Michael P

@60Minutes Garbage

After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering help. But they also want to recruit and improve their image. Watch the full 60 Minutes report: cbsnews.com/news/some-whit…

@HarreBelly @QuoteJung This is why the word “moralities” looks weird and isn’t used often, other than sarcastically

@MichaelP1110 @QuoteJung Quite the opposite. It means the subject defines their own meaning of morality. In practice the world is rich and proliferate with meanings of morality.

Do you think morality is subjective?

@HarreBelly @QuoteJung In my humble opinion, what you’re describing is preferences, not morality.

To the extent we play chess, we all play 4d chess. There isn’t any other way to play. Same with candy land.

@athenaeumbc The distinction between writing and typing is also significant. Write your ideas then type them up. Your brain can’t keep up with typing and you miss a lot of good thoughts along the way

So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process. "Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner." Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.

@athenaeumbc My son is almost 13 and I still read to him every night. Bonding, learning and settling in for bed all in one activity.

@athenaeumbc Read to your children every night. Doesn’t matter what you read

Fewer than half of US adults read a book last year. Even fewer read an actual novel, and the trend is looking worse still for teenagers. Why is nobody talking about this??

@Geiger_Capital This feels like a crime

I’ve seen enough… He made the entire thing up.

@QuoteJung Bros K

You can only read 1 book for the rest of your life, which one is it?

Justin Trudeau's net worth in 2020 was $10M. At the end of 2022 it's $385M. He made $351,000 as PM. Where are his tax returns?

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.

@LargeFamDad @charlie1zulu Great post!

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out. Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc. Great guy, I'm happy for him. But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness. What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could. Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe. Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach. Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act. Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts. Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides. Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra. ----------------- When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers. Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

@Altimor Really great insight

Insane that we'll end up producing 99% of our energy from space, and send it down as intelligence. Literally no other way to send this much energy back — intelligence ended up being the densest form of energy we discovered.

@athenaeumbc I read it about 20 years ago and listened to it recently on Spotify. I highly recommend this audio version - the reader nails it. It is a pretty funny book when read by the right actor.

Lots of people don't know this but you can actually fix your attention span just by reading one long, phenomenal book again. I recommend The Brothers Karamazov.

Men without degrees built this.

@SawyerMerritt Elon is a mirror. Your view of him is your view of yourself.

Tesla started Cybercab production 18 months after this article lol

@niccruzpatane I’ve downloaded the app and am ready for my first trip!

Tesla Cybercab is now testing in Fort Myers, Florida.

JUST IN 🚨 Pressure is growing drastically for Sen Leader John Thune to be removed. Members of Congress are starting to talk more about it IT’S TIME TO REMOVE THIS TRAITOR GOOD RIDDANCE

@aakashgupta So cool!

Lunar soil is 45% oxygen by mass. Almost half the ground astronauts walk on is breathable air, locked inside chemical bonds with iron, titanium, and aluminum. Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist reactor heats crushed Moon rock to 1,600°C, turning it into a molten conductor. Then it runs an electric current through the melt. Oxygen ions migrate to one electrode and bubble off as gas. Iron, silicon, and aluminum collect at the other. The economics are where this gets wild. Delivering one kilogram of anything to the lunar surface costs roughly $1.2 million. A single astronaut breathes about 0.84 kg of oxygen per day. That's over $300 million per year per person just to keep breathing, shipped from Earth. This reactor doesn't just solve the breathing problem. The metals that come out of the same process are construction-grade iron and aluminum. The silicon gets refined into radiation-resistant solar cells. The glass covers those solar cells to protect them for 10+ years on the surface. One machine, running on solar power, producing air, building materials, electronics, and rocket fuel from dirt. Blue Origin estimates this could cut lunar landing costs by 60% and reduce fuel cell mass by 70%. Their facility in LA already spans 60,000 square feet of lab space with 65 researchers. They're running an autonomous demo in simulated lunar conditions this year. The real constraint on a permanent Moon base was never getting there. It was staying there without a $1.2 million-per-kilogram supply chain from Earth. This reactor breaks that constraint at the molecular level.