The best description of libertarianism I’ve ever seen on this app

That black pit contains the discovery of momentum (without which no Newton), the foundations of optics (without which no Galileo), and the literal creation of the university, but go off king

For anyone who thinks that technology is too far advanced for them to make a contribution, remember that we learned to store ketchup upside down AFTER we made it to the moon.

My argument would be the death of low-cost things. Every car has to meet ridiculous standards. Every house has to have heat and air. Everyone has to insure everything. You can’t even have a job if you don’t have Internet/email. Everything is actually cheaper/better, but the

I get annoyed by both the pro/con arguments about school choice. I think both of them completely miss the argument. The "con" side is usually complaining that the people taking the tax credit are people already in private school. However, that's a natural part of the startup

This is a fantastic analysis. Especially the summary at the end.

The biggest problem with raising children on this salary is that we aren’t allowed to be poor and frugal like our ancestors or the government will take your children away. My dad (b 1947) went without shoes in the summer or hair cuts. He helped work on granddads farm. School

Happy July 4th! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Here are some things I love about American culture: 1. Irreverence. Though it can be taken too far and there is a place for the sacred, our willingness to disregard tradition and try new things is probably a big part of why we’re the most innovative nation

The correct take: - “stochastic parrot” is a top notch turn of phrase that does accurately convey something about what LLMs do - stochastic parrots can be smarter than most of the people who like that phrase think - but not as smart as the people who don’t like that phrase think

A great explanation for white wokeness I heard: upper-middle-class whites desperately want to express sneering, classist contempt, and lower-class whites are the only socially acceptable target.

Watched the movie "Puzzle" this weekend. It was a well-done movie, but I left it not sure what I was supposed to get out of it. I appreciated that they didn't try to "cheat" in telling the story (there were several places where most writers/directors would be tempted to do so),

I’ve never heard of this guy, but if he is choosing programmers based on grooming habits I can imagine his code doesn’t work well.

Using #ChatGPT to write an #essay is a bit like using a forklift to lift weights #edchatie #histedchatie irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

I posted this on FB and I'm being called out for transphobia

I think I worked out four times this week. Because of that, today I am super-depressed. Apparently, exercise has the reverse effect on me than everyone else.

This works with Reddit-tier books that are basically one core principle parsed out over 200 pages of 4th grade level remedial English. But great books aren’t reducible—they are expansive. They invite the mind to more and not less. To reduce is something worse than not reading.

In 2025, my new washing machine / drying machine takes 3-5 seconds to “boot up” just so I can *select* the program In 1990 I remember our washing machine took 0 seconds to “boot up” because you just had a physical switch to select the program Sometimes progress feels backwards

I just seen how an engineer spent 38.45$ in claude code to make these changes instead of running something like this sed 's/React\.useRef<\(HTML[^>]*\)>(\([^)]*\))/React.useRef<\1 | null>(\2)/g' Gen Z devs wil have to take loans to refactor the code at some point🫠

Marxism keeps returning over and over again because it’s the unacknowledged Jungian shadow of liberalism’s failure to provide meaning. And no matter how many times it fails economically, Marxism is never discredited for more than a generation at most because the point was never