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twiddlingon Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America

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twiddlingon A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

All about the chicken

https://www.autoblog.com/news/why-the-chicken-tax-still-cont...

twiddlingon A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

I also see this truck appealing to city/college/corp. campus fleets.

twiddlingon A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

They don't want our chicken

https://www.autoblog.com/news/why-the-chicken-tax-still-cont...

twiddlingon The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...

How children lost the right to roam in four generations

twiddlingon The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

Had to dig around for this but it is quite illuminating: https://www.freerangekids.com/how-children-lost-the-right-to...

twiddlingon The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment

zoning and economies of scale in building out larger schools overall which from a bigger area. throw in pedestrian hostile suburban road design...voila

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"The names lining up behind Elon Musk read like a who’s who of big money: BlackRock, Fidelity, venture-capital giant Sequoia.

And then there’s 1789 Capital.

The upstart investment firm scored a hot ticket recently with Musk, Donald Trump’s wealthiest backer: a rare chance to invest directly in his AI venture, xAI, and his roughly $350 billion startup, SpaceX.

Turns out, 1789 has a big attraction: Donald Trump Jr. — son of the US president, crown prince of MAGA and now frontman for what fans hail as a “parallel” US economy aimed at the Trump faithful."

twiddlingon Dinner for One: British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years (2018)

Right up there with German fascination with David Hasselhoff

twiddlingon Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

Bring in the Pinkertons

twiddlingon Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral

https://archive.is/m9SAi

twiddlingon MicroStrategy spends $5.4B buying another 55,000 bitcoins, shares slide

Should other companies just focus on crypto instead of products?

twiddlingon Toddlers Shoot Three People Every Month in Texas

Sounds like a good topic for board book "Timmy and his trigger discipline" and "Susie don't fan your friends"

twiddlingon Toddlers Shoot Three People Every Month in Texas

Sounds like we need toddler control laws, maybe parents need to have a background check.

twiddlingon More Americans are searching online about moving to Canada. But will they?

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/03/57/17/979934/4/ratio3x2_960.we...

Comes up everytime...

twiddlingon The fishy death of Red Lobster

Some viewed the Wall Street movie as a tutorial

twiddlingon Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Hmm. another Boeing-related whistleblower expired

twiddlingon Judge in Seattle sentences Changpeng Zhao, crypto mogul, to 4 months in prison

"Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, was sentenced in Seattle on Tuesday to four months in prison for failing to prevent money laundering on the exchange."

twiddlingon Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

remove real estate from that equation.

twiddlingon Grade inflation at UC Riverside, and institutional pressures for easier grading

<Interestingly, at this level community colleges are in some ways even -more- rigorous than "real" universities because classes are very cheap so the financial penalty of retaking is much lower, and at the institutional level there is no ranking pressure to get students to graduate in 4 years.

I have also seen local community colleges near me actually have Profs from the R1 Flagship school "moonlighting" teaching courses in the evening. They often are freer in how work with students and also try out new material for textbooks they are authoring.

twiddlingon Ask HN: Best Preventative for Aging Parents?

Was a recent study about having a pet as well helping with staving of cognitive decline as well:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/pets-appear-to-slow-c...

twiddlingon Ask HN: Best Preventative for Aging Parents?

I'll just add swimming

twiddlingon Hologram lecturers thrill students at trailblazing UK university

maybe they could have Tupac teach the course

twiddlingon Why is everything so ugly?

< Next, let's talk about how I miss CRTs

Best television I had was a HD Sony CRT. Incredible picture.

Also weighed over 230 pounds.

My back does not miss CRTs

twiddlingon The case for single-stair multifamily

Don't forget about street widths being determined by the ability to turn around fire equipment.

twiddlingon A Tesla owner says he got a $14,000 repair bill one day after buying a Model Y

Tesla, which disbanded its press department years ago, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

twiddlingon 'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware

Great sci-fi premise

Aware brains enslaved to doing crypto-coin mining

twiddlingon NCAA president wants colleges to directly pay some student athletes

As someone who went to a D1 FB school with a big football program and personally witnessed the corruption, are we just at the point of finally dropping the whole charade of "amateur" athletics?

twiddlingon I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

< SWE adult daycare office environments

I love that description

twiddlingon I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

This. GE Financial was an earnings laundering operation