When I was a kid and beginning to drive, my dad would tell me that if I had the choice between driving on a road or bridge with or without trucks, that I should pick the one with trucks because the people driving the trucks are professionals. They do it for a living for decades so they should be the better and more predictable drivers. This is clearly no longer the case today, thanks to yet another disastrous policy from blue cities and states. Apparently I grew up in a different era. And fyi I'm not that old.

In my 20s I had the same roommate for a ~4 year period. He is a muslim who was born and raised in America. I knew him because we grew up in the same town and went to the same high school. Some things that happened: — his parents once came over for dinner. he asked me to leave the apartment because he didn't want me there during their dinner. — he got married to another muslim girl. literally zero white people were invited to their wedding. it was muslims only despite them both being born and raised in america. — we used to watch game of thrones... in the show there was a group of people who followed the "lord of light". They literally killed people who didn't believe in the lord of light because he was the one true god. He voluntarily told me he believed the "lord of light" was a metaphor for islam. — he would speak about jewish people as if they were sub human — after the Charlie Hebdo killing in France in 2015 (for a cartoon depicting Muhammad)... he came home and went on a rant about how the people who died "had it coming to them" because what they did was so offensive — he said white people who keep dogs in their house are dirty

The passing of Scott Adams sparked some memories for me — summer weekends at the house I grew up in during high school and college. I'd wake up, step in the backyard, self-hit a few wiffle balls, then make breakfast and read through the comics, which included Dilbert. My dad would usually read what he wanted to from the local paper and then leave it for me at the kitchen table. I always appreciated Adams' humor and digs at corporate america and middle management. RIP Scott Adams

One of the most positive developments in American history was @jack Jack Dorsey losing control of the world's most popular social media platform.

My daughter is getting more interested in coloring and drawing. The other day we were drawing on paper, and I drew a rocket ship. The next day we came back to the paper, she looked at the rocket ship and said to me "I drew a rocket ship!" That's when I knew she had what it takes to become the president of Harvard.

Someone should create an AI experience that shows: — Politicians making statements that were actually made by different politicians on the other end of the political spectrum... for example Trump saying something that Kamala actually said — The AI experience would would also include statements that actually were made by the politician shown saying it — It would be structured in a quiz format — At the start of the quiz, you say which politician you support more — At the end of each video statement, you have to say whether you agree or disagree with the statement/policy — Higher scores if you agree with the statements that were actually made by the candidate you claim to support — Lower score if say you agree with a statement which was actually made by the politician that you claim to be against, or disagree with a statement made by the politician you claim to support — The statements should pertain to major tangible policy items... can't be feel-good euphemisms... and can't be one-off small topics that someone could disagree with but still be a supporter of that politician

This feels like an appropriate first post to nostr. — A sitting Supreme Court justice doesn't understand the First Amendment. She said: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” — The Democratic VP candidate said: "There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation" — Facebook/Meta stated that the Biden Admin "repeatedly pressured our teams for months" to censor content. The First Amendment is clearly under direct attack. It doesn't matter if these people are purely ignorant of the 1A and why it exists, or if they are purposefully undermining the 1A. Either way, the 1A is under direct attack. These should be the biggest stories in America right now.