i'm confused why people think having kids is cutting down options. the childless don't have the option to wake up in a house with their child. they don't have the option to go to their first play. they don't get the option to pass down the olympian torch of life. all they have is
UPDATE: We’re on the plane to Buffalo!!! American Airlines was incredibly helpful and made it possible for us to get on this flight. A special thank you to @JJWatt for organizing it while we were in the air to Dallas. Big thanks as well to everyone else who offered their help.🙏
Canada’s exit tax is insane—it treats all your assets (investments, real estate, businesses) as if they were all sold and you had to pay the tax on the profits.
If you can’t leave a place, without them taking everything you own—it’s not a free country.
It's so funny the extent to which normie libs shithouse Republicans in swing states and then the media and activists just pretend Democratic Socialism is popular because of mayoral elections in the bluest munipalities in the country
It blows my mind to see physicians arguing that getting more data on a patient is harmful because it will be used stupidly, so we are better off just not getting the data, and instead should let cancer tell us when it’s arrived. Are things really this grim in medicine?
I think Obama articulated this quite clearly, taxing the rich is not about raising revenues for the government. Even if revenues were to fall, it’s still worth taxing the rich because it helps fight inequality. You can show them all the facts and figures in the world but it won’t change their mind because they hate the people who have more than them. It’s the ugly impulse at the heart of everything they do.
The fact that orbital compute is (soon) the most efficient way to build datacenters says a lot about how much excessive regulation has harmed progress on earth.
It’s more efficient to fly to outer space than to try and build on land.
Freedom is always on the frontier.
The U.S. constitution was a breakthrough in that it protected citizens from tyrannical government. What it missed, and what we should try to integrate into the next constitution (on Mars, special economic zones, etc), is restraint against unchecked growth of regulation and government spending.
I’ve been slowly collecting proposals for how that could work. Might do a post on it at some point.
Underrated life advice: Become generous with your assumptions. Assume they were tired, not rude. Overwhelmed, not careless. Preoccupied, not distant. This doesn’t mean tolerate disrespect. It means stop turning every small moment into a personal attack. Grace makes life lighter.
For @CityJournal, I wrote about a NYS bill that would hike the cost of filling prescriptions - but only for non-unionized employers & individual consumers.
If @GovKathyHochul wants her rhetoric about affordability to be taken seriously, she should not hesitate to use her veto.
A reader sent me his entire collection of finance comics from the past ~35 years
There were 100s of them in the collection all cut out by hand
I went through them all and picked out some of my favorites:
https://t.co/g8xQzBJ3PT
@dwallacewells Families with kids cycled out of these cities and young progressive coupled with first generation immigrants to drive these outcomes. The tolerance for disorder is not surprising.
🤯 Midjourney -- yes, the AI image company -- just shipped a brand new type of imaging machine. 🤯
- 100x faster than an MRI.
- 10x cheaper.
Full body scanned in 60 seconds instead of an hour in a tube. Ultrasound based, MRI-level resolution.
And it's real -- not a concept, a working machine. You step into a shallow pool of warm water, a ring of half a million sensors sends sound through your body from every angle, and ~60 seconds later you have a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No radiation, no tube, no lying still.
They're not even building it as a hospital machine -- they're building a spa. The scan is a side-effect of a place you'd want to hang out anyway.
Lastly, it is built by 9 people. NINE PEOPLE.
You can just do things.