The data shows that college improves your options and your income now. Who cares what effect it had 50 years ago?

That's funny. My EV is the vehicle of choice for long trips. Fuel costs are much lower than my ICEV, and long-distance travel makes that more important, not less.

Nah.

All that's required is that EVs be cheap. A 300-mile range is sufficient. When the purchase price of a car with a 300-mile range is at or only slightly above the purchase price of a comparable ICEV, EVs sales will explode because they're cheaper to operate and maintain. All of the range anxiety and concerns about fires (which are silly, since gasoline vehicles are a lot more prone to burning) will inhibit a few people, for a little while, but pretty soon they'll all have friends and relatives who are driving EVs and happy about it, and they'll start making the switch, too.

It's all about the benjamins.

Maduro has had a part in moving thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States (killing how many?) and has been in league with drug cartels, narco-terrorists, and terrorists. He is a gangster that had been running a corrupt gangster government with a history of human rights abuses. Venezuela 2024 Human Rights Report

With the aid of US Special Operations forces, United States law enforcement officers arrested Maduro today and brought him to the United States to face charges in a court of law. Below is an extract of the indictment.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. NICOLAS MADURO MOROS . . . . (click on the Not A Robot button)

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Venezuelans across the globe celebrate US capture of Nicolás Maduro
Venezuelans worldwide celebrate as exiles react to Maduro’s capture
Joyful crowds gathered in Miami, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Madrid after Maduro capture

The question now is, "What comes next?"

They are if you tell them to search for the information.

Sure, but Claude, at least, knows that its knowledge cutoff date is January 2025. It's sometimes lazy and will tell you that current events precede its knowledge, but if you tell it to do a search, it will, and then it will accurately describe what it found. Other times it just automatically searches when it realizes you're asking about something that is too recent to be included in its training data.

It seems strange that other LLMs that have the ability to search the web don't do the same.

Captured -> Arrested.

Maduro was arrested by United States law enforcement officers. He is now on his way to the Southern District of New York to face trial.

Poverty by itself doesn't make you sad.
That's abundantly true. There are plenty of people that are poor and happy.

ENVY is what makes you sad.
Your neighbor having more wealth than you think they deserve, makes you angry.
We also have reasonably abundant historical examples of people of wealth, power, even kings driven to irrational acts over their envy about someone with more than they have.

So no, I don't think the money itself (or lack) makes a person unhappy, it's about their judgement of the people around them & their worth that fuels unhappiness, justified or not.

It was $1500 and a fun project. An old pre-computer carburetor engine is simple to work on.

"Kirsch says to stop treating reading as civic medicine. "It would be better to describe reading not as a public duty but as a private pleasure, sometimes even a vice,""
Well, I guess I'd start with telling him to stop trying to "trick" people - even kids - into doing what he wants?

It's a routine fault of progressives AND evangelical conservatives: this inherent sense of moral certainty, and the instinctive justification that "pretty much anything goes because I'm doing it to HELP you".

Reading (or more specifically, the desire to read, as there are tons of people with impairments that get in the way of literally reading a book) I'd say is symptomatic of intelligence. So what we really want are people who value intelligence, who value reason. Reading will more or less automatically follow.

I'll be honest, I don't think 'reading' alone is inherently magical. Reading the sports page, or some fantasy smut about milking male minotaurs - they may both be enjoyable, but neither is going to make someone the kind of constructive, reasoning citizen we NEED in our Republic.
Well, that any democracy needs, not just ours.

Of course, then we get back to the 'certainty'. Reasoning adults need to be able to hold in their heads a fundamental RESPECT for the other person's ideas. Even if they don't agree.

So here's the funny bit for me. Kirsch suggests that we trick kids into thinking reading is scandalous, a vice. Is that really what he wants? What if they read actually-scandalous texts (according to Kirsch's orthodoxy) like something by Charlie Kirk? The Art of the Deal? Would he be as intrinsically delighted with "people reading" then?

That makes apparently 1 person in earth that believes the BBC is "too slanted to the right" lol .
Then again, as we've seen over the past 5 years, to the new rage-addled Left Marx himself would have come off as far too right wing.

[looks at my micro compact (40-60 mpg) and 1969 power wagon with 8x12 flatbed]

Micro handles 98% of yearly motor usage while flatbed, driven less than 2000 miles a year is good for everything else.

Lucky to live in the country with space for an oversize vehicle.

A dozen decent croissants for $5.99 is hard to beat.

Which AI?

I asked Claude, and it gave me a much more reasonable figure (200g of bacteria in a 70kg person), and provided a link to the relevant research.

Or, crazy idea I know, maybe wealthy people aren't universally - or even mostly - stuck up self obsessed narcissists, and that's just your own seething envy and sense of self justification?

If I had to choose between Walmart vs a store that literally filters out the poorest at the door, I know where I'd rather work or shop.