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Nice whataboutism there.

Paul Graham: The most extreme of the things you can't say would be very shocking to most readers. If you doubt that, imagine what people in 1830 would think of our default educated east coast beliefs about, say, premarital sex, homosexuality, or the literal truth of the Bible. We would seem depraved...

Soloist wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:00 pmThe news article suggested that voices were telling him to do it, so it was either mental health or something else

More likely drugs.

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:51 am Unfortunately, that's the best you can do for someone in that situation.

I've hit a point where I don't think enabling an addiction is doing good at all. That's why I like working with places that have rather strict rules, so I know the help will actually be helping.

Arkansas’s was something like 17%… considered way too high back then. Colorado is usually the lowest and it’s over 20% now.

(DC of course is a playground for the wealthy.)

When I went back to visit last summer, it did strike me how much fatter Texans are than Washingtonians. It is noticeable when you are out in public. At least it was in Waco. Fun fact: people in Arkansas or Alabama (can't remember which) used to be the most obese in the nation in the 1990s. But that...

Yeah, I was only talking about actual convicts. Not every homeless person is a criminal. The troublesome ones usually are: assaults, sexual assaults, drug dealing and possession (those are still felonies). Not to mention aggravated trespassing.

Unfortunately, what should be infrastructure spending like the chips act mostly is getting diverted to boondoggles. Everyone has their snout in the trough, and nobody is accountable to actually deliver results.

It’s hard to imagine a future where self governing cars have carte Blanche to just mow people over and get away with it. If they do, perhaps we could carry car-disabling firearms to fire upon any autonomous vehicles before they kill us. I predict the opposite. NHTSA won't allow any autonomous vehic...

Speaking of fitness for president. This is from today. At least neither Biden nor Trump have actual worms eating their brains. You just can't make this stuff up can you? And if RFK Jr. was more than just a egotistical vanity candidate, he would actually be the 2nd oldest president ever elected (aft...