Brian

@chaykak Billionaires are funding print publications like Asterisk, Palladium, Arena, Noema etc. But you are right, they should be funding more cultural projects.

AI companies should be funneling billions of dollars into vanity culture projects such as print magazines and free studios and basic income for visual artists

@RobeltDora This is my hometown in California that was built to be a replica of a Spanish village by the sea over 100 years ago. It is where the Olympic surfing competition will be held in 2028. There are beautiful spots like this and nature across California. It is unfairly maligned.

@bbalkus 実際のところ。 カリフォルニアと言えば日本からすると憧れる土地なので、どうせだったら郷土愛を語ってもらった方がありがたいのは間違いない。

「カリフォルニアなんで嫌われてんの」って日本人の疑問に対してカリフォルニア在住の日本人が「ふざけんな日本人は黙れ」って怒りの反論をしたらカリフォルニア内外在住のアメリカ人達に「カリフォルニアは嫌いだ」ってつめられてるのを観測した。

@samadran @clarkh1963 @Empty_America This is 100% correct. A single test doesn’t define “merit.” The SAT doesn’t measure creativity or intellectual curiosity or drive or any of a number of other more important character traits. Elon Musk only scored ~1,400 and Richard Feynman would have bombed the verbal component.

@clarkh1963 @bbalkus @Empty_America There is quite a lot of reason to believe a class exclusively of 1580+ scorers would be worse overall then one with a distribution that averages 1550

If Harvard admitted students strictly by SAT score, filling slots in descending order starting at 1600, what would be the lowest SAT score admitted to the school? And what would be the resulting demographics of the student body?

アメリカ人はデカくてマッチョで自信家で、最初は日本人を見下すような言動もするけど根はお人よしレベルに親切で、毎日ハンバーガーとステーキを食べ、アメ車のオープンカーを乗り回し、HAHAHA!!って陽気に笑う星条旗ビキニの人たちです ぼくは昔アメリカ人の事をゲームで勉強したから詳しいんです

It means anti-drone technology needs to catch up (and it is. Check out Epirius). The U.S. kidnapped a foreign leader, decapitated Iran’s leadership, destroyed its Air Force, Navy, air defense systems, defense industrial base, underground rocket cities etc. A new asymmetric threat doesn’t mean the U.S. is done as a global military power.

I’m no military expert but the demonstrated ability of middle powers to produce incredibly cheap precision drones capable of destroying billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment really does suggest the era of American global dominance is over.

@btina6921 @Mrbankstips It is 20%, not 40%. And 90%+ of Iranian crude is exported to China and is irrelevant to U.S. demand. It is much easier and cheaper to source from the Western hemisphere.

@bbalkus @Mrbankstips Sounds like youre HEAVILY uneducated. 40% OF THE WORLDS OIL MOVES THROUGH THE STRAIT OF Hormuz. Thats a huge number. And then again youre wrong about the oil. US dont produce the same oil as Iran. Controlling the strait of hormuz would literally put us in charge of the world

This aired in 2008. You don’t really know what you think you know.

This is extraordinary work from Palladium. Running rings around legacy media with a fraction of the budget.

This is a deeply misunderstood point. Many people think the Saturn V was just a German rocket design and don't appreciate how far Americans took the technology that originated in Britain and Germany post war. "GE and Pratt & Whitney engineers synthesized British centrifugal jet engines with German axial-flow compressor research, creating jet designs that went from 2,000 pounds of thrust with tens-of-hours lifespans during the war to over 10,000 pounds of thrust with 1,000+ hour service lives, enabling a generation of supersonic fighters and long-range bombers. Other GE engineers were in the deserts of west Texas as part of Operation Fireball, where they made major improvements to the V-2 missile’s guidance and control systems, subsystem performance, and system integration. Engineers from Rocketdyne improved the V-2 engine design, ultimately building the F-1 engine which remains the most powerful single-chamber liquid rocket engine ever flown, reliable at 1.5 million lbf (pound-force) while the German engine could only generate 25 tons of thrust and routinely destroyed itself via pressure oscillation. The V-2 rocket failed more than 30% of the time it was launched during the war; American engineers brought the frequency down to under 5%. By the mid-1960s, approximately 5% of the U.S. GDP funded new weapon systems and NASA’s Apollo Program, transforming U.S. industrial capacity. The Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was deployed in five years and required simultaneous breakthroughs in rocket engines, lightweight structures, inertial guidance, and reentry physics. The Apollo moon landing came eight years after zero human spaceflight capability. The Archangel spy plane program went from concept to the first flight of a plane that could fly 85,000 feet in the air at speeds exceeding Mach 3 in four years. Boeing took the 747, the largest and most advanced commercial aircraft ever built, from initial concept in 1965 to planes rolling off production lines 28 months later in a project that required building a factory that remains the largest building by volume in the world today." arenamag.com/articles/steal…

Partner with Alpha Schools and demand for your homes will be on fire. This is similar to a concept that has been tried very successfully in China. You could also work with hypothetical private clubs that are kind of like a member-owned residential cooperative. What educated professionals really want is affordable housing within a community that has the characteristics of the affluent neighborhoods with good schools. This model enables that.

@bbalkus We are already lowering the cost of construction, and the idea of partnering with micro schools land daycare is one would be thrilled to do

This is great. But what we really need to do is dramatically lower the cost of construction for these types of homes and then bundle into the price high-quality private daycare and after school care. Ideally private/charter schools as well so people don’t have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to live in an area with good schools. By spreading the childcare/education costs it reduces the burden on families and because the total monthly cost of housing is reasonable it makes the whole package a good deal.

@JohnR_151 @kenmcalinn It is amazing. The guys who run the place are from Texas.

@bbalkus @kenmcalinn Looks legit tbh

本質的情報だけど、米国でおいしいBBQが食べれるのはこの7州しかない(しかもどれも全然スタイルが違う)。逆に言えばほとんどの米国人もBBQがなにか知らない。

@btina6921 @Mrbankstips People are so stupid about this. Iran mostly produces the same light sweet crude as the U.S. Roughly 2/3 of U.S. oil consumption comes from domestically produced and refined sources. Heavy sour crude can be imported from Canada and Venezuela.

@bbalkus @Mrbankstips We produce a CERTAIN type of oil. Iran produces a UNIQUE type of oil

@Eleve8MeLord @Mrbankstips

@bbalkus @Mrbankstips That's what Illiterates thinks

People are so stupid about this. I work in the oil industry and know exactly what you are talking about. But 2/3 of U.S. oil consumption comes from domestically produced and refined sources. Heavy sour crude can be imported from Canada and Venezuela. The Middle East produces the same light sweet crude as the U.S.

@bbalkus @Mrbankstips Different types of oil

This is an absolutely terrible idea. A system where a large majority of voters pay no income tax creates a permanent electoral coalition for spending, since they bear none of the visible costs. Voters already dramatically underestimate how much government costs. Remove income tax entirely for most people and a fiscal catastrophe is inevitable.

Early OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla proposes income tax be removed for Americans earning less than $100,000. In the UK context, that’s about £75,000. 93% of the UK’s working population earns less than that a year, based on Govt figures.

@mcsquared34 How about the U.S. building artificial intelligence, rockets that can be re-launched and satellite constellations that bring the Internet to the entire world or building fusion power plants and inventing cancer vaccines? clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/moderna-c…

As an American it’s cool reading about the Cubans curing lung cancer, the Japanese building 300+ mph high speed trains & China reclaiming the literal desert, meanwhile my government jails women for abortions, hunts the homeless for sport & puts immigrants in concentration camps.

Japanese X is amazing.

アメリカという国は、格差は激しいし薬物汚染はひどいし政治は(ご存知の通り)終わっているしで、どうしてあんな国が大国面して回っているのだろうと思っていたんだけど、最近タイムラインに10000件ほど流れてくるありえないサイズの肉塊の山の写真を見て、その物質的豊かさを急速に理解させられている