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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Recently seen scratched into the wall of a public restroom. "You're such a Kant." To which someone replied with "You think I Poincaré?"

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Water color is very controllable medium. When I was an art student many years ago, we loved using water color because we, the students, felt that it was the best medium for creating realistic works. I'm a scientist now, so take that any way you want.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A No Kings voter registration drive. Who's with me?

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Teaching does that to a brain, but I love that about it..., most days.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was buying a movie ticket the other day and when I got it I noticed a reduced price. I said, "You made a mistake." The ticket guy said, "Are you over 55?" I just nodded. A coming off age experience that I hadn't expected. I'm many years over 55 but this was the first call out.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fossil fuels are already far deadlier than nuclear when you count air pollution and climate externalities. Nuclear has real risks, but pretending those exist in isolation while carbon pollution reshapes the planet for centuries is a bizarre way to evaluate risk.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wow, you really fear nuclear technology, or you're trying to make me fear it. I'm not saying I support it. I only pointed out there are different ways to manage the nuclear fuel cycle. The risks are real enough without presenting every number in the scariest possible way.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So there are two timescales being conflated: Individual fuel irradiation: about 6.5 years in that 1990s ALMR design. Burning down an entire continually replenished national actinide inventory: hundreds to thousands of years in that particular deployment scenario.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The 1996 analysis was specifically modeling the proposed ALMR fast-reactor system at roughly constant nuclear-power output. It estimated a fuel residence time of about 6.5 years per irradiation cycle, but that is very different from the time required to reduce the total national inventory.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I checked the actual 1996 National Research Council report. That sentence does not appear to be a verbatim quotation. But it is paraphrasing a real conclusion, and I need to correct something from my earlier answer.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They're are fast reactors like sodium reactors that can use nuclear waste and convert the actinide series. 90% of the energy is still available in the light water reactors. Is it completely safe? Nothing is, but how's the carbon fuel economy working out for you? Eradication of life seems dangerous.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

They're already doing that with water to run AI.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I know what you mean. I write all the time in fiction and academic work—and they are all over my handwritten prose. When I convert it to word processing, though, I’m now removing them—because people will ask, “Did you use AI?” the minute they see one.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Evolutionary biologist here. Saying humans must have evolved chins because otherwise we'd have pummeled ourselves into extinction assumes we already know why chins evolved. We don't. There are several hypotheses. I'm rooting for the beard display crumb catcher hypothesis.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Damn fucking straight and I am old and a coded as a teenager. People bitched then about how people that used IDEs weren't really coders. It's all fear and loathing when you feel like your ego is getting supplanted. It's just like misogyny in video games but here everyone can /bash

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sure but they are still 5-6 cm. Perhaps an immature one but even then they don't appear with feathers that small. I could be wrong but I'm skeptical.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The size of the bird on a finger is a big indication.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If that produces an overwhelming backlog, it simply reveals the practical costs of the Court's own ruling. Institutions should be judged not only by their legal reasoning, but by whether the systems they create can actually function. 2/2

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If the Supreme Court dismantles the independence of federal review boards, then the consequences of that decision should be borne by the system they created. Challenge every questionable action through the courts. 1/2

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My dog got bit in our yard too and he survived. The problem is that when you kill rattlesnakes regularly, rattlesnakes change their behavior to stop rattling as a survival mechanism. Your chance of getting bit goes up when you have no warning from the snake.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

With all due respect to your brave dog, rattlesnakes don't attack people, they only defend themselves. This happens all the time and most dogs survive. I don't want people going out and killing rattlesnakes just because they fear snakes. Snakes save lives by eating those things that spread disease.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The name of one of my snowboards was called Juice. That was 1991. You would think that makes me feel old, but I got my first guitar in 1974. I was young, but that makes me feel old.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am shocked that Spanberger vetoed public workers bargaining rights. It seems that some democrats don't realize that leaning into workers rights is a win. It is evident to the moderate workers with whom I work. They don't vote for the democrats because of trust and legislative reversal.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Damn strait. Keep it centered. We complain about the afterglow of going nuclear.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Do you know where the most densely populated place on the planet is? Your colon. Trillions of microbes live there, digesting food, producing vitamins, training your immune system, and influencing behavior. You are less an individual organism and literally a spaceship for your microbial ecosystem.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Trying something a little different. Bluesky was getting really doomy for me. Which brings me to the spadefoot toad. Spadefoot toads can be buried for years underground, waiting for rain. When storms arrive, they emerge like a horror movie which is why I love them. In Colorado, this was an event.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'm an ecologist. What are you gonna do? Tardigrades survive by nearly shutting life off. They dry into a cryptobiotic “tun,” slowing metabolism almost to zero. They survive freezing, radiation, crushing pressure, and even space itself. Tiny animals behaving like biological time travelers.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Nematodes are alien life disguised as worms. They survive boiling deserts, frozen soils, ocean trenches, and even the vacuum of space. Some steal genes from other organisms, some control hosts like parasites from science fiction, and trillions live beneath our feet shaping Earth’s ecosystems unseen.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Fungi are biological aliens hiding in plain sight. Many are multinucleate. Think many souls one body. Their stomach is outside themselves, dissolving wood, soil, even rock with enzymes before absorbing it, like in Star Trek. Forests belong to the fungi, not the trees. Some have 20000 or more sexes.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Isn't this a crossover of the movie and the video game? I am curious.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In the short term, yes, but it isn't sustainable. The arrow will move in both directions and we have seen the same economics in the past. More green technology and more dirty expansion until it oscillates again. It's an economic oscillator where renewable energy is the attractor.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It would have an impact on the riparian and aquatic organisms for wild waters. I am an avid environmental scientist going for a solution, but there is always a tradeoff. I like the idea of doing this in parking lots. Those ecosystems are already destroyed and the solar arrays would cool the city.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Sure, but the idea here is where are the justices grabbing these concepts of liberty and originalism as defined by the founders. Maybe they were reading Grotius, but I expect your first comment is correct. Locke is driving the Declaration bus.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thank you for the correction, but my point is Kant’s ideas didn’t appear in a vacuum. Both he and the Declaration are drawing from the same intellectual current, especially thinkers like John Locke. Kant does come later, but he was trying to clean up 'God's bestowing' to 'necessary conditions.'

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Agreed, not impossible, but rarity increases my skepticism. I teach Earth Science, and while opalization is real, a near-complete freshwater turtle shell preserved this way would be exceptionally uncommon. Without clear evidence, skepticism is my current position. If real, then… cool fossil.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

But Kant also said, your freedom is legitimate only so long as it can coexist with the freedom of everyone else under a universal law.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Seems like he is restating Kant's universal law concept. Kant argues that every human being has an innate right to freedom simply by existing as a rational agent. The founders leaned into this with the Declaration.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Cancer is accumulated mutations escaping repair. Dismissing mRNA cancer tools isn’t skepticism, it’s sabotage. When you block or delay real treatments, people die. Many will be children. Biology doesn’t care about your politics. And JFK jr is a tool, he's not permanent but still causes harm.

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fitmathematician.bsky.social @fitmathematician.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I agree. My comment was that vibe coding will transform to the tool that is suggested. Vibe coding will just be coding at that point.

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