@jqgregory.bsky.social

@jqgregory.bsky.social

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Dad, tech lead, writer, musician, Canadian. Believer in science as a discipline of thought and our best path to truth.

General George C. Marshall, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1943
Venn diagram of "What the fuck"
The Department of Homeland Security’s $64.4 billion bill passed Thursday by a vote of 220–207, with seven Democrats voting in its favor. They were Representatives Henry Cuellar (Texas), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (New York), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington), Jared Golden (Maine), and Don Davis (North Carolina).
Scene from John Carpenter's The Thing with two men strapped to a couch as the monster erupts from their colleague. The two men are labeled "Mexico" and "Canada"
The more you fuck around, the more you find out
Scene from the 2018 science fiction film Annihilation
Just beeause you are right, does net mean, I an wrong. But one of those people is wrong, someone painted a six or a nine, they need to back up and orient themselves, see if there are any other numbers to align with. Maybe there's a driveaway or a building to face, or they can ask someone who actually knows. People having an uniformed opinion about something they don't understand and proclaiming their opinion as being equally valid as facts is what is ruining the world. No one wants to do any research, they just want to be right.
Two For The Road: The Music of Henry Mancini
Image of planes returning from WWII with red dots showing where it had been hit, illustrating the concept of survivor bias
Every ship but the four you sent.
I hope the world is as lucky as the Delta jet - everyone survives and the right wing vanishes.