@TRHLofficial Kennedy was probably right.
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Knight of the lost State of Franklin
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Knight of the lost State of Franklin
@dhperry
Computer Science Associate Professor. Two Eagle Scouts and a lovely wife. Electrical Engineer, Qualified in Submarines. A thorn in the side of progressives
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In his 1874 biography of Thomas Jefferson, James Parton wrote that Jefferson “could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and play a violin.”
In a 1962 White House dinner honoring Noble Prize winners, President John F. Kennedy said, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
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Today in history
April 13, 1743
Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of these United States, was born in Shadwell, Virginia.
Though the date is observed as April 13 under the modern (Gregorian) calendar, Jefferson himself regarded his birthdate as April 2, 1743 according to the Old Style (Julian) calendar then in use in Britain and its colonies. He even had his tombstone inscribed with the Old Style date.
Jefferson was famously indifferent to his own birthday, once remarking: “The only birthday I ever commemorate is that of our Independence, the Fourth of July.”
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@miles_commodore Promise is for recent high school graduates. Tennessee Reconnect is for older adults. Different rules but the same outcome.
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Tennessee has a program called "Tennessee promise" it gives free Community College tuition for every resident. Keep in mind there is no state income tax as well.
Why doesn’t every state have this?
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@davepl1968 Had to load programs into the PDP-11 05 in college. Glad I don't have to do that now.
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I toggle switches to load my machine language program. You're right, we are not the same :-)
trish@_trish_xD
i use a C program to compile and run my other C programs we are not the same
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@ChrisMartzWX For rooftop solar, 36 hours of battery are needed. For grid level solar, a minimum of 10 days are needed. Take the cost of 4 hours, multiply it by 60 and you have the cost of grid batteries.
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The fine print on this chart at the bottom shows that this is the cost of solar + batteries with FOUR hours of backup storage. That is not nearly enough storage needed for most locations.
Try again with some data that isn't intentionally misleading.
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum
The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel)
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@GlennJacobsTN As a woodworker, I would sharpen the saw first.
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I'm a big believer in Stephen Covey's 7 habits of highly effective people. They are:
1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win/win
5. Seek to understand first, before making yourself understood
6. Learn to synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
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@davepl1968 Jerry understood technology better than almost anyone. He also understood politics and human nature. His chaos manner blog predicted much of what's happening today.
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I've read one science fiction book in my entire life:
Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
It wasn't bad, but it was also the last science fiction I ever read, so...
Timothy Imholt@TimothyImholt
Rereading Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Surely some of you have read this one.
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@ChrisMartzWX Most of the things that have large price increases are heavily regulated by the government, subsidized or both.
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The cost of groceries is getting ridiculous.
I went to Publix yesterday and bought three small cartons of raspberries, a few lemons, a gallon of unsweetened tea, a gallon of milk, and a small block of cheddar cheese to shred, and it was $40.
And nobody in Washington, D.C. is doing a thing to try lowering them.
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
Everything government touches becomes more expensive and unaffordable.
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@ChrisMartzWX In east TN the payback for rooftop solar is 12-15 years. That assumes that a storm doesn't destroy the solar panels. If it was 8 years I might consider it.
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Putting some solar panels on your roof is one thing.
If you live in a sunny area, it may work.
But using them to power an industrialized economy is a whole different ballgame. Countries located above 35°N or below 35°S aren’t going to be able to use solar without installing astronomical and highly expensive battery backup systems or fossil fuel units.
Ask yourself why these AI data centers are using natural gas and nuclear to power their operations, not solar.
You will find your answer, pea brain.
IAmJacksBrain@jahras73
@ChrisMartzWX Tell me how the solar I put on my roof which has a 8yr payback and a net savings of $40k over its life is a scam. Paid cash. I'll wait.
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@RealDeanCain @TheBabylonBee Having to attend a Springsteen concert is considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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@GovBillLee No one from Tennessee has ever called Memphis the soul of Tennessee.
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We often say — if Nashville is the heart of Tennessee, Memphis is the soul.
Thanks to the Memphis Safe Task Force, crime has already reached its lowest point in 25 years, and we're committed to keeping this iconic American city on a trajectory of greatness.
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Knight of the lost State of Franklin retweetledi
First Robin of Spring who was kind enough to let me take this photo without asking: "Where will this appear" & "How many followers do you have?"
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@ChrisMartzWX Great point. Wind turbines also need a lot of lubrication. Where does the lubrication come from? Oil!
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Both solar panels and wind turbines contain significant amounts of plastic.
Where do you think plastic comes from?
Tony Ashai@TonyAshai
Oil is the real root cause of all the geopolitical trouble. Time to go 💯 Electric.
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@CortesSteve I switched back from computer notetaking at work to pencil and paper because I could not recall things as well if I don't write them down and I teach computer science at a college.
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Really important!
Technology has NOT made schools better.
Back to paper, pencils — and patriotic formation that instills our values…
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian
America's math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens—and AI could worsen the brain rot | Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune At the turn of the century, educational technology initiatives put laptop keyboards at the fingertips of U.S. schoolchildren. Now, 25 years later, the next generation of students have turned to AI—and education experts warn unrestricted use of the technology could atrophy critical thinking skills. AI use among students has become ubiquitous following the 2022 release of ChatGPT. More than half of teenagers are using the technology for schoolwork, a Pew Research Center report released last month found. Of the nearly 1,500 parents and teens interviewed for the survey, 57% of teen students use AI to search information, and 54% use it for schoolwork. While access to AI chatbots makes homework as easy as plugging a question into one’s phone, the frictionless retrieval of information using AI has raised concerns among educators: Rather than aid in learning, could AI actually hinder the process? A Brookings Institute study published in January laid bare anxieties around the potential harms of AI in the classroom. Analyzing data from interviews and focus groups with more than 500 educators, parents, and students across 50 countries, as well as from more than 400 studies, the researchers found at this point, “risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits.” The report gave credence to early research—including a February 2025 Microsoft study—finding AI use was associated with worse judgement and critical thinking skills. “The cognitive offloading, and the cognitive decline that’s associated with that, the decline in critical thinking, and just even reading and writing and knowledge of basic facts—I absolutely believe that,” to be the case, Mary Burns, an education consultant and co-author of the Brookings Institute study, told Fortune. EdTech under scrutiny Computer use in schools has come under recent scrutiny following a Congressional testimony in January from neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath, who noted, citing Program for International Student Assessment data, that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to be less cognitively capable than their parents. He blamed unfettered access to classroom technology, noting a stark correlation in lower standardized testing scores and more screen time in school. A 2014 study surveying 3,000 university students found that two-thirds of the time students spend on their screens were on off-task activities. “This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath said in his written testimony. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.” Horvath, author of the 2025 book The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning—and How to Help Them Thrive Again, told Fortune the rise of EdTech was a result of tech companies creating a narrative around the need for screens in the classroom to bolster learning. The push for computers in schools began in 2002, when Maine became the first state to introduce a statewide program providing laptops to schoolchildren in the classroom. Following a slow rollout, Google began reaching out to educators to test its low-cost Chromebook with free Google apps, and asked teachers and administrators to promote the product. In partnership with schools, Google’s Chromebook became commonplace in classrooms, accounting for more than half of digital devices sent to schools in 2017. There have been more than 100 years of evidence showing the failures of automated learning, Horvath argued, beginning with the 1924 invention of the “teaching machine” by Ohio State University psychology professor Sidney Pressey. Students learned to answer the questions the machine would generate when fed a piece of paper, but were unable to generalize that knowledge outside the device. “Kids would be very good so long as they were using the tool, but as soon as they went off the tool, they couldn’t do it anymore,” Horvath said. Burns, the education consultant, said AI was, in some ways, a natural extension of the argument tech companies have made about the need for computers in school, which is that students are able to learn at their own pace, or seek out information of interest to them to initiate their own learning. “[Tech] companies keep talking about, AI is personalizing learning,” she said. “I don’t think it’s personalizing learning. I think it’s individualizing learning. There’s a difference there, and that’s kind of a classic carryover from educational technology.” Integrating AI into classrooms According to Horvath, student AI use is not conducive to learning because it mirrors the failures of the 20th century “teaching machines.” Students’ learning was individualized—they answered questions from the device at their own pace and independently from other students—but were unable to synthesize knowledge taught outside the device. Similarly, Horvath said, giving AI to students without clear instructions or parameters teaches students how to rely on the device, not their own critical thinking. “The tools experts use to make their lives easier are not the tools children should use to learn how to become experts,” Horvath said. “When you use offloading tools that experts use to make their lives easier as a novice, as a student, you don’t learn the skill. You simply learn dependency.” Burns—a proponent of EdTech—said it’s futile to eschew the technology altogether. The Brookings Institute study found that despite educators having real fear that students will use AI to cheat, teachers are using AI to create lesson plans. Data on AI in the classroom is limited, but there are benefits, she added. For English language learners, for example, teachers can use AI to alter the lexile level of a reading passage. “To say that technologies are a failure is not true,” Burns said. “To say technology is a mixed bag is true.” fortune.com/2026/03/14/ame…
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@ChrisMartzWX Somebody should explain to Bernie that people can eat out 5 times a week, take regular vacations and other things that they couldn't do 60 years ago.
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The only person you have ever lifted from poverty is yourself.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Today, while billionaires have never had it so good, 60% live paycheck to paycheck. We can no longer tolerate a rigged system that lets billionaires pay a lower tax rate than average workers. A tax on billionaires will help create an economy that works for all, not the 1%.
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It appears the "If you see something, say something" is back. Not a good thing.
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@ThomasSowell If my church pulls anything like this, I will walk out. I belong to a United Methodist church. I almost left because of the leftist conference. I stayed because of my congregation.
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Edge Hills United Methodist Church in Nashville Tennessee: “Say it once. Say it twice. We will not put up with ICE.”
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@miles_commodore The US is one of the few countries the has tipping. Most countries don't tip. They pay the staff a decent wage and no tipping.
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Tipping at a restaurant is not extra, it’s part of eating out. If the restaurant owner paid his wait staff $20 an hour it would be reflected in your bill.
Keeping their wage below minimum wage allows you the customer the flexibility to pay them based on how their service was.
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@davepl1968 There is a lot of useless junk in cars but backup cameras are not one of them.
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Approximately 50 children are backed over by vehicles every week in the U.S., with over 200 fatalities and 1,500 injuries occurring annually.
Sorry for the hardship of adding $3 electronics to your vehicle.
Retro Coast@RetroCoast
Why do I need a backup camera in a car? It's not an 18 wheeler Just more useless junk that jacks the average car price to $50k
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Knight of the lost State of Franklin retweetledi
"We the People of the South are no longer accepting any more woke people."
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@miles_commodore I have community college graduates with associates degrees in technical fields making more than graduates wit BS degrees in liberal arts. That is because the technical grads have a skill set that is needed. Who need a gender studies major?
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There is no product or service in the United States of America that has skyrocketed more in price over the last 30 years than College.
Simultaneously nothing has dropped in importance more than an Undergraduate College degree.
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