Looks like the power is trivially recursive; so I like the idea of buying a modern history book, entering the last page, and experimenting repeatedly with the potential applications. You’ve got forever (speed of thought per attempt), so you can basically groundhogs-day everything you do with it.

To improve efficiency, I think you probably nest it a few dozen times. Enter the history book, then immediately enter the history book, repeat 12 times. Run the experiments there with substantially more control and time.

Math section is surprisingly short and sweet. Mostly math history.

I love the little bell beast <3

I’d like to note that the ‘heavily’ part is probably beyond the executive; you could get 1-2% more after a few years of legal battles I suspect. But to make the burden relevant would probably require congress.

yeah! that! as opposed to anti-trust like vaccine denial, or pretending to have found aliens.

Enforce anti-trust laws in a systematic and non-partisan way.

Brain normalizes pretty much everything. Keep the happy sources small, and sometimes really small things can give a big hit.

My most recent hit? A rosary popped out of a treadmill.

For the record, many playgrounds don’t let you on after you get bigger.

I feel my playground access has declined somewhat. Paying for a gym membership kinda helps.

Emergency teleporter. Once, when the king is in check and hasn’t moved from its initial square, the Emergency teleporter may swap positions with the king. Cannot otherwise move. (Unclear what starting position it should have. Maybe b or e 2/7? Maybe players pick in secret before game starts?)

Smiling at the bonus content in this post.

Suppose one were to advertise left leaning content creators to this demographic. Who should it be? Is there anyone for whom this makes business sense?

I don’t believe these stereotypes are very accurate today. Do we have data? I’m failing to find more than anecdotes online.

Why are 12yo hyping crypto?

Is the average gaming culture that right-wing dominant, and why should it be so? Biggest games are roblox, Minecraft, and fortnite. It’s surely not CoD for this cohort. Minecraft in particular seems like it need not be conservative coded.

Edit: I’ve found some evidence that this reverses causality; the manosphere targets this demographic with paid advertising. They know they can exploit a vulnerable population.

I was thinking starvation, due to food deserts in the too-big suburbs. (lots of roads, so I’m not sure what cleanup time would look like. I guess with good prioritization maybe folks could get groceries along the highways?)

If I also had a fair bit of time, community micro-grants are my favorite. Solicit ideas for improvements, offering 100-1000 bucks each. Select several, widely publicize what will be done.

Next favored, run a citizen assembly on a community issue (if you can do it cheap, have some money to allocate as an agenda item).

Finally, if the point is to ask what I want done… Right now it is probably homeless shelters and food pantries in the US. Lots of grants drying up.

Wow that would kill a lot of people where I grew up. Very efficient.

Somebody tell me if my vibe is correct: Linus Torvalds

Per request: “nice post”

context on ballotpedia. Looking at it quickly, it seems like this is a tax that big business is already probably not paying, because if you buy it directly from suppliers or otherwise avoid a middle-man (as you would if you had a huge supply chain) it is already exempt. The change appears to have broad agreement from all parties (making food in the US hasn’t been the best choice financially in awhile afaik, but we still like having food made locally).

Congrats!

I don’t actually know the outcome data on the different cohorts; perhaps the phenomenon is too new to have good data? Or perhaps the economy is crazy enough that old data wouldn’t be useful. My intuition is that, as you describe, self-sufficient at 18 (when it’s not a surprise), was pretty reasonable provided jobs could be found and housing was available. May I ask what cohort is yours and what cost of living looked like for those first ~3 years?

You are on the extreme high end of support in my cohort. I know 2 folks getting this treatment. Typical in my cohort (for that age range) is being allowed cheap (or free) housing in the parents home, and some percentage of shared meals. Sometimes car borrowing. Rarely is there enough money for serious tuition support.

If you compute it out, what you are paying is likely more than most couples can reliably have or provide for one kid. In other words, your suggested norms cannot be sustained by the average family.