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New comment by ljsprague in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

ljsprague — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:42:37 +0000

Indeed I would bet he knew he would lose money on Twitter but did it anyway.

New comment by ljsprague in "More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class"

ljsprague — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:56:55 +0000

Por que no los dos?

New comment by ljsprague in "US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days"

ljsprague — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:36:15 +0000

"The burn rate is unsustainable: The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month."

Does the author think the US can only make 57 missiles a year?

New comment by ljsprague in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

ljsprague — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:14:12 +0000

American Democracy Protecting Itself like when Bernie Sanders faced a rigged primary or when Hillary/Obama manufactured "Russia collusion" or when Biden flooded the country with non-citizens.

It's not just "the Left" though, I will concede. Republicans almost equally captured.

New comment by ljsprague in "Is it a pint?"

ljsprague — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:40:45 +0000

Indeed, regular drinkers know what to expect as far as pour and price from any given bar. If I drop into a new bar and I feel ripped off then I don't go back. I do the same with burritos.

New comment by ljsprague in "Is it a pint?"

ljsprague — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:33:26 +0000

I don't think it's overanalyzing to point out a typo.

New comment by ljsprague in "Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize"

ljsprague — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:49:16 +0000

"He proved that if a curve’s equation has a variable raised to a power higher than 3, then it must have a finite number of [rational] points."

New comment by ljsprague in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

ljsprague — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:37:28 +0000

How would you quantify the bonus the Biden/Harris/DNC received by allowing 15 million to cross illegally?

New comment by ljsprague in "Put the zip code first"

ljsprague — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:35:54 +0000

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New comment by ljsprague in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

ljsprague — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:32:29 +0000

Are we ever allowed to stop being a "values country" and just be a normal one? Or are we at least allowed to change our values? Are we allowed to make that decision for ourselves?

New comment by ljsprague in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

ljsprague — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:34:16 +0000

Values don't reproduce; tribes do.

New comment by ljsprague in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

ljsprague — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:33:41 +0000

There's no mistreatment alleged though: the US is bad because it stopped funding their jobs.

New comment by ljsprague in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

ljsprague — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:36:56 +0000

They sound like very loyal people who I would love to have as my compatriots.

New comment by ljsprague in "All Look Same?"

ljsprague — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:18:06 +0000

>are older pictures

I am pretty sure it's 20+ years old. Just based on when I remember taking it.

New comment by ljsprague in "How did the Maya survive?"

ljsprague — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:14:21 +0000

>Some Maya cities were established hundreds of years before the founding of Rome, and they included significantly larger architecture that still stands.

The Pantheon is qualitatively different than the massive pyramids the Maya built.

New comment by ljsprague in "How did the Maya survive?"

ljsprague — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:32:54 +0000

>not only horrific but the biggest hollocaust in the entire human history

Does this number include deaths due to introduced diseases?

New comment by ljsprague in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

ljsprague — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:27:02 +0000

Marvelous.

New comment by ljsprague in "Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain"

ljsprague — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:58:05 +0000

Why do I yawn more when I'm cold?

New comment by ljsprague in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

ljsprague — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:27:10 +0000

No other "AI" companies released tools that could do the same?

New comment by ljsprague in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

ljsprague — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:20:39 +0000

Horseshoes.