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@darth_hideout Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon American Cinchona Plantation Tree Frog (Isthmohyla rivularis) photographed by Jake Scott

@janisf Well, it's been less than a week, and already some randos on social media have been suggesting that "Elon Musk wrote the software for the voting machines used in the swing states"... with some dude claiming to be the hacker who actually did this. I'm sure the MAGAts have some leftover copium that they'd be happy to share.

@13reak As someone else commented, what you describe is MBA syndrome.

I love Agile/Scrum, which gives both parties the illusion that they're tricking the other side into doing things their way.

@foncu I've already started a Google Doc that's got 18 different links on it --the slightly smarter pundits give multiple reasons. It's Monday night quarterbacking all over the place.

@Thebratdragon @drahardja Just once I'd like a management consultant to be brought in and go, "You're all doing the best you can, keep it up"

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Meadow Tree Frog (Isthmohyla pseudopuma) photographed by Gerrit Jan Verspui

It's nice to see that on top of all the small, insignificant stuff that's depressing us, like the collapse of American democracy, the New York Times highlights some actually relevant depressing information as well.

I heard this term mentioned by one of the hosts of the excellent "If Books Could Kill" podcast (when talking about Sam Bankman-Fried, who's like the quintessential case of this), and my god does it clearly define something I've been needing a term for since forever. This phenomenon explains like half of what's wrong with the world today.

Is anyone keeping a running tally of reasons why Trump won the election? If not, I think I'm going to be collecting them. There are so many to choose from, and every journalist writing about one pretends that their reason is the only reason.

Pico Blanco tree frog (Isthmohyla pictipes) photographed by Wouter Beukema

@spacehobo @RichardH

As this snopes.com article explains, you're right. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/albert-einstein-informed-decisions/

There really should be a word for the skeptical feeling everyone experiences whenever someone on the internet quotes (or rather claims to quote) Einstein.

Among the arguments being raised about why TFG won is the idea of "low-information voters": people who don't follow politics.

By this argument, your reason for deciding that a politician has your best interest at heart is that they tell you, and you hear them and believe them.

Here's a thought: what if politicians enacted policies that actually made these low-information voters' lives better? If they did that, they wouldn't have to _tell_ them anything. Actions speak louder than words.

@ChrisMayLA6 Hosting a COP conference in Baku is like having an animal rights convention in an abattoir.

@mattsheffield Happy to help. And great article!

Volcan Barba tree frog (Isthmohyla picadoi) photographed by Kevin Venegas Barrantes

@mattsheffield I'd think that "rather than" should have a prepositional object. I'm not a native speaker, but I've never seen this construction. I'm familiar sentences like "God is a Being which nothing is greater than," but this doesn't seem to be that.

@mattsheffield Here's a sentence in your article that you didn't:

"Throughout his political career, Trump has always betted on getting people to vote for him who didn’t like him based on what political scientists call “negative partisanship,” people basing their vote on opposing a candidate rather than."

@leslienoon @b_age

I can't believing all of them are racists. Not because I think people are angels who would never harbor racist thoughts, but because in every other Western country, the racist vote hovers between 5%-35%. And arguably, immigrants in those other countries present more of a cultural divide than in the US.

I'd sooner believe that many Trump voters are desperate and have given up on any establishment politicians looking out for them. They voted Trump because he's chaos.

@Reiddragon But it wasn't just a far left tantrum. If what you say is right, then Trump's own top general Mark Milley calling him "fascist to the core" and Trump's own chief of staff John Kelly saying he fits the definition of a fascist should have moved the needle somewhat. As far as I can tell, it completely didn't.