Tom Azle

@CopyC8 @capybaroness I bought my rice cooker in the early 90’s. Black & Decker. It has one mode: cook. One mechanical timer. Plug it in, turn the timer knob to around 43 minutes, hear it click-click-click down, until i get the mechanical ding! My rice is done. It’s been working great for 34 years.

@capybaroness My rice cooker has two settings only: cook or warm Thats enough

recently learned that my rice cooker's "quick" setting cooks the rice exactly the same in half the time. leading me to wonder: why was it wasting my fucking time before

@davmre @gro_tsen @laurentbercot I don’t get this. The monkey first types 0 or more ‘z’s. At some point he types his first ‘a’. Some letter will “win” on the next turn. 50.0% of the time ‘a’ will be the next and 50.0% of the time a ‘z’ will be next. Number of steps to win is identical. Ex: zzzaa vs zzzaz

@gro_tsen @laurentbercot For "aa", starting from 'a' there's only one useful next letter: you need a second 'a', else you're back to square one. For "az", from 'a' there are two useful next letters: 'z' wins immediately, 'a' gives a second chance to win on the next turn. So E[steps to win] is lower.

The data is even more revealing when you remove suicides. In 2024, America had 15,364 gun homicides. The same year, Europe had around 62,700 deaths from summer heat. America had ~2000. That's a policy choice.

@HensonShaving Over 50 years, people have had the continuous, uninterrupted choice between a traditional DE razor, and newer multi-blade razors. The customer has overwhelmingly chosen the multi-blade razor. This is how capitalism should work. Rebranding outdated products? That’s crapitalism.

They didn’t make it better, they just made it cost more. 50 years of monetization disguised as innovation. /Crapitalism. 🪒

@ronrule @foo_schnickens You aren’t using the actual numbers from the next 40 years, the timeframe in question. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an investor before who doesn’t understand what “past performance is no guarantee of future gains” means. Guarenteed income should be lower than speculative money.

@foo_schnickens I am using actual numbers.

$500 a month paid to social security for 40 years gets you $2k a month in retirement and $0 for your kids when you die. $500 a month in the S&P for 40 years gets you $20k-$27k a month in retirement and $3.1 million to your kids when you die. It’s time to end social security.

I was entirely peaceful on January 6, yet the federal government arrested me on 30 years of federal charges (21.5 years of charges were thrown out for being bogus before Trump even won re-election). I lost my job. I had to delay the completion of my PhD. I was banned from Facebook, Instagram, and PayPal. I used up my savings and had to go into debt. I also had to fight in court for four years to defend against the false allegations brought against me. I was never convicted of a single crime, yet my life was crushed by the fascist weaponization of government.

@scrumble_eggs There is no “.” in “Dr Pepper”.

Admit it. You assumed that Dr. Pepper was a man. You didn’t even consider that Dr. Pepper could be a woman.

@EAMckinstry @JesterJum Property taxes are state level and untouchable by the Federal Congress.

@JesterJum We need a full reset in Congress. Surely we can find 535 honest people who will do what they were elected to do.

If we can't be taxed on unrealized gains, why the fuck are we being taxed on the new increased valuation of our home without selling it? THAT'S UNREALIZED GAINS!

@JoshWalkos @EagleInTheCloud I’ve checked several items from Walmart since seeing these posts. All items were the correct weight. I bought the exact 1 lb package of bacon as he shows. Mine weighted 17.3 oz with packaging. I also checked chicken .. it was fine as well.

Walmart is ripping off it’s customers for an unimaginable sum of money every day.

Would you rather be the richest person in a relatively poor community, or the poorest person in a relatively rich community, and why?

@GregoryASelbe @k_b_appalachian @GuntherEagleman House are sold by auction to the highest bidder. The home ownership rate in America has been very stable in the mid-60% range for the last 70 years. When 1 person worked a house went for 1 salary. When 2 people work, they go for 2 salaries because they go to the highest bidder.

Wages today are much lower than the wages Boomers earned. In 1965 my dad, with a stay at home wife, 4 kids and mediocre job (draftsman with 2 years on the job) purchased a brand new 4 bedroom house in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Orange County California. My mom lived in that house until she passed away in 2022. The house sold for over a million dollars in 2023, (1965 purchase price was $26,500). Every bedroom in that neighborhood was being rented to adults, no children bicycling around or playing touch football in the streets. (By the way, I believe in profit seeking capitalism and reject destructive marxism, socialism and leftism.) Our economy is being starved by low wages, causing 63% of all new wealth to be pushed to 1% of us. In 1965 40% of all new wealth was pushed to 20% of us. Young people today cannot afford homes the way Boomers could. Destructive Tax&Spend policies have geometrically expanded since the 60s. We didn’t have homelessness in the 60s & 70s, let alone the vast homelessness we see today. Wake up.

No thanks.

Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy. In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system". But they're not. They can't be the justice system. The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve. Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you? No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system. The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe. If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse. In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite. Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat. We all understand this. We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act. Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to. We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again. And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again. The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you. Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute. It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.

@ronrule The idea for tipping being a percentage is that everyone shares a similar burden. Yes, that wealthy person ordered an item you never would - it’s just too expensive. But rather than everyone tipping a fixed amount the wealthy person tips a bit more so you can tip less.

Percentages make no sense for tipping. I go to a restaurant and order a $20 steak. Guy at the table next to me orders a $100 steak. If I tip $5 I’m considered a great tipper, but he’s expected to tip at least $20. Why? The server literally did the same amount of work!

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

Trumps first year in office has seen the lowest amount of bills passed in modern history Biden- (122) Obama- (125) Bush- (109) Trump- (38) If you want @LeaderJohnThune to resign and let someone else lead, let him know, he'll see this.. he's simply not suited to be in this role.

These two cubes are NOT moving. When the luminance of the background is changed over time, a strong illusory motion is perceived and the cubes appear to move. [🎞️ jagarikin]

Palantir CTO @ssankar in 2024: “For $10 billion, @elonmusk put 300 rockets in orbit.” “For $11 billion the state of California has built 1600ft of elevated rail, with no rail.”

@RandyGoat I was 7. My dad owned a small weekly newspaper. It was a family effort. By 9 I was doing job printing, and at 12 I stayed and printed the entire paper myself one day because my dad (also the mayor) had an emergency city council meeting. I learned the value of hard work early.

I was 13 when I got my first job doing new construction landscaping. I don't understand 30 year olds that have never had a job. How old were you when you got your first job?

For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out. Here's how it went: 1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14. 2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0. 3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5. It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops. Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID. I know you guys knew that already... lol

The Mueller Special Counsel's Office brought two indictments that went into great detail about the supposed Russian "interference" in the 2016 election. Both were long "speaking indictments" laying out the ALLEGATIONS made by the Mueller prosecutors. Those allegations were dutifully reported by the press and Dems as "Facts" -- something they continue to do to this day. The Mueller SCO those documents publicly, with all the names of Russian defendants there for everyone to see, guaranteeing that none of those people would 1) travel to the US or 2) travel to any country that might extradict them to the U.S. They could have kept them sealed until they had an opportunity to arrest the named defendants -- many of whom had lived in the U.S. at one time or another. But instead the Mueller SCO had grand press conferences where they treated the ALLEGATIONS as fact. But then a strange thing happened. One company named in one of the indictments had a US law firm appear on its behalf. With the Law Firm standing in as a Corporate Reprensentative -- as is allowed by law -- the Russian company pled "Not Guilty" and announced "Game On". The Mueller SCO resisted having to prosecute the case on a variety of grounds -- losing each time. The Mueller SCO then closed up shop and handed the burning bag of dog poop to the U.S. Attorney for DC. Within months the U.S. Attorney dismissed the case. What I typed above is the ENTIRETY of what the Mueller SCO "proved" about Russian "collusion" in the 2016 election -- exactly nothing.