Peace in our time.

So how’d it go cheese toastie? Were you able to hide it successfully?

How do you square cleaning up Europe’s mess in one thread with Yemen and knocking them down for actively defending Ukraine in another?

You know guys, I’m starting to think these morons just hate Europe.

Little venus though

I grew up poor in a poor area of the country. I also moved around a lot. I went to public schools throughout. While there were certainly a few subpar circumstances in the education system, on the whole, I got a good education, one that equipped me well once I got out of my “young adult with a chip on my shoulder” phase.

What astounds me is that it appears that a vast majority of the country did not receive an education that equipped them for adulthood. That we would even need to consider that we have to lower our standards and write at a 4th grade level. To me it’s like argumentum ad absurdum.

There was a podcast that I listened to recently, where the islanders mentioned that they knew of the white plantation owners progeny as the dumb and lazy ones - resting on their laurels over generations had made them stupid and ill equipped.

So perhaps this is the circle of life, the meek shall inherit the Earth. All I can think is that the system has failed us, or maybe we have failed ourselves. I dunno.

Really, fund managers? This was it, this is what tipped you off? It wasn’t:

• The multiple times he tore up and then attempted to flush official presidential documents…and even ate some of them
• The time he shirked all of our allies to cozy up to dictators who clearly use him as a Manchurian candidate at the expense of the American people
• the time he said he would divest from his businesses but then never actually did, and then built a hotel within walking distance to the White House, clearly breaking all sorts of the nations norms right out the gate
• The times he went bankrupt 7 freaking times and yet continues to call himself a successful fucking businessman
• The time he deliberately hid archives of records from the American people in his bathroom and then, when discovered, said they were his
• The time he said he hated “losers” who die for their country
• The time Kamala broke his brain during their first debate and he went off on a incoherent diatribe
• the time he negotiated with literal terrorists
• The time he redrew a map of the US to show a hurricane hit Alabama
• The time he said it was a beautiful sunny day when it was clearly raining
• The time he gave a hate speech for his inauguration
• the time his language was deemed so toxic and offensive that he was banned from Twitter
• The time he fell in love with one of the most inhumane dictators in the world
• the multiple times he lied about his golf game to the point that it was a running joke to those that played with him
• the time he called himself the messiah and your salvation
• The time he danced for hours at a rally instead of saying anything
• That time he simulated deepthroating a microphone in front of 1000s of people
• the time he ate pizza backwards with a goddamn fork
• the time he wanted to commit multiple crimes against humanity to develop the Gaza Strip into a strip of hotels
• The time he pardoned all of the people who sacked the capitol and tried to kill both the Vice President and the Speaker of the House

When a person is showing you who they are 500 times over, believe them.

Give a man a Roquefort, he can eat for day. Give a man a Ferrari SF90 Stradale, he can eat for a lifetime.

This week on The Americans, they discover that they elected the old man who yells at the TV! Hilarity ensues when he chucks the remote and breaks the screen then goes on a wacky adventure to buy another TV under the new tariffs!

You made this? No.

I made this.

Guess they’re not going to mind all this salt being thrown on their golf course then.

Now do it for Ireland and measure it in pints.

You can keep it about Americans though.

I don’t know every impeachable offense, but I’m pretty sure not following a decision of the Supreme Court is one of them.

Man hallucinates for hours each night 🧠🎟️💫

Robot hallucinates one time… 💦 🤖 ☠️

You see a baby on the second floor in a burning building. It’s crying. Its screams trigger your fight or flight response. Though you know going into that burning building will harm you, your will to act compels you to go save that baby and end its suffering.

You go in, the flames all around you, but you can barely feel them because you are so concentrated on reaching that baby.

You get to the baby. Your flight response now kicks in. You jump out the window. You break your ankle, but you can’t feel it, because your sense of duty and accomplishment of saving that child and the cheers from the community overwhelm your own internal nervous system.

That’s empathy. When your feelings for others override your feelings for yourself. When the extrinsic reward from the community can override your intrinsic experience.

Granted, an extreme example.

I wonder, if multiple people called him at the same time, would it rip up the space-beetle continuum?

I just listened to this podcast. This guy sounds smart. He’s not on the same side of the fence as I am, but I wanted to give him a listen.

I do understand where he is coming from about certain policy decisions functioning well within the university incubator, but then not being able to scale. There certainly are policies that don’t live up to their hype and we absolutely should be performing studies and assessments on why these sometimes don’t scale. I don’t like wasting my tax dollars on ineffective policy as much as anyone else.

However, I think attacking these with a broad brush does more harm than good. There are policies that do work, given the right environment and right people. I think it was what, Portland? That recently did a UBI study and it showed positive results there. I don’t see UBI results being reproduced for say, the entire state of South Dakota. It’s completely different culture and resources.

We should continue studying for effectiveness and scale where it make sense to do so.

He also wants to undermine certain liberal policies so that conservative ideals can flourish on campuses. I think this is disingenuous. There are already universities with conservative ideology. Why must we force other universities to bend to something that is not their culture? And if they say “because you take government tax dollars and we say so” well, that’s not how the contracts were written for one and two, I think universities would have put a lot more thought into what funds they were willing to accept if those conditions had been written.

It’s a bit like the reverse of “regulatory capture.” You work with Princeton to build a billion dollar atom smasher to do some amazing physics work, then you come in 10 years later and add strings attached to their D.E.I. policy to keep their funding. Well, it’s not like Princeton is then going to go and demolish the building and say “take your funds and shove it!” I mean they could, but I could imagine the public blowback wouldn’t be worth it.

So now the govt is dictating policy that is better off being left at the professional and cultural level of the university. And that is quite a dangerous place to be in, both for liberals and conservatives. Where have the “keep the government’s hands out of my business” types gone?

No need to sweat the small stuff. We just need the pitch deck now. We’ll suss out all of those boring details in print.

Not a public facing AI :)

And the US got Jack.

Please stop, I can only get so erect.