Joe Born
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The intentionally loud car thing is inexplicable to me, and extremely annoying. Never, not once, has a woman heard that as an aphrodisiac
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One of the most powerful videos you’ll ever see. (Hint: you can’t detest Democrats enough)
G-PA INDY@GPAIndiana
The Whole World Needs to Hear This Story!! 🫵
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Mitch Daniels tried to get income-share agreements off the ground at Purdue, but because of competition from subsidized loans they were relegated to the riskiest situations. That, a thin market, hostility from the usual quarters, and maybe inexperienced management eventually sank the effort.
naptownnumbers.substack.com/p/rip-back-a-b…
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It's a hard problem.
Can we really STOP people from spending too much money on fake degrees from bad colleges?
Lots of people go through this, and succeed.
But Carl has a point: the job of college "finance counsellors" is to get you to sign. They are not your friends.
Carl@HistoryBoomer
My initial reaction was a snort of derision, but after reading, I was more ambivalent. "Amanda Lynn Tully spent her teenage years as a ward of the State of Colorado" Not an easy life. People shouldn't take these loans, but colleges making money off them are basically scammers.
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@wil_da_beast630 I'd question those numbers. x.com/i/grok/share/5…
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Looks like Black men are the highest percentage - 17% of deaths, 6% of citizens (283%).
Then white men - 76%, from about 37% of citizens as a by-year average during this period (205%).
Far lower rates from everyone else, although Natives look about proportional..
Because We Live Here 🇺🇸@BWLH_
It's disgusting. Air Force Pilots are 95% White. Special Forces are 95% White. White males have represented a shockingly high disproportionate amount of deaths in the post-9/11 GWOT US military.
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@HicksCBER It adopted a classic mixed economy with capitalist and socialist elements.
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China lifted 800 million out of extreme poverty in four decades, and it wasn’t through “economic freedom.”
paleoneoliberal@armsq17
Income inequality is a fake concern anyway. What is important is that economic freedom eradicates poverty, and whoever cares about the poor must embrace capitalism with all their heart.
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@Marian_L_Tupy A rough outline of a proposal for benefit-loss compensation if Social Security is eliminated: naptownnumbers.substack.com/p/liquidating-…
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In 2025, the federal government spent $7.1 trillion overall, of which only $2.6 trillion went to broad public goods such as national defense and transportation (as well as interest on the debt). The remaining $4.4 trillion was attributable to benefits for individuals
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Gus Grissom, Purdue grad and the first astronaut to fly in space twice, was born in Mitchell, Indiana 100 years ago today.
Here he is with his fellow Mercury 7 astronauts, in the center, below:
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Government reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900
Learn more at co2coalition.org
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@CaliRN619 This Boomer has tried to make the same arguments to Millennials, with similarly indifferent results.
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My Boomer Auntie, who is a very loving and kind hearted person is a Democrat that hates Trump and MAGA with a passion and attended a recent #NoKings rally.
To her, loving people means letting illegals stay, increasing food stamps/welfare, giving tax dollars to poor countries, and taxing the “rich” to fund all programs.
When I try to explain to her how her ideals actually hurt people, she dismisses it as right wing propaganda. No amount of evidence or reasoning will persuade her to consider any other viewpoint.
I’m convinced there was some sort of brainwashing drug that was administered to Boomers and activated during COVID. Either that or there was something seriously wrong with their LSD supply.
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My in-laws came to take care of the kids (10 and 3 years old) for 5 days while we were at the hospital.
They’re 71 and 79, and they live 50 km from us.
We had cleaned the house, done the shopping, and prepared everything they needed (linens, etc).
Normal.
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Now I can't resist posting Kranz's reaction the moment just after Armstrong had radioed, "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Charles Murray@charlesmurray
Here's the transcript of Flight's loop on Apollo 11 when Gene Kranz was determining whether the lunar module could begin its final lunar descent. The good old days.
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Congratulations.
Although I had long recognized the popular misuse of the term “capitalism” and to a degree I therefore liked that episode because it said what I’d always thought, I hadn’t really reflected much upon your points about time translation and the benefits that equity can have over debt financing. And now that your win has reminded me I think I’ll listen to it again on my next hike.
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Gosh. It's been a decade since I came in first.
Very happy with this.
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@wil_da_beast630 For me a big part of it was how poor climate scientists' arguments tend to be. naptownnumbers.substack.com/p/climate-scie…
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Good line. I first became suspicious of the mainstream climate change narrative by half-seriously tracking prices for beach-front property.
Shouldn't land at the Vinyard be worthless?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
If you want to know what’s really safe or what’s not, just try buying insurance for it
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@Harold64937676 @AlexEpstein This isn't exactly the same question, but it illustrates the storage-overbuild trade-off. naptownnumbers.substack.com/p/battery-grid…
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@JosephHBorn @AlexEpstein Thanks I will read through this and see what I can glean from it
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@AlexEpstein Alex, if you have a moment, please explain your point of view
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@RyanPfenninger @michaelbp1974 @TylerMitchellIN @IndyGoBus That's more than it would cost provide cab rides.
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Two problems. First, to get that federal money we had to use it on things that are worth less than they cost; removing street lanes costs money, for instance, but it's detrimental, not beneficial. Second, even if we consider the local-tax component only, the @IndyGoBus expansion we've undergone to get those federal grants has caused the cost of providing an average bus ride to skyrocket.
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When a system used by less than 2% of commuters commands funding comparable to a quarter of what we spend on the entire city, taxpayers are right to ask whether we’re getting our money’s worth.
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@TylerMitchellIN @IndyGoBus Your point is well taken, but there are some caveats to that "less than 2%" figure--which I confess I helped propagate. naptownnumbers.substack.com/p/how-many-res…
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@TylerMitchellIN @WTHRcom Without mass transportation Carmel has grown by leaps and bounds. With mass transportation Indianapolis hasn't.
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FLASHBACK: 11 years ago, @GregforIndiana pitched @IndyGoBus mass transit as “economic development potential” on @wrtv. 😬
Hoosiers are still waiting on that return.
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