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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If people in the military over 30 need to have their testosterone levels checked, Hegseth should release his own testosterone level and tell us if he is receiving testosterone treatments.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For AI hallucinations the normal thing is to look at a problem, see what's causing it, and try to find a way to solve it. The AI people seem to think spending more money to keep doing more of the same thing will work. I think the history of taking this approach has not been good.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Voting Rights Act was passed because the Voting Rights amendment was ignored in the South.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I wish it was possible to have political ads reveal why the doners were paying for the ad, which is often difficult from what the ad says.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If RFK Jr thinks the measles vaccine causes autism, I'd like why he doesn't think getting measles would not cause autism and probably more so.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The truth in the Epstein must be really bad for Trump. Trump has ability to weather scandals that are revealed. He is doing everything that makes him look guilty, rather just letting the the truth come out.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"Garbage in, garbage out" when taking about computers seems to have been forgotten by many AI enthusiasts.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I wonder if there has been any polling on the Albrego Garcia case. I suspect most people side with Garcia. He doesn't look threatening, and seems to be acting as we want immigrants to act. He was also here legally since his asylum claim was ruled valid.

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Megan Cassella @megancnbc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

New now: The White House says Canada/Mexico tariffs will remain UNCHANGED -- still 25% over fentanyl concerns, with exemptions for USMCA-compliant goods. Note this is contrary to what the Treasury sec said initially, and what a WH official told me earlier. Details getting hammered out in real time.

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Megan Cassella @megancnbc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tariffs still in place: —125% on Chinese imports —25% on steel, aluminum and auto imports —10% on nearly all other imports Tariffs coming: —On copper, lumber, semiconductor and pharma imports —And maybe on other countries, depending on how the next 90 days go And the S&P 500 is up 9% on the day

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

What he really says here is they saw what was happening the bond markets and backed off.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The same thing will happen with climate change. What's happening cannot be undone.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trump's support may melt away fast if enough Republicans start losing their fear to oppose him. Trump's power stems from making everything afraid to oppose him. He makes everyone seek to appease him.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The big clash with the Supreme Court looks like it's going to come today.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trump's plan was based on the belief that there would be no tariff retaliation, because they needed to trade or be defended by the US. He's increasing tariffs, because he still believes that.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Trump told us again and again that other countries would not retaliate. It turns out that he really believed that.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The more you know, the more you are aware of just how little you know.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The main thing to understand Trump is his belief in dominance and one sided deals. He is surprised that Canada, Europe and China are standing up to him.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2025

i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I do not think the right is freaking. They really believe what they are saying. It just looks freaky to us.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I think freezing foreign future investments in the US may hurt more than retaliatory tariffs. New foreign investments provide jobs for US workers. The US can respond by investing more in the US. But where is the capital for the new investments going to come from?

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Trump is destroying medicine, because he wants it to go back to the 19th century along with his tariffs.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I do not see the obsession with self driving cars. When I was young driving was considered fun. We did not want to be driven around.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One thing about the times we live in is that we (collectively) know so much about the world around us than ever before. People did not think of infectious disease in terms of microbes until recently. We had no idea DNA was involved in hereditary until recently. Most science we think we know is...

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If anything will break Trump, the signal scandal will. Watergate was triggered by a security guard noticing tape on a door and investigating. It led ultimately the testimony of John Dean which revealed the extensive moral rot. The existence of the tapes was found almost by accident. So much...

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

When I hear elites talk like this I realize how sharp people are not nearly as sharp as they think they are. AI can recognize faces, but so can infants and dogs. It's a major breakthrough that it can. It is useful for scanning large volumes of data. It is not medicine. Gary Marcus points out that...

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

SEPTEMBER 15, 1972, 5:27 P.M. The Oval Office. Present: the President (P), H.R. Haldeman (H) and John Dean (D). D: You can take the Fifth Amendment. P: That’s right. H: You can say you have forgotten too, can’t you? P: You can say I don’t remember. You can say I don’t recall.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Democrats are showing they are the adults this morning.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hardline conservatives hate Social Security and really want to destroy it. They believe it will cause an acceptable amount of pain but America will be better off in the end. MAGA likes Social Security. Trump and his toadies are underestimating the backlash.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I think we are moving towards the big confrontation of Trump and the courts. Even most of the conservative judges are fed up with him. They have the power to remove him from office because they are the final arbiters of the Constitution. The army is trained to disobey illegal orders so Trump's...

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It's important to try to look at the world as other people see it. Their views are wrong and often very self centered. But they also see themselves as good guys. Understanding how they see themselves gives us knowledge on how to deal with them.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I really recommend Newsom's podcast with Tim Waltz. What Newsom is doing is new. People try to place Newsom's podcast into an existing pigeon hole. Viewed as something different than the standard approach, the podcasts are thought provoking.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

See (without agreeing) where the Dem Leadership is coming from. Voting against cabinet members who you can't stop doesn't do much. This is the first vote Dems can win. They can stand for something. Americans like what we stand for. It's believable that the Democrats's goal is not to hurt anybody.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I called my Senators today for the first time in my life.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Using mentally ill as an insult is terrible, because it diminishes their humanity. With mentally ill goal should be to see they can have as much life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as possible in their lives. Our goal should to help them deal with their situation, not to make them like us.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I don't want to insist Trump supporters to oppose Trump for the right reasons. I want Trump supporters to despise Trump for misleading and betraying him, because that is the only thing that can pressure Republicans in Congress.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I don’t care half as much how the Democrats not fighting enough as I do about their not drawing blood. How they do it is secondary to everything else right now. I liked Slotkin's response because I thought it would draw blood. I am neutral about Al Green because I don't see it having much effect.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I think the key message the Democrats should be sending is they are the only adults in the room and they care for you. Democrats have never had an opportunity to send this message as there is now. It also has the advantage of being true, so there is no need for rhetorical tricks.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We need to face the horrible reality that Trump is trying to take over like Hitler. There was real planning. The Constitutional checks cannot protect us until his support plummets.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You wants to know how your enemy thinks as opposed to a characterization that makes feel good, because it gives insight on the best way to defeat him. In some ways Trump did his enemies some good today.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Asking Zelinski if he wears a suit reminds me of a story about Lincoln and Grant. Advisors come to Lincoln concerned about Grant's drinking. Lincoln tells them to find out which whiskey Grant drinks and send it to all his other generals.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

LLMs are a good example of what happens when someone knows well text well with clue what it means. No matter how hard he tries to fake, his lack of understanding is clearly visible.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

When Musk judging his potential conflicts of interest, he is strongly guided by his deeply held view that what is good for Elon Musk is good for America.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Trump is making more people feel that government employees do good things.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If someone really believes something it is extremely difficult to believe it. If you see a magician saw a woman in half you don't believe the evidence in front of your eyes. You can have no clue how he did it, but you don't believe what you saw.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How long before Trump requires government employees to sign nondisclosure documents as a condition for employment like he does with his businesses?

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One thing about Trump and Elon is that they don't a know principle that that comes up in every field. There will be problems, no matter how sure you are will work. It’s best to start small, perfect it before you go big. It’s one thing they fired necessary workers by accident which is bad, but not...

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Very smart people fall for really dumb ideas. Musk's main skill is promoting projects and getting to them. He was good at seeing the market of his EVs and uses for SpaceX. It is this skill and luck rather than genius that is responsible for his success. Edison pursued some dumb ideas too.

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Odd Old Man @davids8663.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I grew up with relatively lenient parents. They used discipline sparingly. I think it made me very self disciplined, because it made me listen to my conscience and take responsibility for my actions. The job of a parent is to prepare a child for being an adult and not just following orders.

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