Is "education" really that important? Does one really need more information sources than Fox News? (Maybe supplemented with Alex Jones and Joe Rogan.)
Is "education" really that important? Does one really need more information sources than Fox News? (Maybe supplemented with Alex Jones and Joe Rogan.)
No problem Eddie. Nuance often gets in the way of a good story, even when there may be some truth to it.
On the other hand: Try Googling "Titanic binoculars myth":
I guess there is always some room to be hopeful. But I'm surprised how divided the U.S. is. You've probably seen the recent Gallop poll: 93% of Republicans approve of Trump, but only 1% of Democrats. As if we are from different universes.
Great aspirations. Unfortunately, these are not the first words that come to mind, when I think of the current U.S. administration's foreign (or domestic) policy: "communication, cooperation and collaboration" But this administration won't last forever, at least I hope not.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people don't so much mind a dictator if they think he's doing something they like.
FWIW: In some contexts, people really do debug at the nanosecond level. For example there is this 2022 Usenix paper: "How to diagnose nanosecond network latencies in rich end-host stacks" www.usenix.org/system/files...
From the Wired story: "His [Dan Wang's] prescription? 'For the US to be 20 percent more engineering, and for China to be 50 percent more lawyerly,'".
Actually, a Google query returns in part: "The claim that humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas is an inaccurate oversimplification; more accurately, humans share about 50% of their genes with bananas, not their entire DNA, and this represents less than 2% of a human's total DNA."
Also interesting: "... pre-war Brazil had strong links with Nazi Germany - the two were economic partners and Brazil had the biggest fascist party outside Europe, with more than 40,000 members." www.bbc.com/news/magazin...
I'd never heard of this either: www.businessinsider.com/photos-confe...
Meanwhile in the USA: "Trump declares war on clean energy. The numbers show it’s the only thing keeping America’s lights affordable": fortune.com/2025/08/22/t...
And I suppose there is a remote, but not zero, chance that you-know-who might actually catch some blame.
And ... FYI: Reminder about how to reduce dangers from lightning in the Sierras, from 2021 article: www.fresnobee.com/news/weather...
Yes, Adam looks fit. Actually, in this longer video, Hegseth is using an overhand grip, and appears to have decent form. The video seems to say that both Hegseth and 71-year-old RFK Jr were each able to 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups! If true, I'm impressed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MosB...
Oh yeah, I do get that. It's a big loss of face for a "war fighter"😂. My point, as someone working on getting better at pull-ups, is that it isn't that easy. My guess is that 80% of men his age can't do 1 pull-up or chin-up. Many could if they built up to it over time, but not today.
I love your content, but I'm just curious. How many pull-ups, regardless of grip, can you guys do? Tim? Adam?
From comment on arstechnica article: "I'm just bitterly amused by the irony of consulting one of the architects of our downfall on the inevitable consequences of same." (Referring to Dean Cheng who, among other things, was a researcher at the "conservative" Heritage Foundation for 13 years.)
In the "Fermi Paradox" there is the concept of filters that hold back the higher development of life. To that we can now add the Trump idiocracy.
"The US ... is a developing country that has much to learn from the good aspects of China’s engineering state." Wow. Hmmm.
"... anyone who has ever filed tax returns can attest that a year is easily enough time to forget how to do any complex process."
See also: (Picture is of "SuperAger" Ralph Rehbock, 91 years old, and his wife.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
Today's crackpot is tomorrow's director of something or other in the current U.S. administration.
You need to become "Ed Zitron the God".
😂
If he started calling himself "Trump the God", I'll bet at least 50% of his base of nitwits would fall in line and start building churches to worship him at.
See also: "I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again": www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
For more background on the Vesna case: Vesna (Spring in Russian) is a young people’s democratic movement that aims to ‘build a new Russia based on freedom and human rights.’ ... After the ... Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vesna began coordinating anti-war protests. memopzk.org/en/news/six-...
Maybe Epstein's ghost can do what some European leaders could not? Time will tell.
And besides that it doesn't work that well?
Related discussion from 2024: www.reddit.com/r/electricve...
Is there a practical way to buy a Chinese EV from Mexico and legally run it in the US? (DMV approval? Parts and support?)
But where is her dog Cricket? Her portrait should include Noem holding Cricket's lifeless body by one leg and laughing (to be fair, I doubt she went that far...).
Action shot!
"Excellent call by the master. Does he watch What's Going on With Shipping?" I think they owe you a bridge tour, at least.
But what if they have "bone spurs"?
Please consider donating to endpresidentialrevenge.org "The legal defense fund to end presidential revenge [by Trump] against Miles Taylor & other whistleblowers". Below is Legal AF's background on this: youtu.be/JtZcnWSJMZ8?...
Just another 2 weeks, that's all... It will be great.
Scientific notation is your friend.
King chaos
Yes. Both ACLU and Move-On have estimates of 5 million people (in "over 2,100 rallies and protests"). www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Not the same thing, but this makes me think of the Japanese movie "Grave of the Fireflies": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_o...
"Non-members can read five free Proceedings articles per month."
First time I've heard of it: www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
Or is it 5 with the golden king in charge?
How do you modify it to run without Elon Musk?
Was that what killed him?
Well tomorrow, we in the USA also have a chance to demonstrate against our want-to-be-King. I'm going! There are places all over the US. I don't expect any kind of confrontations with police at my local locations. Just a chance to piss-off his royal highness. See the map: www.nokings.org
And given his current poll numbers, neither do many of us in the USA 😂.
I believe what you are saying Rob. I'd imagine the people you interviewed with will read this. I'm really curious what they'd say in response. Maybe they think their current stack and arch. is good enough, and their priority is to just add new features X and Y on top of it? Not improve the core?
Apparently she'll be 88 on the 13th in 3 days. Wow.
And maybe run an EV-car company?
"If Vance falls off the tiger he spends the rest of his days hustling to keep a roof over his head." This seems... a bit overstated.
Not a very TACO line though. Reagan maybe or John F. Kennedy.
From the article: “I saw it just the other day and feared it,” one friend texted. “Like what the actual fuck is that shit,” said another. “Why?!!!” said a third. “Who is that for?”
Homie has got to have some interesting tats he's covering on his forehead.
"Earhart approached the experience with an easy, almost reckless, confidence." See also: "No Old, Bold Pilots": postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/f...
Well, not all Republicans... “This is not a time to bend the knee, to play along,...” www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
>Your homework is to watch all the Star Trek movies. I may have to take you up on that. It's wild that the original reference, according to Wikipedia, was in the 1982 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". That's 43 years ago, when Jared Isaacman was something like -6 months old (he was born 1983).
I know what you mean, but the frankness of your post gave me a chuckle 😉.
(For anyone else who's interested, here is Jonathan McDowell's "Kobayashi Maru scenario" post today:) bsky.app/profile/plan...
Heh. Well, she isn't the only one (I didn't know what it was either). What is the context in which it came up? Was it something related to Jared Isaacman? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayas...
So much religiosity. Well, kind of... meidasnews.com/news/trump-d...
Would it be disqualifying to respond this way? "I aspire to learn how to grift from a master without peer, who is utterly without shame! My only hope is that I can contribute to the monetary wealth of the dear leader, and possibly share some of the spoils myself. Oh, and God bless America!"
See also: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Correct. Tina Peters the former Mesa County, Colorado clerk.
Thank you!
"Abell S1063" is apparently 4.5 billion light-years away (or about 45,000x the diameter of our 100,000LY-diameter Milky-Way galaxy): www.space.com/astronomy/ja...
Sounds like a good start anyway: "In November 2024, the plane conducted a test flight that saw it reach a speed of Mach 1.12, and it achieved an altitude of 82,500FT."
"The craft should be able to...". Who do they think they are, Elon Musk?
Wow! "In 1942, the U.S.S. Lexington was slowly sinking from a Japanese torpedo attack, before the crew abandoned ship, they broke into the freezer and ate all the ice cream. Survivors describe scooping ice cream into their helmets and licking them clean before lowering themselves into the Pacific."
"we did get into space." And it did distract Elon's attention, at least for while, from further destroying the U.S. government, and subverting democracy.
"The New Dark Age: The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We are descending back into a pre-scientific, pre-democracy era. Better brush up on your primitive grunts for communication, and your cave-person walk.
Why Prolog? The Github page states, that allows you to say: "...My window manager is a semantic consequence of a set of axioms and implications which my computer is deducing/proving from an infinitely branching proof-tree"
Great color choice.
This is the kind of exaggeration that even Elon would blush at.
Good point Mark. It would also help to stop enabling Elon in other ways too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDGg...
Yep. 'On the Chinese internet, [Trump] earned the nickname of Chuan Jianguo, or “Trump, the (Chinese) nation builder” during his time in office – a quip to suggest his isolationist foreign policy and divisive domestic agenda [are helping Beijing overtake the U.S.]' edition.cnn.com/2024/05/31/c...
And when we're done stressing about that comment, we can go back to stressing about other things, like the "great filter" hypothesis, and the current U.S. administration, etc., etc... (Image from: sites.krieger.jhu.edu/world-scienc...)
Life is a challenge.
Thank you for doing that!
The Economist (USA cover): "MAGA's assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm":
Wow. OK, thanks. Google AI says: "Compersion is a feeling of joy, happiness, and satisfaction experienced when witnessing a partner's happiness and positive interactions with another person, often in the context of polyamory or other non-monogamous relationships. It's the opposite of jealousy..."
China is very good at drones, and they are on a strong path with semiconductor chip manufacturing. Are we going to cede that too them too? We're having trouble building ships for our Navy. Maybe we can contract that out to China?
compersion? Presumably compassion?
Oh, indeed. Trump is deplorable. The irony is that (legitimate) fear of Trump winning, partly led to Trump winning! "...most of the media declined to investigate Biden’s disposition because it interfered with a higher priority: saving the country from Donald Trump."
That HN summary doesn't do justice to the X post, which is quite good.
"Hunter’s antics and shady business dealings were more than just a tabloid sideshow, Tapper and Thompson write, because the drama surrounding him symbolized “a family dynamic built around rejection of reality.”
If we try to build one (regardless of the reliability), our Chinese friends will try too. A great way to burn trillions of $ and an ¥, in our quest to fulfill the Fermi Paradox. www.warquants.com/p/gone-mad-h...
Musk years presumably.
That is a great channel. Both scary and funny. It's hilarious how the presenter Vladimir Solovyov wants to take advantage of the benefits of Europe, while also threatening to nuke them: mind.ua/en/news/2025...
There are all kinds of styles of mustaches, but here is one option... (using free www.facetache.com ):
I'll bet he was "burning mad"!
See also: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiek...
And his "straight arm" salutes.
"A full exegesis". Holy smokes! (I remember looking it up a long time ago...)
Don't read this article! It represents dangerous counter-revolutionary thoughts, and questions our dear leader's offspring! www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...
