Seth Trueger

OPINION: I asked a former Trump official to justify this war

So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they don’t like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesn’t have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. That’s his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”

Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement

overall we generally take potential sepsis pretty seriously (ie pretty aggressive about antibiotics) so i imagine there were good reasons to not think so?

hard to say without knowing all the details etc

fwiw UTIs can be surprisingly hard to diagnose, or really, to easy to overdiagnose, and the pendulum is swinging away from "blaming" symptoms on a urine test that looks infected without other stuff

As well, actually

pretty sure Jessica Jones is following a guy through the part of Central Park where I learned to skate board and saw Blake Lively (presumably filing Gossip Girl)

I’m sorry, I certainly didn’t mean to antagonize and I don’t think I knew Rufo was connected to the Manhattan Institute and that certainly makes me question a presumption of good faith

again, my apologies

sir this is a social media platform

My interview with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social is now live!

We talked about instability in life as an early career scientist, the importance of policy in research, and more. Process is incredibly important for science, and the process is failing me.

I put a thread of some of my favorite clips below!

class of 2000

NY Times headline where Trump says the Iran War is very complete

ah, ok. that's a relief

no i removed it

remove and/or melt slices of swiss chese

oh wait sorry i meant a + c = D

Yup, "The guidelines are just another example of how the Trump administration’s populism is really just a handout to major industries"

a + b = D

i could make an argument that operationally that complexity is just not where the delays are but really just dont go to the hipster coffee shop if you dont want hipsters and hipster coffee

fwiw in my experience, people ordering fancy lattes tipped really well when they recognized me as also lifeguarding at the town pool

i would not be surprised if a big part of the editorial decisions on this essay were related to rage bait (which i absolutely took and continue to take)

bingo

incidentally ultimately a starbucks moved in across the street and the little cafe shut down :/

this was before i knew what the term barista meant

esp since employer sponsored insurance premiums are way higher than many realize

"they pick individual institutions to bully [and] make sure the others are too scared to intervene… It disturbs me. I was a nerdy kid in the 80s. I recognize these tactics from the folks I knew growing up who valued humiliation… [Biff Tannen] is running the country right now.”– @iwashyna.bsky.social

also one nice perk of tech is ordering custom drinks at a starbucks with an app is
a) easy
b) feels way less pretentious
c) probably easier for the barista making it

i was a barista in high school c98-00 at 2 little cafes and based on my vague recollections… lol at all of this

Things LLMs are good at: cataloging your home library.

Things LLMs are not good at: Psychotherapy. Replacing human relationships. Replacing human laborers. Creating art.

au cheval is a great fancy fast food burger but isnt my favorite nor my favorite style

im not sure if ive ever had a portillos burger but i have not been impressed with what i have had there