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[Zippy @Zippy751388]

We have raised three independent, amazing, intelligent, highly-motivated, super-capable, young adults.

Our strategy can easily replicate--we have helped other parents do the same.

This thread-of-threads will have some of my advice links.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

“Photo ID for groceries but not to vote” is gonna hammer us Dems.

Dammit can we stop cutting off our own feet PLEASE

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

this is fine, of course, but it also should be a teaching moment for the Left

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@dilanesper “Finely coiffed?”

“Frighteningly well-dressed?”

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@dilanesper How accurate are estimates of trans girl participation?

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@MachinePix Where’s the middle piece of lettuce? lol.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@tom_swiss @AliceFromQueens Boxer/lab my ass.

Shelters deliberately mischaracterize dogs as non-pits to help adoption.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@xwanyex Also THERE ARE OTHER DOG BREEDS.

You want a four legged friend! Have one of the other gazillion breeds NOT optimized for killing.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

This solution has two benefits.

First it helps the US produce smart math-trained kids.

Second it produces an annual tranche of pissed-off mostly-white parents whose kid missed the cutoff, thereby providing political support for tracking among the progs (who hate those folks.)

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

Tracking is great but the main issue is that it is not exclusive ENOUGH. That is what allows connected parents to create inequality.

To equalize things, we should blind test annually and relegate more kids!!!

[Spewbaca @spewbaca]

@ycinnewyork Tracking is very important to identify talent and get them the quality education to advance.

However, in today's climate, if that's implemented, it will undoubtedly be weaponized to become yet another discriminatory political tool.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

The ideal option is to have firm annual entry screens based on demonstrated knowledge.

If you want to sit for the Algebra 1 final to try to test into fast-track Honors Alg2, it shouldn’t matter what your teacher/parent thinks.

Get 90%, get in. Get 89%, drop down a level.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@KennyEvitt @NathanpmYoung @xwanyex Because those things have immense BENEFITS to counter the risk, without comparable replacements.

A car allows you to travel
A gun allows you to hunt and defend yourself

Etc

The benefits of a pit approach zero.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This is one of the most mind-blowing things you’ll EVER see.

(And I swear to G-D if this post only gets a few thousand views on X, then X is simply not fit for purpose for anything. Because this is something everyone should see and be blown away by)

You’re watching a laser beam move in real time… at 2 billion frames per second.

Light only travels about 15 cm (6 inches) in each frame. That’s why you can actually see the beam crawl across the room, bounce off the mirrors, and come back.

Now watch carefully when the camera position changes…
The light going away from the camera suddenly looks slow.
The light coming toward the camera looks almost instant.
It looks like the speed of light is changing.

It’s not.

You’re seeing the finite speed of light itself. The camera is literally recording the PAST at different moments depending on how far the light has to travel to reach the sensor.

This isn’t CGI.
This isn’t a simulation.

This is a homemade camera filming actual photons.

Full credit, and huge respect, to @Alpha__Phoenix Alpha Phoenix Channel

[Stefan. @paradeevic]

A BBC interviewer asked a Nobel physicist the simplest question in the world: why do two magnets push each other apart. He refused to answer it. What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed.

The man is Richard Feynman, at home in 1983, no blackboard, no notes, sitting in an armchair.

He does not dodge because he cannot answer. He dodges because he wants you to see what the question is actually asking. So he takes an ordinary sentence, that a woman slipped on the ice and broke her hip, and starts asking why, and every answer opens another why, until the ground gives way.

Then he turns it around on the interviewer with a question about ice that sounds trivial and is not.

The point he arrives at is the uncomfortable one. Every explanation is only a translation into something you already accept without explanation. Magnets have no such translation. There is nothing more familiar than magnetism to reduce magnetism to, which is why every answer you were given at school was a picture, not a reason.

It matters more now than it did in 1983. Any tool will hand you a fluent answer in a second. Knowing which questions actually have a bottom is the part that is still yours.

One question. Seven minutes. It is in the video.

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

It would be helpful if we had some intermediate immigration statuses to combat this. Like:
-sure you get amnesty but no remittances, no family preference for immigration, you have to give DNA and fingerprints to law enforcement, and we can instantly deport you if you’re convicted

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Extraordinary moment: all 49,000 appear to be young and male. A sign that the vast movement of migrants towards the comfort democracies is just starting and will change the world in the coming years

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

It’s a zit on a nipple. In close-up

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

If you were asked what planet this is, what would you say? Olympus Mons on Mars? The red soil and lack of vegetation would certainly give the impression it's not of this world.

However, it's not on Mars. It's actually in a place you wouldn't expect it to be.

1/3

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

@dilanesper @Cobbsthecobbler I think this is more different than not, because the other things were SOCIAL acceptance and this is not.

“We should treat trans women as women in most social contexts, unless there’s a real reason for sex separation” would be a different ball of wax.

[derealfella💫 @sabirim_]

Imagine being so unbothered that someone builds a whole family home in your ear. 😂

Nature is absurdly creative

[Zippy @Zippy751388]

This. So damn expensive I had to switch to Mal Papa preserves instead.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

The grocery inflation I still can't believe every time I see it is that a jar of Bonne Maman preserves is now $8 (was $5 in March 2020)