We’ve been “walking past” this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.

Wisdom is intelligence applied. Or perhaps, wisdom is the synthesis of intelligence.

Will Hunting starts out the movie with mad intelligence and little to no wisdom, and the movie is the story of him shifting from one to the other.

Indeed. I’m pretty sure whatever is being communicated is probably interesting, but I can barely grasp it.

Going to regret putting the generators at the bottom if there’s any sort of flooding. Ask Memorial Hospital in Louisiana.

… expensive real estate.

There seems to be two fairly consistent determining factors: burgeoning tech sector, and cheap land. In neither of which the east coast is replete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning

If truth in advertising is what you seek, I’ve got bad news for you.

Lately I’ve been going to bat for audiophiles. People get really shrill about how unpractical their gear is and how much smarter they are for knowing that cheaper cables exist. But ultimately it’s a hobby. They like the exotic expensive stuff because it’s fun. The value is largely extrinsic.

Is a really nice fountain pen worth a couple hundred dollars actually 2000 times better than a bic? Is a collectors vehicle safer, faster, or more practical than a modern one? Is the story better if it’s a first edition?

Ultimately audiophile stuff is more like collectibles than tools. Sounding good is important, but also important is just geeking out on something. And don’t think there aren’t function-first audiophiles who buy purely utilitarian gear and get super deep into room treatment and such. But there are also people who value aesthetics too. Branding, finish, novelty. And ultimately they’re rich. Splurging on audio equipment for them would be like a regular person splurging on expensive stadium food or something. Or perhaps even more appropriate, stadium beer, which is the exact same beer that can be purchased much more easily and cheaply under different circumstances.

Connection between the human development index (HDI) and total fertility rate (TFR)

The human development index has three components -GDP per capita is one of them, life expectancy is the second and the education level - the third. As all these factors are negatively correlated with fertility

When FBI agents raided Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion upon his July 2019 arrest, they used a chainsaw to open a metal safe.

Inside, they found a pile of loose diamonds, cash, passports with the disgraced financier’s photo under different names, and several hard drives and CDs.

Because the agents didn’t have a warrant to seize the safe’s contents, they left them in the middle of the floor with the hard drives and binders piled on top, agent Kelly Maguire testified at the criminal trial of Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

4 people who have seen the Epstein files say nothing suggests he was a spy

Five days later, when the FBI returned to the mansion with a new warrant in hand, the safe’s contents were gone.

Later that day, the items were handed over to the FBI in the form of two suitcases by Richard Kahn, Epstein’s longtime accountant.

…

“When the FBI broke into Epstein’s home, they broke down his door, so his door could not lock and the alarm could not set properly,” Kahn told the committee. “When Merwin, the house manager, was at the house, he realized that these items were not safe to be left alone.”

Kahn, who wasn’t in New York City at the time of the raid, said he took possession of the items “three or four days later.” He testified that he brought the two bags into his apartment and didn’t look inside them.

“I never touched them. I never opened them,” Kahn said. “I left them in my dining room.”

A day or two later, Dela Cruz called Kahn again to say the FBI was looking for the stuff they had left behind, Kahn told the committee.

That’s when he grabbed the bags from his home and brought them to the FBI agents at Epstein’s house, Kahn said.

So, days of unguarded hanging out on floors and in dining rooms unsupervised. Even if they really didn’t tamper with them, this feels like a means to deliberately create the option to claim they had been plausibly tampered with due to pants on head custody chain.

Brown sugar by the Rolling Stones. My Sherona.

Huh?

Fuck you, Afroman.

His family and their dedication to keep women pregnant 11 months out of every year is called quiverfull.

The movement took its name from Psalm 127:3–5, where many children are metaphorically referred to as the arrows in a full quiver.

If a family that rose to prominence in the social eye for exhibiting bizzare behavior relating to procreation within the strict confines of a fringe religious ofshoot that centers almost entirely around gender roles and is named after the component of a weapon can’t be trusted, than who can? Really makes you think.

You’re not wrong that western media is beyond compromised. But devil’s advocate, the headline is “iran war escalation” not “iran’s war escalation”, though the ambiguity is likely by design.

They use Lemmy, how successful can they possibly be?

Interesting. Any sources?