David Shane
@david_shane
Christian, Physicist npub1shmhgnyvmalywn6axuqngxwyxpv5yqecggy7qa2r34ew86vdz59qtpqr2d
Dropped in St. Thomas Aquinas on the way home. Pretty unique piece of church stained glass. Spot the atom, rocket, and Sputnik at left.
Final sentence a little extra "and just because we want to make their lives as unpleasant as we can".
I’ll make the NEA a deal: when public schools provide the majority of students with a comprehensive education experience that results in 85% of non-special education students performing at or above grade level, we can have this conversation about homeschooling.
Obvious point maybe, but Temu's "shop like a billionaire" slogan is itself a comment about inflation. When I was a kid, being a millionaire was pretty darn exciting. Now they're everywhere.
Replies defending rail are also good here, though. The train stations are usually more centrally located in a city. You can show up five minutes before the train arrives. The onboard experience is much better, though the travel is slower. And trains also have a romance to them.
Rail is best used for freight while humans should fly through the sky at 500 miles per hour because they value their time.
Out for a pleasant bike ride, and some critter nabs me either through or under my shirt. Tsk tsk.
I do suspect picture on the right might be a cool novelty and sort of status symbol... for a moment. But not something that will persist.
Optimus will bring the food to your car next year
Critical thinking is a side effect of subject mastery.
Memorizing facts boosts memory which does make you smarter because intelligence is largely about making connections between ideas or concepts or facts and the more you have ready at hand in your brain (as opposed to being able to look them up which creates friction) the more…
Far as cultural changes go, McD's closest to our home - under 5% of the orders are dine-in (probably under 2%). Drivethru, Doordash, pickup. Nobody eating here.
It's a bit clickbaity, but I still enjoy reading the replies on posts like this. A lot of "nobody is coming to save you" in this one.
What's an adult problem nobody prepared you for
I have had many conversations with people that included the line, "I just can't do the snow any more". (By which I'm sure they also meant, the cold.)
I know so many people who live in Chicago/Michigan/Minnesota for 20ish years, and then one day they break, move to FL & never look back.
I think "bitcoin as gold" is a better thesis than "bitcoin as currency" though. If they hold both, people will spend all of a bad (inflating) currency until they run out of it, then switch to spending a good currency. Ergo people spend dollars transactionally, they almost never…
The BTC "number go up" meme is predicated on a bet that BTC (satoshis) will become the global unit of account It was always a bs meme, but it was at least plausible until the GENIUS Act was signed into law The meme is formally exploded now Stop Think youtu.be/IGtfAWDgox0?si…
David: "Anyway, it looks like romance, and who likes romance?" Kriti: "I do. Everyone does. Isn't it God's creation? Miss Luke always said romance is a beautiful thing." Well there you go, heh.
I don't think I have ever used an auto-generated response. If you let software take over social communication for you, what have you left?
Most of the birthday wishes on Facebook are now grammatically correct with regard to the use of the comma for a noun of direct address, but it’s because Facebook autogenerates the message, not because people have learned the rule.