoiler-Filled Review of Avatar: The Way of Water

Before reading a sequel that comes out years later, I generally read the original to refresh my memory. If The Winds of Winter ever gets published, that means a reread of the first five. At this point, I'm not too concerned about that happening.) Since the original Avatar isn't worth rewatching, I'll skip this one.

On “The Franklin Mint Wouldn’t Answer the Phone

From the web site:
Each Trump Digital Trading Card has a unique pre-assigned rarity. Some will be one-of-one’s (i.e. the only one in the world), while others will be limited to 2, 5, 7, or 10 copies. No Trump Digital Trading Card will have more than 20 copies in existence!

He sold $4.5 million, i.e. 45,000 of them, so either there were > 2000 unique cards, or it's yet another lie.

On “POETS Day! Mark Van Doren

And he's unrelated to Mamie, who is probably the only blond bombshell to take her stage name from a president's wife and a poet.

On “Something Debt Ceiling Threatening This Way Comes

W rolled out the plan as "private SS accounts", and when that polled badly changed to "personal SS accounts", then when Democrats kept calling them "private accounts", accused them of playing dirty.

I wonder how much longer the CDO scam would have gone on if it had been propped up by lots of privatized Social Security money.

On “Thursday Throughput: Laser Implosion Edition

Hydrogen fusion produces helium. So in addition to clean, carbon-neutral energy, we get balloons!

On “WWJD about Christian Nationalism?

He seems pretty serious:

https://twitter.com/PerfInjust/status/1602319972524765184

Then he says that I "assume" my first premise (Government ought to promote true religion). I provide **eight** different and independent arguments for this proposition (pgs. 184-193).

On “Fusion! No, Really This Time

It's not something I'm allowed to discuss, of course.

On “WWJD about Christian Nationalism?

I'm guessing that Stephen Wolfe, who just published a book called The Case for Christian Nationalism, is one of them.

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The Pharisees are known almost entirely by what their enemies wrote about them, and it's as accurate a picture as you'd expect from that.

On “Fusion! No, Really This Time

Still, the fusion reaction is a net positive, no?

On “Alexa, Find A New Name and Mission

Another possibility is Eddie, your shipboard computer.

On “Fusion! No, Really This Time

scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain

They've apparently never heard of the H-bomb.

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I'd consider contempt for the current Supreme Court a sign of paying attention.

On “Ten Second News Links and Open Thread for the week of 12/05/2022

Twitter is deleting tweets showing Musk getting booed at the Chappelle show.

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And every one was a Heinrich
We wouldn't have a Wilhelm or a Karl

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You can get Avenatti by extrapolating along the line W to Palin to Trump, but they're not Democrats.

On “Marxist – Leninist – Trumpist?

The GOP has had two of the main traits of Bolshevism since at least Gingrich:

1. Brilliant at seizing power by any means possible.
2. Incompetent at governing.

On “Dick Cavett Revisited

I recall Cavett talking about the Rodale incident. When the man collapsed, Cavett, still miked, asked "Is there a doctor in the ..." and was about to say "house", but realized the cliche could be interpreted as a joke, and so switched to "... audience?". Good presence of mind.

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Snyder's full-hour interview with John Lennon seems to be on YouTube (in pieces). Snyder doesn't make it about himself, which is the main thing I remember about him.

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