By David Futrelle
Today seems to be a bit of a slow news day, at least for the Trump Era, though that could change in an instant if that dude in the White House decides to do or say something monstrous.
But, hey, there are still many appalling things (and a few good ones) going on in the world. Let’s get to them!
https://twitter.com/HireMeImFunny/status/920368520164204549
— lena headey (@IAMLenaHeadey) October 17, 2017
Trump is not going to save Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s Humanitarian Crisis, by the Numbers https://t.co/I6un7W7tin#TuesdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/fpASDwWGAE
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 17, 2017
Anthony Scaramucci has started his own lil media outlet. Things are not going well there.
https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/920276930842292224
https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/920303213852504066
A non-apology Holocaust denial apology!
Some depressing polls:
Gallup on Trump job performance by race; white 47% approve 49% disapprove; black 5% approve 88% disapprove; Hisp 17% approve 77% disapprove
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 16, 2017
In a new Quinnipiac Poll, 46% of Republicans support a first strike with nuclear weapons on N. Korea.
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) October 16, 2017
Exciting new videos of Trump lying and acting like a complete creeper!
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/920038542851616768
Unearthed footage shows Donald Trump squeezing and kissing a woman while talking about offering a job to a 'beautiful' teenager pic.twitter.com/3KqGpj4RPH
— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) October 15, 2017
Can you say “hostile work environment?”
But, hey, there’s some good news:
https://twitter.com/lawdavisito94/status/920421563832336385
BREAKING: A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked enforcement of the new Trump travel restrictions. It's a nationwide ban.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) October 17, 2017
I’m going to make up for the relative lack of news tweets today with MOAR KITTIES!
phew. what a day 😴 pic.twitter.com/Qzusc1GWaC
— Serenity Discko (@serenitydiscko) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/lordflaconegro/status/919622676574035968
Determined To Fit https://t.co/6ZiYcTHnwb
— Dog and Kitty (@dognkitty) October 17, 2017
🎈😽🎈😻🎈😸🎈😽🎈😻🎈
Triple trouble 🎉🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/JBvTyb4J6u
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 17, 2017
I get to do the Tourette’s version of CBT, CBIT. Cognitive hacking and physical urge hacking. The list of things to hack is getting rather long, but it makes sense and there is a path to work on these things.
I chose to be a janitor on a drug rehab unit because my old childhood anxiety about hospitals was going to be a problem on the rehabilitation hospital unit. And I chose it because I will have a lor of time to time to think about what I’m trying to change. The plus side is that my coworkers and superiors love the job I’m doing, but I’m having a hard time feeling the praise. At least it’s fascinating to think structure of what I’m doing. There’s research showing that the line between tics and compulsions blurs in Tourette’s Syndrome, mental tics.
@Scildfrega
Sorry that it took me a while to respond about set theory. I’ve been getting used to a new normal.
Set theory is an interesting way to look at objects, hierarchy and relationships. I think I see the 4 relationships. Sort of is, is not, joined, seperate? I think I see what you mean by related to addition. Things are more conceptually broad in the relationship categories.
I can see that inference is not a relationship. Is it just linking two things in a more conceptually broad sense?
Mm. I’ll write you a part two. You’re not wrong in anything you’ve said, really – though inference *is* a relationship. Specifically it is the *causal* relationship.
You’re right to see set theory as a way to look at objects, hierarchies and relationships, because that’s basically what it is.
∧ is to + as “and” is to “we”, perhaps?
⭢ is causation. Nazis ∧ Punchin’ ⭢ Nazi-Punchin’.
(Sort, of. I’m being pretty fast and loose here. Should have curly braces on there.)
Will write more later!