I'm pretty confident that the people who use "retard" as an insult are much less likely to kill a baby for having Down Syndrome than the people offended by the use of the word "retard".
Raise OAS eligibility to 67
Claw it back much, much sooner
Asset test it (including primary residence)
Use half the savings to boost GIS for actually low income seniors (maybe expand the eligibility)
Use the other half to reduce the deficit
Join my movement
re: frugality discourse, I made less than $70K post college, packed lunches, had roommates for 8 years in order to save lots of money. Then I bought land and built a house with savings. The anti-avocado toast boomers were 100% right. People are *completely* against tradfeoffs.
asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive.
this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important.
so: not paying that cost is telling
substack should have a button on paid articles, enabled as an option by authors, that lets a benefactor "buy it for everyone." e.g. a rich benefactor may think it to be worth $500 or some such amount to make an article behind a paywall free for everyone.
@realEstateTrent When you have a framework that includes sin, it helps in explaining to kids that somethings are wrong but justice does not always happen in the short term.
the annual social cost of cancer and auto accidents are very roughly equivalent
imagine a new cancer drug came out that reduced mortality by 90% across *every* cancer
And the AMA aggressively lobbied against it because of its potential suppressive impact on hospital visits and surgeries...
That is the unions wrt to autonomous robotaxis right now.
“I have two versions of outlook and neither of them are working” is actually a generational NASA quote now. Not quite One Small Step but every generation lives in a different world
The alleged victim in this case, Kenneth Herring, blew through a red light and slammed into a semi-trailer, hard enough to make it tilt. An off-duty officer who approached him noticed that he seemed impaired.
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