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I hope he’s not right. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1920878126395003242?s=46

Good dorm room philosophizing fodder. I think the person who wrote the questions has struggled with being overly inclined towards envy and comparing himself to others. Seems the common theme. 1 is a false dichotomy, which could begin an interesting if ultimately meaningless exploration of the ideas. It's a false dichotomy because you interpret "first hand experience" through a context of all of the received second-hand ideas that reside in your head. Confirmation bias is a known fault of the human mind, and yet it can easily be based on a first-hand experience with the thing being confirmed. That confirmation of the received ideas might wildly overrate the prevalence or importance of the experience. It's a little interesting that the author feels the need to exclude what is apparently his default for the definition of a good life: comparing oneself to others. Or maybe this author intends to speak to young people who haven't gotten over such things. (Dorm room fodder.) I guess the default correct answer here is to leave the world a better place than you found it, or something along those lines. An easy example would be that a human born in Palestine will have different heartfelt beliefs than one born in Israel, generally speaking. That says nothing about how intelligent or good either person is. It only speaks to the different cultures produce humans with different software running in their brains. The meat computer in our skulls can be the same, but the software can be wildly different, because the code we absorb is wildly different, at least when it comes to a few core issues. I don't know, but this person should find a way to get over their issues with envy.

Probably never hosted anything on FoxNews.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/acting-fema-chief-abruptly-ousted-ahead-us-hurricane-season-2025-05-08/ Cameron Hamilton, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been ousted from his position by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a day after he told lawmakers in a hearing that he did not support eliminating his agency. The leadership change comes at a time when the agency, which is in charge of coordinating the federal government's response to disasters, is helping states and local communities prepare for the onset of hurricane season on June 1.

Seems like an awful way to go. Not as awful as the electric chair. Imagine thinking that shocking someone to death is the best answer for a "humane and painless" way to end their lives.

The exception being founder shares of it’s a someone like Zuck or Gates

https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/detroit-automakers-fuming-trump-trade-deal-preferential-treatment-uk-cars/ Somewhat related to the above forum thread A group representing General Motors, Ford and Stellantis blasted President Donald Trump's trade deal announced with the United Kingdom, saying it would harm the U.S. auto sector. British carmakers will be given a quota of 100,000 cars a year that can be sent to the United States at a 10% tariff rate, almost the total Britain exported last year, compared to 25% for Mexico and Canada and nearly all other countries.

This may be way off base, but it seems like more so recently, presidents try and pick a Supreme Court judge who is like them. They probably did so before also, but it was not quite as detailed to try and do so. But still interesting when a president (or presidents after him) picks someone and they do not turn out how they expect.

LOL It is interesting the number of appointments of people from Fox News into his administration.

@Mik Marketing is key!

tough crowd today

I'm old enough to remember when Bill Gates manufactured a pandemic. And now he's helping??????

@Mik lol Rick Mayall and Ade Edmondson - two of Britain's finest.

https://twitter.com/drprevost/status/1886469097560719594

@taiwan_girl said in White Smoke Observed…: @Horace said in White Smoke Observed…: Forward my mail to the woods. Horace c/o Nature The Woods We are going to start calling you Horace David Thoreau Please do.

@Doctor-Phibes said in What to wear?: I may have told this story before, but we first arrived in small-town Ontario, Canada in December. We were told that the office Christmas party was 'Strictly Formal Wear'. Pretty much everything was in storage, so I rented a tux, and Mrs. Phibes bought a nice dress. We showed up, and I discovered what was meant by the term 'Canadian tuxedo'. I was by far the most over-dressed person of the 400 or so peoplein the place. There were those little leather ties, a lot of cowboy boots, and I think at least one stetson. A couple of the more senior managers wore ties and jackets. Everybody was far too nice to say anything, so we still had a good time. I did, however, look and feel a proper Charlie. That is very funny. Something similar. A friend of me immigrated to the US from Greece when he was in his early teens, and his family settled in a "rough" part of Boston. Not knowing any better, on his first day at the US school, he went there in a shirt and tie. (That was the normal school uniform in Greece). You can guess how well that went over. LOL (He is a funny guy and tells the story much better than I do.)

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on being at Duke Hospital for the first time in 9 years: I tolerated it so well they let me out right after my infusion finished rather than keeping me overnight just in case. That is awesome!!!

Wow!! 80 years ago