Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@Kyresti It would do at least two things that don’t happen right now:

1. Actually pay grad students
2. Reduce or eliminate the cottage industry for federal grant hoarding

Given the amount of research done by overworked grad students that is currently turned around and resold by their university or research org, that would make a huge difference.

@mawr Second prize: two Julian Assanges.

@Soreth @mawr Same

@thomasfuchs Until very recently, a furnace first installed in our home in the late 1960s, original hardware manifest and all.

Living under a rapidly-consolidating authoritarian regime sucks, and I wish I knew how to contingency plan around it better.

The best I’ve come up with is setting aside some funds to help friends through losing their insurance and incomes, and to keep supporting my reps in their efforts to speed up inquiries into public corruption.

So he intends to cover up the whole thing, provide enough plausible deniability to help spin the narrative, push this all into the courts, and delay through 2020. Cool cool cool.

I am trying to see how getting him on the record now and subpoenaing Mueller in May isn’t playing an extremely dangerous game of chicken. I understand it’s the correct response to backstop a court challenge, but that kind of doesn’t matter if they dismantle the institutions in the meantime.

Taxes are finally done. Too... many... numbers. @..@

@Dex *pafpafpafpafpafpafpafpaf* Yes, new high score!

@mawr I just wish the conservative noise machine wasn’t using it as an opportunity to push propaganda and knock out candidates with even a passing chance of winning.

For a puzzle game about box pushing and arbitrary code execution, this pushes the concept really far.