Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet. The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.

Every marriage is unique, because it is a meld between two weird people. Every heterosexual couple's dynamic is so unique that comparing them makes as much sense as comparing the pracital nuts and bolts of the sex lives of gay men and lesbian women. Men do not arrive fully formed individuals to fully formed individual women and start a relationship as a overt cooperation-formal-contract. Your boyfriend didnt show up to the relationship fully formed and not asking you if you want a glass of water, and you didn't show up to the relationship fully formed wanting a glass of water (or well I just wanted him to ask to show he cares). YOU grew INTO that dynamic together. That was not something that was "already there", which then "happened to you", it was a dynamic that you let come into being. It is not a reflection of some universal truth about Men and Relationships and Women as these large metaphysical categories. It is your relationship, and half of it or more, is you. Not even a reflection. What people arrive to the relationship as is half-people, cripples, half-finished, poorly put together, scrambling to make it work. What you CAN do together is to become whole, to grow into something better together. But if you expect people to arrive "finished", as "good people", then you will do the opposite, and deteriorate together, and develop a dynamic that cycles you through anxiety and frustration and pettiness

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education. 46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

They chose that headline and photo on purpose. It’s clear they are hoping to inspire the next Luigi Mangione. We still don’t hate journalists enough.

In the ancient world, the way many people gained great wealth was by forming gangs of strong men, beating up their neighbors, and taking their stuff. People still speak with admiration of men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, but they were little better than gangsters who enriched themselves through armed robbery. This was a negative sum game, and assured that people remained poor and unhappy for thousands of years. Eventually, however, we figured out that respecting each other’s rights, building things, and trading meant that we could play positive sum games instead. We could increase the amount of wealth, and all would benefit. As a result, we moved from living in unheated shacks to living in what our ancestors would’ve thought of as paradise in only a few hundred years. However, there are still people out there who think that beating someone up and taking their stuff is a really great idea. It is the great task of our civilization to shun such people, as they are not fit to be part of society.

Wait, so the MPs largely voted against it and yet its still being implemented? The fuck is the point in voting at this point

A lot of people in the quotes showing that they got no idea that the average modern parent is (rightly or wrongly) very paranoid about giving their kid any unsupervised time. Kids are gaming or scrolling cause that's literally the only thing without parental or teacher authority

Seattle is banning new data centers despite the fact their entire economy and tax base these days is literally just the tech sector and nothing else after they killed every other industry Legit impressed by their record-breaking “Become Detroit - Any% speed run”

If you want to find a truly impactful idea, a good place to look is in the trash bin of history. Most of the ideas that have most broken out in the last 5 years aren't new. They're old ideas that got written off too early. examples: 1) AI: When Sam started OpenAI, saying "AGI" got you laughed at 2) Space: Elon started SpaceX after people had written off the 1960s-era dreams as sci-fi 3) Supersonic flight: Blake started Boom after everyone assumed Concorde already proved it couldn't work 4) Nuclear energy: fission and fusion are roaring back decades after ambitious people stopped studying nuclear physics 5) GLP-1's: After the fen-phen disaster, weight loss drugs were synonymous with snake oil. There's a good reason this keeps happening. When a hyped idea fails, there's a backlash. It becomes embarrassing to work on - anyone still working on it is assumed too dumb to know better. So, if you want to work on something like this, you have to teach yourself to feel the tinge of that embarrassment and push past it.

they say it increased his IQ by a full standard deviation lmao

The timeline is filled to the brim with 95-IQ midwits saying things like "it's crazy that poverty still exists and we have a trillionaire" Oblivious to the fact 'The War on Poverty' started 62 years ago, the welfare state is exponentially larger, and poverty is unchanged.

Democrats have a serious problem. One that has been growing for years. The constant negativity about our country has forced their base not to value the massive benefits of being American. We still live in the greatest country in the history of the world.

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I’ll take the trillionaire creating thousands of millionaires over the millionaires creating trillions in debt.

Elon Musk is not stealing from you. Gavin Newsom is stealing from you. Karen Bass is stealing from you. Tim Walz is stealing from you. Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you. AOC is stealing from you. Becoming wealthy does not make you evil. The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.

Elon Musk's companies employ roughly 170,000 people. AOC drove Amazon out of New York, killing 40,000 jobs. One creates. The other destroys. They are not the same.

The more I travel America the more I realise they weren’t lying when they said it was the land of the free 🇺🇸 You can buy pretty much anything you want in all sizes (mainly large 😉), there’s freedom of speech and people seem to just get on with life without the government telling them what to do. I’m definitely jealous as a Brit

This is a bigger trend. Cracks forming fast. Lots of schools are going to fail.

This is a map on why video games take up 5x the space they did 15 years ago just to look *slightly* more detailed.