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Sen. Mitch McConnell, 83, fell to the ground in a Capitol hallway Thursday afternoon as he made his way to Senate votes. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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McConnell, who announced in February that he would not seek reelection, fell to the floor while two volunteers from the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement approached the senator and asked him a question about Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. He did not respond to the question. The senator seemed unsteady, but got up and kept walking with the help of his detail. He then waved to the two individuals who were questioning him.

Attack by environmental terrorists confirmed.

The way Linux treats many things as part of the file system (devices, sockets, etc.) that Windows doesn’t.

Jenkins in the article: “there has to be an arrest that takes place of an agent, which requires an intermediary set by another law enforcement agency.” Seems she’s passing the buck to law enforcement.

Edit: I’m not trying to defend her, I’m just quoting her actual excuse for reference.

Bureaucracy.

First they came for the woodwinds, and I said nothing because I play in strings.

Edit: It’s a silly joke, but I do think the parts of an orchestra is a good metaphor for the importance of diversity to society.

Have we mapped the Kuiper belt well enough to say whether or not there are any planet-sized clear paths inside it?

Edit: Actually, the method they’re using to detect its possible existence it is by looking at how it’s perturbing other Kuiper belt objects—so if they do detect something, it’s because it’s actively clearing its orbit.

Since a theoretical communist society would be stateless, the idea of a fully communist country is an oxymoron. Instead you have countries claiming to be transitional states that are laying the groundwork for true communism at some point in the future.

The “Fall of Rome” conflates a lot of different events, covering over a thousand years:

• The end of the Republic
• The Crisis of the Third Century
• The fall of the western empire
• The fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade
• The capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire

The one most usually thought of is the fall of the western empire… and while it was preceded by some stupid policy decisions, they weren’t notably more stupid than many other decisions the empire made over the previous five centuries. From an institutional perspective, it was actually a relatively boring period.

(Many of the other comments here are pointing to things that were pretty much constants for most of the empire’s existence, so if you want to blame them for the fall, you need to explain why the empire didn’t fall 500 years earlier.)

I think humans are natural storytellers who rely on the construction of narratives for most of our basic thought processes. But the natural world is inimical to narrative, so we employ narrative worlds whose functioning is adapted to the requirements of storytelling. (Even “naturalistic” storytelling relies on subtle tweaks to the laws of causality and probability, if nothing else.)

So I believe that we can’t make sense of the world without relying at least implicitly on the supernatural, but I don’t believe that it corresponds to anything external to our own cognition.

But the “laws of nature” are just provisional rules we’ve deduced through observation. When we see things that violate the rules as we’ve deduced them (and we often have), we figure out new rules—we don’t just assume there are things to which the rules don’t apply.

That’s how instant runoff voting works (assuming you’re still starting with a small list of candidates).

He doesn’t get it—you can only win the Peace Prize by defeating a previous winner in single combat.

“Yes, Precious—we meant ‘us’!”

Bill them a consulting fee for doing their HR work for them.

Both of them complaining about “kids” (AKA mobile devices) these days.

The structures are kind of like Hermione’s charmed handbag in the Harry Potter series, said Nobel Committee for Chemistry member Olof Ramström … “Small on the outside, but very, very large on the inside.”

I feel like there’s a more-recognizable pop-culture reference he could have made there.

To be fair, the phrase apparently came from the Nobel committee rather than the journalist.

No. Nitpicking the exact numbers implies that there’s some number that would have justified the Israeli response. The problem with Israel’s actions in Gaza isn’t that they’re disproportionate, it’s that they’re categorically war crimes, and nothing Hamas did or didn’t do has any bearing on that whatsoever.

Like holding companies?