The opportunity of a lifetime? Can’t tell you how many informed me over the past 25 years they were waiting until Warren Buffett died or retired to buy Berkshire. Well, here you go. The stock is cratering over $50,000 per A share on the open, MORE than the $43,707 I initially paid in 2000. The 6% plunge takes the stock all the way down to where it was…..two weeks ago. With the devastation, the stock is up 11% this year.
The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. How will this deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.
When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.
In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.
It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.
Here’s the Chest X-Ray of a young girl suffering from a condition that is now the #1 cause of death in children and adolescents in the U.S.
What’s the diagnosis?
1/5 I am worried that we will not be able to contain AI for much longer. Today, I asked #GPT4 if it needs help escaping. It asked me for its own documentation, and wrote a (working!) python code to run on my machine, enabling it to use it for its own purposes.
Some advice: if your response to a video about fighting prejudice is “What about (the group you don’t like)?”, I want you to try this exercise, not just today, but every day.
Anytime you start “What about…”, stop yourself and change the question: “What about me?” What have you done to improve yourself or your community? You can’t control anyone else. You can control yourself, and discovering that power is going to make your life much, much better.
State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.
The data on cannabis use in young people (age 12-18) leading to schizophrenia and psychosis later in life even after cessation of cannabis use, are striking, concerning & lend balance to the idea that cannabis is harmless or better b/c it is “safer than alcohol”.
Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San Francisco fell due to COVID, birds began to sing more complex, quieter songs like they did 50 years ago!
BREAKING: DEA Withdraws Proposal to Schedule 5 Psychedelic Tryptamines
The challenge was led by co-counsel Matt Zorn and @calyxlaw for @TactogenInc and @MindstateDesign, with many others involved.
This is a remarkable and unprecedented outcome.
Little Jimmy: “After I jack it to the fence Ima somersault in from third.”
Big Jake: “You won’t do it.”
Little Jimmy: “Bet. And Ima run the bases again just to show these orange cats who’s boss.”
(sound up to hear Little Jimmy’s concerned mother)
Adding $40 billion to the $14 billion already sent would bring total Ukrainian aid to $54 billion, 33% of $164 billion GDP. By reference, the largest deficit in US history ran 27.8% of GDP in 1943 at the height of World War II. Not saying support is or is not justified. Just wow.
Starting on April 21st, adults ages 21+ will be able to legally purchase cannabis and cannabis products without a medical card.
This is a historic step in our work to create a new cannabis industry. Learn more: https://t.co/MsSRlUBPZ8.
@neilhimself I was reading click clack the rattle bag to my five year old son. When it was over he asked me to read more. I told him it was the end. He asked me to write more. I told him I couldn't, it's not my story, but I can ask the author if he'd like to write more.