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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social I liked the recent appearance on Trevor Noah's podcast. Have you contemplated the idea of a government run insurance company to compete directly against current insurance companies to help drive down insurance costs? So not single player but a non-profit driven competitor.

It occurred to me that we could just let the National Guard walk through our cities completely unharassed, keep an eye on the deployment costs, and then demand the administration to justify the wasteful spending for the senseless deployments.

I was just outside coaching my daughter's soccer team.

Maybe it is time to ditch the on air and cable networks fully embrace streaming services in lieu of the FCC license threats... Maybe we can use all that bandwidth for something else now.

I started reading Limitatarism and the base idea seems to work best if instead you replace money with land area. How much land would be too much to own? Would it be ok for one person to own 50% of the United States? If not, what would be a reasonable amount of land to limit private ownership of?

If we were to discover clearly intelligent signals from another universe tomorrow, is it a valid concern any life could have died off and that we could be communicating with artificial intelligence?

Hi @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social This is me checking the Internet while watching your video on my TV... Where is the Nicorette gum for the internet @hankgreen.bsky.social?

I review college scholarship submissions for a charitable organization and noticed the sheer amount of obviously AI written submissions this year. Some people even left in the prompt and AI summary at the end.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, since the Republican party is very focused on "anti racism" and not putting groups of people into categories, shouldn't Jerry Mandering fall under the same "politically racist" categories as DEI?

Thank you Mr President for yet again saving the lives of 8+ billion people by not releasing the US nuclear arsenal on the world.

Having been to China a bunch of time and spent a lot of time in factories there, they are a force to recon with. The Chinese are innovative and motivated which is rapidly evolving their country in ways today's US foreign policy doesn't take into account. This is a huge mistake.

There is a market need... If you make it illegal it doesn't eliminate the market need it just moves it into the shadows.

I would like US passenger rail cars to come back into vogue...

Hot take, "common sense" has more in common with general relativity than Newton's laws, it only universally applies to the specific thinkers frame of reference.

Someone should show Trump how to use AI... Then he could get non-ass kissing answers to important questions like how can tariffs be used to effectively increase economic output, and is climate change a hoax?

Time based goal setting like this is a great tool to set up teams for failure which you can then fire them for without getting into trouble with the courts for ignoring performance based criteria. Sorry you didn't meet the deadline, your services are no longer required.

Quietly sweeping them all under the red carpet the administration is rolling out for the likes of Amazon and Walmart...

The trade war with China may escalate to a full trade embargo, which will cause a US shoe crisis. You may need to start selling much more durable socks that can be worn without shoes...

Interesting cloud over a snowy mountain last night.

I just finished the audio book and I greatly enjoyed it! I already brought up my newfound knowledge on tuberculosis into a dinner conversation with my 90 year old grandmother about how strict her grandmother was about washing hands to how strict she is with my children in washing their hands.

Establishing the United States Investment Accelerator By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Seriously! This executive order is only for $1B+ investments. If I wanted to build a rare earth refinement plant in the US for only a 10s of millions how are orders like this going to help anyone other than the encumbant monopolistic companies. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Beautiful sunset tonight!

Moon was epic last night!

I do like the idea of eliminating the process barriers to government services and bolstering waste, fraud, and abuse detection and punishments on the back end! We need the government to supply services by reducing steps, work, and hoops so services can be fast, effective, and efficient.

Octagon, boxing ring, dojo, good old Montana street fight, name your battlefield. I don't really care if you like boba any more or less at any particular time of the day and I am more intrigued by the prospect of good spirited recreational fisticuffs.

I am glad that we are so focused on America first that we are just opening the door for China to pick up the humanitarian aid slack and start to influence many countries that provide resources that we take for granted in our everyday lives. Did anyone even stop to consider why we provide aid?

My solar array, inverters, and batteries are a few hundred feet away from my home.

I live in the desert and don't have enough biomass to really make gas. Plus wood gas is not directly compatible with most internal combustion engines. On the other hand, I have thought about making hydrogen at home, much easier than wood gas for me...

Just like "Free Speech" only free when coming out of Republican's mouths. Speech must be restricted when it comes out of anyone else's mouth that doesn't ideologically agree with Republican...

The Trump administration has been talking about what the federal government should not be doing. They never talk about what level of services the Federal government should be providing the American people...