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I'm trying to make the world a kinder, gentler place. One where you could bring the fuckin' children.

  1. The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

    The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

    White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

    The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

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  2. Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocrat 101.

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  3. The video game that is the most perfect metaphor for modern life is Tetris. It's a non-stop process of trying to keep ahead of things and the things keep coming faster and faster until you are crushed.

    Repeat.

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    Watters: Do you think it’s smart for all headlines to say Democrats ran away from the job?

    Nellis: Do you think it's good for the headlines to say Republicans are so worried about losing the mid-terms that they decided to rig the maps?

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  5. Eventually he became fixated on the idea of endowing triplets of numbers with a similar structure to that of complex numbers. But he was stuck, and it was agony. Each morning, at breakfast, his children would ask "Well, Papa can you multiply triplets?" (12/n)

    Ref: Piaggio, Nature 152, 1943

    The passage reads
"...about 1819, but never published, seems to have anticipated some of Hamilton's work. Hamilton struggled with the difficulty for fifteen years, sustained in the later stages by the sympathy of his family.
"Well, Papa, can you multiply triplets ?"
was his breakfast greeting from his two little sons, aged eight and nine, and he had to shake his head sadly and reply that he could only add and subtract them. But on October 16, 1843, when he was walking..."
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