No offense. I have a cousin with CF who’s lived longer than expected and recently got engaged…so it was top of mind. I just like to clarify acronyms.

CF? Cystic Fibrosis?

I’m guessing child free?

We’ve had term limits in Ohio for 30 years. The state is thoroughly run by lobbyists now and you could track that happening in real time after limits were imposed. It’s made state government thoroughly corrupt. It’s folly to pretend this hasn’t been tried and found badly wanting.

Ohio resident here. Term limits have NOT made the legislature more responsive to voters…or less partisan.

Especially capital. Extraction of fossil fuels is an enormous industry that generates lots of numbers on balance sheets.

I haven't seen "A Foreign Affair" but it's set in post war Berlin and has Marlene Dietrich. Be Kind Rewind had a video about it.

Black Rain (1989) --- the Japanese one, not the US one. Explores the aftermath of Hiroshima. I saw it when it first came out, and seem to remember it being good.

Between that and the Madeleine book, I felt pretty confident that I would eventually end up needing to stay in the hospital. Weirdly, I never did until I had a child....then appendicitis a year later.

I think the sentiment of giving them control is valid. But we absolutely should devote the resources to pay professionals to do the work.

Thanks!

We absolutely should be competing in renewables. Instead we are stuck wasting tax dollars propping up antiquated industries because they are propping up our antiquated leaders.

From what I remember John Brown wasn't exactly a great father. He was certainly great at growing a beard, though.

I have ALWAYS wondered that about people who say that some kind of AI could take over the world. It’s really not that hard to pull a plug or cut a power line.

What’s really extremely weird is that currently primary education in the US is solely focused on literacy…meaning learning to decode..to the exclusion of social studies and science.

Meanwhile the ONE technology that actually works is translating written text to speech.

I have often thought that we should lie about spending money on creating any more nuclear weapons and instead secretly spend the money on us.

I find it hopeful that perhaps someone in the chain of command decided it was better to choose a location that would not result in a war crime?

Better than the idea that nobody at all cares who might be killed by wantonly firing at a country without declaring war or doing intelligence work first.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

He was a pretty awful father, right? I don’t remember much about him. Was there something else?

I did find this article a bit suspect in the way it attempted to connect different songs. There’s so much obvious racism in our cultural history…I’m not sure this particular song fits in quite the way described.