MS Project, like all MS tools, is… fine. Not good, but fine.

Their legal operation is pretty principled and neutral; their PR operation is unfortunately not

The number of times a week my wife and I say “I don’t take orders” to our child, lol

I always get a little choked up at the Lincoln Memorial

I saw someone earlier suggesting from the vintage of the underlying data that at least part of the story is “where did schools start ignoring COVID fastest”, but I think I was paywalled out of the underlying article, so I can’t confirm for myself

I understand why the reporter has to use scare quotes, but Steve Sailer IS a white supremacist, as anyone who has engaged in any blog’s comment section where he was tolerated knows

JWjasonaw.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 4:02pm

New from me: New College of Florida is hosting writer Steve Sailer--for years branded a "white supremacist"--at a college branded event. In 2023 Ron DeSantis appointed Chris Rufo to its board of trustees www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right

Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’

Yeah there’s a certain subset of people who really can’t drink, and getting them to internalize that fact is not easy

He was just on Andy Richter’s podcast and they get into some mental health stuff; he seems like he’s probably okay a lot of the time, but I got the vibe his dark periods are probably fairly dangerous to himself

The thing is, the crosstabs don’t actually have to make sense for the headline number to be accurate. I am definitely suspicious that a big polling failure is coming one day. But it’s sort of like the old joke about economists predicting 7 out of the last 3 recessions.

Yeah sometimes when the Powerball is a billion dollars I start doing math on how many dollars the winner could afford to give various numbers of people, and anything you’d call an “income” requires trillions in the US