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The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns

@mattvanswol @BasedMikeLee Learn to read and then read to learn. It’s not that complicated.

My wife and I are deep in the weeds on researching how to homeschool our 5 year old son. It’s very daunting…, not sure how we are gonna pull it off but honestly… we have almost no choice. I love MANY of my public school teachers, but the system is designed for indoctrination and turning your kid into a raging liberal. Not actually teaching them any facts at all. It’s so sad. Truly. So in the end, what else can we do? Private school maybe? But it’s expensive, and has MANY of the same problems, in fact… it’s often worse. So homeschool really is the only option left. I just don’t want to screw this up… I love my son, I want his life to be the best it can be, maybe that’s homeschooling, at least for now.

Homeschooling is the future It could save America

Data centers aren’t stealing your water. Even if the total water draw of data centers triples by 2030, they’d require just 8% of the water consumed by American golf courses. @dodgeblake interviewed @AndyMasley, the man who’s been debunking AI water doomerism. Full story 👇

400 years!!!

@Tanyaelisabeth @elonmusk I had 7 babies and when the youngest turned about 8 years old, the house became harsher. Sympathy for the “poor baby” was gone. It did effect the emotion of the house.

For most of human history, women did not experience children as some rare interruptions to adult life. Babies were everywhere, in arms, on hips, asleep in slings, playing under tables while bread was kneaded and laundry was folded. A young girl did not grow up in a world separated from motherhood. So how can women want babies when they rarely see babies? A baby changes the atmosphere of a room, people smile more, they speak softer, they are gentler, there is more joy. Perhaps the desire for children has not disappeared nearly as much as we think. Perhaps many women have simply been separated from the very thing that used to awaken that desire in their hearts.

People completely miss the most important thing about Tesla FSD It’s not just about convenience. It’s not a "cool self-parking trick." It’s about the fact that car crashes are the #1 killer of healthy people aged 5-29 globally and one company has gathered over 10 billion miles of real-world data to actually solve it Look at the recent data: Tesla just became the FIRST vehicle to pass NHTSA's new ADAS safety tests. Not the first EV. The first vehicle. Period. The reality is harsh but simple. Countries that approve FSD get safer roads overnight. Countries that delay will literally watch their citizens die in preventable crashes while bureaucrats sit in meeting rooms debating "safety." The "safety" argument against FSD is officially dead

Wife works as a data scientist at a major tech company. She says some 10x engineers are now 100x engineers, while other people have completely missed the memo and are still doing things by hand. Huge disparity in adoption, but the adopters are massively productive.

Another Shinto Shrine has been burned down. This time it was the Urufushine Shrine in Nabari City, Mie Prefecture. This Shinto Shrine was over 1000 years old, survived everything natural disasters, civil wars & even WW ll but it couldn't survive diversity.

@CaryKelly11 It’s not Greek, though. I want 3 things in my yogurt: whole, plain, and Greek. I gave up and switched to cottage cheese.

If you have commitment issues, Costco is probably not the place for you.

@steelers1288 @TheBabylonBee @gbgary54 @jatkat45 @stylishsatirist @kengfunk @chrisvitali @OfficialMLBRFC @RandElkins @TheWho @Kokomoschmoe @evan7257 Jackson Browne and Jethro Tull.

@steelers1288 @TheBabylonBee @gbgary54 @jatkat45 @stylishsatirist @kengfunk @chrisvitali @OfficialMLBRFC @RandElkins @TheWho @Kokomoschmoe @evan7257 Almost all of the music concerts I’ve ever been to were in the Summit. James Taylor, Jefferson Starship, The Go-Gos, Stray Cats, and even Eddie Murphy Raw. I mourn for kids these days that don’t get to experience the 80’s.

Lakewood Church To Be Renamed 'DraftKings Arena' Following Branding Deal buff.ly/Bzq5lbE

"Big tech needs to invest in middle America!" >Big tech invests in middle America. "Ew, no, you're bad."

@amy_sargeant_ Of course you can do this all day, men are naturally stronger than women.

Thanks to all the TERFs who funded Sall’s legal costs—now your money has been sent directly to a trans woman. We can do this all day! Keep losing, keep paying us hundreds of thousands and humiliating yourselves in the media. Meanwhile life for us goes on. Stay obsessed.

Moments after court adjourned, Sall Grover ran to her dad and started sobbing into his shoulder. The law is very clear: discrimination against trans women is not acceptable. Thanks to all involved for reaffirming this in such a powerful way. #TickleVGiggle

@DiedSuddenly_ Unintended consequence: patients that need meds can’t get them. With the advent of AI to diagnose and self ordering of lab tests, the primary role of physician is to gatekeep the meds. The new policy will strengthen the gate.

Huge win for health! RFK Jr just explained that doctors will now get paid to take patients OFF unnecessary and harmful medications through a new policy called “deprescribing.” This is the first policy of its kind, and will incentivize doctors to STOP prescribing unnecessary medications.

@libsoftiktok @jeannean_s I genuinely wonder sometimes if the entire trans movement was just a front to normalize pedophilia eventually. The more you see from these people, the more you start to believe that.

Defense is 8% of US government spending. Welfare is 47%!

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated. I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy. But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay. First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories. Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living. Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment. I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.

"A simple way to put this is: How many ideas does one person have in a day, and how many of those things do they actually get to do? Until that proportion is 100%, you know there is a pretty meaningful bottleneck in terms of the drudgery of execution. I don’t think it’s anywhere close to 100%—it’s probably like 5%. You have all sorts of different ideas of things you’d want to do or build or try, and in practice it’s much harder to actually do them. I think of that as one of the big things AI will unlock. You see this especially in software. I have never met an engineering team that thought about their work as, alright, we’re shipping this project this month, and then next month we’re all done, no more software, we’ve built everything we wanted to build. It’s always the opposite—you have 85 projects and you have to pick six because that’s how much bandwidth you have. What we’ll get to see is that so many more people will just get to do all of the things they want to go do. When people say they love building software, what is it that they love? In reality, there’s this 10% of the job which is really just getting to express yourself—thinking about the trade-offs you want to make for every problem, what architectures you want to use, what the specific product is you want to build. And then there’s this other 90%, which is code monkeying and execution. When people say they really love building software, it’s usually the former that they gravitate towards. It’s the same in every field, and we’ll get to a point where you can just do 10 times more of the 10% you actually love."