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The market. The market changed. Obedient, nose-to-the-grindstone, rote workers are no longer necessary. The only chance to make good money and have a decent standard of living lies in developing a very strong personality that does not require outside discipline.
Our children either learn to self-regulate and self-discipline, or they’ll be guinea pigs for cruel experiments.
I’ll never understand why immigrants are so obsessed with seeking out people from their own country of origin. The priest’s wife pleaded with me to sit at the table with Russian-speaking parishioners. I did, and it was not pleasant. They are lovely people, I’m sure, but I have nothing in common with them. I don’t understand their jokes, I have no idea what they are saying. I sat there, silent and bored. Finally, an Anglo parishioner sat down next to me, and within seconds we were hooting with laughter over jicama and Honduras.
The temperature here is in the eighties Fahrenheit. Overnight, it will drop to below freezing. On Wednesday it will be back up to high eighties.
The new priest is having trouble adapting to the temperature swings. He’s having hypertensive episodes. A local doctor prescribed him something for them but when the priest went to collect the prescription, it turned out to be for an antidepressant.
“I’m not depressed,” the priest tried to explain to the doctor. “I’m religious. I’m a servant of God. Depression is an impossibility for me. I want something for my blood pressure, that’s all.”
It hasn’t worked so far.
There’s a fascinating development in the Tucker Carlson story. It looks like Trump accepted Tucker in the White House on the eve of the war with Iran and appeared persuadable (as Tucker said several times on his show) in order to lure Tucker into transmitting the message to the ayatollah regime. Is that why the Iranian leadership gathered all in one place? Because they were led to believe that the attack wasn’t coming? Was Tucker the human version of a Hezbollah pager?
Tucker recognized openly today that the CIA is investigating him for passing messages to the Iranian regime.
The moment USAID money dries up, Latin American elections start looking very different.
Yes, Ian Carroll is a grifter. But the difference is that his lying led to no real-world results. The mainstream media, on the other hand, created George Floyd pogroms, COVID lunacy, and a million other things that led to real death and destruction.
AI has its uses. We have to make all our course materials “accessible” which implies a lot of dumb clicking and formatting. I told Copilot to do it for me. Copilot wrote code in Python and turned my materials into ugly unreadable craps that give me a 100% accessibility scores.
I will send the normal version of the materials to the students in secret because nobody can get any use from the “accessible” version. We are on the verge of doing secret rotaprint documents like in the USSR. But at least I didn’t have to spend any time on creating the “accessible” craps myself.
A shocking thread listing the many instances in Australia when foreign criminals were spared punishment for their crimes so that they wouldn’t be deported:
If it weren’t for Trump, we’d already be Australia. And we wouldn’t know it because we wouldn’t be allowed to talk about it. Let’s not forget what we have avoided as we offer well-deserved criticism of Trump.
Folks, I’m very sorry but I just noticed that WordPress has once again started spamming comments. Several comments from mitchellporter, ShadowsCollide and Stringer Bell have been spammed. I did not cause it in any way and wasn’t notified. I apologize and will now restore the comments.
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