There is a video going around in relation to New Jersey drone, about how there drone has mysterious battery issues and won't fly but a few feet off ground. DJI drones have a feature called geofencing. It uses GPS from phone/drone and then based on that will keep/limit your drone from taking off. It is to prevent people from flying near airports or other restricted area. These restricted areas can be updated. It has been a feature for about 10 years, so not new. So it is nothing mysterious. The US government has probably encouraged DJI to update the geofencing for the NJ area.

#3dprinting Christmas presents...with new Q1 will be colorful... The one in hand is test print....

Just got a Qidi Q1 Pro #3dprinter. It is my 2nd printer. First was an Ender3 s2 So a big upgrade...great out of the box prints. #3dprinting #DIY #maker

100k. Wow

Really like this podcast. Here is a good short video on how foreign policy and domestic policy are intertwined

"Good ideas do not require force" Not original with me, just cannot remember who 🤔

A scientist that uses consensus as part of their argument, is more than likely trying to sell you something fake.

So Francis Collins former head of NIH admits they were wrong about Covid risk response and thought nothing of the risks those mandates would have. This is the guy used the power of the government to ridicule, censor, cause to lose job of anyone who disagreed with him and Fauci. Such as Jay Bhattacharya and those of the Great Barrington Declaration

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An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

"If all this seems counterintuitive, it’s because we are taught that governments only intervene in their economies for the good of the general public, whereas in truth governments often intervene on behalf of special interests, or for the sake of lining their own coffers." ~ George Selgin

"Bank-provided down payment, no closing-cost mortgage advances efforts to broaden access to homeownership and adds to its existing $15 billion Community Homeownership Commitment" Isn't this practice...that is bank provided down-payment, etc what led to 2008 crisis? If a bank wants to do this fine, provided the State does not bail out the bank or those getting the loan

Bank of America

Bank of America Introduces Community Affordable Loan Solution™ to Expand Homeownership Opportunities in Black/African American and Hispanic-Latino Communities

Bank of America today announced a new zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgage solution for first-time homebuyers, which will be available in ...

The below is from Liam McCollum on twitter: "Libertarianism should not be construed as a “do what thou wilt” philosophy. It should be a “you shall not aggress upon another” philosophy. It is not a philosophy of tolerance toward all non-violent behavior. Rather, it is a philosophy of intolerance toward unjust violence. To the extent things should not be tolerated, libertarianism says that only those things that are mutually intolerable and unjustly violent can properly be met with violence. Every other intolerable thing should be resisted by other means. Neither should it be construed as a philosophy opposed to all authority. It is opposed to all illegitimate authority achieved through aggression. Therefore, it is entirely consistent for a libertarian to submit to, seek, or respect authority, etc., as long as it is natural. Libertarianism is not an egalitarian philosophy that opposes all social values, all structures, all hierarchies, all authority, or all religions. Properly understood, it is a legal theory that seeks to abolish aggression from society." Original post can be found here: https://nitter.net/MLiamMcCollum/status/1739801866081558686#m

Good. When you start working in your credentialed field, you quickly learn, credentials do not mean much.

How the college degree lost its value: Nearly half of US companies plan to ax bachelor's degree requirements - after Walmart, Accenture and IBM led the charge | Daily Mail Online

Nearly half of US companies intend to eliminate bachelor degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed.

Well it good to see the modern smart people finally catch up to what we knew 80+ years ago. https://image.nostr.build/4d7f355638b5d08f6c9429f048e2d4e7ff867758ae01f1920f5637d052d55fbe.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1889&blurhash=%5DSEyMYIVE1ITIU00xuxuxvxut8WUadagj%5B%7EqM%7BRjRPM%7B00%25M%252xuxu%3FbRjR%25RjV%40M%7BWCj%5Dk9j%40IBoeoff8oMxuWBaebHay&x=9514ae3709ee3b56bd0ec4896f45a7ccec1aa7e7b1df0fd7cbe030ffcb73c061

Merry Christmas

Yup...expertise needs to be reclaimed. https://image.nostr.build/31b2dd5b87b95fbea2db33d11bf7788b1895c233dd5500880b1da2e239ffedfd.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1018x1920&blurhash=%5D18%7C-LXL00DO00%3F%5EoKn2R%25Ej%23*x%40l8%251%24yJR-%3A%5E%24ouEg-UNGENn%2Cwc%3Fb.7xToGOr00.8%3FvVt%3FH%3FvadnhR%25NG%3FHx%5BXMngt7&x=1a3caaab9ce9438e4f8cb0754abcdcd0c985e09557f6b6ae470c1d3a602154a8

"Preserving democracy is more important than whatever voters may want." ~Dave Smith (making fun of Democrats in light of a Colorado Supreme Court removing Trump from primary ballot and not allowing anyone to primary against Biden)

"One reason that propaganda often works better on the educated than on the uneducated is that educated people read more, so they receive more propaganda. Another is that they have jobs in management, media, and academia and therefore work in some capacity as agents of the propaganda system—and they believe what the system expects them to believe. By and large, they’re part of the privileged elite, and share the interests and perceptions of those in power." – Noam Chomsky, Propaganda, American-style

There are too many specialists, we need more generalists.

The economy is not a machine to be commanded.