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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2h

He’s shocked, shocked

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to withdraw from the Boolean algebra class, but the teacher said please stick with it and I promise I’ll give you a not B.
I don’t know why I said OK, because my average was higher than that. But I stuck with it and he gave me a B.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2d

Convinced me not to take it. I switched. So many typos above. My point: I figured I could still do a computer minor which involved one graduate level course, which was probably the hardest thing I ever took. I did not know the Greeks and it was all Greek. Literally, obviously. Boolean algebra. (2/2)

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry I’m traumatized by that course. It’s a story. I was going to be a computer accounting but figured I would take the, but after a few courses, I found out that it required a physics course. My high school physics was laughable and a friend of mine (1 of 2)

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 3d

RFK Jr, autism czar.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 3d

Bigger spuds? More ironic spinach?

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 3d

Forgot the “much greater than” sign, and Boolean algebra (if that’s what that is) terrified me.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 3d

Is that a computer language?

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 3d

Hey. It was a very easy thing to let slip, precisely because you didn’t make an error. I’m in a writing class now and we’re supposed to give our opinions of each other’s submissions, but I’m the one who compulsively adds the capitals and punctuation and “What exactly did you mean?”

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 3d

One more vote for pausing to proofread. Even if you wrote it right, it can be misunderstood.

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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · 4d

Do you know who she is? Well, interesting story that.
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thimbles.bsky.social @thimbles.bsky.social · Feb 16

Nobody heard of the NSC Directorate for Global Health and Security and Bio-Defense back in 2018.
And then Trump closed it, in the words of @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social.
apnews.com/article/dona...
The rest is history.

Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.”

apnews.com

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 5d

Yikes. This was great, smart and scary. Best part was the step by step explanation of how AI gets smart. Still don’t understand why the pink elephants are not an experience; why isn’t a (human) hallucination an experience of imagination?

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 5d

The case that has to be filed first is to show that the presumption of necessary deference to the president does not apply at this time, with this president. Get the court to recognize that, and everything follows.

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 6d

So I can sue my husband for abandonment if I rely on what he does in response to the suit? Seems wacky.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 6d

But isn’t a president held to the prong he used? Was there any up-front statement or argument by him other than the gnomic “rebellion in Portland”—which seems not a prong 3 basis. I realize the government attorney said “we’re not just relying on the tweet” or words to that effect.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 7d

Good gif for “slinks off” too

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

But note the wording: his “determination” was untethered to the facts. Whether he himself, as you state, is untethered to the facts, may be true, too, but that’s different. It’s the difference between saying X is a lie vs Mr. X is a liar.

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 14d

As Agent J said to the giant monster bug: Don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing. The Democrats are Agent J in this metaphor. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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