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Defense spending is social spending just unequally distributed.

Reagan campaigned against Carter’s profligate spending.

It really is like our body politic is still mentally stuck in 1980. It's crazy. Republicans still campaign on "balancing the budget" while demonstrably being responsible for all the major explosions of debt we have experienced in our lifetime.

The whole thing is absurd.


And then blew up the deficit and started our massive accumulation of debt. A pattern gleefully followed by every single Republican administration since. Every single Democratic administration since has reduced the deficit the "spend and give tax breaks" Republicans have run up. But it's a losing battle clearly.

Carter reduced the deficit as well until the recession hit in 1979 and tax revenues decreased.

And then proceeded to blow up the deficit even more himself. What they campaign on and what they actually do are different things.

Canadian c3 citizenship application.

E = mc2 so m = E / c2

c is a really big number. c2 is a really really big number. E is small.

m is really really small.


+0 vs +1 boils down to dropping kids off vs shopping.


Social Networks ⊆ Attention Media.



If you listen to the taped Feynman lectures, yes Feynman did write them. The published versions were edited from transcripts.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/recordings.html


Be forewarned. There's a new YouTube channel with an AI Feynman delivering slop.


This was really frustrating me. YT started recommending this channel and I could recognize the voice as an AI impersonation but had no way to know if it was at least reading something really written by Feynman. Eventually I concluded it wasn't, but there wasn't clear criteria under which I could report the channel. I'm not sure it's even against YT's TOS.


I saw this and what makes this particularly pernicious that you assume it was a fan applying ai voice to his authentic words, but you don't know.

There is also an ai slop channel featuring Leonard Susskind.


I’ve used this site twice, most recently last week for Lock Lacing. I had to upsize my Fuego dance shoes because they don't come in wide sizes. Consequently the heels were slightly loose; everything else was fine. Customer service recommended Lock Lacing which worked and tightened the heel ever so slightly but enough.


One of Oxide+Friends predictions was "6 year: Tesla is out of the consumer car business".

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions...


Even Tesla pessimists would probably agree with that. The question is whether they will be in any other business by then.


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