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It annoys me, too, that people think only chatbots wrote intelligent prose.

He bought Twitter to restore free speech.

There are 2 axes: the second is authoritarian-libertarian.

The Internet is anonymous so that bigots don't know the gender of the poster, bro.

This is the exasperating part about learning to speak Spanish using a textbook; you must guess the grammar rules because the textbook won't tell you. So, you use the English rule and hope and pray that it is the same in Spanish, and you'll be right the majority of the time but often wrong. Spanish textbooks written 100 years ago tell you the grammar rules and are more useful than recent textbooks.

I call it theft when the government steals money from people without kids to enrich parents.

Government is not the solution, government is the problem. There is no such thing as a healthy functioning regulatory body - they all regulate too much and some should not exist. Don't call your legislator because the most dangerous words in the English language are, "I'm from the goevrnment and I'm here to help."

At my state college in the 80's, most dorms and showers were unisex but I never saw anyone naked outside my dorm room.

This bubble is caused by excess competition. There are 4 large companies who believe that a large new market is being created so each is investing large amounts without any evidence that there will be a single winner that dominates the future market. None of these companies has anything remotely resembling a monopoly except for Amazon in online retail.

In 2005, the CEO of Intel tried to buy Nvidia for $20b but the board vetoed his decision. The moral of the story is that the board's only tasks are to hire and fire the CEO. The board should not manage the company and they should fire the CEO when he makes a single extremely bad decision or set of smaller bad decisions.

Maybe that's because the voters are not impressed by government central planning.

Employers don't have all the power, employees do because they can quit and work for a competitor. All businesses must compete for employees.

Interest rates aren't high, they're manipulated by the government and they're too low. When businesses, governments, and individuals increase their borrowing, as they are now, that means that the cost of borrowing, the interest rate, is too low.

By analogy, think about the government. They've been printing money since August 1971, the price of gold has increased from $35 to $4000, and people still accept dollars rather than gold, and even Switzerland sold their gold because they believe that paper money is better. THe party can last forever!

Does democracy help or hinder free markets? In the USA, half the people pay no income tax but they vote on how income tax revenue is spent. In contrast, I don't vote in Microsoft elections because I own no shares.

All investors should choose gold over the dollar because paper money is always debased. Organizations like Apple, Microsoft, and Google bought government bonds 10 years ago when the price of gold was $1100 and have watched their investments erode while gold has increased to $4000.

In the United States, the government deliberately creates a shortage of medical residencies through a longstanding cap on federal funding for graduate medical education, primarily administered via Medicare. Residencies represent the essential postgraduate training phase that new medical school graduates must complete to become licensed physicians, yet the vast majority of these positions are financed by Medicare payments to teaching hospitals. This funding mechanism traces back to the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which Congress passed amid concerns over a perceived surplus of physicians at the time. The act froze the number of Medicare-supported residency slots at their 1996 levels, effectively limiting hospitals to reimbursements for a fixed quota of resident positions without adjustments for population growth or expanded medical school enrollment. As a result, while the number of U.S. medical school graduates has surged by over 30% since the late 1990s to meet rising healthcare demands, the pool of federally funded residency spots has remained largely stagnant, creating a persistent bottleneck that prevents thousands of qualified applicants from advancing into practice each year.

This cap not only constrains overall physician supply but exacerbates shortages in critical areas like primary care and rural medicine, as hospitals hesitate to expand programs without guaranteed reimbursement. Recent legislative efforts, such as the bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act, seek to add thousands of new slots over several years, but until such reforms pass, the 1997 policy continues to throttle the pipeline of trained doctors, leaving patients with longer waits and uneven access to care.

The Peace Prize stands out because sometimes it is given to someone who wages war such as Henry Kissinger or Barack Obama.

Charlie Sheen was successful at age 20 in Platoon and has been a drug addict since.

Can these robots move a chess piece from one square to another?

We need to shut down the government until buses and other wasteful borrowing and spending is eliminated. Local governments should pay for 100% of their buses rather than 20%.

No, the government is going to provide it to everyone with money that it prints or collects as taxes.

Carbon-based model collapse is known as groupthink and happens constantly.

Adults are pretty stupid, too, especially legislators who voted to ban TikTok.

The bill allows people to request an exception to regulations.

You shouldn't feel safe riding a bicycle without a helmet because because accidents have not fallen since people began wearing helmets. Ski accidents haven't fallen, either, since they started wearing hemets.

We outsourced manufacturing because it's not very profitable. The Mag 7 make 50x as much money as TSMC. Apple and Microsoft are the most profitable businesses in history.

Most of the powerful corporations in 1982 no longer exist or are much smaller because there is great turnover in corporate power. Governments don't lose power unless they lose a war, a rare event today that was common 100 years ago.

Wouldn't it be horrible if Europe defended itself without help from the United States?

Doctors in the United States are paid more than doctors in Norway and Switzerland even though those countries are richer and our doctors aren't better.