Same place as nearly everything else, the Sun.

Grift the police.

This guy, I bet he even reclines in his airplane seat.

How does this not break our bribery laws?

You must be one of those big big city mice.

15 miles by the crow flies is a lot different than 15 miles driving on the ground.

I’m more worried about what happens when one of these contraptions wraps itself around a power line.

Peace in our time.

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.

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.

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.

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… 💦 🤖 ☠️

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?

Hey transistor!

So if the other day was liberation day, then today is…?

Tell that to all the people who have pension plans invested in the market. Tell that to all universities who have endowments that enable them to grant scholarships for people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford it.

Certain parties excluded, not everyone in this administration is a moron. I know, I know, not the right forum to say that but it doesn’t change the fact.

Tariffs can be an effective weapon. But it’s a scalpel, not a machete. For example, we can and should tariff Chinese electric imports for not meeting NHTSA safety standards. Or even better, where they’ve stolen American IP.

However, when used as a machete, everyone is going to lose.

Apparently 80s Trump was too knee deep in coke to learn from Ferris Bueller.

Agreed, if AI can pass the bar AND the defendant’s right to a public attorney is unavailable due to resource and time constraints, then this is a whole lot better than the plea deals that some defendants are being coerced to sign without a public defender.

And let’s not kid ourselves. Most of the existing public defenders are probably using AI to support their case nowadays anyway.

He should go ahead and tempt fate and try it. Show their hand. Either the ICC has teeth or it doesn’t.