If you’re the sort of moron who sees conspiracies everywhere, then the conspiracy goes one way in the first part and a different way in the second part.

They literally see more women speaking out as more unlikely.

If you’re an American and you can’t name… let’s say… 10 presidents, then it’s probably a bad sign if you even have a favorite politician.

Don’t forget women also weren’t allowed to have credit cards or bank accounts.

The one thing that gives hope about this graph is that people have so little trust in Congress. Democracy doesn’t work unless you mistrust elected officials.

This reminds me of a guy who lifted a boat off the bottom of a lake by filling it with ping pong balls. He had gotten the idea from a Donald Duck comic, and even though it seemed like an impossible comic book sort of idea, physics seemed to support that it should work, and it actually did lift the boat.

I can’t remember whether that is a true story or not, but the Mythbusters replicated the ping pong trick and demonstrated that ping pong balls could be used to lift a boat.

The last time I built my computer, my storage was magnetic disk drives, and I moved to solid state, but I’d normally save my hard disks as secondary disks. Fans aren’t that expensive and I think it’s a good time to replace them, and I always end up hating my case by the time I need to upgrade.

I hate my current case because first, it didn’t perfectly fit my motherboard, so the metal plate where all the connectors go wouldn’t fit. I’ve lived with that part missing for over 5 years now. And second, it’s got a stupid plexiglass window in its side, and I hate the whole concept of RGB stuff inside a computer. So all I get to see is how messy my cabling is and how much dust has accumulated.

If I was upgrading today, I’d probably try to reuse my disks and my power supply.

He gives one of the criteria as “upgradable”. I also always purchase my PCs with the intention of having them upgradable, but the problem is that I do a good enough job at choosing parts that I never feel the need to upgrade them.

So, I only “upgrade” stuff if it breaks sooner than I expected, and otherwise, I simply use the PC until it breaks and I get an entirely new one.

As a result, I always tell myself that next time, I won’t worry about whether something is upgradable. But then, I choose parts to be upgradable anyways, because I can’t pretend to be somebody that I’m not.

One good way to think about the budget for a PC is to break it down by expected lifetime. So, if he’s spending $700 on a PC, and he uses it for 7 years, then it’s $100 per year. (My PCs usually last about that long, but I’m sure I’m the exception.)

There is no reason to put these two people up as a comparison. They have nothing in common, except that they are two people that the author thought of.

I learned from game theory that these situations are the equivalent of the prisoner’s dilemma.

In the prisoner’s dilemma, in the case where you only play the game once, cooperation has a worse outcome for you, regardless of what your opponent does. It is a dominated option. Only in the case where the game is repeated many times, and where both players are paying attention to their opponent, only in that case does cooperation become a useful option.

When people recycle, we are choosing to cooperate. But as nobody is paying attention to what we’re doing, it is always the dominated option. We end up having to work more, and we don’t get better results. And then we inevitably get huge betrayals.

But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t recycle. It simply means the game has shitty rules. That’s why responsible government regulations are essential for environmentalism, if we actually want to see results.

I don’t think there’s any version of heaven from any major religion where Trump would qualify. I don’t even think he’d qualify for the Ferengi version of heaven.

And on July 4th, don’t forget that All Countries Matter.

I remember they said that one big reason W was elected was because he seemed like a guy that you could sit down and have a beer with. (That’s an objectively terrible criteria for choosing a president, by the way.)

And of course, that’s exactly the opposite impression you get from Trump, who thinks he’s better than you and wouldn’t talk to you in a million years if he didn’t think it would greatly benefit himself.

I don’t know where I was going with that. Just remembering how things were, and comparing two bottom-of-the-barrel presidents who unnecessarily got us into wars.

I mean, it’s impossible on its face. That’s like saying “In how many futures did 1+1 literally equal 7?”

It was never possible. Nobody who knew anything about economics truly thought it would work.

It was just a money grab, and like all money grabs, they don’t care about how it looks in the future. They figured they’d be able to bullshit about it later. That’s it.

Why do you think it is that when we send humanitarian aid to a country where people are starving, that we have to figure out how to keep their local government from stealing all of it? It’s because it’s an immediate practical demonstration of trickle down economics.

I also over analyze everything, which is why I always remove my eggs from the right side of the carton.

The left side of the carton is always towards me in the refrigerator, and I also always have the left side towards me on the counter.

As a result my first grab out of the fridge is always the most stable grab possible.

The way I figure it is, the most dangerous time is pulling it out of the fridge when I don’t always remember where the eggs are and where I have to grab it from one end. I don’t want to be surprised by it being heavy away from me.

Once I have it safely in my hand, I no longer have to consciously think about how to hold it, as that can all be done unconsciously.

Supervised injection sites decrease crime, decrease (often eliminate) overdose deaths, and can help people to quit using. People who argue against them are promoting crime and senseless death.

Musk is more like Andrew Carnegie. Both the richest people of their times, and both spent a lot of money to do PR. Musk’s PR is to pretend he’s not an idiot, and Carnegie’s PR was to pretend he wasn’t pure evil.

Our timeline is even stupider than the Biff timeline.

AOC told a story about how a pro Israel person offered her a huge campaign donation, which she declined. One of the reasons she could easily decline it was that she already had enough money. By that time, her seat wasn’t in that much danger.

I’m not saying that AOC would have taken the money if she had a smaller campaign fund. There’s no way to know that.

But you can be sure that if we did proper campaign finance reform, and stopped every instance where a single source of money can create undue influence, then a lot more politicians would be able to afford to be honest.

Our current system nearly guarantees that honest politicians will be forced out by corrupt politicians who can easily accept huge donations.

I don’t think Donald Trump is capable of speaking like that.

The logical end to that sentence would be something like, “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me, and in fact, in retrospect, it seems like it was a mistake for President Trump to appoint me as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the first place.”

Of course, RFK Jr. didn’t say that, though. And people shouldn’t be taking advice that relies on logical thought from him, either.