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I don't treat my language limitations as some kind of virtue. Whatever that's supposed to mean.

It seemed to AOC that MCC was running on her ethnic identity -- she was propped up by Wall Streeters who were willing to spend some millions of dollars on her campaign. AOC had a similar experience in her first run, in 2018. Joe Crowley had skipped a debate with her, and instead had sent...

A dictionary definition. Two can play this game. From socialism - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. A system of social and...

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Agenda for 2025 - The American Prospect - June 3, 2024 - by Pramila Jayapal - "Democrats got a lot done in President Biden’s first term. But more is needed." Noting Congressional Progressive Caucus Proposition Agenda Executive Summary - I'd mentioned it...

I find this news welcome, but defenders of price gouging will feel betrayed, stabbed in the back. They will say that these actions encourage people to forget the important truth that nothing is ever free, and they will say that people will not value things very much if they don't have to pay a...

Finally, From Trump's wanting vengeance on people that he feels have wronged him, and also from Project 2025, a plan for right-wing takeover of the US Gov't, complete with preferring loyalty over everything else, like competence and skill and professional ethics.

AOC: Then saying that older people had experienced different things about Israel, and that made them more sympathetic. She then explained her support for President Biden's re-election campaign, despite a lot of people being turned off by him. Then saying that we ought to get into politics...

KS: AOC: That's awfully ambitious -- trying to end Gilded Age II.

Then about the TikTok ban, something she voted against, despite it passing the House 360-58. Then about MTG vs. Jasmine Crockett's eyelashes. AOC objected, MTG asked "Are your feelings hurt?" and AOC called MTG a "baby girl". She then said that she was reminded of her first term, when a lot of...

Then about social media and some of its founders, and how she said to a very rich person that he will either have to do something about income and equality or else he will have to armorplate his Tesla. Then on Elon Musk claiming such things as how President Biden wants to import voters, a...

On with Kara Swisher: AOC on Trump vs. Biden, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tech, Gaza & More on Apple Podcasts Thus making our era the Second Gilded Age, much like the one in the late 19th cy. What to do about them? Good perspective.

She was noting that the DSA seemed to agree with her on lots of issues. No, because MCC seemed to be running on imitating AOC's ethnic and gender identity. AOC didn't seem nearly as bothered by Badrun Khan, as far as I could tell. BK was also running, but she didn't have that kind of support...

Define "socialism". I also note that to most self-described socialists, socialism != "Magic Money Tree" There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in groves of birch trees.

Austronesian, like Indo-European, dates back to the mid-Holocene. It's hard to look much further with historical linguistics, but statistical techniques offer at least a chance at doing so, especially with Swadesh and Swadesh-like lists like the Dolgopolsky one. Austro-Tai Revisited by Weera...

I think that a problem in Thor Heyerdahl's day was getting good dates for archeological sites. Radiocarbon dating was developed in the late 1940's, and became widely used in the 1950's. That likely settled a lot of long-running controversies about dating of many sites. Language Phylogenies...

Gelfond–Schneider theorem If a and b are complex algebraic numbers with a not 0 or 1 and with b irrational, then every value of a^b is a transcendental number. Alternately, for a and b nonzero algebraic, log(a)/log(b) is either rational or transcendental. A related result is from the...

...set {1, e^a} is linearly independent over the algebraic numbers, meaning that e^a is transcendental. Proof that pi is transcendental. It uses e^(pi*i) +1 = 0. That would not be possible if pi*i is algebraic, thus pi*i is transcendental. Since i is algebraic, pi is transcendental. Likewise...

Proof that e is irrational and Euler's Number is Irrational - ProofWiki It is also possible to prove that for all nonzero rational numbers a, e^a is irrational, and that e does not satisfy any second-degree or third-degree rational-number-coefficient polynomial. Martin Aigner, Günter M...

...n and N, N^(1/n) is irrational if it is not an integer. As a preliminary, if N has a prime factor p with power m > n, then it has factor p^(k*n) * p^(m-k*n) where k is a positive integer and m-k*n is >= 0 and < n. (p^(k*n))^(1/n) = p^k, obviously a rational number, so it suffices to consider...

...(Long-side length)^2 = (short-side-1 length)^2 + (short-side-2 length)^2 When the two short sides have equal length, the long side has sqrt(2) * that length. Square root of 2 and Square Root of 2 is Irrational - ProofWiki and Square Root of Prime is Irrational - ProofWiki Every integer...