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Aaron Tyler retweeted
This story is harrowing. Police jailed this woman, impounded her car for 7 months, and hit her with 8 felonies after a Flock camera flagged a Dodge Durango that killed 3 people. She faced life in prison.
The problem: It was a completely different Dodge Durango.
Florida woman spent 7 months in legal hell after cops used Flock surveillance to ID the wrong car.
Full story: reason.pub/4zk3gLx
Aaron Tyler retweeted
In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.
People rejected this.
We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.
The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Broadly, yes. The government's role should be to protect life, liberty, & property, enforce contracts, & punish fraud, not manage every aspect of the economy.
Bad actors will always exist, but the answer isn't regulating everyone because some people abuse the system. Laws against fraud, negligence, & other misconduct already exist, & courts exist to resolve those disputes. We should be careful not to create broad regulatory burdens that increase costs for everyone in an effort to prevent every possible bad outcome.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
🚨 LMFAO!! Funniest president ever 😂
REPORTER: It's pretty remarkable seeing you and Mark Cuban up there, he endorsed Kamala Harris back in 2024
TRUMP: Well, he made a mistake!
CUBAN: 🤣🤣🤣
How the tables have turned!
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Walter Isaacson reveals the brutal philosophy Steve Jobs and Elon Musk both share about leadership
"Jobs said the same thing that Musk said to me. People like you love wearing velvet gloves. You like to sweet talk things, sugarcoat things. He said, I'm just a working class kid and I don't have that luxury. If something sucks I got to tell people it sucks or I got a team of B players"
"There are a lot of successful people who are much kinder. But it's sometimes necessary to be much more brutal and honest"
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Dakota Gas has switched from making DEF to making granular urea at 46% nitrogen at their Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah, North Dakota.
Capacity is 1,100 short tons per day.
Maybe we can just stop with the DEF altogether……… sure burning fertilizer in fuel is cool but having food is a fuck of a lot cooler.
The USA burns enough DEF in diesel engines per year to cover all of Canada’s farming fertilizer needs.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
“If an experiment in private enterprise is unsuccessful, people lose money and they have to close it down. If an experiment in government is unsuccessful, it’s always expanded.”
— Milton Friedman
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Ask them what the consequences should be for homeschooling parents who fail to educate children. Then ask what the consequences should be for public schools that do the same.
The difference in answers is the game.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
The fact you are engaged on this topic @PalmerLuckey is fantastic.
My children will be educated on foundational classical education until the 7th or 8th grade. Why? Because it worked for a couple thousand years from Alexander the Great to James Madison and several others.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Because democracy should not apply to land use. It's that simple.
You should be able to do what you want to do with your land as long as you aren't hurting anybody else.
If building housing is something that can be voted on democratically, there will always be the opportunity and incentive to vote no.
If building housing is an individual right that isn't up for democratic vote, the answer to housing is ALWAYS yes.
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Aaron Tyler retweeted
I AGREE With the Afroman Verdict
As a former police officer, I’ll say it plainly: if you raid a man’s house, find NOTHING, and damage his property…you don’t get to play victim when he clowns you. That’s called free speech. You work for the public—accountability comes with the badge.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Sorry that your oil is super expensive right now but the Islamic regime just executed three young men for the crime of protesting.
One of them was Saleh Mohammadi, a 19-year-old wrestling champion.
So ya…priorities…
Aaron Tyler retweeted
A “healthy economy” is when a typical 90 IQ man can hold down a job earning enough to fund a modest lifestyle with his wife & kids.
This only works when 130 IQ men are free to build great things as they see fit, with minimal friction from 110 IQ administrators.
Aaron Tyler retweeted
It's like when #txlege lawmakers propose a study, knowing full well it will eventually lead to a new program in future legislative sessions, more often than not they are just supposed "solutions" in search of problems to solve, using a study as justification. – at Weatherford, TX
Lawmakers love calling new spending initiatives “pilot programs” to imply restraint—but history shows these “temporary tests” often become permanent, quietly expanding costs for taxpayers.
protectingtaxpayers.org/cong…
Aaron Tyler retweeted
Not even joking, the Texas state government endlessly telling Austin city government that it can't be retarded and kill itself has been a wonderful indictment against local governance and democracy.
If the people of Austin had their way it would be a shithole. Now it's a cultureless tech hub that's been ruined and altered forever, but at least it isn't poor.
