That's why property taxes pay for schools, so rich neighborhoods have nice schools and poor ones have crappy schools. Schools in Benton Harbor, MI, haven't been painted in 20 years and some classrooms are unusable because of roof leaks. Three hours away the high school in Gross Pointe Shores has a heated swimming pool and they go on class trips to Europe.

That's logical and practical, but unfortunately this is happening in Louisiana where logical and practical are outlawed.

This is an interesting article:

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/0...

There are no microprocessors in the CCS. Rather, the processors are built from discrete 7400-series TTL chips. The machine does not have an operating system but rather runs bare-metal instructions. Both data and instruction words are 18 bits wide, with the instruction words having a 6-bit opcode and a 12-bit address. The 64 instructions contain the usual tools for moving data in and out of registers and doing basic arithmetic, although there are only commands for adding and subtracting, not for multiplication or division. The processors access 4 kilowords of redundant plated-wire memory, which is similar to magnetic core memory in that it records bits as magnetic domains, but with an iron-nickel alloy plated onto the surface of wires rather than ferrite beads.

Now watch the "fired" officers get hired the next day in another jurisdiction.

I mean that he's ignorant in the sense that he knows nothing about the wider world beyond his own social milieu, and has no interest in learning more. Also ignorant in that he does not even read the leading newspapers, so knows only what the butt-kissers tell him. (Apparently he was shocked recently when informed of the shortage of distance weapons and air defense interceptors, and screamed at Hegseth about it.) He's intelligent and cunning, but his overriding self-interest, utter amorality, lack of curiosity, and almost compulsive lying make him the most utterly incompetent president in the 250 years of the Untied States.

Where in Thailand they eat rice, in Peru it's potatoes. There are over 3,000 varieties of potato (really!) grown in the country, they originated there. They also eat rice, but it's just a side and almost always just the cheap short grain white variety.

One advantage Peru has over Thailand is that they have every climate there, from the Amazon rainforest, up to cloud forest, wet grasslands, tundra, dry grasslands, semi-desert, and down to the irrigated valleys on the coast in the Atacama Desert, the driest in the world. The terrain also kept communities relatively isolated so every area developed its own cuisine depending on what was abundant locally. Now that transportation allows mixing Peru has become a foodie 'Mecca'.

But he is senile, willfully ignorant, and surrounds himself with butt kissers who keep him ignorant.

They also are now building the world's largest windmills at a site just off their southern coast. They're so large they've had to construct a special ship just to transport and install the blades.

The supposed justification is "national security", apparently US radar systems are so deficient that "the enemy" (whoever it is today) could sneak their ships/aircraft/missiles close to the coast just by staying behind the windmills. At least that's their claim. Everyone involved knows it's pure bovine byproduct of course, including the ones making the claims.

We'll likely be moving to Peru if things get much worse. The government there is even more corrupt, but at least they're open and honest about it. Besides, it's the best food on the planet.

It's no capitalism -- it's corporatism and mercantilism. A tariff makes the market non-free.

I've been buying business grade ThinkPads for 30 years. How is Framework better?

If?

20-something poor students are literally bathed in rigging the instant they experience initial contact with post-secondary education in the US. They know, with metaphysical certitude, that rigging runs their world, and whatever goes on a polymarket is but the least of it. Only the clinically naïve somehow miss this.

That's where I stopped. NPR wine women language. These people have no problem with all manner of "ghastly" things going on, as long as it serves their virtues. I'm inclined to chalk this up to yet another moral panic among the privileged, and few others. When you look closely at the entire opioid conspiracy that went on in this country, you find an endless supply of NPR listening pant suited professional babushkas managing the clinics, pencil whipping the audits, and indulging their limitless altruism while safely ensconced in their gated suburban mcmansions.

Fuck these people and their latest crisis. Nothing going on at polymarket is a patch to the harm they do.

How? The net result: we are $1.2B poorer. Are you doing accounting for DOGE?