Jay Austin

Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@Math_files Day 1 of my high school calculus included the phrase “the limit of n to infinity” which is just a pointless math teacher flex that served only to confuse students. Proofs belongs in an entirely different class. Probably just for math majors.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@Math_files Through trigonometry, math teaching revolves around exercises, which are a perfectly good way to learn something. You do exercises over and over. After a while, you begin to understand.

With calculus, for some reason, instruction begins with proofs. Why? No idea. It’s terrible.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@Math_files I learned calc as much through comp sci as through math class. Our teacher had us approximate the area under a curve with rectangles.

First the “curve” was y = x and it was four rectangles (x = 0 to 1). In the end it was y = x^2 and 10,000 rectangles. Voila! Integral calculus.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.

When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.

However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.

Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."

Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.

For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.

Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Imagine if, in the aftermath of 9/11, someone told you within 25 years someone like this would be getting elected in NYC — would you have believed it?

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@sophiehazel168 @RandPaul There were always absentee ballots, done by mail, for people who could not vote in-person, and on an opt-in basis. That was always fine. The problem is what Senator Paul said, i.e., 100k ballots sent out, without anyone even asking for them. It’s a recipe for problems.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Cheating in elections has always been in the absentee ballot. In the 1950s, a member of FDR's cabinet got caught stuffing 500 absentee ballots in Kentucky. That was the only way to cheat because in-person voting is hard to rig. Now we mail ballots to everyone unsolicited, nobody watches them get signed, and we make it legal to collect 10,000 at once. We built the vulnerability ourselves.

The SAVE America Act is the right fight at the federal level, but I refuse to give up at the state level either.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@SenFettermanPA Also this
https://t.co/bdPriQcM0T

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@SenFettermanPA @willchamberlain Left-wing politics turned healthy self-criticism into pathological self-loathing, which is now in the cultural suicide stage. This happened gradually in my lifetime. It was not an accident either. https://t.co/q6Z9Xi7S2w

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

This is insane.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced he was indefinitely banned from editing the site after he attempted to fight against rampant anti-Israel bias on the platform.

The information war is real. Big Tech and online encyclopedias are rewriting history and silencing anyone who defends Israel. Don't rely on biased platforms for the truth.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@Baurakale7 @antikommunistic “Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@terrynewman What’s more important:
Being right or succeeding?

I will give an example:
If you let them, your company’s attorneys and accountants will make a hammer cost $250. But it will be done right. It will be procured in accordance with ALL existing laws and agreements.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@samhaselby In my lifetime, the parties switched: The GOP became the slobs and the Dems became the snobs.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@charlesmurray It’s been suggested that Michael Jordan’s passion was baseball. Basketball was his gift and calling. He couldn’t hit major league curveballs.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@r0ck3t23 People always think of laying off the bureaucrats. But no one thinks of repealing the regulations that the bureaucrats are there to comply with to keep everyone out of court: NEPA, CEQA, ESA, CAA, CWA, NLRA, EEOC. Start by rolling those back. Otherwise you’re not serious.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@EchoesofWarYT People forget that the rural areas, the areas that are staunchly conservative now, in the depression, those were areas where communists had a lot of traction. FDR grasped that some social programs had to be tried, to compete with the communists and preserve basic Americanism.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@EchoesofWarYT I’m conservative. But I’m disagreeable enough to push back on right wing criticism of FDR. His critics say he was economically inconsistent. What he actually was was someone who didn’t believe one specific academic economist. He was for trying things. The American people were too

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@Milajoy Just start with all the acronyms: NEPA, ESA, CAA, CWA, EEOC, NLRA, OSHA. That would be a great start.

[Jay Austin @JAustin1776]

@jaynitx I thought about the five biggest problems at my company. I don’t think any of them are solvable in one day or so or by a single person. But it’s still a nifty idea/approach. Couldn’t be worse than what we’ve been trying.