Joe Butson

#lean + #product; #ai; retail; knows business analysis; banks + capital markets; fintech and payments.

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

“The best dividends on the labor invested have been invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power”
Orville and Wilbur Wright
March 12, 1906

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

Sovereignty association? Post modern state?

[Nolan @countbtc]

No referendum needed for Canadian Confederation to end. We’re just going to see provinces push their sovereignty to the limits of self-interest. The only Federal force left is the shared banks and currency, and that will come under attack during global realignment around us

[Daniel,Monsieur Lafleur to u Baron of Cadillac @lafleurmtl]

Montréal

[Citoyen @C_Classiques]

Direct talks between Quebec and US States is EXACTLY what I voted for.
Time to build.

[Michael Silver @MikeSilver]

YOU LIKE THAT?

[Ian Holloway @LawProfHolloway]

@CTVDory @DavidGrebstad @wilder_drew @CTVdavidspence @Danielwarra8l8 @CraigBaird This is wonderful, Dory! Which regiment did he serve in?

[Canadiens Montréal @CanadiensMTL]

L'ovation debout de quatre minutes la plus méritée de l'histoire

The most well-deserved four-minute standing ovation

#GoHabsGo | @CP0031

[Haymoose @haymoose]

Filet and a Godfather.
Cheers, #MinionsHappyHour

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

@MrsDrBee No doubt wise beyond his years, having that war time experience that changed him, as you mentioned.

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

Hero

[Shelley Crowley🇨🇦 @MrsDrBee]

My brave father, who returned from the Second World War quite a different man from the youth who stood willingly for King and country.

#LestWeForget

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

@terrynewman God bless her, all of you.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.

The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.

MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."

HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."

MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."

HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."

MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."

HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."

MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"

HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."

MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."

HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."

MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."

ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."

MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."

CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.

And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.

Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.

A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.

If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."

[The Original Burnsie @burnsieoriginal]

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

At West Point, George Custer and Thomas Rosser were close friends. Custer was the class clown from Ohio who racked up demerits. Rosser was a big, tough Texan everyone liked. They pulled pranks together and spent their free time together.

In May 1861, just weeks before graduation, Rosser resigned and went south to join the Confederacy. Custer graduated last in his class and went straight into the Union army.

Over the next three years both men rose fast. By 1864, at just 24 and 28, both were cavalry generals.

And in October 1864, they found themselves facing each other in the Shenandoah Valley.

Rosser had been sent to stop Union cavalry from burning the valley. He'd been calling himself the "Savior of the Valley" and was hounding Custer's rear guard every day.

On October 9th at Tom's Brook, the two old friends lined up across from each other.

Before the fight started, Custer spotted Rosser through his field glasses. He rode out alone in front of his men, swept off his hat, and bowed to his old classmate.

Then he charged.

Rosser's line collapsed. His men fled so fast and so far that Union troops nicknamed it the "Woodstock Races." The chase went on for roughly 20 miles.

Custer's men captured Rosser's headquarters wagon, including his personal baggage and his dress uniform.

So Custer put it on.

He wore Rosser's Confederate coat around camp, then sent his friend a note across the lines. He thanked him for the gift and asked if Rosser could have his tailor make the coattails a little shorter next time.

The war ended six months later, and the friendship survived it.

In 1873, Rosser was chief engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, surveying a route through the Yellowstone country. The cavalry escort assigned to protect his crews was the 7th Cavalry, led by Custer. The two old friends spent that summer together on the plains, swapping stories around the campfire.

Three years later, Custer was killed at the Little Bighorn.

As the newspapers started picking apart his decisions, one of the loudest voices defending him was the former Confederate general he'd once humiliated at Tom's Brook.

Thomas Rosser stood up for his friend until the end.

[Brian Baldinger @BaldyNFL]

to my ❤️SF....where am I??

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

@MrsDrBee They must be reverse engineering incompetent governance.

[The Original Burnsie @burnsieoriginal]

Unlocked the Wifi! 💥

[Joe Butson @JoeButson]

lol, of course it wasn’t you I was directing my response to.
It has been studied for so long and so widely just how bad people are at probability. I communicate daily with my family in Canada and, just like everyone else, they interpret events that fit how their “priors.” Canadians, in general, badly comprehend the US. What will continue is their reflexive bias on being morally superior and smug, whilst the decline continues, albeit interrupted by the decency of their fellow citizens at home and partners in North America.