I too cannot read “MTG” as anything other than Magic: The Gathering

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There are only a few counties in the world that draw the smartest and most accomplished from the rest of the world. The USA is pretty high on that list. This gives the USA an unfair advantage worldwide in several ways:

US schools and businesses get to pick from the best and brightest worldwide, promoting an atmosphere of high performance STEM jobs.

US replaces lost high education and high IQ population, since there is a negative correlation between education level and reproduction.

Finally, if you think in terms of winners vs losers, which I feel MAGAs do these days, other countries lose their best and brightest, making them less competitive to the USA.

And of course don’t forget that the vast majority of Americans come from families that immigrated, and few would argue that they themselves should be sent back “to where they came from”.

No matter how you look at it, immigration is extremely advantageous to the USA if handled properly and an enviable position that many other countries wish they could be in.

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Won’t be too long until he goes to space in something similar

Airbnb has been in a race to bring the worst of the tech industry’s profit consuming corporatism (no phone number, horrid customer service, lots of rules that nobody follows, privacy nightmares) to an industry that focused on hospitality - by definition a high-touch service - and we are all worse off because of that.

I feel like we should at least consider that DJI is a mainland Chinese company and nearly all drone innovation in the past decade has originated there. They are no strangers to extreme manufacturing or advanced automated drone technology.

The name “JD Vance” is already somehow moldy

Sorry man, good luck 😅

Happy I’m not in IT anymore.

One of my first major outages was caused by the iloveyou.vbs virus that emailed itself to your contact list. It brought our exchange server to its knees in minutes and took quite a while to clean up.

Nobody really understood at the time that attachments could be dangerous.

No way this isn’t struck down. It’s got to just be a political signaling play.

This Wired article is an interesting read, well worth the time.

I wish we could see into the head of Stockton Rush a little bit more. The job of all entrepreneurs is to a large degree knowing who to listen to and who to ignore, as well as figuring out which rules you can break. Usually the lives of passengers and yourself is not on the line, though and that’s why so many of the highly competent engineers left his team.

A lot of his decision making seemed money driven. He got quotations for testing services but declined because of the cost. Salvaging the old titanium rings from the old busted hull to use on the new hull was a risky choice but new ones were surely very expensive. Perhaps a much larger budget would have led to a more committed team of experts and the resources to test things to a higher degree of confidence.

As this article points out, OceanGate just never came up with a design that was good enough for the job at hand.

But what can you say. The ocean floor is littered with countless dreams.

These old stodgy dudes have two things going for them that young guys don’t (yet) have - a lifetime of building a support network of donors and mastery at playing “the game”.

They should retire at 60 and pass along their donors and skills to a few proteges, but recently they cling until the very last breath.

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Counterargument: I’d hire you to leafblow 2.5 hrs more area

died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer.

It seems like government investment in education is one of the best possible ways to allocate funds, even if not every person is directly impacted by being offered more schooing or degrees.

Think about it. More educated people around you is always better than fewer educated people.

This is dumb. Americans are being ripped off by car prices and manufacturers who aren’t investing in this cheaper tech.

The Chinese cars are cheap because they’re going back to basics. Compared to any US DOT approved vehicle, they’re slow, they’re light, they don’t have any bells and whistles. Four wheels, a motor, some simple electronics, and a battery.

Ultimately, that’s all you need to get from one place to the next if you don’t need highway speeds or crash ratings…

Will high tariffs cause local manufacturers to develop their own version of cheap electric vehicles? Doubtful.

Got to hand it to this guy. He pulled billions of dollars out of a hat. And just when things were starting to look pretty bad.

Now he can basically afford to pay his way out of any penalty. Must be nice to be able to do that.

All home delivery services can be suspended. Like the Amazon guy, the UPS guy, the mailman, the pizza guy, nobody is coming to your door anymore pretty soon. It’s only takes a few quacks for this kind of thing.