Patrick McEwen

@pmcewen.com

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Lacrosse guy, but no one seems to talk about sports here, so I guess I'm here for the political news? Maybe some finance and economics stuff too? I made @8sites.top

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Google search results for a quote from the statement that only returns 3 results, 2 for Drop Site News and one of a repost of the article on 8kun
Partiful menu with "log out" button but no profile or account or settings option to stop texts
Elon Musk companies — investment decision matrix. When you invest you make money, but Elon gets rich enough to destroy the world
Princeton players celebrating their win in front of their fans in the stands
Chart comparing job losses and recoveries in various US recessions
Tigert, who sent the 2025 letter to QTS, said the utility didn’t know about the water hookups because the connection process “got mixed up” as the county transitioned to a cloud-based system while also trying to accommodate an industrial customer. Tigert also said her staff is small and at capacity. “Just like any water system, we don’t have enough staff. We can’t keep staff,” she said. “I’ve got one person that’s doing inspections and plan review, and so he’s spread pretty thin.” She said it’s possible her staff did know about hookups but that she hadn’t been able to locate the inspection report. “I may have hit ‘send’ too soon,” she said about the 2025 letter to QTS.
Chart of the cost of renting vs buying a house over time
Scoreboard showing NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament first round games starting at 12 pm
Graph of Bluesky daily likes since the beginning of the site. Source: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Guy standing in a corner at a party thinking "They don't know" meme
Goal details from the Hampton VMI game showing it tied at 15 until VMI took the lead with 1:42 left
VMI 17, Hampton 15 from the Inside Lacrosse scoreboard
Screenshot of a localdev version of sports data in atproto showing a list of NBA teams
The reason that libertarians seem extreme and odd is not that they are a furious minority, angry at a world that seems to have passed them by, but rather the opposite. They are heirs to a tradition that has changed the world. Consider what classical liberalism stood for in the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was against the power of the church and for the power of the market; it was against the privileges of kings and aristocracies and for dignity of the middle class; it was against a society dominated by status and land and in favor of one based on markets and merit; it was opposed to religion and custom and in favor of science and secularism; it was for national self-determination and against empires; it was for freedom of speech and against censorship; it was for free trade and against mercantilism. Above all, it was for the rights of the individual and against the power of the church and the state…. The reason that libertarianism seems narrow and naive is that having won 80 percent of the struggles it has fought over the last two centuries, it is now forced to define itself wholly in terms of the last 20 percent. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice if you were in Prussia in the 1850s, but in America in the 1960s? Libertarianism has become extreme because the world has left it no recourse.
Nassim Taleb tweet: I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut.
Screenshot of my profile with the Germ DM button showing
Wages at the tail end of Carter's term
Consumer expenditures by category chart from 2023 BLS data
Chart of premium/discount to buying a house vs renting
"All this time," Massie explained, "I thought they were voting for libertarian Republicans. But after some soul searching I realized when they voted for Rand and Ron and me in these primaries, they weren't voting for libertarian ideas—they were voting for the craziest son of a bitch in the race. And Donald Trump won best in class, as we had up until he came along."
Walker
"We are quite profitable," said Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of software firm Novell who this week took the helm from Google co-founder Larry Page. "And we are not one of those companies that reached profitability because we didn't buy any pencils during the quarter." Mr Schmidt, who has been chairman of privately owned Google for three months, said the Silicon Valley company had made an operating profit in the first half of 2001 and a net profit in the three months to July. Only a few big internet players have reached profitability in the US, including eBay and Priceline. Analysts said Google, which is used by 50m web surfers each month, has won a loyal fan base thanks to the clarity and speed of its searches. Where competitors have cluttered their sites with banner adverts and expensive content - and irritated users by taking payments for skewing searches - Google offers a fast, no-frills service. "It searches a higher proportion of the web than most other engines," said Rebecca Ulph, an analyst at Forrester Research, "and it is increasingly used to power the searches behind other portals." Another analyst told reporters Google's revenue could reach $50m next year. Google already supplies some search technology to its larger rival Yahoo!, the once profitable portal which - despite attracting 200m users a month - fell into the red earlier this year after its advertising orders dropped off.
Protesters with signs along a divided highway in the Maryland suburbs
Map of US counties where German Americans are the largest ethnic group. Source: the Economist using US Census Bureau data
GitHub comment: I've looked at this today. So far it doesn't seem to be possible to add a Referer header on iOS (without dropping down from SFSafariViewController to WKWebView which I'd rather not do) or on Android (where CustomTabsIntent only takes CORS-safelisted headers, which Referer is not).
MPJs contract details
List of 10 criteria for qualifying for an EB-1 visa from USCIS website
Cuse head coach Gary Gait in a surrender cobra with the score showing his team down 8-1 to Maryland
CPI chart for new vehincles
Maryland men's lacrosse player Eric Spanos draws a slide and passes the ball over top of the defense to Spencer Ford who scores on a left handed step down shot to extend the Terps lead to 7-5 over Notre Dame in the 3rd quarter in their game on March 1, 2025
Hockey game in a full arena
Map showing: Percentage of Population 5 Years and Over Who Spoke a Language Other Than English at Home: 2019
Protocol Overview The Authenticated Transfer Protocol, aka atproto, is a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications. This document will introduce you to the ideas behind the AT Protocol.
Yellow VW minivan in a wheat field with the side doors open
“We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses and apartments, we got nicer boats, we’re smarter than they are and they say they’re the elite,” the president said. “You’re the elite, we’re the elite.” Trump went on to call the elite “stone cold losers.” “Let’s call ourselves, from now on, the super elite,” he said.