John A

[John A @JDArseVA]

@uvaclubbaseball What time do games start tomorrow?

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I’m calling on these donors to request refunds for the Jay Jones race:

🔹 Elizabeth Simons, Board Chair, Heising-Simons Foundation —$750,000 (California)
🔹 Vinton Cerf, Google VP @vgcerf — $52,500
🔹 @DemocraticAGs — $1,100,000
🔹 Government That Works PAC — $200,000
🔹 Green Advocacy Project — $150,000
🔹 @SEIU COPE — $100,000
🔹 Tom McInerney, President, Genworth Financial — $50,000
🔹 Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund — $200,000
🔹 UFCW Local 400 ABC PAC — $100,000
🔹 Freedom Virginia — $100,000

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

https://t.co/RebYBDEPE9

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

This schedule release from the Tennessee Titans was LEGENDARY 😂💀

[PiQ @PiQSuite]

👍 The most patriotic thing you can do for your country is your homework.

Dying is easy.
Math is hard.

Give this a watch, it’s funny because it’s true.

[AJ Spurr @SpurrFM]

The Rose Bowl: Our game is rooted in tradition, prestige, and history.

Pop-Tart Bowl: Watch this pastry take its clothes off. It yearns to be consumed.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

So, after a bit of discussion of the CAFE standards, and the chicken tax, and whatnot, we come around to the real issue...

Trying to fix problems with policy. Specifically, a lot of folks in the comments arguing about whether it's a good idea or not.

Statists, like Stancil, want to use the power of government to solve everything they see as a problem, while individualists see state power as the source of problems, not the solution.

Clearly, in the case of the big trucks Stancil is complaining about, we're dealing with a second-order consequence of intersecting statist policies.

But the real question here, is "why does Stancil not see that?"

Well, the question carries its own answer. The Stancils of this world are defined by their inability to see that. They are, in the words of William Gibson, "he who knoweth not the name".

If statists could understand how policies create unintended high-order consequences, they would not be statists. Therefore the statists, as a group, are composed of people who don't get that.

The core delusion here is that statists believe that problems exist because of a lack of the political will to solve them.

They seriously think that, for every political problem, there is a simple policy action that will make it go away forever, a big red FIXIT button we could push. And they think that these buttons have gone unpushed because people don't care, or actively don't want the problem solved.

Some people are drugged-out, schizophrenic hobos? Housing subsidies. Medical care is labor-intensive and scarce? Nationalize all the hospitals. We don't like big trucks? Ban them.

Blah blah blah.

Every software engineer ever has dealt with this sort of person in a different, non-political, context. People who think that the computer has a little person in it, fully sentient, who just needs to have your wants explained to him. Easy, right?

Just pass a law. Just ban guns, or cannabis. Just teach the bible in schools. Just open the borders and let everyone in. It'll be fine.

The rest of us, however, understand that problems exist because the world is complicated. We don't know why to fix a problem, until the moment we figure it out, and then we cease to think of it as a problem. That's why no one dies of scurvy anymore. It's not because we banned scurvy, or created the Department of Scurvy prevention.

It's because we figured out what ascorbic acid is.

And suddenly, scurvy vanished from our universe of problems.

Politicians don't fix problems. Engineers, and to a lesser extent scientists, do. What politicians do is create thousands upon thousands of pages of untested software code for society, with all sorts of bugs in it.

Ask Will Stancil how to improve pedestrian safety, and scream on Twitter about how much he hates white people their trucks.

Ask a politician, and he'll create a bill banning trucks, stick on a rider that sends 50 billion dollars each to Israel and Ukraine, then another one specifying that large-sized condoms are banned in the continental United States.

Ask an engineer, and he'll stick cheap solid-state cameras on the outside of the truck, maybe write some software, make blind spots obsolete, and then USDOT will bury his design forever because some law written in 1947 says you have to use mirrors.

The real problem with human societies, that technology has yet to solve, is that some people simply aren't born with the necessary IQ score to understand emergent properties, high order consequences, feedback loops, statistics, concepts like "average" and "per capita", and so on.

They have no idea how to deal with or even think about, complex systems, and they vote.

Some of them even run for office in Minnesota.

[Dylan LeClair @DylanLeClair]

Mic drop 🎤 #Bitcoin

[TremendaCarucha @TremendaCarucha]

To me, this is @JMilei's best speech so far, every sentence is a memorable quote!

I cut and translated it so the international audience can enjoy our Philosopher-President too 🇦🇷

[National Review @NRO]

David French is wrong to portray Ron DeSantis as a threat to the conservative movement. | @baseballcrank

https://t.co/JFglRLXU1t

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Dave Barry Year in Review: 2022 was the opposite of good. But it had some positives https://t.co/TZJK61raON

[NASA @NASA]

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

How did the Fed fall behind the curve last year?

We interviewed current and former Fed officials and outside analysts and came up with four mistakes.

Each compounded on the others because they were wrong in the same direction.

A thread:

1/ https://t.co/LrevORBGr8

[Russell A. Carleton @pizzacutter4]

Would you be willing to help me out? I'm taking an anonymous survey of baseball fans on the best MLB game you've seen _from a gameplay perspective_.

I'm mostly interested in the "Why?" Use the form below.

RT and cross-posting appreciated

https://t.co/PBHQmwtYiK

[nunchuk_io @nunchuk_io]

Yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sent us a Mareva Injunction, ordering us to freeze and disclose information about the assets involved in the #FreedomConvoy2022 movement.

Here is our official response.

[This Day In Sports Clips @TDISportsClips]

February 12, 2000: Dunk contest. Vince Carter.

#ItsOver

[Ryan D Leaf @RyanDLeaf]

@ianlarkin @Brady_Quinn @M_Cassel16 Can confirm, I texted Brady Quinn, who had texted Matt Cassel who had texted Tom Brady and Brady, not Tom Brady, but Quinn, hasn’t texted me back, though I just texted him like 5 mins ago, so I probably should give him more time.

[Lis Smith @Lis_Smith]

.@bungarsargon is spot on in her critique of the media’s response to #VAGov results. There should be a lot more reflection on cable news and a lot less hot air

[John A @JDArseVA]

@DavidOAtkins @Noahpinion In open primary states, vote for the other leading candidate in the Republican primary, likely
DeSantis imo. If not willing to do that, I may be reading the concern too literally.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Useful: "Vaccines for 5-11 year olds: FDA meeting cliff notes" https://t.co/GKL6oNC5mQ