“Advertising is for the masses, not the elites”

This attitude is what turned us against our local (v good) public school. We met the K teachers. They talked about helping the slow kids. We asked what they do for the accelerating kids. They said “We love those kids. They help us with the other and it makes our lives easier”

Now do liquids…

.Alpha as Boom Supersonic of education

That’s why it should be a tax deduction. Have 6+ kids and pay no taxes for the rest of your life would get a lot of rich people to have more kids

…follows that 4.5h of exercise per day leads to immortality

Instead of implementing high school struggle sessions, colleges should push the SAT to add more levels beyond 1600 to capture higher levels of extraordinary ability and use that

But that’s before taxes

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That's because the Democratic Party defines improving education as "equalizing outcomes", and parents absolutely hate that shit

Go back to the day when both friendly and enemy armies ravaged the land for supplies In the 30 years war something like 450k soldiers died ...and 4.5-8 million civilians

This is a fantastic thread

On a per hour basis the most dangerous form of transport is walking Question: Which is safer: Walking home from the bar drunk, or driving home the same distance?

so inspiring of Cambridge to give an honorary doctorate to someone who aided and abetted murderers and suicide cults because she’s the good sort of extremist

The jokes write themselves I think

“We played peek-a-boo” or as he called it “applied super position””

Don’t make parenting illegal. Make non-self driving cars illegal.

I wish this were true but I don’t think it is for the majority of parents. I think what the median parent cares about is (in order): 1- Safe/Effective babysitting 2- Social approval from peers 3- A path to economic success

I kind of want to rush home and use the prompt on all the classic novels. It may work best with Gatsby but I’ll bet it’s pretty entertaining with others as well

Told my 8-year old about woman selling her “farts” in jars She said “who would sell that?” “I think it’s who would BUY that” “I would buy it for 2-cents” “You would pay 2-cents for a fart?” “I would pay 2-cents for a fart jar then I would release the fart and sell the jar!”