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Do you count the Hoover Dam as a bridge, and as 'modern'? There are some modern dams that should last that long; the issue is that is a vast minority of modern structures.

Roman's did have very, very good engineering groups, and actually ended up with some very advanced materials science applications/uses partly by accident, partly by just seeing what worked. Roman roads take advantage of larger, naturally formed stones fitted by size from pebble to cobble, that...

Musk is thinking longer term than 'line-goes-up' Wall Street types and seems to want to use Twitter/X as the base of a whole-function app that he can send to Mars with his colony plans. It's part of why the subscription service features have become more relevant, because it is how he is going...

When you just think of our current timeline as having been written by Tom Clancy and edited by Hunter S Thompson, it makes it a lot easier to cope with the madness. I just hope Musk has back-up plans, because he's the closest we've got to Robert Edwin House.

The other side also made one of his kids become trans, and he is against human depopulation for the sake of climate, unlike so many lefties and media powers/personalities.

And the final straw was the old Twitter staff taking a swipe at the Babylon Bee, which was just the cherry on top of it all.

Some people just have Musk Derangement Syndrome. It's like Trump Derangement Syndrome, only it is more bipartisan in it's spread. Musk has openly said if the fringe 10% on either side hate what he's doing, it's probably doing the right thing, and that's mean the vocal minorities on both sides...

Nah, Boulder is the inland Woke Capital of the US; the infections of wokeness that happened in Cali and NYC were often nutured and husbanded by people from Boulder, due to the place being both woke, and home to a lot of high tech companies/labs/aerospace groups. Lots of NASA probes, and...

Elon just need to get Joe Rogan to act as his trainer for a bit; less likely to end up embarrassed by a first round knock-out that way.

Ben Franklin and Lafayette would like to argue about French relevance to the US outside of as an adversary. As would most of the west side of the Mississippi.

Eh, you have to understand our history is contextualized in kicking said empires off this continent, and the whole issue of slavery is...very much more complicated to address here than elsewhere in the world, because of how it is wrapped up in black American culture. Old world slavery that...

Nope, no mention of coastal raids for slaves and it's impact on the British outlawing of slavery wholesale gets a mention in any US text book I've seen.

Fucking Sabaton is a better history teach than the modern US educational system in many regards.

Eh, I don't blame you for private schooling your kids, lot safer that way; I sure as shit wouldn't send my kids to the public schools I went through. The reality is public schools are government run daycares and indoc centers, they are not really designed to prepare kids in academics that...

Algebra is usually taught before trig in the US, and statistics...yeah, more High school grade course that go into it wouldn't hurt. However, do remember it was an American, Mark Twain, who coined the phrase 'There are 3 types of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics.' Thus, stats is not...

Eh, with math, I think it's more that most people know calculator are a thing and that anything above trig is mostly useless to the average joe.

Yeah, actively making tweet sharing based on presumed political alignment of the tweet in question is a horrible precedent. If people actively curate their own feeds, that's one thing; doing it for them in regards to politics is actively harmful to social discourse. However: Is the more basic...

Musk made the whole code open to the public to see yesterday, this is someone who went trolling through the code to see how engagement was monitored/boosted by the algorithms. Anyone that wants to can now go and verify what is in the Twitter code now.

The code for Twitter is now open for the public to see, and this little bit helps explain how tweets get 'ranked' by the algorithm.

Biden's FTC is going after Musk fo rreleasing the Twitter Files; they want to kill the leaks and suppress the only person in a position to actually out their dirty laundry.