Notice that the strategy that appeals to what people like lost.

What won? Shaping what people like. This is democracy.

Peaceful day at the beach earlier, eh

Dave did not look good against Cofnas, but did very well here.

I stand by my belief that livestreaming is inferior to more formal, thought-out forms of communication. Livestreaming leads to silly errors. Dave wrongly asserts that the founders weren't Christian. His opponent claims that... The Constitution was written during a period of intense prayer and fasting? What a weird thing to say.

Ben Franklin of all people did suggest that they pray for help from God.

Hamilton argued against this, saying that they are competent enough on their own and they don't need God's help.

Others suggested it would be too expensive.

They adjourned before taking a vote on it and it was never brought up again.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/constitutionalconvention-june28.htm

Apparently the weather was clear and pleasant in Philadelphia that day. Thank you, NPS. Didn't know that.

Some cool guys just hangin' out

Still some snow left inside this hill.

Hahahahaha

Good

You belong to your country, not the other way around.

Among the ancient gods of Naucratis in Egypt there was one to whom the bird called the ibis is sacred. The name of that divinity was Theuth, and it was he who first discovered number and calculation, geometry and astronomy, as well as the games of checkers and dice, and, above all else, writing.

Now the king of all Egypt at that time was Thamus, who lived in the great city in the upper region that the Greeks call Egyptian Thebes; Thamus they call Ammon. Theuth came to exhibit his arts to him and urged him to disseminate them to all the Egyptians. Thamus asked him about the usefulness of each art, and while Theuth was explaining it, Thamus praised him for whatever he thought was right in his explanations and criticized him for whatever he thought was wrong.

The story goes that Thamus said much to Theuth, both for and against each art, which it would take too long to repeat. But when they came to writing, Theuth said: “O King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered a potion for memory and for wisdom.” Thamus, however, replied: “O most expert Theuth, one man can give birth to the elements of an art, but only another can judge how they can benefit or harm those who will use them. And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.

— Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus

If you're not reactionary enough to be against writing, you're ngmi

Poor party at Lakehouse #3

I was buying some eggs from a little roadside self-help farm stand. They were $1 a dozen. Got my three dozen eggs out and was depositing my money in the little box.

The farmer then comes out, and we get to talking. Eventually, I ask why he doesn't raise the price, insisting that he could get more for his eggs.

"Well," he says, "I just sell da extras. And dat's da price dey've always been. Raisin' da price would mean I gotta change da sign, and dat'd be a lotta work, eh."

I've seldom heard a take so based.

And stay out, troll!

The scary thing about Detroit isn’t the city itself, it’s the fact that you make one wrong turn and you’re suddenly stuck in Canada forever

It's never been so over

Some Yooper boomers are talking about how Charlie Kirk is untrustworthy. Their justification for this? He's appeared on a podcast.

Unfathomably based. Anybody who's ever been on a podcast cannot be trusted.

The high road is the only road; the low road is closed.