Stephen Fleming

First off, it would hard to establish one-size-fits-all for a country the size of the USA. There are regional variations in salaries, real estate costs, utility rates, etc. that’s why each campus is assigned an IDC rate based on an individual local audit every five years.…

I know I’m new to the conservative moment, but… …can anyone explain to me what is stopping the GOP from bringing up extremely popular, single-issue bills for a vote, every single day of the Trump administration? I don’t understand.

What's going on at Pima County Library? There were multiple copies of "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors" that were frequently checked out. Then, my book disappeared from the catalog; I was told the only copy was at a library undergoing…

I saw the DC-X fly at White Sands in New Mexico in 1995. Vertical take off and landing in a single stage test vehicle. (Proof of concept and not orbit capable.) The same day the Air Force hand it over to NASA. NASA soon torched it and then pretended it never existed.

how do we fix permitting? During WWII: - Auto plant to tank plant in 90 days - Kaiser set up a steel plant in CA in 147 days - Shoe factories switched to parachutes in weeks today, lithium mine permit takes 7–10 years, new transmission line takes 10+, don’t get me started on LA…

Pay congressmen and senators $5 million a year and forbid them from receiving a penny from any other entity or person ever again. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than the system we currently have of allowing them to use the low paying position as an entrée to unlimited grift

there should be a space war college modeled after the naval war college. postgrad-only, with one interdisciplinary degree that combines technical skills —orbital mechanics, systems engineering, cyber, etc. — with strategy: space policy, IR, and political economy. anyone can…

Coulda woulda shoulda. This future was absolutely possible. We just decided not to do it. ☹️ But we CAN do all of this by the 100th anniversary of the first Apollo landing, if we choose to.

Just watched the new “Fantastic Four” movie. I have no idea how Pedro Pascal got cast as Reed Richards. But he was definitely channeling his inner Burt Reynolds.

Legitimately the coolest thing ever

The only distinction I can claim from my years at MIT is that I took introductory statistics from Tom Lehrer. The most fun I ever had at MIT was when Tom Lehrer played and sang at the Pol Sci Dept's Christmas party.

And suddenly the world is less smart, less insighful, and less funny. RIP Tom Lehrer

Dammit.

This was the lineup yesterday to get into the Tesla Diner. Insane. Tesla is going to need to build way more of these. 😂

Sign of the times or exactly what copper wire would say

One of two 2026 movies I’m genuinely excited to see. (The other is “Project Hail Mary.”)

If we decide as a species that we can establish human presence on other worlds, then we will do it. If we think we can't, we'll also be right. A little bit of optimism will change our destiny in the stars. I choose to be optimistic.

So the Republican Congress won’t approve the Republican President’s nominees, and they’re running pro forma sessions to block recess appointments. At what point do we admit that the White House and the Congress are run by different parties just sharing one name?

Nobody asked for this. Nobody.

It’s typically illegal to sell a puppy younger than 8 weeks old because it’s deemed cruel to separate it from its mother but corporate America expects women to return to work 4 weeks after giving birth.