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@JWH1921 @ashtonteng @AlexBolewski Yeah, back then Americans had better education, stronger, more productive culture, and less complacency. And no real competition. Now half of Americans hate the country and hate success, and most are too lazy to keep ahead of a rising China.

@ashtonteng @AlexBolewski It’s batshit insane we’ve gone this long without a logical point system. The middle schoolers in here don’t understand but we do absolutely need people like you at the same time we need to clean out the slop.

@uncleweed @WashletJP I went to Okayama my first week in Japan! Top three garden and on the Shinkansen? Straight on the itinerary!

@WashletJP maybe at that point I'll see more than half a dozen in Okayama at once

‘Japan’s goal of 60 million foreign visitors’

@NAMONAKl It’s a perfectly valid question. Sure if you count every island, Japan technically “has beaches” but practically, most coastline in the country is not beach or at best is a shitty beach with terrible sand.”

"does japan have beaches?" crazy thing to ask about an island but ok

@NapierHolland @wokewatchgb @aswren @DanicaPriest Oh man, the business owner visa is the one that used to require only about $30,000 (USD) in investment to sponsor your own visa. Now it’s up to I think about $120,000. Still not too bad.

@Glanhir @wokewatchgb @aswren @DanicaPriest I’m a small business owner/consultant, which is slightly more complex!

No actually ‘send the “undeserving” to outer London’ is NOT all well and good what’s wrong with you? Did you think this was a progressive take? 😳

@NapierHolland @wokewatchgb @aswren @DanicaPriest It’s always been easy. Japan is only hard for unskilled immigration. It’s super easy to get work visas if you have any skills. Though they did just crack down on one insanely easy loophole where you could get one with a minor investment in a business.

@Glanhir @wokewatchgb @aswren @DanicaPriest Oh yeah? Looks like visas are getting easier?

@wokewatchgb @NapierHolland @aswren @DanicaPriest Come to Japan! Doing great over here.

@NapierHolland @aswren @DanicaPriest Where did you move to though? New Zealand, Australia and Canada all have their own horrible problems.

@mattyglesias Obama’s race is central to his story? So he wouldn’t have been an important person worth making a movie about if he were not black? 🤔

@IamamishTv @AuthenticallyYi @wil_da_beast630 The best student at the ninth best high school should get perfect scores in calculus without too much effort. Something doesn’t add up. Maybe it’s how schools are ranked? Or how he became valedictorian? Or everything’s just terrible and BC Calc hasn’t lowered standards to match.

@AuthenticallyYi @wil_da_beast630 I don't care how smart you are, Calc BC *is* difficult. It requires way more effort and study time than probably the rest of your classes combined.

Wait. What did the valedictorian say?

@ordershmotrader @AuthenticallyYi @wil_da_beast630 The best student at the ninth best high school should get perfect scores in calculus without too much effort. Something doesn’t add up. Maybe it’s how schools are ranked? Or how he became valedictorian? Or everything’s just terrible and BC Calc hasn’t lowered standards to match.

@AuthenticallyYi @wil_da_beast630 Their definition of hard might be not what you think. For the student to be valedictorian they have to score 97 % and above on all classes including AP ones. I found BC calc easy. But a 4.0 in the class was only 90 for me ( got a 5 on the exam)

@TheLaurenChen @GitaGopinath I initially read it as “end result of meritocracy”, which makes more sense.

@GitaGopinath Ironically the fact that there's no women is evidence of meritocracy, not the lack of it

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

@Just_4Laughs1 @FightWithMemes Good laughs, my man.

Accurate.

@lakyop29255 @nonregemesse Great, now the name grows linearly instead of exponentially. Also, that defeats the point of why modern people are doing this, to make sure the man’s name has no priority over the woman’s. If we’re prioritizing the father anyway, might as well go back to one name.

@Glanhir @nonregemesse Are you retarded? The mothers maiden name is dropped, the fathers name is passed on and the mothers maiden name is attached to it

Having a double barrelled surname used to mean your parents both came from good families but now if just means your mother is difficult

@ThePlaidCons @wmorrill3 You should read the post that goes with the graph.

@wmorrill3 FYI, The graph is interesting but to me its meaningless as I have no idea what is going on. I see stuff bouncing up and down, but have no clue what it means.

Every one of these dots is an actual crash from the fleet. Real world speeds, collisions, and people. Not just the regulatory test cases. The richness of this data is what enabled the result. With simulation we can replay the crashes and measure the forces on the human body model. Then sweep through restraint deployment times to find that deploying earlier gives the time for the bag to be inflated optimally and seat belt pretension before the occupant has moved out of position. But it takes time for crash accelerometers to be certain. Lowering that time threshold risks unwanted deployments. Using vision gives the vehicle confidence to reduce that timing. The camera sees the impending impact and together with the sensors tell the restraint controller to reduce the filter and act sooner. The Y Axis shift in Predicted Injury Severity is based on sensors in the human body models from rerunning the crash simulations with the faster detection threshold. Such a reduction in injury severity across the spectrum is unheard of, let alone doing this via an update over the air. I'm extremely proud of the analysis team's work and dedication. Going above and beyond to ask "we have the safest car on the road but can we make it even safer?" And then working with the vision team to build the predictions needed to make it happen. Rigorously tested in simulation and then in physical crash testing. Now deployed and improving lives. I watch the video on loop and just imagine each dot, a person.

@jamesjansson @PalmerLuckey @AOC This assumes that there’s a static value for the output of someone’s labor. One person working at a good founder’s company can be infinitely more valuable than that same person working at a dead-end company. That’s the value of the founders/leaders that organize the “labor”.

@PalmerLuckey @AOC Almost all of a billionaire's worth is from collecting the difference between the value of labor and the market price for labor. Is it exploitation? In a market where the gap between rich and poor is huge and expanding, I'd say there is some exploitation happening.

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability. Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

@tedn385916 @sacredgeometry @yatharthmann Well good thing someone gave them jobs as CEOs!

@sacredgeometry @yatharthmann And all of these people are CEO's dumbass. So if you think they are rich because they are working as engineers you are retarded.

Elon Musk is an engineer. Jeff Bezos is an engineer. Larry Elison is an engineer. Larry Page is an engineer. Sergey Brin is an engineer. Jensen Huang is an engineer. Turns out capitalism does reward skills and intelligence, and the richest people are indeed engineers.

@eigenboy_ @paulg Tokyo is 4x the size of London and far safer than both 🤔

@paulg you are comparing stockholm to a megacity 10x the size the funniest thing is that stockholm has more gang shootings and bombings than london and NOT per capita lol walking in stockholm must certainly be exciting

Stockholm is remarkably walkable. At one point we were walking somewhere and we needed to check a map. It was such a relief not to have to think about the phone being stolen. In London we always duck into a doorway before checking a phone on the street.

@SteveRattner @Morning_Joe My wealth has 15x’ed during his second term, so if he’s lifting all boats, I’m cool with that.

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @Morning_Joe Chart.

Japan is the best high-trust society in the world, and they also claim seats before ordering. Many places will specifically ask you if you have claimed a seat before they'll sell you eat-in style food. There are more people buying food than can sit, so it's not a question of just doing it in order.

Another example of the difference between low crime and high trust: Singaporeans do a thing they call “chope-ing”: They snag a table by placing their iPhone or purse on it, then go wait in line. This is low crime, low trust behavior. It’s something anti-social you have to do because if you don’t chope a table, someone else who walked in after you will take it. In a high trust society, you just wait in line and everyone sits down on a first-come first-seated basis, no one cuts ahead and takes a table before they need it. Singaporeans chope because it’s a way to take advantage of their low crime society to engage in low trust behavior.