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Shylock Holmes
@shylockh
One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.
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Joined February 2015
The funniest conceit of "House, MD" is that, in the US medical system, if your problem is too hard to diagnose, there's a crack team of 150 IQ doctors who'll spend 4 days on your case until they solve it. As opposed to *shrug* "Have you tried diet, exercise and sleeping more?"- I unironically believe that Red Bull deserves praise and your customer dollars for spending much of their marketing budget on "paying elite athletes to do cool, risky, aesthetic things, and posting videos of them". It is the modern heir to the JFK moon rationale.Red Bull sets a new world record by attempting to jump off a mountain into a moving plane
00:00 - Evidence Suggesting Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Senate Race In Milwaukee, a huge and improbable Dem vote dump flipped the race In Dane and Winnebago, updates implausibly all improved Dem vote share relative to prior votes. Updates got more extreme after GOP pulled ahead. A 🧵
- Every day for the past month, I've been reminded that for my entire life up to 2024, I was assured that it was impossible to fire civil servants in any meaningful quantity, that government departments couldn't ever be closed down. It was all lies. It just hadn't been tried. 1/BREAKING: Chief Counsel for the ATF Pamela Hicks, a Democrat donor, was just terminated
- >BJJ coach has affair with Giselle, she gets divorced. >Same BJJ guy starts coaching Ivanka, has affair with her too. >Ivanka gets divorced. >Ivanka and Tom start dating, end up marrying. >Trump gets Brady as son-in-law. >BJJ coach was paid by Trump all along. Art of the deal.
- I suspect that a lot of the reason for bad parenting guidelines is our unwillingness to give conditional advice for fear of offending people. So instead of saying "don't co-sleep with your baby if you're a morbidly obese drug addict", doctors say "nobody should co-sleep". 1/
- El Salvador is a legal philosophy hypothetical come to life. "Okay, but what if all the guilty people... tattooed their faces. And literally nobody else did. And there's like 100,000 of them. Would you still really need trials for all of them?" "Yes, because, um, er..."The American right should be ashamed of their admiration of @nayibbukele, writes @plynch1966. The fact that he has ended El Salvador's violent crime epidemic does not justify his betrayal of liberal ideals and principles. lawliberty.org/unanchored-in-…
- I am increasingly convinced that one of the worst societal choices the west made was deciding that housing should be a vehicle for generating investment wealth, rather than something that stays as cheap as possible.
- Evidence Suggesting Voter Fraud in Milwaukee – a thread. I’ve been looking at the vote counts in Milwaukee, and there’s suspicious patterns in the data that need explaining. Proving fraud is difficult, but a lot of irregularities point in that direction. First, the tl;dr. (1/N)
- Many people misunderstand the first rule of kings (including a plenty of kings themselves). You must only give orders that will be obeyed. Break this rule, and you will not stay as king for long. The Supreme Court showed that they still have the sense to stay as kings. 1/BREAKING: In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court has effectively nuked the universal injunctions used by rogue district court judges. The opinion was written by Amy Coney Barrett. Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan dissented.
- Among the strongest reasons to reflect on the Roman Empire is to marvel at their technology, and rememeber that they were ultimately defeated by barbarians who not only couldn't build what they built, but didn't even leave written records.This is how a Roman aqueduct worked.
00:00 - One of the worst acts of the Biden administration, crying out for punishment, was to openly defy the law by flying millions of illegals into America. They deliberately flouted the rule of law when it served them, knowing it would be hard to deport them all through the courts. 1/
- Replying to @shylockhIn Milwaukee, a large vote update of 109K votes, 83% favoring the Democrats, arrived at 3:31am on Wed 11/6, flipping the outcome of the race. This vote batch is improbable on several dimensions: 1. It is late at night 2. It differs from the 67% Dem vote share beforehand 2/N
