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@DailyNewj @CollinRugg Sadly, we have constructed a world of people caught up in the "culture of perpetual outrage". If there wasn't this, they would be (and probably) are outraged about something else. It's become their "normal" state of mind.

@CollinRugg Imagine risking a criminal charge over a car you don’t even own. At this point it’s less about Teslas and more about people letting emotions override basic common sense.

NEW: 67-year-old Karen Cooke Lewis arrested for scratching a Tesla Cybertruck with nails on a board in Collettsville, North Carolina. The owner of the Cybertruck says he had no clue who Karen was. "We had all the craziness with Teslas when Elon was part of Doge and all that stuff, but I thought we had kind of gotten past that and I'd kind of made it through unscathed," the owner said. Karen was arrested and charged with injury to personal property. When will they realize that Teslas have cameras that are recording them?

@ChuckBeretz @TimePreference_ What I was going to suggest - spot on.

@TimePreference_ You are describing the U3 rate. You want the U6 rate bls.gov/news.release/e…

the unemployment rate is a statistical fiction it doesn't count discouraged workers who stopped looking it doesn't measure underemployment yet policymakers treat it as gospel truth

Wow - that's a big drop in housing construction.

@elsleightholm Cool! Just subscribed. Was 3 classes shy of a 2nd degree in math as an undergrad but paying for college myself, I had to start work. Regret that today!

My mathematics channel just reached 200k on Instagram 🥹

@CascadePolicy OPB says OR Ds are proposing raising the $1M to $2.5M, but increasing the state tax to 19.9% above that level. [Oregon’s tax on dead people’s assets could change this year - OPB](opb.org/article/2026/0…)

38 states have NO estate tax. Of the 12 who have an estate tax, Oregon already has one of the lowest estate tax exemption levels in the country at $1 million and is now pushing for a 16% rate. Who wants to stay in a state that keeps carving away at people's hard-earned money?

@jonbrooks It's explained almost entirely by population demographics. For decades the median age has been 28-30. Last year, its almost 40. And caused by the post WW2 brief fertility rate increase

@MrDunetrader @Ellieinspace LOL! And true!

@Ellieinspace @coldstreams If I were to mute/block every bit of random slop or advertising trash or simply uninteresting stuff that shows up in my X feed(s), that'd be like a full-time job in no time. 😕

Feeling the same as the post below. Social media has gone down hill. IG is endless videos instead of still photos, and random posts from people I do not follow. X has too many terrible quality/inaccurate posts. YouTube has tons of AI crap. Deleted my TikTok account. Are we possibly past peak social media? There are still some good accounts like the I'm quoting here, but the overall noise level is getting quite high.

@Strangeland_Elf In my case, my Mom cooked most everything in Crisco, the original transfat. They didn't cut the transfat until around 2006 or 2007.

“Our grandparents were eating real food!” Not sure how old your grandparents are but I’m pretty sure a large portion of our grandparents were cooking everything in crisco and margarine.

10 years of normal lipid panels, exercised, didn't smoke, no diabetes, never drank alcohol, no drugs, inadvertently became mostly vegetarian for about 5 years, routine echo cardiogram said normal heart for my age - and 9 weeks later, a heart attack. Cardiologist said she saw nothing in my records to have suggested this. Afterward, the only obvious risk factors were years of vit B deficiency (which no one checks), and chronic inflammation (multiple untreated broken bones, torn tendons, and chronic wisdom tooth inflammation). The point is, we don't have as good as indicators as they think they have, unfortunately. Oh, and when I had my heart attack my primary system was sudden onset extreme fatigue - no chest pain, no breathing problems, none of the things they tell us too look out for. My wife, an RN, said something was off about me, and said let's go to the ER. She did not suspect a heart attack at all. She wa the first of many people who saved my life.

More serious update, my ekg was good, labs good, stress test was good, my eeg and monitor thing showed an extra heart beat less than 1% of the time, well under 1% - which is considered benign and isn’t noticeable by me. Healthy diet, limiting caffeine, moderate strength training, hitting my final weight goal - will help overall but it’s already considered not an issue, I’ll get all the tests done every few years after 40 or more frequently if I have any symptoms.

@SteveTrewick Us weirdos!

@coldstreams I am mostly using git or plain rcp myself but we are not 99% of people

Remember when everyone made of fun of the people building early cloud file storage services? “OMG bro, we have FTP!”

@RMistereggen Uh, a book on computer and CPU architecture. The plot might not interest most, though.

What book are you reading now and why? More importantly: is it any good? Not that I need to add another to my bedside pile, but I probably will.

Good discussion. The data I'm looking at says 2% of high school athletes will receive a sports scholarship, and 1% of college athletes will get a pro sports job after graduating. But clearly, not everyone does it for those benefits. My son did soccer because he loved it. One of my daughters did high school tennis, because she enjoyed it and the social companionship. All 3 also did marching band.

@DrNiravPandya How many high school athletes go on to play college sports? There’s so many levels and schools for kids to continue their sports dream. Every thing doesn’t have to be D1 or bust.

Less than 2% of high school athletes will get a college scholarship (and even less will go pro) but the entire youth sports complex is designed around spending money and breaking down physically to achieve a goal that 98% of athletes won’t achieve. Keep sports competitive & fun.

@Martin93577417 @DrSuneelDhand Yes. Off scale incredible care, x2 for me and x1 for my wife, both with life threatening emergencies. Very grateful for our local small town hospital ER, and the medevac helicopter that took me to a regional medical center.

@DrSuneelDhand Have you been to an emergency room in the US?

My thoughts on US medicine can be summed up in a few words: Emergency care: Awesome, wouldn’t be anywhere else in the world. Chronic care: Total and utter crap. Completely sold out to Big Pharma. Huge percentage of interventions and drugs useless.

In the 1980s, when the first USDA Dietary Guidelines were issued, we were bombarded with propaganda. Both my employer (tech) and my wife's employer (pharma) held company meetings to promote the guidelines - bring your family they said! Professional dietitians told us to eliminate as much fat in our diet as possible. But - incredibly - told us sugar was okay as long as we were not diabetic.... So we went to no fat diets and switched to high carb foods and didn't worry about sugar in our diets. That was brilliant, wasn't it?

Not so sure about your high rating on emergency room care. But Big Pharma/Big Insurance/Big Health has captured chronic care and well care. You can take back your health and escape the health care system by these simple steps. Food is medicine. #1. Avoid sugar - most important #2. Avoid seed oils #3. Avoid ultra-processed foods #4. Practice intermittent fasting #5. Eat fermented foods #6. Cook at home Which one of these are you ready to start? #RealHealthFreedom

@DrSuneelDhand Agree. When I took graduate medical informatics course (basically medical info systems), our prof, an MD said our acute condition care is excellent, but our chronic care is terrible. From personal experience, I agree with that!

We end up "disenfranchising" someone regardless. Both my wife and I, at various times, have had broken hands/arms/wrists, me with my right hand in a cast for 3 months, then a splint for 1 more. I couldn't sign my name. My wife had to sign a statement (please laugh) with her right hand (she is left handed) saying that she could not sign with her left hand. It was silly. 90+% of countries of the world, half of US states have a photo ID requirement for voting. 12 states accept alternative ID and 13 require no ID. No matter what method we use, there will be issues.

This sudden and dramatic opposition to mail in ballots from Republicans over the last four years has never made any sense from a strategic standpoint, especially with the continued lack of any proof whatsoever of widespread fraud resulting from mail in ballots. First off, the older age groups most likely to utilize mail in voting favors Republicans heavily. The Republican push to end mail in voting factually amounts to an effort to suppress turnout among a key demographic of Republican support. And secondly, when taken in consideration against the backdrop of American history, mail in voting represents among the most secure methods ever used, with voters having to register, offer their address, and in almost every state provide identification as part of registration to get the ballot sent to their house. And the ballots are usually approved through signature comparison to the signature on registration, with the high number of invalidated ballots in some states far more scandalous than the rare circumstances of attempted fraud. Compare this system to the abuses of Tammany Hall, why don't you.

@SteveTrewick Phones leak so much.

Again? Really?

Linux has its use cases, obviously. But it is not generally a consumer level OS, in many cases. I just set up Ubuntu, Linux Mint LMDE7, and Pop OS on 3 different h/w systems. Ubuntu was an "out of the box" install and worked perfect. Pop OS ran into issues on one system - I gave up and ended up with Mint, but I did put Pop OS on a 3rd system (minor issues required config fiddling there). The Mint install went very well but getting suspend/wakeup to work properly took quite a bit of fiddling. Overall, I like all 3 systems but there are enough techie nerdy steps for some that its not for everyone. Windows is easy, but so much bloat and upselling to buy OneDrive space and Office 365 services. Mac OS is good but Apple has faded out h/w support after 4-5 years (my experience). Someone said, he uses an old computer? Well, me, yes Just retired a 2006 Mac Pro, still use (barely) a 2008 Mac Mini, using a 2010 Win 10 machine (quad core AMD processor)-will probably convert to Linux, plus using 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2 newer systems. As long as they do the job, why not?

For anybody saying "Just use Linux", you need to realise that Linux is worse than Windows. Windows has all the bloat, and while you can have Linux without any of that you still don't have tools like Remedybg, RAD Debugger and Super Luminal. Once you have such tools, then Linux is a suitable app development environment. But _it is still trash_ because of the whole Linux model of you needing to compile everything. The fact that you cannot run an app built using a newer version of glibc is an insane decision. I shouldn't have to upgrade my whole machine in order to run something built on a newer version. I shouldn't be worried that an upgrade will break my machine. I shouldn't be forced to compile things from scratch to work on my machine. I shouldn't be forced to install N packages, I just want self contained binaries I can just download and run. I shouldn't be forced to develop with an old distro to have "max glibc compatibility". I shouldn't have to worry about X11 / Wayland / Window Managers. I shouldn't have to worry about asking the user to select a folder, display a dialog or show notifications. Linux is such a huge waste of potential, if they got their shit together they would completely obliterate Windows. I first got into Linux in 2000, and even back then there was this "it will take over Windows any time now!". It's been _26 years_! The same way I'd pay quite a lot for Windows without any bloat, I'd be willing to pay for a distro that gives me all this.