Looks like Houston is 11.5 and San Francisco is 4 per 100k.

TLDR Young adult Americans die more often than peer country young adults because nearly aspect of life in America is worse than in peer countries.

Yes. I very much hope that Russia will cease its naked aggression and unlawful invasion of a sovereign nation, which has caused all of this bloodshed and suffering.

Current ICJ case: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/182

Putin claiming rights for all of Ukraine:

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-the-whole-ukraine-is-ours-theory-may-take-city-sumy-2025-06-20/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2025/6/27/putin-confirms-he-wants-all-of-ukraine-as-europe-steps-up-military-aid

General video on Russian war goals: https://youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw

Example of Ukrainians suffering under Russian leadership:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

The Russian war goals include an annexation of the entirety of Ukraine and a genocide of the entire Ukrainian populace.

I don’t think giving in to that will lead to less suffering, it will lead to dramatically more suffering.

Here’s a great video comparing the alternatives:

https://youtu.be/7l9GrGCI_wA

My thoughts from it were 5 or 4 are likely the best balance of cost for public good. 6 is the best long-term option, but the most expensive, and 1 and 3 cost basically the same as 4 and 5, but are just far less effective in terms of improving ridership.

For better or worse, humans are very good at anthropomorphizing things. Put Googly Eyes on a trash collector and people call it Mr. Trash Wheel.

People think it’s sentient, because if you talk to it, it responds in sometimes unexpected ways. For humans, this is only possible through sentient thought, and so people think that LLMs are sentient, because they assume it’s like them.

Given how the primary role of these consultants is to ultimately agree with the management’s point of view, using an agreeable LLM seems much more cost effective.

It’s crazy how much safer racing is these days. Watching the crash, I was not expecting the driver to just get up and walk away.

the top 5 companies (Meituan, DoorDash, Uber, Prosus, Delivery Hero) have over 90% of the total gross transaction value (GTV) worldwide.

I also love the erhu like the Butterfly Lover’s Concerto.

It kind of looks like ours. The flower only blooms for a very short time and then dies out, so the flower dying like this seems normal to me.

I don’t know if there’s a way to tell if it will bear fruit except just waiting, which is probably not comforting.

They finally found a way to make money off of AI

Thanks so much for writing this. They are always so good and make me nostalgic for the old gaming magazines.

1. Tomato and onion sandwich
2. Prune sandwich
3. Peanut butter and mayo sandwich
4. Watermelon sandwich
5. The Prosperity Sandwich
6. Sandwich loaf
7. Brown sugar sandwich
8. Dripping, lard, and bacon grease sandwich
9. Jellied chicken sandwich
10. Peanut butter or nut sandwich
11. Beef tongue sandwich
12. Beans sandwich
13. Johnny Bull
14. Livermush sandwich
15. The original pimento cheese recipe from the Masters

Harder words for charades tend to be abstract concepts because they are hard to figure out concrete geatures for.

Some of these words could be:

• Hierarchy
• Government
• Hypothesis
• Friendship

A great clue will be one that is difficult to guess at the time, but will be obvious in hindsight. Inside jokes from the group, or references that everyone in the group will know.

In terms of rules, typically the group will have a list of words to guess. These words could come from an online list or sources from the group (e.g. everyone playing writes 10 words on a slip of paper). The group is then typically split into teams.

During play, a player from a team will choose a word at random and then try to get their team to guess the word (no sounds or noises at all), within the time limit (typically a minute or less).

Play continues until a certain score is reached, the words run out, or players stop having fun.

Typical variations:

• Players have a set amount of time (e.g. 90 seconds) and try to get their team to guess as many words as possible in turn to allow for multiple points to be scored per round.
• A non-competitive version of the game can be played where there are no teams and no time limits.
• Opposing teams can guess the word as well and if they do the player’s team doesn’t score.

Notes & Tips:

• A common vocabulary has developed over time for certain concepts (e.g. “movie”, “book”, “# of syllables”). If you want to be competitive you can try to learn some these.
• Pointing at objects in the room to help your team guess is sometimes allowed and sometimes not.
• Try not to take it to seriously. It’s meant to be a fun way to socialize and interact with your friends / family, so teams or words will likely be unbalanced.

Hope this helps!

I like that we don’t have to put quotes around reciprocal this time.

Most Americans would act like those kids in Ben Stein’s classroom from Ferris Bueler’s Day Off if you tried to discuss the Smoot-Hawley tariffs with them.

It’s also weird because if they get rid of Elon then people would start looking at the actual fundamentals of Tesla which would lead to a much much lower stock price. In December, Tesla was valued at roughly the same as the rest of the worlds auto manufacturers combined, despite selling only 3% of the worlds cars in 2023.

I think this is 4.4 specific, so you could just go back to 4.3 instead of all the way back to 3