I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its

I’m wondering if parked teslas need to have self-defense or at least self-protection mode where they would relocate away from the fire. Cc: Elon Musk

Cc: aavst2055, Yulia Latynina Интересное письмо в архивах JFK: “9 августа 1963 года в Софии, Болгария, г-н Василев, консул посольства СССР, сообщил мне, что г-н Ли Харви Освальд прибудет в мой номер 14 августа 1963 года. Госпожа Бесера Асенова, подруга г-на Ли Харви Освальда из

Hey Grok, based on my tweets, which historical figure do I sound the most like?

Ha! I didn’t know that, but today, June 6th is a Russian language day. Congratulations to all Russophones.

Update. Not bad. After complaining to Grok on X, Grok in the car started searching in the regional language, not in the language we are speaking in

I expect AI to produce a lot of value while trying to make a coherent body of knowledge out of its training data, but on its own, AI is limited to a sort of ancient Greek philosophical process, where the method is rhetoric, rather than the experimental process of science. This

chatgpt5-codex and claude4.5 in agentic mode in VScode. They are incredible and do a great job, but!!!, they fumble at trivial code restructuring (move funcs/clases between files). They mess up namespaces, headers and then spend hours trying to solve compilation errors.

Starship successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown

I don't understand why these respected scientists haven't also signed a call to ban teleportation and, you know, this technology from the Ant-Man movie and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Just for completeness.

This is an accurate picture of orbital rocket launches so far this year. 90% Falcon with the massive SpaceX Starship standing out very clearly.

Amazing how massive Soyuz and Angara-5 rockets look so small compared to falcon 9

Amazing! Isaacman is baaaack!!!!!

True, so true

Both my parents have health problems. They can not leave St. Petersburg, because my grandfather is approaching 90 does not want to move anywhere and they take care of him. My parents family income is two pensions summing up to 300 Euro a month. They can not afford an EU visa