I have been informed that TreasuryDirect no longer requires inputting the password using your mouse
you can now enter it by banging your head against the screen in Morse code
@carolinebikes My 4yo learned that at 65 you’re a senior so now he’s going around asking adults their age and then announcing how many years they have left before they’re old
Was recently playing around on the guitar when I stumbled upon this catchy riff that I knew but couldn’t quite place. Was really feeling it, slowly figured out which chord came next until it hit me.
It was Raffi.
I am not ashamed.
The answers to all of these questions, happily provided by people old enough to remember them, are a good demonstration that the fairly recent past was actually radically worse than the present.
@GergelyOrosz And yet the reality is so crazy that people think you must be wrong when you explain it to them! It’s like the IRS announced that for startups, gravity now goes up, not down. Sorry not sorry!
@GergelyOrosz I’m a bootstrapped founder who learned about this [absolute own-goal insanity] from an earlier thread of yours. I think part of the reason it’s missed is that anyone who isn’t an investor, finance nerd or business owner strangle themselves when they hear the word ‘amortization’.
3/3 Battling that combination of ideologies is the work of more than a committee or a single university. It is not going to be changed by hiring or firing a single person, or posting on X, or yelling at people who don’t post as you wish when you wish, as though posting is the summation of one’s moral character. This is the task of educating a generation, and also a vast unlearning. Part of the problem is a simple herd mentality – people screaming slogans whose meaning and implication they know nothing of, or not wishing to be disliked by taking an unpopular position. Some of it is the desire to achieve social status by being the sole or greatest victim. Some of it is simple, old fashioned Jew hatred, that ugly arrow in the quiver of dark hearts for millenia.
In this generation, outside of Israel, we are called to be Maccabees of a different order. We do not fight the actual battle but we search for the cruse of oil left behind. Remember the oil was to last one night, but lasted eight - which means there were seven nights of miracle. But of course the first night was the greatest miracle — because the motivation to light the initial candle, to ensure the continuity and vitality of tradition in each generation, that is the supreme miracle. Dispute but also create. Build the institutions you value, don’t merely attack those you denigrate. We are at a moment when the toxicity of intellectual slovenliness has been laid bare for all to see. Time to kindle the first candle. Create that miracle for us and all Israel — Blessing to you and Hag Urim Sameach.
In a better world, on October 8, the UN Secretary General, the head of the International Red Cross and other luminaries would have stationed themselves on the Egyptian border with Gaza demanding the full, immediate and unconditional release of all the kidnapped hostages, insisting that Israel owes absolutely nothing to Hamas for the release of children, mothers, the elderly, and civilians because there is no world in which such acts are OK. Israel is forced to negotiate with the twisted leaders of Hamas for our children only because so many people in official and non official positions of power failed to do their job and normalized the idea that kidnapping children from their beds and keeping them as bargaining chips is somehow a legitimate act that leads to negotiations rather than to stringent condemnation and global ostracism.
Hamas: “we will repeat the October 7 massacre time and again, 1M times if we need to, until we end the occupation.“
Journalist: “occupation of Gaza?”
Hamas: “no, all of Israel.”