Not only did it happen, they made a point of recording the event with video.

Also, $139 laptops.

A fine paragraph about the nature of noncentralized clearancehousing:

There is an idea from biology called the Handicap Principle which sheds light on this process.5 It says that when two animals have an incentive to cooperate they must communicate good intentions to one another in a believable way. In order to make lying implausible, the signal must impose a cost on the signaler that would make it very costly to cheat. In other words, the signal itself must be a handicap.

That's from here: https://tinyurl.com/y3h9dfrl

(It's also why wedding rings cost a lot.)

Never, ever let anyone tell you that bitcoin is harmful to the environment.

Saif Ammous speculates, intriguingly and with muscle, that the inability of governments to print & inflate BTC to underwrite their foaming socialist and twitching military enthusiasms could end war as we know it.

And in century after century, nothing has been worse for the environment than warfare. (If you don't believe it, fire up your minivan and take the fam on vacation to Hanford this summer. Camp out!)

Energy expended in BTC mining might protect the environment better than has anything in history; And might well be less costly in all respects than the myriad enterprises involved in defending and regulating conventional finance.

What's not to love?

Also, re: costly signalling to earn trust—

The propensity of women to clothe their dearest friends in punishing ugly gowns for wedding ceremonies is not explained by this model.

Buh-dum-PUM!

And now, a striking Twitter photograph.

Some days just feel like this:

https://twitter.com/nichegamer/status/1137221392783593472

It must be a camel.

Cool church (built 1954-1971).

This looks like something that would explain the reproductive organs to a seventh grader.

We need an Amazon referral link for this book:

https://imgur.com/gallery/mO8wtg6

These colors are loud but appealing.

We need an Amazon referral link for this book: ~ Sixclaws at June 8, 2019 6:37 AM

Like this.

It's the fifth in a five-book series.

According to the Amazon blub:

The five books included in the Reach Around Books Season One Box Set include:

• Suzy Likes to Look at Balls
• Come Swing with Us!
• Spank the Monkey Lends a Hand
• Brenda's Beaver Needs a Barber
• Put Tony's Nuts in Your Mouth!

Sounds kinda like a childish attempt at sophisticated humor, like AC/DC's "Big Balls" - not that that's not fun once in a while.

First of all, I think this magazine cover is a stinkin' lie.

For six decades I've been scolded by schoolmarms and about schoolmarms, usually with a particularly precious piece of childlike sarcasm: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

Well, dearies, maybe it is indeed time to experiment.

Now we will be told again and again that the problem is the…

…That the problem is the administrators, not the educators.

Well, I no longer care about this distinction: They're sucking on the same public titty. They've both using this sarcasm to demand public support for their career choices which have little to do with fulfilling the needs of others.

Enough.

Wrong thread, but still.

Boomy-zoomy zoom-zoom.

First of all, I think this magazine cover is a stinkin' lie. ~ Crid at June 8, 2019 7:33 AM

It is.

The EPI is at it again - manipulating cherry-picked data to bolster a political position, rather than to honestly test a hypothesis.

The EPI intentionally under-states the value of teachers' pensions and deliberately ignores the value of teachers' generous union-negotiated retiree health benefits.

The EPI also uses "comparable" professions as the basis for judging teachers' hourly pay to be too low - using the logic that an education degree should be worth as much in the marketplace as an engineering or business degree; a proposition that ignores "strong evidence that education majors lag behind other college graduates in terms of marketable skills."

Here's another debunking of the myth of the underpaid teacher using a more honest presentation of pension and retirement benefits than the one the EPI uses.

"With light work obligations, pay greater than the average household income, early retirement and luxurious pension payouts teaching is undeniably a well paid occupation. An economic analysis reveals that teachers at government run schools are overpaid by 52% when compared with comparably skilled workers at corporations. This translates to taxpayers paying an additional $120 billion per year."

According to a paywalled article in the Wall Street Journal, "the same data and statistical methods that produce the 'teacher salary gap' lead to some ridiculous conclusions—such as that nurses and firefighters are dramatically overpaid, while telemarketers deserve better compensation."

Interesting insect.

Sick stuff:

He always hated women. Then he decided to kill them.

Further proof that we are sooooo screwed:

Men are in trouble. ‘Incels’ are proof.

Trail Runner Attacked and Gored by Bison in Utah State Park

More on the Grand Ol' Weenie Party:

Roberts: Why the GOP’s Strategy to Combat the Rise of Socialism Rings Hollow

YouTube is doing a great job helping millennials redefine Nazis as People who dares disagree with me Reee! by getting rid of history and thus context:

https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1137008691088171008

One of the weirdest things in life is what other people regard as achievement

https://twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1137487016399179777

"Incels" aren't in "trouble." They're just whinny little bitch-kids.