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From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small

Joined January 2008
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Hispanic voters are primarily driven by economic issues (45%) rather than immigration (15%). That led to a big Latino swing toward Trump in 2024, and a swing back to Democrats in 2026.
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The Earth and the Moon. Captured by Anduril’s LWIR Space Sensor. 230,000 miles away from the Moon's surface. Here's how we're setting the foundation to demonstrate Space Domain Awareness.
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Isegoria retweeted
The pedestrian result has a lot to do with who walks, and when. During the day, it's quite safe. At night, drunk people walking around are far more likely to get into problems. Walking has the biggest day-night multiple:
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Isegoria retweeted
Deaths per 100 million passenger miles, by mode of transport. The deadliest isn't motorcycling--as you might expect--it's... walking! And e-bikes are just a bit less risk-related than motorcycles.
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George Orwell's first English language article was published in 1928 in Chesterton's own newspaper G.K.'s Weekly. Both authors wrote dystopian Science Fiction novels set in the future year 1984 (Chesterton's being the The Napoleon of Notting Hill, 1904). Orwell was huge fan of Chesterton's detective stories.
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Isegoria retweeted
Rabies still kills more than 50,000 people per year, mostly in Africa and Asia. We take for granted not living in fear of this 100% fatal disease.
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Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7 the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day: > two cameras watch every salmon that swims past > AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse > then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away > the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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"a surprising 'home disadvantage' among professional biathletes: athletes were more likely to miss shots when competing in their home countries than when abroad...the pressure of performing in front of a home crowd...desire to make local fans proud" a.co/d/0b8PuXLL
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Isegoria retweeted
The Cybertruck order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try to make as many as possible before shutting down the line in about 8 months, but will have to return deposits for a lot of people. This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media, but rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.
Seriously. It’s incomparable. But cars are going to become robots, their forms and functions will change, and we won’t be coming back to this moment. Get it while you can.
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England as a whole spends £1.25 in welfare for every £1 of income tax and National Insurance it receives. For Wales, that number is £1.88.
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The blue is self-defense deaths, Austin.
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Barrage balloons are back
Russian aviation design bureau First Airship reportedly achieved its first successful interception of a fixed-wing UAV weighing approximately 100 kg (220 lb) and measuring around 4 m (13.1 ft) in wingspan using an aerostat-based barrier system. According to Polina Albek, the company’s founder, the drone was caught by protective cables suspended from an aerostat. The type of UAV involved has not been identified. Previously published footage showed tests of similar aerostat barriers equipped with cables and Kevlar cords intended to physically intercept Ukrainian long-range attack drones. The reported interception has not been independently verified.
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“Apparently, there hadn’t been any inquiries in Saitama about new manufacturing and sales permits — meaning opening a gun shop — for the past 20 years or so, so no one knew how to apply.”
射撃と狩猟を始めて数年経った頃、射撃や狩猟仲間から銃の不具合について相談を受けた。 仲間は私が豊和精機製作所という機械加工の町工場をやってるのを知ってのことだ。 「さとちゃん、銃床のここが捲れちゃったんだけど、ちょっと削れない?」的な。 削るくらいならねぇと軽い気持ちで受けたんだ。受けたってほどじゃない。ちょっとヤスリ掛けただけだ。 そしたらみんなが調子に乗って「これ作れる?」とか「ここをこうして欲しいんだけど」とか言い始めた。 できなかぁないが、それ、密造じゃね? って思って色々調べた。よりによって銃関連で捕まってせっかくの所持許可を台無しにしたくなかったし世間体もある。娘も小さい。で、よく分からんのだが猟銃の修理するには猟銃の製造許可っつーのが必要らしい。そしてそれの管轄は各都道府県らしい。 ある年の初夏、埼玉県庁に電話する。「・・・というわけです」と。そしたら「それでしたら埼玉県警に電話してみてください」と。 仕方ないので言われた通り埼玉県警に電話する。最初は銃の製造の相談なんてやべー奴からの相談だと思ったのか、ちょっと犯罪者を扱うような感じの対応。なので「これこれこういうわけで困っている仲間がいるが、できるからってやってしまって犯罪になるのは困る」と丁寧に説明したら、その後はすごく丁寧に、それは県庁の危機管理防災部化学保安課(都道府県によって担当部署は違うよ)という部署が担当だと電話番号も教えてくれた。さぁまた県庁に電話だ。これを世間ではタライ回しというが、まぁ、いい。 県の担当につながる。「はぁ・・・確かにうちが担当ですねぇ」と。なんでも直近20年くらいは新しい製造販売許可、つまり銃砲店開業の相談は埼玉にはなかったので、申請の仕方を知ってる人がいないんだそうだ。勧められるがまま武器製造法法令集っつー分厚い本を買って担当と一緒に勉強だ。猟銃の販売には販売許可、修理もする場合は製造許可が必要。んで暫くして、これとこれとこういう書類を出してください。証紙はいくらいくらですと。 まず改装予定の店になる部屋の図面を出して修正箇所の相談。ここはこうした方が良いなどの指導を受けて、ホムセンで材料を買って、仕事の合間に会社の8畳の休憩室を図面通りに改装する。全てDIYだ。銃の保管庫予定の部屋は壁を全部剥いで鉄筋を入れる(木造だったため)。そして10月に書類を本提出。その後県警に、こいつヤバい奴じゃないか照会するらしい。そして県の担当が図面通りか視察に来る。 それから大体一月経った頃「許可が出たので書類を取りにきてください」と電話があった。約束の時間に県庁に行くと始めてお茶を出してくれた。「今日はこちらがお呼びしたので」という基準だそうだ。 そんなわけで見事平成18年11月9日、「猟銃等製造販売」の許可が下りた。 提出する書類に「年間取扱い予定数」ってのがあって、相談の時「こんな時代ですからひと月1丁として、年間12丁くらいっすかね?」って半分冗談で担当に言ったら「まぁそんなもんじゃないですか?」と。その時は機械加工屋という本業があったし、毎年1万人くらい減っていく狩猟者人口も知ってるから銃砲店だけで食って行こうなんて全く思っていなかったけど、年間12丁で仕事になるかよ! そんなもんじゃないですか? はぁ?(もちろん顔には出さない)とカチンときて、実はそれが奮起の源泉。 銃砲店を始めて数年経った時、町工場の仕事は全て断って、今は銃砲店だけをやっている。 販売と修理加工の年間取扱丁数は、県の担当が「そんなもん」と言った数の78倍!(本年度途中実績)になった。 それもこれも贔屓にしてくれるお客様、協力してくださる代理店の皆様、全国の銃砲店様、Xのフォロワー様、そして優秀なスタッフに恵まれ、銃砲部門開業から今日で20年が経ちました(会社そのものは創業58年です)。 そして僕は生きて部門20周年を迎えられました(危なかった)。全ての皆様に感謝です。 多分忘れた頃に何かやります。長くなりましたが、れからも豊和精機製作所をよろしくお願い致します。
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For the first time in the 2026 conflict, the Iranians have placed limpet mines on ships. This represents a fundamentally different sort of sabotage that is functionally impossible for the US Navy to prevent. Full Newsletter: bit.ly/480dKmT #iranwar #geopolitics
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Isegoria retweeted
There's a double standard at the core of the "books for boys" discourse that's so severe yet unchallenged that it's making me feel crazy. When mostly boys like a book, that means the book is bad/oppressive to girls. When mostly girls like a book, the fact that boys don't like it is proof that something is wrong with the boys.
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!
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An 18% flat tax would produce the same tax revenue, if anyone is interested in everyone paying their fair share.
THE IRS JUST RELEASED THE NEW 2027 🇺🇸 TAX BRACKETS. HERE'S HOW THEY WORK IN PLAIN ENGLISH Every bracket got a little bigger to keep up with inflation, so you can earn a bit more before moving into a higher rate. Step 1: Take what you earn and subtract the standard deduction. That part isn't taxed at all. - Single: $16,600 - Married: $33,200 Step 2: Whatever's left gets taxed in layers. Single filers: - 10% on your first $12,800 - 12% on income up to $52,025 - 22% up to $109,125 - 24% up to $208,325 - 32% up to $264,550 - 35% up to $661,375 - 37% on anything above that Married couples: the cutoffs are roughly double ($25,600, $104,050, $218,250, $416,650, $529,100, $793,650). Example: You're single and earn $76,600. Subtract $16,600 and you're taxed on $60,000. - 10% on the first $12,800 = $1,280 - 12% on the next $39,225 = $4,707 - 22% on the last $7,975 = $1,755 Total: about $7,742 in federal income tax, or roughly 10% of what you earned. Even though you're "in" the 22% bracket, only your last $7,975 gets taxed at 22%.
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Isegoria retweeted
Boards should start hiring their own hookers to seduce their execs. If it fails, great, you’ve got a good one. If it succeeds, nothing leaks and now you know what you’re dealing with and have leverage to boot.
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Isegoria retweeted
Now that there's enough temporal distance, someone really should write a "rise and fall" type book about the "there was no barbarian invasion ever" school of thought in the second half of the 20th century. How did this thesis arise, who were its leaders, what were their main arguments, how did they marginalize the dissenting (and correct) point of view, how did it all fall apart...the story deserves to be told slowly and properly, not just eked out through a million fragmentary decentralized social media posts.
Wow, no one could have possibly predicted that late-20th century “historiography” would be less accurate than the ancient sources that they hate so much.
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"We vastly overeducate the modern populations. For the average student, there is no intellectual benefit they get from a pursuing university education. They hang out, they date, they make friendships, but it's really not making them any more effective." razibkhan.com/p/gregory-clar…
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Two new randomized trials of the potent GLP-1 drug retatrutide (aka "reta") showed marked relief of knee osteoarthritis. Prior work demonstrated that some of the GLP-1 benefit for knee osteoarthritis is independent of weight loss. #AHA26 @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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