Education that is compatible with human nature.

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Crypto, i.e., Bitcoin, is just a medium of exchange in digital form, based on complex mathematical computations with a hard limit on the total quantity available. Simple.

In the past, the Dems, if in power, would damage the country. The Rep's, if in power, would do less damage. Now. if the Dems gained power, they would totally destroy the country, and would hunt Republicans, with every tool at their disposal. Vote and chose wisely.

Any Objectivists that wished that Kamala Harris had been elected president are beyond rationalistic, they are retarded. We have gotten to the point where Dem will totally destroy America beyond recovery. Trump is, in relative terms, a savior. I repeat, relative terms.

It feels like everything in this world is designed to rip you off Not just once. Over and over. You pay to have something done. 
You pay to maintain it. 
You pay when something goes wrong. 
And sometimes, you pay again just to get rid of it. Take a few days ago… I did yard work and stacked the tree trimmings neatly on the curb for pickup. Days went by. Nothing. So I rented a trailer, loaded everything, drove it to the landfill, unloaded it and paid them to take it. Think about that. We already pay taxes for waste collection. But if what you put on the curb doesn't fit their exact rules for size, weight, or how it's bundled, suddenly it's your problem. Then you drive it to the landfill and pay again. And what happens next? They chip it up and sell it back to you as mulch. They take something you already paid to dispose of, charge you to get rid of it, process it, and then sell it back to you for even more money. And that's just yard waste. Look at everything else. Your mortgage.
Your insurance.
Your utilities.
Your subscriptions.
Your taxes.
Your bank accounts. They automated it and if you’re not careful and track it, they’ll say "you owe us" more money, even when you paid it. Try to fight it. Good luck. You're pushed through an automated AI system. 
Then another one. 
Then another. You spend an hour trying to reach a human being over a $50 problem, until eventually the easiest option is just to pay it and move on. And if you decide to do something yourself instead of paying someone else? Suddenly the process becomes unnecessarily complicated. Forms.
Fees.
Passwords.
Appointments.
Rules.
Fine print.
Waiting. They make everything complicated on purpose. Until you're exhausted enough to say: "Fine. I'll just pay someone to do it." That's the part that bothers me most. We've built a world where convenience often means paying someone to navigate obstacles that never needed to exist in the first place. And eventually, you stop asking why. You just accept the bill. Maybe that's why so many people feel like they're working harder and getting nowhere. Because it's not always one massive expense that breaks you. It's the thousands of little ones. The fees.
The penalties.
The subscriptions.
The markups.
The "service charges." 
The things you pay for because the system made doing it yourself so difficult. And when you add them all up, you realize something: Sometimes you're not paying for the thing. You're paying for the privilege of navigating the system designed to make you go broke.

One of the best uses I've found for Mr. Grok AI is to analyze and flesh out many years of half-assed, half-formed ideas or observations that have accumulated in my head. It's very satisfying to fill them out and explore their validity.

Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyiis) is what happens when you push yourself to focus and you succeed. It's glorious.

Why of course. Train AI on the sewage of the Internet. Instill no moral or ethical codes from the actual base training data. Cross your fingers that your human rewards and bogus “constitutional AI” saves it. It don’t. Learn human.

The absolute worst thing about opening this app is spotting a banger tweet for 0.2 seconds before the feed auto-refreshes and sends it straight into the void. Gone forever.

Public-school outcomes are often poor because the adults who control the system are not incentivized by whether each child actually learns.

I have done a dozen interviews lately on stories that aren't related other than the fact that there is an underlying theme: Each interviewee in his own way has cautioned that the Deep State (I call it the "Persistent Bureaucracy") is alive and thriving. That the persistent bureaucrats in federal agencies are slow-walking, delaying, fighting all of the initiatives pushed by Trump and his agency leaders. That FOI requests as well as info requests from Congress and even subpoenas are being stonewalled and obstructed just like they always are. They say there's nothing we can do about it. This, they say, is true inside the @StateDept ., the @SecWar War Dept., @HHSResponse , @CDCDirector, @FDA , you name it. I can attest to the problem at FDA: being required to file a FOI (i.e. delay for months or years) to get accessible public info. and then being told by an uninformed bureaucrat accountable to nobody in particular that there's no news value or urgency for my request to get an expedited review (which would likely only mean shortening the delay from years to months or a year, anyway, not in time for the current news story--as always). This isn't surprising but it's still disappointing.

Leftist: But without government, who will look after the poor? Me: Before the welfare state existed, working-class men cared for the poor without the need for your tax dollars. Friendly societies and fraternal lodges, groups like the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of Foresters, covered millions of Americans and Britons by 1900. They paid sick benefits, death benefits, and contracted physicians called lodge doctors, who charged members roughly $1 to $2 annually for full medical care. Competition kept those doctors honest. Members fired physicians who underperformed. The state destroyed this ecosystem, specifically through the 1911 National Insurance Act in Britain and its American successors. The British Medical Association lobbied hard to eliminate lodge practice because those contracted rates embarrassed the profession. Government handed doctors a captive market instead. By 1920, lodge medicine was gutted. You lost the ability to fire your provider, lost transparent pricing, and inherited a bureaucracy that answered to politicians, not to you. Mutual aid societies solved the knowledge problem that central planners cannot solve. Members lived near each other, worked the same trades, and could detect fraud immediately. A sick neighbor either was sick or wasn't. No bureaucrat 400 miles away can make that call. David Beito documented all of this in his 2000 book "From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State." Voluntary association produced accountable, affordable welfare. Government produced dependency and cartelized medicine. The substitution caused a theft of function. Any government wants its people dependent on it, not on some social society.

1978 - The senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity - WKRP in Cincinnati 2026 - Senator Thune, while insisting he was not a RINO, could not explain his obstructionism - Clown World

Slightly disagree. Iran is an even higher level of evil.