As a parent I am finding it extremely hard to understand the value proposition to me of formal & compulsory state-sponsored education in the USA, at least past elementary school

What is my son getting from compulsory education that he couldn't get elsewhere & at higher quality?

It's amazing how Elmo can make homelessness seem suddenly attractive

I wonder how many Tesla factory drones are going to read this and think 'I had no idea that just sitting around doing drugs all day was an option'

If a couple months of takeout-only from Applebees, four years ago, is causing mental illness in you today then please see a doctor

H/t Radical Centrist,wrathful tantric deity🇺🇦🇹🇼🎗️

Tesla is circling the drain but what Apartheid Elmo is really concerned about is all the systemic racism in the United States against rich white people

Amazing

Musk is the stupidest man on the planet

He's calling the US Social Security system a 'Ponzi Scheme'

Which means he knows neither what SS is or what a Ponzi scheme is (hint: SS is nearly a century old and going strong)

'If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges.

The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.'

William Allen White

Someone help me out with this

Sending the cops to university campuses to intimidate young people into not criticizing national policy usually turns out ok, right?

I keep seeing people posting tweets where they blithely declare that excess deaths in the most recent months have returned to levels even lower than prior to the pandemic

This is patently ridiculous

Unless you are actually being paid to promote disinformation then don't do this

Your mother-in-law was 70 when Elon started promising “next year”.

Tesla's freefall may be the result of a shoddy product sold by an unhinged, drug-addicted CEO who spends his days retweeting white supremacists. But it could also be DEI.

Ouch

Monica Gandhi day is coming

Excess deaths from disease among school-aged (5-17) children in the US continue at more than 10% above the pre-pandemic baseline

ChristosArgyropoulos MD, PhD PharmanukerInChief If we all just get infected every week, our T cells will become stronger.

As a historian all I can add is that, historically, viruses jumping back and forth from species to species like squirrels jumping from tree to tree...

...doesn't usually end well