Страна непуганых идиотов

@tanelho @TWTKaganovich @skytopjf @_glorianas FYI, "Страна непуганых идиотов" was how the early Soviet satirists Ilf and Petrov characterized the US of almost 100 years ago after traveling through it in 1930's. I use their characterization to describe modern MAGA America.

@GregoryMaysMD I just (10 weeks ago) got Stelo sensor and those are useful, but they don't seem to be accurate - the baseline seems to change from sensor to sensor.

CGMs are one of the fastest ways to connect behavior → physiology.

@greendragonhq @ZaxxonGalaxian Well, yes. But what is the egg and what is the chicken here.

States with the highest and lowest GDP per capita. Notice anything? Highest 🔵New York: $117,332 🔵Massachusetts: $110,561 🔵Washington: $108,468 🔵California: $104,916 🔵Connecticut: $100,235 Lowest 🔴Mississippi: $53,061 🔴Arkansas: $60,276 🔴West Virginia: $60,783 🔴Alabama: $61,846 🔴South Carolina $63,710

@ZaxxonGalaxian @itsnotbernhard So are some grad PhD programs, say Harvard Physics PhD program is incredibly hard to get into. The acceptance rate isn't a good measure as people who aren't academically at the top don't even apply.

@itsnotbernhard Top JD and MBA programs are very hard to get into.

Gap between two candidates from the same Ivy is insane People who did their undergrad there are way sharper than people who only did grad school there Harvard and Yale undergrad acceptance rates are below 6%. Some of the grad programs above 50% Grad school is almost no signal

@JustinWStapley Nah - he couldn't bench press 300lbs like Hegseth.

He was an incredible SecDef.

@LaocoonsJournal @towellnapkin @KartikGadaATOM @RichardHanania We now do compete with every tribe in the world, but the character of the competition changed in comparison with the prehistoric times. Now it involves learning their mindset/ways of doing business, trying to sell our stuff to them, spying on them. Racism is a hindrance there.

@VGersht @towellnapkin @KartikGadaATOM @RichardHanania I disagree. It serves the same function now as it always has, and the dangers involved in abandoning it are the same. Worse, really. Our ancestors were only competing with the tribe on the other side of the hill, we're competing with every tribe everywhere all at once.

Three Asians go to the “most racist town in America” to find racism. Basically nobody pays attention to them and they have nothing to report. Literally worst thing they find is an old woman saying her daughter loves “Chinamen.” Amazing levels of confirmation bias.

@PearlRiverSwamp @greggnunziata People almost always break laws/engage in fraud when there is a benefit for them in doing so. What benefit is there for a non-citizen to vote? I don't see a benefit, only potential problems, like prosecution or deportation Where is the beef?

@VGersht @greggnunziata Oh wow guys it’s illegal to vote if you’re not a citizen guess we better not check to make sure anyone is lying because no one has ever broken a law

An off-the-rails presidency. A self-gelded Congress. An unsustainable fiscal path. These are national emergencies that a statute to "SAVE America" might address and might be worth the fighting for. Voting fraud is not anywhere near that class.

@ELuttwak I think that death for Islam IS glorious - we should encourage and Rev Guards to do it en masse ASAP!

The Rev Guards have discovered that low fertility post-heroic America will not allow a President to win a war if it costs 1,000 KIAs. The fertility of Iran's women is also very low at 1.4 but the Rev Guards represent the least educated who believe that death for Islam is glorious

@cremieuxrecueil Sometimes correlation IS causation..😉

The socialists got voted out in Honduras and the airport is suddenly MUCH better.

@ZaxxonGalaxian @CNLiberalism The prevalence of extremist candidates are a result of gerrymandering that creates safe districts.

@CNLiberalism No, there’s worse features - 2 senators per state, gerrymandering, the electoral college.

The American primary system is genuinely the dumbest electoral feature of our democracy. Who the hell thought it was a good idea.

@PearlRiverSwamp @greggnunziata No. And the existing federal law already bars non-citizens (legal or not) from voting.

@greggnunziata Should Biden’s 8 million aliens be permitted to vote?

@aziz0nomics @elonmusk @DrewPavlou @dvorahfr Yes, like Paki accounts pretending to be from the UK and followed by 400K Paki bots.

@elonmusk @DrewPavlou @dvorahfr It's the third world astroturfed bot farms that are the problem, not people in one developed country talking to people in another developed country.

I'm based in France, but 43% of my audience is American. I know many of us are in the same situation. To reach a wider audience, all my posts are in English, the international language. Those who cause trouble may be punished, but with this change, which will significantly reduce our earnings, you're also penalizing a number of accounts that use the international language without any ill intent. X tells us that videos and new, high-quality content will be prioritized, but this change will, on the contrary, drastically reduce our earnings. Is there any way to reverse this decision, please?🥺 @XCreators @X @nikitabier @elonmusk

@ljupc0 @NidaKirmani She is a Pakistani "feminist sociologist working on gender and urban marginality". What did you expect from her??

Please stop using modern farming and farm yourself. My grandparents farmed all themselves, all organic, and couldn't wait to give that up, and move to the city escaping periodic starvations. Your ideas are cruel and mindless. All my grandparents families had 5-7 children. B/c half of them would die before they could have children of their own. That's how with high TFR we had almost stable populations for centuries. I hope humanity knows better than to listen to know-nothings like yourself. Sure hope we humans don't go back to starvation levels of food production again.

A more apt analogy would be comparing those who refuse AI with those who resist corporate farming methods, which have decimated our food systems, displaced poor farmers, damaged our health, & destroyed our planet.

@GregMooreNH On the other hand, the estate tax threshold in MA is now $2M, it went up from $1M.

Of course, MA has gotten a lot worse since 2019, with their top marginal rate now at 9%.

It's always nice when someone puts all of the Northeast data in one spot. Speaking of one spot in the Northeast...

@LaocoonsJournal @towellnapkin @KartikGadaATOM @RichardHanania It is true that we all evolved to be racist. And it served us well in prehistoric societies, but doesn't serve us well any longer in the modern world.

Racism is such an immutable fact of our being that you can't even avoid using a racial slur while criticizing me for being a racist. I love it.

@RatedPGAbbru @BamaExpat Of course, if anything bad happens it is America's fault. The locals never have any agency. Tankie logic.

@BamaExpat Having a brutal US-backed dictator and two US-backed coups and a devastating earthquake that decimated the entire country and a series of rigged elections is a pretty unique run of bad luck.

Leftists: Haiti is the way it is because imperialism. Frogs: Haiti is the way it is because IQ. Reality: Haiti never became the way it is now (that is, way worse than every other country in the hemisphere) until the second half of the 20th century.

@DocPriyamMD Good job! But even checking BP at refill visits is not adequate. I wasn't able to control my own hypertension until I got the Aktiia bracelet.

A hypertensive patient came to OPD today for a refill. He’d been taking the same meds since Dec 2021: T. Amlodipine 5mg (AM) and T. Telmisartan 40mg (PM). When I asked to check his BP, he was visibly irritated and told me "It’s been 5 years, I take them religiously. It’s well-controlled." He hadn't seen a doctor or checked his BP since 2022....just monthly trips to the pharmacy. I insisted. "This is a Govt Medical College; I don’t refill without a check-up." Lo and behold: 170/100 mmHg. I pushed for labs, and my gut feeling was right. Creatinine: 4.0, Urine protein: 2+, S. Potassium: 5.5. His kidneys are already failing because of "controlled" hypertension that wasn't actually controlled. The kicker? We now have to overhaul his entire regimen because the Telmisartan he fought to refill has to be stopped; his renal function is too far gone. Lesson: Adherence to pills is not equal to Adherence to follow-ups. Hypertension is a silent killer for a reason.

@WR4NYGov @IMAO_ Correct. But in reality it is them and their people , the Palestinians, that are being destroyed. as a result of their blind hate (even if there is a reason for that hate).

@VGersht @IMAO_ They don't want a constructive solution. They want to destroy Israel.

The problem with Hamas is they hate Israel more than they love their own people and the problem with groypers is the hate Israel more than they love their own country. And the thing is, none of them have a good reason to hate Israel — they’re just stupid.

@nikicaga Russia is the same, more or less.

I think about this often

@atlanticesque Pakistan has way more than a few thousand smart ones, unfortunately.

If you’re just overflowing with human capital, then this isn’t a problem. There’s plenty to go around. The market can sift things out. But when you only have, like, a few thousand really smart people, you really don’t want them making “Uber for Au Pairs” or going to law school.

A benefit of authoritarianism is that when you’re limited on human capital, you can just tell your smart guys what to do. “No, we don’t need better advertisements or search engine optimization, we need nuclear missiles, get to work.”