Ryan Moulton
61K posts
parenting is hard actually. but doing hard things is good. i don't know why everybody started talking like hard things are intrinsically bad. you can't just relax your way into a good life. it takes effort
Both parties gerrymander whenever possible. This is bad. Neither party will ever unilaterally disarm. That is predictable. So why not just call a truce and pass a law to restrict it everywhere?
This is the footprint ratio of data center to solar panels in the sunniest country in the world. Yeah, I think we're gonna have to go nuclear.
Conversely, suppose you created a "mobile de-gentrification unit". A fleet of rusty RV's inhabited by drunkards, pit bull owners, petty criminals, and so on. You roll up on a heavily-gentrified area, park the RV's, and commence creating havoc. That'd fix housing cost issue very quickly. I'm not even joking. A thousand ruffians in RV's, liquored up, engaging in petty crime, keeping the police consistently overworked, causing mass-scale pearl-clutching amongst the propertied. Besiege them long enough and houses start to go up on the market quickly. Then you buy them up and pay your ruffians to move on to the next target. If you're mad about the price of housing, why not take some ACTION? I'm sure it'd work in many places. Total chaos.
A lot of reactionaries are convinced conventional meat will get banned, but it's probably gonna be economics that wins in the end A decade ago, a lab grown burger cost $300k to produce Now it costs about $10 Around 2030, it's predicted to start costing *less* than conventional
I think the scariest thing in that video of the high school kids trying to read that index card is that they can't sound words out, completely skip words they don't know, and bail entirely when they hit a word they don't know! I know how reading education changed but still sad!
A large percentage of young people are functionally illiterate because schools abandoned phonics in favor of sight reading
It's not the "current era" preference, it's the *American* preference.
r/myboyfriendisAI apparently has 36k weekly visitors which is 10x more than r/mygirlfriendisAI. someone tweeted years ago that everyone was worried about AI girlfriends but they thought AI boyfriends would be even worse and i think they’ll end up being vindicated by history
every time a piece of writing contrasts two things my mental AI detector goes off now and i'm wondering what it would be like to write in a style where you just never contrast two things ever. things-in-themselves only
@alexisgallagher For anything with division and fractions it's really straightforward. If you know the factorization you can simplify it as far as possible very quickly. But my daughter reports it also helping for multiplication. If you are computing 8 x 25, you can notice the two 2x5s in it.
@alexisgallagher For anything with division and fractions it's really straightforward. If you know the factorization you can simplify it as far as possible very quickly. But my daughter reports it also helping for multiplication. If you are computing 8 x 25, you can notice the two 2x5s in it.
