I wonder why Obama received a pass for keeping children in concentration camps when Trump does not?

Not that I think anyone should, but the remarkable silence around all of Obama’s great crimes seems a bit hypocritical to me. More than a bit. Of course, I know why. He was on “our” team and he was cool. That, in the liberal mind, excuses anything.

For a script I’m writing, given the strictures and prudery of the modern workplace I probably shouldn’t have called my test batch file YouAreSuch_a_Batch.txt, but given that it’s funny I couldn’t resist.

I regret nothing.

We could have a safe, transit-based system. Instead we have a literal arms race where everyone's jockeying to have the vehicle that will best crush someone else.

— Angie Schmitt 🚶‍♀️🚴‍♀️ 🚌 (@schmangee) June 20, 2019

American obsession with enormous vehicles is a symptom of the sickness of the society at large. It’s inseparable from this. The US is an extremely hierarchical culture that pretends not to be so. This cognitive dissonance leads to mania and this mania leads to societal-level sociopathy which further leads to buying 5,000 pound terror-boxes.

Yes, it is wrapped up in inequality as well, but that’s not the only cause or explanation. It’s an entire mindset, a Weltanschauung, that is expressed in various pathological ways. That we find mass killing acceptable emerges from this in various forms: SUVs the size of houses in lieu of mass transit; lack of gun regulations as we meekly accept that elementary school kids will be routinely slaughtered; invasions of foreign countries where we murder civilians by the score.

All of these are not isolated events but are connected by the malady that has no name but that pervades our civilization down to its marrow and converts us all into people we would not want to be if we could see ourselves from the outside.

Accepted at Stanford after I carved the Cartesian Tree Sorting algorithm into my chest with a screwdriver.

when the greatest investors or traders hear everyone talking about something (internet, housing) they think this is a sector or business that they might want to AVOID, rather than jump in.

— James Marsh (@JamesMarsh79) June 19, 2019

I don’t know if I am a greatest investor, but back in 2000, six months before the complete crash of the NASDAQ I cashed out all my holdings. The main reason was I heard everyone giving stock advice — postal service workers, graphic designers, janitors. You name it, they all had “tips.”

Everyone told me I was foolish as the market kept going up a bit, that I was missing out on all the amazing gains. Right until the day it crashed and they lost their money (some with nasty margin calls) and I kept all mine.

Especially in the market, if everyone knows something, almost invariably what they know is wrong. Run the other way; don’t look back.