I buy the argument that a functioning democracy requires the populace to believe that the government is honest, competent, and working in their interests. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Vietnam war (respectively) undermined those notions. As of ~2016, half of the US voting population had come of age after those events.

No more of a horrible liability than a human writing public-facing copy.

> Seveneves

Seveneves had a conclusion, and then an extra book...

> And now let's talk about the epidemic of cancer in the Trump administration....

Two out of a large administration, from a cohort especially prone to cancer diagnosis:

- Older (the baseline incidence rate for cancer in people over 60 is 1%)

- Selected for skepticism towards medical advice and guidelines

- Access to world-class health screening

Umm... I was going for conspiracy theorem style ranting. You're not supposed to take it seriously.

But you have to include gabbard's husband in this, so it's three in the last 6 months or so

To expand, the various governments running Paris had a big issue in the early and mid- 19th century with urban insurrections being able to hamper military movement by setting up barricades across streets. There are multiple revolutions and major insurrections that were able to establish strongholds and fortified, highly defensible areas out neighborhoods by building walls out of furniture and debris.

It's much harder to block a military column from advancing down a 200' wide boulevard than down a 20'-alley.

Nowadays potential insurrections are starved by population dispersion into low-density areas, like suburbs. It's getting hard to form an angry mob.

Side benefit: Your kids grow up seeing you build habits that keep you healthy long-term. Eventually, they get involved and that helps them learn self-care skills.

Plus, going for a walk/run in the stroller with Dad has to be developmentally healthier than staring at a tablet on the couch.

Non-related? The article is about institutional actions under authoritarianism and the holocaust is the bureaucratic apex of the most studied authoritarian regime in history.

TFA mentions Hannah Arendt in the introduction and discusses the holocaust (if briefly, because most of its focus is on more modern regimes.

In lots of places that get very cold, even if the heat source is combustion, electricity is still used for ignition, control and distribution through the house.

Do you know if there has been any progress on conical-bore brass? From what I recall (I did some graduate work in instrument modeling in the late 2000s) reed instruments could be modeled convincingly, but the feedback oscillator with the lip buzzing was very difficult to model.

There's eg https://summit.sfu.ca/item/11130 from a Tamara Smyth and Frederick Scott; Google scholar shows some citations but not necessarily conical brass in particular. That link is about trombones, so also not conical. (I read that and tried to implement some stuff in it, see https://nuchi.github.io/trombone/ for a browser-based playable version.)

Conical and cylindrical bores definitely differ but I don't see why they'd be different specifically with respect to the lip interaction, can you say more about that part?