David Emami

[David Emami @emamid]

@SarahAHoyt Was a bookworm by 7, because I loved reading about dinosaurs. Not saying "see what a smart kid I was", I'm saying that all kids need is something interesting to read. Doesn't have to be dumbed down either. The subject matter itself is motivation to overcome the challenge.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools just paid $95K for a lesson on the First Amendment.

That payment is part of a settlement with Gabby Stout— the high school student who painted a patriotic tribute to Charlie Kirk on a spirit rock last year.

Although Gabby had gotten permission—and although other students had been allowed to paint messages in support of causes like Black Lives Matter—school officials responded to Gabby’s message by painting over it, publicly accusing her of vandalism, interrogating her at school, and calling the police.

@ADFLegal helped Gabby sue the district late last year. Now, besides the payment, the district has issued a statement of regret for its actions and changed its policies to respect students’ free speech rights.

Schools can’t censor student speech just because they don’t like its message. ADF is thrilled to get this vindication for Gabby, who courageously lived out her own admonition to “live like Kirk.” I think Charlie would be proud.

[David Emami @emamid]

@VodkaPundit @iamisgo11 @WitchyDruss So that's the "star" that the Three Wise Men were following?

[David Emami @emamid]

@BradRTorgersen On thinking about it, it seems that their party (or strong factions in it at least) learned the wrong lesson from the "Sister Souljah moment" and have decided that it must never, ever happen again. Hence their treatment of Fetterman.

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@MsMelChen Heck, I'll settle for swapping them with Europeans who still like Europe. I'll take a Frenchman proud of the Eiffel Tower over an American who spits on his theoretical countrymen, any day.

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@BradRTorgersen I wonder how military accident rates compare with civilian equivalents. In peacetime it's basically an enormous combined airline/shipping/warehousing/construction/demolitions/chemical company.

[David Emami @emamid]

@BradRTorgersen I love my physical books but for the last decade I've mostly listened to audio books. In my defense, my aging eyes are much happier with that, and it lets me enjoy books while doing other things. Beats the hell out of listening to the same old music while driving.

[David Emami @emamid]

@MWSlover1862 @BradRTorgersen Best. Trek. Novel. Ever.

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@timstarr2001 @Andreafreedom76 Be Heinlein not Raimondo. Be Rand not Rothbard.

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@Jringo1508 One of the few times a socialist/communist has evaluated capitalism honestly.

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@mattvanswol @TheTomKnighton @iky_fwjett @MauraManning If she was good at it, she would have contributed more to the world as a bartender than in her current job -- and note, I'm not even considering the active harm she's done while in office. "Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name", after all.

[David Emami @emamid]

@ShamashAran Among other things, DJ should read some Frederick Douglass.

https://t.co/xY0mylGtOp

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@BradRTorgersen @realDrTT As a non-Mormon I see "Mormon" as more respectful because it doesn't make me instantly think of a Shatner line from Star Trek 4.

[David Emami @emamid]

@BradRTorgersen @caroljv33 Back-of-napkin tech analogy: Christians consider Mormonism an unauthorized fork of Christianity as Jews consider Christianity an unauthorized fork of Judaism. The dispute is over the supplemental features.

[David Emami @emamid]

@SandyofCthulhu @ShamashAran @NobleNegroe If Grok and I are right about the statistics, most likely a future black girlfriend or wife.

https://t.co/6NEMl0XCBS

[David Emami @emamid]

@ShamashAran "You're about to."

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@ShamashAran "with a busted wing" has much higher odds of being literal with a demon than with an SS guy.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest aren’t dumb enough to actually think Elon Musk has a trillion dollars in cash waiting to be taxed.

They just think their followers are dumb enough to think that. And they are.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.