Eric Westphal

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[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

LASIK isn’t covered by insurance. Neither is most cosmetic surgery.

Both got cheaper and better every single year for two decades.

The one corner of medicine where patients pay cash and see prices.

Funny how the “market failure” vanishes the second the market’s allowed to exist.

Friedman called this in 1980. The tape doesn’t lie.

[Noles4Life-InSC @FSUInSC]

Star Trek Wisdom -

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I was born in Canada, so when I immigrated to the USA, I took it upon myself to learn the history in some detail. So I went down to Barnes & Noble in about 1994 and picked up a copy of "A People's History of the United States."

Now, I was a 25-yr-old progressive from a socialist province, but even so, that book was whack. No deed is too cruel for the European mind, and the savages are so noble that I wanted to be one. ie: the book is historically useless. It even lacks citations. It's literally the only book I've ever half-finished and returned to the store on principle to get my money back. But some love it.

Instead, I picked up Paul Johnson's "History of the American People". It turns out it makes a big difference whether a book is a "People's History" or a "History of the People"!

Even Johnson can't contain his conservative bias once he gets to about the 1960s, but it's a great book until then! I mean, it's no "Rise and Fall", but it's a good history without a lot of "tsk, tsk".

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Someone replaced the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK with PEE-WEE HERMAN and I love it even more now 😂🔥 (not created with AI btw)

[Nina Varsavsky @ninavars]

Son feministas hasta que Bad Bunny les baila pegado.

Son socialistas hasta que descubren lo cómoda que es volar en primera clase.

Son ecologistas hasta que toca un fin de semana en yate o un vuelo a las Maldivas.

Son tolerantes hasta que se enteran de que votas a la derecha.

Son pacifistas hasta que alguien discrepa de ellos.

Son partidarios de la libertad de expresión hasta que escuchan algo que no les gusta.

Son antielitistas hasta que los invitan a un reservado VIP.

Son ciudadanos del mundo hasta que les toca tenerlos de vecino.

Son partidarios de repartir la riqueza hasta que les toca repartir la suya.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Whoopi Goldberg’s comments reveal everything wrong with identity politics.

I didn’t marry my wife because she’s white.

She didn’t marry me because I’m Black.

We got married because we share the same values, the same faith, and the same vision for raising a family.

At no point did marrying a white woman make me less Black.

At no point did marrying a Black man make my wife less white.

What it made us was a family.

The people obsessed with race can’t understand that most Americans don’t choose friends, spouses, or family based on skin color. We choose them based on character, values, and love.

The civil rights movement wasn’t about putting race at the center of everything. It was about moving beyond it.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

The difference is that under capitalism, some poor bastard would get tired of rowing, invent the steam engine, revolutionize the world, and wind up hated for being rich, so then they'd build theatres and libraries and name them for themselves.

Under communism, you just inform on your neighbor, who is assigned to row, and you are rewarded with a table on deck.

Under fascism, everybody pretends to row and the boat doesn't go anywhere.

[Sophia Rosa @SophiaRose95749]

MAGA❤️❤️

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

@tufpraise Under capitalism, one goes hungry if he doesn’t work. Under communism, one goes hungry if he doesn’t obey.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

It's wild that we let customers experience FSD coast-to-coast themselves.

No professional production, just a normal drive.

Yet to me, this is a bigger step change than AlphaGo or GPT, as there's no special machine behind it—it's something you can buy today.

[karen still says @andrews58753]

🤣

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Kevin O’Leary: Foreign powers are trying to halt U.S. progress with AI, using the Marxist playbook

If true—and O’Leary seems confident it is—this is incredibly disturbing

And it speaks volumes about the organizations they use to manipulate Americans

[Daily Gondor 📰 @DailyGondor]

Evil is stupid. Evil may be cunning, it may be deceptive, it may even be more disinclined and driven. But evil is stupid. Don’t be evil.

[Eric Westphal @bonanzaeric]

@davepl1968 I think this is awesome. I've been working with an ESP32 myself the last few weeks--amazing what you can do with them!