Bill Walsh

For millenia, out of self interest, women have selected men for strength, aggression and the ability to fight. Of course, this makes sense. Men, on the other hand, have selected women with nurturing and caring traits. That also makes sense. It is pretty funny when women say they try to “curtail violence”, when men are only violent because women have found those tendencies attractive and useful for themselves. Anyway, don’t grab a man’s arms when he is trying to defend you. You will get him killed. And I understand that you don’t understand how easily that can happen to him. Anyway, just don’t do it even though you don’t understand.

@wwalsh @HateradeCon Because we're not Neanderthals, and try to curtail violence, BillyBob.

Stranger raises his hand to a man’s wife. Did the husband do the right thing?

@Arrogance_0024 Make it look like this and we would still be proud that we got our man.

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

@thycelticcross @rock_music_72 @TKratman Idiot

@wwalsh @rock_music_72 @TKratman Why do 40% of American women want to leave America? 🤔 ...there's a reason for it, but what is it?

From Martin Iles, reposted: Having lived in the USA for nearly two years, I've realised something. The USA and the remainder of the Western world are no longer aligned. We all laugh and mock when the Americans say, "Freedom!" because we truly think we're as free as they are. Wrong. We're not. Not even close. The laws, the mindset, and the behaviour, is totally different in this regard. Most of all, the governments are totally different. The USA's convictions around core freedoms are on a scale we do not share. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate... a man who, in every other Western country, is held in open derision, if not contempt. For these and other reasons, we are not the same. Yet the West, including Australia, fully expect to rely on the USA for our very survival. If the world turns bad (which will happen - only a question of time), then the whole West, without America, is toast. So, you may ask - if we're not very aligned ideologically, then it must be that we bring something to the party militarily? Well, no... actually... we don't matter that much militarily. The USA has about 470 ships in its navy, including 11 aircraft carriers, 69 submarines, 75 destroyers... plus 110 new ships in the pipeline. Australia has about 30, including 3 destroyers, 7 frigates and 7 outdated submarines. The UK does a little better, with about 60. Meanwhile, the US has over 14,000 military aircraft. A staggering number. Australia has 252 military aircraft. The UK has 556. The US army has just shy of 1,000,000 uniformed personnel in its military. Australia has about 45,000. The USA spends 3.4% ($968 billion) of its GDP on defence. Australia spends 2% ($36.4 billion). The US spends as much as the next 15 largest military-spending countries (including China) combined. The USA has a fighting culture. The men shoot things (a lot) and hunt things, the veterans get favoured in everything from parking spots to boarding planes. A uniformed young man is thanked in the street a dozen times a day. "Oh, the Americans and their guns!" we say, in our smug way. Yes, they have a warrior culture. We do not. We don't have to, because we're a leech on theirs. How many young British men are willing to fight for their country? Now ask the same regarding young American men. The difference is about as wide as it could be. Militarily, we don't offer squat. Meanwhile, look at the way Australia works against America's interests by loving on China. China made us rich and we stay close. This is a Marxist regime with expansionist aims. Again, you have to spend time in the USA to realise just how vast a gulf there is between us on China. Europe, too. They let China have their way everywhere from Germany to Greenland, all the while importing Islam and sending their own people to court for saying hurty words. Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, "when the baddies come, you'll save us ok?" Because we can't save ourselves. And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam's got it. And, let's be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don't think that highly of our protectors. So, the USA is finally saying "enough." I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that's it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They're over it. And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all. Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America's perspective, it's about time. And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

@thycelticcross @rock_music_72 @TKratman This is one of the stupidest posts I have seen on this platform.

@rock_music_72 @TKratman No one said that "all" 40% wanted to move to Canada...for God's sake --> reading comprehension!! In an overall sense, it was the preferred choice, NOT the only choice. Please don't make me rack my brain against a wall! 🤪

@NextGenCrypto37 @PolymarketSport

@PolymarketSport UConn had a 3% win probability early, showing extreme volatility in prediction markets.

🚨HOLY SH*T: UConn only had a 3% chance to win in the first half. A $300 trade on UConn would have cashed out $10,000.00 on Polymarket.

@uaustinorg Excellent advice

To: Admitted Students on Ivy Decision Day From: UATX Congratulations. Getting in was hard and you should be proud. Now here’s some unsolicited advice so you don’t waste the next four years. Go to class. We know this sounds obvious. But as the New York Times reported recently, Harvard students routinely skip class, rarely speak up when they're there, and focus on their devices instead of the discussion. Faculty say few students do enough preparation to contribute meaningfully. The average college student spends about 20 hours a week on class and studying combined. At UATX, we aim for 50. That’s the difference between a part-time commitment and a full-time job. You (or your parents) are about to spend upwards of $90K a year. If you don't show up, you're paying roughly $250 per skipped lecture for the privilege of sleeping in. Read the books yourself. Your generation is the first to arrive at college post-literate — raised on short-form video, dependent on algorithms, and increasingly incapable of sitting with a difficult text long enough to let it change your mind. Ninety percent of college students use AI academically. This makes you more reliant on the authority of others. Most professors will also stand between you and the text. They’ll tell you what Marx “really meant,” what Aristotle “failed to see,” as though an academic in 2026 has outsmarted minds that shaped civilizations. The good professors do the opposite: they put you in front of the book and they work with you to find what a great mind has to teach us directly. Find those professors, and read everything yourself. Say what you actually think. Seventy-three percent of conservative students report withholding their political views in class out of fear their grades will suffer. Our advice isn't political; it's intellectual. If you spend four years learning to say what's expected instead of what's true, you’ll graduate roughly where you started — just older, more credentialed, and more practiced at self-censorship. One study finds that nearly half of students show no measurable gains in “critical thinking” after two years in college. Keep this in mind as you make decisions about which professors to take and how to do your assignments. Taking a small hit on your paper to gain integrity and wisdom is usually worth it. Ask for real grades. Sixty percent of Harvard undergraduate grades are now A’s. Twenty-five years ago, it was 20%. It got so bad that the legendary Harvard professor, Harvey Mansfield, started giving students two grades: the official one for their transcript, and a private one reflecting what they actually earned. He called the official grades “ironic.” So here's a suggestion: Take your A, but also ask your professors for a “Mansfield grade” so that you know where you stand. And don’t avoid difficult courses to keep your transcript clean for law school. Get work experience before you graduate. Forty-two percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that don't require a degree. Many employers are projecting the next few years to be the worst college grad job market in years. A degree alone — even from an Ivy — is not a job guarantee. Seek out apprenticeships, internships, and real work starting freshman year. The students at UATX are connected with entrepreneurs and business leaders from day one. Many will graduate with four years of work experience alongside their degree. You can build something similar at your school, but you'll have to do it yourself. Understand how debt shapes your life. If you're paying full freight or even half, do the math with your eyes open. Your decision to take on debt will quietly reshape the trajectory of your adult life through countless small surrenders: the job you take because it’s safe instead of starting the company. The city you choose to live in. The relationship you delay and the kids you don’t have. For women, a $1,000 increase in student loan debt lowers the odds of marriage by 2% per month in the first four years after graduation. None of that shows up in the college brochure. If you're going to take on debt, treat it like the constraint it is from day one: save aggressively and make sure every dollar is buying something that will actually compound in your favor. Find the people who take school seriously. The best thing about a great school isn't the lectures or the library. It's the handful of professors and students who are genuinely there to learn — who read ahead, argue in good faith, and push you to be sharper. Find them. UATX is a small community of those who seek a serious education. At a larger university, you have to build this community yourself. * The most dangerous thing about an elite university is that it is very easy to do nothing for four years and still come out looking successful. The transcript will say you excelled. The diploma with the fancy crest will open certain doors. Your parents will be proud. And yet you will have coasted — through inflated grades, unread books, and borrowed opinions. Getting in is an accomplishment. Making the next four years worth it will be harder, and the right decisions will change everything. We wish you luck.

Cooper Lutkenhaus is the world indoor champion for 800 meters! Wow - that was a big boy race right there. So strong.

@ge_aldrig_upp Translation error

@ge_aldrig_upp X automatically translated your post to English for me. It says “still 18 years old”.

Cooper Lutkenhaus 🇺🇸 a 18 anni ancora da compiere (2008) vince la semifinale degli 800 con enorme autorevolezza. Nell'atletica, come in altri sport, si sta tornando a vedere talenti sempre più precoci e la cosa in ogni caso dà molto da pensare #WorldIndoorChamps #KujawyPomorze26

@vasuman Real legs? I thought it was virtual no legs.

As someone who worked at Reality Labs: the Metaverse had real legs but was obliterated by middle management completely out of touch with how young people actually use technology. I built a V1 tool that game developers genuinely needed, and the moment it was done, it got shipped to a team in London (to die), and I was reassigned to a "higher-priority project" that zero developers asked for. Multiply that by every team, and you'll understand why this never took off yet cost 80 billion.

@dom_lucre If the dude was in New York, he would need to quickly murder somebody to try to avoid a big prison sentence.

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Texas man Curtis Lee Daniels is facing up to 10 long years in prison after he was caught cheating in a fishing competition by putting weights in his largemouth bass. Curtis Lee Daniels was arrested for violating fishing tournament law after organizers found weights in his largemouth bass

@blartyyy @VictoriaZeev @Math_files Brilliant reply!

@VictoriaZeev @Math_files Try and calculate the chances of “getting lucky” with that number out of all the possible numbers he could have guessed.. It becomes instantly apparent that there was no luck involved.

In 1798, a scientist effectively “weighed” the Earth — without leaving his laboratory. The English scientist Henry Cavendish designed an incredibly sensitive experiment. Inside a quiet wooden shed, he hung a horizontal rod from a very thin wire. Two small lead spheres were attached to the ends of the rod. Nearby, he placed two much larger lead balls. Because of gravity, the large spheres slightly pulled the smaller ones. The force was extremely tiny — so small that the rod twisted by only a minute fraction of a degree. Yet that tiny twist held a big secret. By carefully measuring this small movement, Cavendish determined the strength of the gravitational attraction between objects. From this, scientists could calculate the mass of the entire Earth. His estimate was remarkably close. Cavendish calculated Earth’s mass to be about 6 × 10²⁴ kilograms, while modern measurements give 5.97 × 10²⁴ kilograms. Sometimes the biggest discoveries come from measuring the smallest forces.

Dude, many follows are about to come your way. Now is the time to bring your A game here. Business success comes to those that efficiently hustle and grind. However…and this is big…seizing the moment (when it presents) is just as important as all of the work. You are probably in position to seize a moment right now. Go get it. I will be following you going forward. Give me the good stuff.

This is an extremely important point and touches on some of the most important questions to tackle: What new work may emerge? And how fast? And how do we support those contending with disruption during the transition?

Lawyers charge obscene rates, and they are a major brake on the economy, startups and small businesses. So, huge numbers of companies are handling things themselves that they would have sent to lawyers. You are correct about risk, but this is often a chance they are taking because the cost of lawyers is so high. This will decrease the market for the lawyers. Lawyers must be losing massive amounts of revenue already. On the other hand, the law firms will be able to do more way work with far fewer lawyers. Rates they charge should go down (due to the fact that other lawyers will also have the low operating costs). It is likely that profitability can go up for the winners. But junior lawyers? They won’t be the winners. Another key issue - lawyers are slow. They slow down contracts. They slow down deals. They slow down M&A. They slow down capital raises. They slow down customer wins. And they actually have an incentive to be slow. That time you are waiting for them? Well…they need you to experience that time so they can bill you for a bunch of hours. So, businesses are calculating speed into their thinking. I know that AI should speed up the lawyers. But we know what they will try to do with that… do the work quickly but bill for as many hours as they can get away with. I think there are going to be disasters for many companies that go with the “do it yourself” lawyering. But it is happening. A lot. Legal costs are an incredible drain on growth and the economy. Funny to see them lobbying in NY for laws they will let only them use the legal small language models. Of course they are doing that. Lol. That’s what they do.

You guys don’t get it yet. Everyone keeps saying AI is going to replace lawyers. I don’t think people understand how this actually plays out. Let’s say you use AI to draft a contract. The contract misses something important. A year later it costs you two million dollars. What do you do? Right now, you sue your lawyer. In the AI world, you’d sue the AI company. Two things can happen. Option 1: The AI company has liability for legal advice. If that’s the case, every AI company will immediately stop letting consumers use AI for real legal work. The liability risk is massive. Option 2: The AI company has no liability because of disclaimers. If that happens, every state bar in the country will say consumers are being exposed to unregulated legal advice and call it the unauthorized practice of law. And they’ll shut it down that way. Either path leads to the same outcome. Consumer AI will be limited to generic “Wikipedia-style” legal information and LegalZoom level document prep. But the real AI tools? Those will live inside law firms. Lawyers will use them to move faster, analyze more data, and run way more matters at once. The M&A lawyer doing 5 deals at a time will do 50. Trial lawyers will run far more cases simultaneously. The idea that AI replaces lawyers probably dies. The more likely outcome is that AI supercharges the best lawyers and makes the profession even more profitable than ever.

@jgault13 They looked a little gassed to me.

Nuguse and Hocker were in great position with 450m to go today, then gave it up without a fight. I wonder how much of that is a tactical gaffe and how much is being tired from the 3000m yesterday.

@JackPosobiec You know why

Why has no info been released on the suspect of the mass stabbing on 495 near DC?

@AutismCapital Starmer is upset. The Iranian people? Not so much.

Wait, aren't the Iranians supposed to be upset? This sounds like they're happy. But that's impossible right? (sarcasm)

@realJoelFischer The US is in a war and Starmer didn’t say a single word to wish for the safety (and success) of our troops. Think about that… They are so incredibly afraid of the violent people living in their midst. We saw this coming, but it still is jarring to see it actually come to this.

Great. Reason number 667 why we don’t need NATO.