@Toyota My 2018 Tacoma crossed 250,000 today. It’s taken us all over the eastern half of the country - fishing trips from Alabama to Wisconsin, NASCAR races from Talladega to Martinsville, camping in the mountains, and a handful of FL beach vacations. Thanks for the great truck!
@chrismwojcik Agree on all points (including probably being bad at training). I’m 8 years in and feel like my run is almost over. Can’t take being hurt and infected anymore.
The easy thing to do right now would be to embrace the consensus view.
You can claim the administration doesn't know what they are doing. You can scream about the stock market going down and fear-monger about a recession.
Or you can do the hard thing — take the time to study how tariffs have worked in the past.
The evidence is overwhelming that the mainstream understanding is flawed.
For example, tariffs are not inflationary. They create jobs and actually drive consumer prices down.
You wouldn't know that without doing the work though.
Don't take the easy path. Seek the hard path. That is where the truth is.
Most important social dynamic of the last decade: @timurkuran's Preference Falsification: when people and societies are forced to lie in public.
Next decade: David Lewis's Common Knowledge: when something we each know becomes something we all know, and all know we all know.
Daniel Penny is an American hero.
His situation has been eating away at me and I have chosen to only talk about it in private until now. But I believe it is important that more people feel free to discuss these situations, so I may as well start with myself.
The reason this situation is disturbing is because I could have been Daniel Penny. We both served in the military and deployed overseas. The military trains young men to stand up for what is right, especially when defenseless women and children are being directly threatened by a credible threat.
If my wife and children were on that subway car alone, I pray that a young man like Daniel Penny would step in and protect them.
I have paid close attention to Penny trial. The evidence is overwhelming that Daniel Penny did exactly what we should hope every young man in the country would do in that situation — he put himself in danger to protect women and children.
After putting himself in danger and gaining control of the situation, every innocent citizen was able to safely escape the situation at the next train stop. The police arrived and Jordan Neely was still alive.
But here is the insane part — the police did not administer first aid because they were scared for their own personal safety. They felt there was a risk of contracting HIV.
Imagine a scenario where a young man is willing to put himself in danger to potentially save innocent bystanders' lives, but the police deem the situation so risky when they show up that they are unwilling to put themselves in the same danger.
That is the definition of what a hero does.
If we live in a society that tries to punish young men for doing the right thing—for protecting women and children that are in danger—then we will live in a society that is overrun by criminals.
That is not the society we want to live in.
The jury is currently deliberating the fate of Daniel Penny. They just told the judge that they are deadlocked and can not reach consensus.
This means there is at least one courageous individual in that jury room that is refusing to go along with the charade. Whoever that individual is, may we hope they continue to stand strong in the face of immense pressure.
Daniel Penny acted heroically on that subway train and now his freedom depends on a fellow citizen doing the same thing in that jury room.
Hopefully we find out today there is more than one hero ready to stand up for what is right.
The great and powerful @elonmusk.
If it wasn't for him we'd be fucked. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.
For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump.
Enjoy the podcast
Some of the most extraordinary people in American life have formed a team and are asking to take on the problems that face the country, staking their reputations on the outcome
And on the other side there are some politicians
Hard one, isn't it?