I plead guilty to "Data Driven Dad".

I am confused as to why someone would write "Do not split" in reaction to a block of Senate Democrats splitting with everyone else to vote with the GOP.

Loeb is quite shameless with self-promotion, issuing various spurious press releases and so on.

* the Keweenaw shore

On Mastodon, it was pointed out how "live forever with human cloning" is similar to "live forever in the computer" singularity ideas: mastodon.online/@wildsown@ma...

Now I am reminded of the work of @xriskology.bsky.social and others regarding the many ways people try to exploit the fear of death.

I have gone through trials of SSRIs and SNRIs as well as TCAs, since response is variable.

See again biology being weird.

I learned this when my gastroenterologists first prescribed me antidepressants. Because it turns out that TCAs are useful for functional abdominal pain.

Elon Musk pretending that he has watched and understood movies reminds me how he continued to miss the point of "The Matrix" even after one of the Wachowskis explained it to him.

I would like to read feature reporting on the various groups responsible for promoting dangerously wrong ed-tech opinions the last several years.

But running that would require the newspaper paying reporters instead of just reproducing a news service piece.

Both comets and asteroids can and do throw off dust and small chunks of material.

Catastrophic disruption, be that from jets spinning up a comet or radiation pressure spinning up an asteroid, is something quite different.

Now I am reminded of how Rand Paul made his own fake licensing board to avoid following the American Board of Ophthalmology's rules; a stunt that was correctly rejected by both hospitals & health insurance companies.

So when he claims to be opposing insurance companies, it is not for good reasons.

Checking the charts, the Keweenaw Waterway is only 20 feet deep in parts of Portage Lake.

Which would not quite be enough for the Edmund Fitzgerald with a load of iron ore.

The older copper freighters that used the canal were not so large as the Seawaymax and larger lakers.

There is a whole genre of recent sailing shanty / folk music.

Compare "Roll Northumbria", which was written in 2019 about the 1960s oil tanker Esso Northumbria.

The ore boats cannot get close to the Keeweenaw shore, though?

What with all of the reefs from the parts of the Portage Lake Volcanics that are not above water.

(Grandpa taught geophysics at Michigan Tech.)

Most of them.

Yes, I did check.

The rest of the list is books that Elon Musk either did not actually read or completely missed the point of.