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BernardoVerda 🤔
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Retired. Into science, environment, climate, literature, Proportional Representation, Esperanto, science fiction & fantasy...

More interested in "policy" than "politics"
-- but nonetheless prefers "woke" over "zombie".

"Live & learn, or die an idiot."
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Why all this actually matters:
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Great intro. Great argument.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
JD keeps using that word.
October 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
October 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Inigo Montoya would like a word (several words, in fact)
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Great opening paragraph -- and an excellent question.
September 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
My fave:
September 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
September 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It seems that under the present administration, simply doing good, meticulous, verifiable science (even legally mandated science) is now considered a political act -- and potentially even an attack against the government itself.
September 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Really, by rights this should be the lead paragraph for more than half of news articles published in the USA these days. (Make that 'over three-quarters of' for opinion pieces.)
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sometimes proposed solutions are worse than the problems that inspire them?
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
September 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
September 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
' "You're just making stuff up, senator," Kennedy replied.

Hassan noted that nothing she said was made up, adding: "Sometimes when you make an accusation, it's kind of a confession, Mr. Kennedy." '
September 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Benjamin regretted having chosen to avoid the risks of smallpox variolation for his children, because he lost a young son to smallpox anyways. In his autobiography he included this advice to parents:
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
August 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM