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When you're at fast food drive through, about to order, do you have a standard preamble, and if so what is it? E.g. "Hi, could I get..." "Yeah, I need..." "Okay, I'll have..."

Have you noticed that it's become really easy to put almost anything on installment payment? Like even a modest purchase on Amazon will initiate an offer both from amazon and my bank. Is this a new thing?

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So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.

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Has anyone done analysis yet on how accurate the polls were for yesterday?

Every normal, gracious post-election speech gives me a little boost of hope. Don't at me! Hope is OK!

I'm thrilled to have been interviewed for the @financialtimes.com podcast Tech Tonic about Mars settlement. All 3 episodes in the series are available now. :) www.ft.com/tech-tonic

Any candidates promising to bring back thinkgeek?

Finally getting round to reading @weinersmith.bsky.social @zachweinersmith.bsky.social City On Mars book. It’s very good but it turns out I’m also what they call a Space Bastard. I prefer Astrobastard, personally. Might change my job title.

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Daniel and Kelly are joined by Andy Warner, the co-author and illustrator of Daniel's new book, Do Aliens Speak Physics, and talk about how we might chat about science with aliens.

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For the three of you who might be interested, I gained a new arborist skill today. Successfully staked a tree, using a figure-eight knot with a loop and then hitching it to the stakes. The stakes are cut from trees that needed removal. It's pretty neat.

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Funny thing about growing trees is it puts you in touch with your kids in surprising ways? Like, I've lately been trying to find fairly sturdy and straight sticks about 1 inch thick, to use as tree-stakes. I pick up my daughter from the bus and:

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Just to be clear, the arguments in both cases, but especially by Moyo, aren't that developmental aid didn't succeed, it's that it often made things actively worse by increasing corruption, decreasing state capacity, and tying funding to fickle donors, among other things.

Hey econs-- What's the consensus on developmental aid? Good? Bad? Complicated but generally bad? Complicated but generally good? I've just been reading Munk's book, The Idealist, and Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and it seems pretty bleak.

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Every since we moved to the country, and have open space, fruit trees have become like pokemon cards. I'm trying to assemble a representative sample from every distinct fruit that grows in 7b. Then, we will create Mutants.

So during the past few years I've been learning a lot about growing trees and keeping a garden, as well as clearing invasives by cutting brush and felling (small) trees. Overwhelmingly, the biggest disappointment is there is almost NEVER a reason to use a knife. Clippers are better.

Good morning. Today I learned about the "trans women" vs "transwomen" distinction in usage. Sorry about that! Here's the fixed version, which I also changed on the main site.

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Doing a comic just to say I told you so

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On today's episode, Daniel and Kelly chat about the development of the polio vaccine. And now seems like a great time to remind folks to get a flu vaccine, if you're able! www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Probably next week we'll be announcing a totally new thing. It's hard to describe and doesn't really have a good marketing hook, but we've been cleared to put the first chapter online. More soon!

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Bahahaha RFK: Tylenol causes autism. Tylenol: Do you have evidence? We can sue you. RFK: Tylenol doesn't cause autism. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Haha, I got several nice emails about this one, including a cancer researcher saying they were gonna change their field name to can'tcer.

Do you have any stuff in your life (e.g. media, things you've made, old documents or pictures, etc.) where you have no especially bad associations with it, but don't ever access it for the simple reason that it's too emotionally intense?

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Why do you think it's been so hard to duplicate minds in machines, even though we're running minds all day long? (other than just access to scale)

Do you think there are some words that go out of usage purely because they don't sound right for the thing they're describing? Like I early 19th century poetry you see "thewy" a decent amount. It means strong/muscular, and is often used for heroes, but it sounds like the name of a pet hamster?

Niche rant: I think a big diff between good and bad political cartoons is that when the person being mocked is talking, they have to actually talk like themselves in a way that betrays their flaws. They can't talk like you just got to take over their mouths for a minute.

11-year-old was watching the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and it's amazing how well the old practical effects show up. Really seems like effects artists had it down by the 80s, just as CGI ate their lunch.