Sinema's 5x more popular with Republicans in AZ than she is with Dems.

If she runs in a 3way she's probably gonna siphon way more moderate GOP votes than Democratic ones.
Sinema's consistently put self-promotion over any coherent political strategy.

So, a splashy independent run that fucks over her core constituency (AZ never-Trump Republicans, or about 5% of Arizona) is 100% on brand.
Keep seeing comments describing Sinema as "stupid."

No, she just doesn't give a fuck about her constituents. Her behavior is very well thought out for achieving her personal goals.

I'm begging y'all, please stop confusing "self-serving" with "stupid."

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Dec 5
What's this, an account from Lumberton yelling about how Fayetteville is gross & crimey? Oh boy. Let's look up some stats.

Fayetteville NC homicide rate: 11.34 per 100K
Lumberton NC homicide rate: 28.1 per 100K

This is what I'm talking about with the "haha Fayettenam" stuff. Screenshot, from twitter user "Frank 'Time for Democrac
Lumberton's got real problems bud! Your homicide rate is close to triple Fayetteville's. You could, idk, get productively engaged in your hometown or something.

But sure go ahead, tell yourself that someone *else* is "mad about living in a shithole." let it all out LMAO
sources

Fayetteville: fayobserver.com/story/news/202…

Lumberton: insideprison.com/city_crime_sta… (as a smaller town this one is harder to find reporting on)
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Dec 4
Some local context. This is in Southern Pines NC. It's kinda like the Shelbyville to Fayetteville's Springfield. The Eagleton to our Pawnee.

Southern Pines is where the snobs go so they don't have to look at Fayetteville! Screenshot from Google Maps...
Here's the story of Pinehurst & Southern Pines. Back in the Gilded Age some robber baron got tired of winter, took a train south, & when he found the first place it was warm enough to play golf, he built a resort town.

It's been a wealthy golf retirement enclave ever since.
Then, in WWI, Fort Bragg got built. Southern Pines used to be nice & isolated from dumpy, scrubby Fayetteville.

Fort Bragg connected them. Integrated them, you could almost say. With federal salaries, why, *anyone* could afford to move out of Fayetteville into Southern Pines.
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Nov 29
Today's hot new scam is a luxury "chemical free" laundry detergent that gives you skin infections

rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Looks like the culprit is Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

I'm just at a loss over how you load up a laundry detergent with enough P. aeruginosa to give people skin infections.
Between this & Daily Harvest giving people liver damage, I would love to see us figure out that expensive shit with aspirational health & wellness branding can totally hurt you.
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Jul 26
Some monkeypox context, bc we need that I guess.

Full disclosure: I'm not a human doctor. I'm a doctor for crops.

So this comes from the POV of agricultural epidemiology: how diseases hang out in the landscape & sometimes run into people & the plants/animals we hang out with.
Monkeypox is 1 member of a big family of orthopoxviruses:

-cowpox
-camelpox
-horsepox
-smallpox
-raccoonpox
-skunkpox
-alaskapox
-dolphinpox

Yes these are all real. What a world amirite
Orthopoxviruses tend to be...kind of omnivorous. They're able to live in a lot of different hosts.

So they're not named after the ONE host they live in, but usually just named after the first animal that we noticed them in.
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Jun 27
"Be your own boss" is a trash reason to start a business.

Nobody's perfect. So if you do an operation halfway right, your clients/customers and employees (if you have them) will tell you what got fucked up CONSTANTLY.

that's not a very boss-ly feeling, idk what to tell you 🙃
Having more control over your time, having more (but by NO means total) control over your income, etc: self-employment *can* accomplish that.
But I feel like a lot of people take "being your own boss" to mean "I'm the captain now" & like...no. Now u are simply on an other level of being committed to other people's needs. Or else your business dies and your staff leave you because you treated them like shit.
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