Posts by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #ATBrbkUmtMDjkkEfrM by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-03-01T22:35:13Z
       
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       Do you know how many minutes there are in February?Believe or not, the answer is 8!
       
 (DIR) Post #AX1lragHp1X5vFRTSC by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-06-24T19:39:54Z
       
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       @evan I for one love to know what's happening in Russia. And I found it refreshing to hear multiple Russian experts on BBC News today saying that noone understands Russia, and noone can tell what's going to happen next.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXSH72iS6hpLG0H7mC by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-07T14:22:44Z
       
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       @Jeramee @mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h US politics makes a lot more sense viewed through the filter of a class system. There is the capital class (the idle rich who earn by owning stuff), the skilled labor class, who make a good living from specialized knowledge, the unskilled labor class, who scrape a living by working on the factories and businesses of the capital class, and there is the "peasant" class, scraping by as best they can. It's a pyramid, and US politics is all about getting people to believe that they can climb the ladder to the top of the pyramid. As a result, taxation & regulation of the capital classes is opposed by the majority, and you can pit the unskilled labor class against the peasant class because "they're trying to take your jobs".
       
 (DIR) Post #AXSH760drX9xTHoC2q by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-07T14:24:33Z
       
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       @Jeramee @mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h There's a definite feel of France c. 1765 after the Seven Years War. Worth revisiting Rousseau's "Du Contrat Social" - feels very contemporary when looking at the US.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXSH78H1RbS0UfUIr2 by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-07T14:43:15Z
       
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       @Jeramee @mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h The US system is what Rousseau would have called "Elective Aristocracy" - Magistrates (representatives) are chosen based on givernment by the wisest. However, we have fallen prey to one of Rousseau's warnings: "Nothing is more dangerous than the influence of private interests in public affairs; it leads to the corruption of the legislator, which is an even worse evil than the abuse of the laws by the government; it makes a substantial change in the state, and all reformation becomesimpossible."
       
 (DIR) Post #AbrCnkfNnS85FMzmE4 by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-11-16T06:23:05Z
       
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       @Br3nda @evan In the US, there is no legal reason why immigrants shouldn't be able to vote or serve in local government - just political inertia.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbrlHaqIHdN3uJV4EK by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-11-16T13:59:52Z
       
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       @ian @Br3nda @evan I live in a state where, in theory, towns can vote to allow immigrants to vote ("Home Rule") - however, such votes need to be ratified by the State (the House, I think, although it might be the Secretary of State) to take effect, and they haven't been.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtxIpJXYX55AbDhpUO by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-05-10T15:46:44Z
       
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       @foone That's just prejudiced against Arm64. Why not just say ELF?
       
 (DIR) Post #B49wPl4ES2usFLvBi4 by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2026-03-11T20:48:17Z
       
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       @futurebird Interesting! I was in the minority - for me a lower number should mean a colder temperature, not less aggressive cooling.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4xTMhEs8EGISUE2V6 by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
       2026-04-04T18:18:07Z
       
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       @wjmaggos In that eternal Irish tradition, I blame the English. The only reason Kermit Roosevelt was in Iran was because Mossadegh nationalized Iranian oil production, BP didn't like that.