It seems like the new Left buzzword is "constitutional crisis".  I suppose that's better than the previous buzzword of "existential crisis".  But it's amazing that the Left is now all concerned about the Constitution.  They never were before.  Or maybe because their focus groups found that the current buzzword sounds more ominous.  Sheesh.

I'm convinced that the amount of intelligence in the world is fixed and distributed more or less evenly through everyone.  Way back when there were fewer people, they were smarter and were able to invent things like the wheel, tame fire, and huge monuments.  As the population grew, the amount of intelligence per person declined.  We're only able to make advancements through rare people that got a higher proportion or by pooling intelligence in groups.  The general population is getting stupider because there's less intelligence to go around.  Notice that the generation that emerges after plagues or major wars is smarter?  That's why the Boomer generation is so smart and the current generation is so stupid.

It's St. Urho's Day Eve!  Everyone Celebrate!

My annual ran out end of February.  I'm still waiting for maintenance to get it in for its annual.  Sucks to be grounded as the weather is finally turning nice.

So I don' hijack the G1000 thread below, I thought I'd start a new one.

These AI tools like Grok are pretty amazing.  I'm about to start the every two year polishing of the 170 and got to thinking... how about let someone else do it.  Got a quote for $4500.  But how much work is that?  I know it's about two weeks of afternoons for me (with frequent beverage and sitting around breaks).  But what else?  Let's ask Grok!  The 170 takes about 50-100 hours to polish.  How much surface area?  About 815 square feet.  And a bunch of other questions that would have taken hours of research (including the rabbit holes) to figure out. 

Where things like Wiki were quick and dirty approximations of answers that still took a long time to dig through, you can get fast answers to pretty much anything, plus the reasoning behind it, plus other things that I didn't think of.  Pretty amazing time we're living in.

Note that the previous post in no way implies that anyone here is stupid.

Drudge was great for the long-form up to the second news.  But once it went far left I lost interest.  CNN was a response to the once-a-day 6 o'clock news.  A great attempt to get current news out there within the broadcast format.  Then it found that it had to fill the gaps between actual news and that's where it went mostly opinion.

There are flaws to the X format.  The news is indeed fast, but it's still human-based.  That human has biases and a limited view of the situation.  If you were to act on the first thing that comes out, you're subject to that bias.  Fortunately, you can keep scrolling and find many more viewpoints of the same event.  And through it all you may have a complete picture of what's going on.  Comments on the first post also help provide context.  Unfortunately, as you said, most are bottom of the barrel stupid.  It takes a lot of focus to separate the wheat from the chaff.

It's indeed an interesting time we're living in.  Platforms like X are changing the way we perceive the world.  I am VERY VERY VERY happy that it's finally balanced.

The stuff on the shelves should be tariff free.  Quick!  Hoard it!  You'll thank me later.