Elegant string of pearls configuration

CAN I FIGHT TOO?

My fault for the awkward phrasing. What I mean is - reliance on communication in the failure path seems fragile to me. Communication is important, but also one of the most common factors that causes aviation disasters.

I’d hope that we could engineer our way out of the need for high frequency communication somehow.

People being rude. In particular, people eating or making sporadic noises near me at work. And people who talk on speakerphone on quiet trains. I just… can’t handle it.

Nice outing yourself. China’s so-called democracy would be stronger if it were a republic so that minorities, like the Uyghurs, would not get trampled in the process.

Find another place that makes you feel righteous and powerful and accepted. You can find friends volunteering in the community, for example.

And fuck the United States, so we’re clear where I’m coming from too.

It’s brighter today than it was yesterday, for the first time in like 6 months. Keep hope alive.

Christmas in July coming up down under

This is interesting. She had other remarks about Israelis toward the end of her career as well. Less charitable ones

Absolutely correct. And I was the only one among my friends writing to, emailing, and calling politicians to try to get them to do it.

It’s so amazing that we don’t see more accidents, for many reasons. We need to engineer our way out of talking to each other to preserve safety though. And also why the hell are we giving just anyone a drivers license while we’re at it.

That’s amazing, wow

The document says:

1. Popular policies wouldn’t allow us to maintain a fundraising edge
2. We lost enthusiasm because of our vigorous defence of Israel
3. Biden should have dropped out earlier, and there were people aware of the risk of a bad performance in the debate
4. Harris didn’t do enough to differentiate herself from Biden and the opposition in (yet another) anti-establishment election

One of the biggest unforced failures of the Biden administration is the reported complaint of Joe Biden that people weren’t acknowledging the economic turnaround.

Biden did a lot of good for the economy! Massive stimulus via the infrastructure bill, a sensible approach to recovery from Covid, acknowledging that recovery from an inflationary period would be necessarily painful, etc. He was a steady hand at a time when America needed one.

But what sends me into apoplexy, what really grinds my gears, is that this motherfucker was so out of touch to believe that this was a messaging problem. He felt that Americans had not yet heard of his accomplishments in turning around the tide of economic misfortune, how badly the republicans would have bungled it, and how the next four years would have been a period of huge growth based on the previous four.

All of these points were absolutely true.

But there is no housing supply. The economic pressures are so hard on young people that their biological impulses are changing.

Young empiricists have taken a look at the climate and have correctly deduced that their future is full of pain in the absence of truly radical action.

And Kamala’s strategy for relieving pressure on the housing market was a $25,000 credit for first time home buyers? In an environment where housing prices have doubled and tripled in fifteen years?

I am one of the very few members of the public that attended Feinstein’s funeral at San Francisco City Hall. And the only one there that day wearing sneakers. I attended her lying in state, paid my respects to a committed civil servant, and in the book, cautioned Pelosi against a similar, “ignominious” end. Then I hear that Pelosi has filed to run again in 2026. As an 86 year old.

At some point the Democratic leadership looks less out of touch and more actively malicious considering the serious and existential crises of the young and near-young in the United States.

The country is in decline because of its extreme individualism, its lack of compassion, and its ruthless “politics is the art of the possible” approach by leaders who could not possibly inspire with bold leadership.

The party is chasing local maxima.

Do not do if they are black though.

We are all equally worthless at the DMV.

Why would it ever be remotely acceptable to look through your kid’s phone? One can hardly think of a more serious violation of privacy. Not just for the kid but for all the people the kid communicates with. It should not be socially acceptable to admit that you’ve done this.

If they’re causing problems, address them another way. Take the phone away if you need to, but do not turn your house into North Korea.

Yep the left is just measuring via repeated addition of slices n times, the right is the same but the slice thinness can approach 0, and the number of times approaches infinity