Appreciated this video. Being old enough to have lived through a few technology hype cycles, the "GENERATIVE AI IS GOING TO REPLACE ALL HUMAN INTELLIGENCE" got really old, really quick. I think that the most important skill someone can have these days is the ability to vet and source information.

There are wins to be had here... overall, he's going to be a disaster, but we can come out ahead in a few places in the next four years.

His mantra of the solution to obesity and diabetes is diet and exercise changes could be parlayed into more funding for nutritious foods in schools and more funding for physical education and sports.

To most people, that sounds reasonable. But I've seen us fight that specific battle before and we come up sounding like the unreasonable ones.

I think that we have to push back hard on probably 50% of the stuff he'll want to do, but the left (if we're smart) can get wins out of the other 50%...

Yeah. Some of the stuff that he'll probably try to get through is scary, especially the anti-vax stuff. But I fear that the left will go full-resistance on even reasonable-sounding things.

For example, I could see him pushing to ban the use of food stamps for convenience foods and soda...

Be VERY skeptical of any notable person with a name.bsky.social handle on here. There are A TON of fake accounts being set up... and many of them have tens of thousands of followers.

Nice! You now have your blue checkmark.

You can change it over if you own a domain. This is probably one of my favorite features. No one else can get @aaronhurd.com and I know that @journalist.cnn.com is legit. No need for blue check marks.