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I’m doing 3 public appearances today. Two down, one to go. I love doing this stuff but my vocal cords, not so much.
I’m not complaining, it’s great to be in demand. N, who engineered my career in public speaking, is bursting with delight. That alone would be worth it.
In the numerous news items about people lacking food in America, I notice a strange trend:
I’m certain that Felicia’s suffering is sincere but posting a video of her as opposed to pretty much anybody else is quite counterproductive.
The post ends up being comical instead of serious.
Not for nothing, 11 is my lucky number.
Deep condolences to everybody who suffered losses in this horrific crash.
I’m live on Romanenko at 10 am US CT.
This is so mega cute! Read the captions:
Have as beautiful a day as this nice couple!
Somebody asked me which is the first German book I will read. This decision was made for me by N who presented me with this copy today:
This book is very, very important to him, as it was for many Soviet children. He managed to engage Klara in the English version of Krabat. Now I get to read it in the original.
In the USSR, works of international literature and film that we were allowed to know about were often random. Why Krabat made the cut and was let through by Soviet censors while other books and cartoons weren’t is unknown.
The Right is everything that isn’t a tiny number of very rigid (and very fantastical) beliefs that define the Left. We are truly diverse. We have open-border libertarians, the “reduce all immigration to zero” crowd, and everybody in-between. And this is only one issue. We are just as seeking, enquiring, and rowdy on all others.
Nobody on our side calls others out for using the “wrong” terminology. There is no terminology. Everybody invents their own, experiments with language, plays word games. Nothing is off-limits. No idea is too scary to read, think about, and discuss. Nobody gains in-group points by denouncing others for not being ideologically pure enough.
And there’s humor. We make jokes, and nothing is too sacred to chuckle over. There’s always something happening, always something to think about. Nobody is reciting dogma. Nobody conducts witch hunts over wrong pronouns.
If you are not one of us yet, imagine, only imagine, saying whatever occurs to you, letting your thoughts roam freely, and abandoning all these mantras of “sex work is work” or “trans women are women.” You could have this freedom, too.
Both hardware and software are necessary to make a computer run. IQ is crucial to do high-level scientific research. But IQ alone is utterly insufficient. You need to take your high IQ to school and study for a very long time. And then study some more. You are utterly useless for science until you’ve downloaded software in the form of learning onto your brain.
Why am explaining this boring and obvious fact? Because I’m reading a novel Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor, and she seems blissfully unaware that major scientific discoveries aren’t made by college sophomores. Harvard professors don’t beg said sophomores to join their research labs. Nobody expects them to do any research or to publish solo scientific articles before finishing their second year of college.
It annoys me when people pretend that intelligence is not genetic and inborn. It annoys me as much when people pretend that high IQ means you can be instantly successful in any field without having to learn.
I don’t like this, I don’t support this, I think it’s pathetic and ridiculous:
What’s next, suing people for cocktails named “Sex on the Beach” and “Bahama Mama” because they hurt the feelings of the asexuals and the infertile? The DOJ shouldn’t be in the business of policing names of beverages. We already have a party that protects hurt fee-fees. We don’t need another one.
This is very embarrassing.
Please, people, be very careful with your news consumption. Exercise informational hygiene. There are many dishonest operators who publish fakes. Here’s one:
This story is a complete lie:
“We’ve investigated it,” Carvalho said during a news conference, “and all the reports that came back was that no such event happened.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-10/la-ice-protests-truth-vs-fiction
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