Men would be bragging about how short they are.

Dolph or Bill?

With a few exceptions, no MAGA knows what they’re doing, but they assume that the others know.

This is the sort of authoritarianism that George Orwell imagined.

When it comes to driving, the human brain works however it is trained to work. I know from personal experience.

I used to get highway hypnosis, too, before I trained myself to drive with constant vigilance. Driving is a complex skill that takes years of intentional training to master, yet most people stop trying to improve the moment they get their license. It’s no wonder that virtually every person on the road is terrible at driving.

People should be doing the same stuff that they’re always supposed to do while driving, but they don’t usually have the attention for.

You know, like watch the road carefully for potholes or objects. Pay attention to the way other people drive so that you can better predict what they’re going to do. Scan up the road for problems that might crop up.

There’s actually a lot to actively do as a driver even beyond the basics.

It’s supposed to be trained to drive like a human, but I expected it would drive like a human who had immediate access to extremely detailed map and GPS information.

Just to clear things up, the Tesla turned off of the road and onto train tracks.

Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” mode requires the driver to pay attention the entire time. For common things like not stopping on train tracks, the driver is expected to perform this. Obviously, that’s not “Full Self Driving”, but it’s something that you can get used to.

On the other hand, turning onto train tracks is unforgivable. In an unfamiliar area, the driver may be confused about what is the correct place to turn, especially in the early morning as this was, and it might be natural to defer to the car’s superior knowledge of the map and GPS. As a driver, it would be hard to imagine that the car would turn you on to train tracks.

I think that if you know a person who eats a hot dog every day, you will have many other reasons to suspect that they’re unhealthy.

Disregarding the whole… eh… evil genocidal murderous villain aspect of this, I’d like to point out some numbers without comment.

77 million people voted for Trump in 2024. The margin of victory for the popular vote, which I know, doesn’t technically count, was about 2.2 million.

And we’re talking about 65 million people here.

Standley said he remembers Roley left high school in the middle of sophomore year. He said he believes Roley was expelled “after some trouble with a girl.”

I found this part interesting. Also the part where they said they were scared of him… although that might just be tinted by the fact that they’re trying to remember this guy they didn’t know very well.

If you looked at my Duolingo, you’d think I was pretty fluent in Japanese. But if you look at me talking to a Japanese person, you’d think I knew very little Japanese.

The quote also mentioned Frédéric Joliot.

It’s meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.

While I disagree with denaturalization, I’d accept it if it meant that this reasoning became universal. If you lied while taking an oath that gives you special status, then your special status will be revoked.

Since virtually all Republican politicians lied in their oaths of office to defend the constitution, we could sue to have them removed.

Had Pierre Curie not died in an accident, he would most likely have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot.

There is no reason to put these two people up as a comparison. They have nothing in common, except that they are two people that the author thought of.

I learned from game theory that these situations are the equivalent of the prisoner’s dilemma.

In the prisoner’s dilemma, in the case where you only play the game once, cooperation has a worse outcome for you, regardless of what your opponent does. It is a dominated option. Only in the case where the game is repeated many times, and where both players are paying attention to their opponent, only in that case does cooperation become a useful option.

When people recycle, we are choosing to cooperate. But as nobody is paying attention to what we’re doing, it is always the dominated option. We end up having to work more, and we don’t get better results. And then we inevitably get huge betrayals.

But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t recycle. It simply means the game has shitty rules. That’s why responsible government regulations are essential for environmentalism, if we actually want to see results.

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At some point, somebody convinced people that unrealized gains were not actually income because you don’t know for sure that you’d make that money, and I think that was a bad idea. Maybe unrealized gains aren’t 1:1 the same thing as income, but the calculations of an income equivalent aren’t going to be complicated.

Yes, I read it and said, “Where’s the government?” I don’t think you can have socialism without a government or some equivalent. If it’s just two entities interacting without outside regulation, then it’s definitely not something specific to socialism.

That’s closer to the way communism is generally used. Socialism would be more like if the government had a mousetrap program where it distributed mousetraps to people with rodent problems.

I say “generally used” because some people have used “socialism” and “communism” interchangeably, but I think it’s just confusing to do that today.