I'm always on the hunt for societal things that we simply accept, but that future generations will look back on us and be horrified.

Misunderstanding the origins of psychopathy (and how to manage it) seems like one of those failings.

If we knew, we'd apply these lessons to our president.

Broadview and when cars leave they follow them.

A father of a kid at my kids school, who is a civil attorney has been arrested for doing this twice. Both times they let him go without charges. His statement to the press was

“when did it become illegal to honk your horn or blow a whistle?”

I kinda think he wasn't "cool enough" nor famous enough to make the cut at the time.

Didn't his autobiography focus on how he came from modest roots and stuff?

Also, Epstein's couches probably weren't attractive to him

I've been away from Charlotte for 30 years, and I'm hopeful the people there are angry about what happened. It was a city that I could see being apathetic to it when I lived there in the 90s.

Isn't it better to convict criminals rather than ostracize them in the court of public opinion?

Unfortunately, that isn't happening in 2025.

The community in my novel says: "We believe nobody should be poor, and that being too rich makes the whole community poor."

DOJ may find this harder to block than they think. IT will go to court, and even the surpreme court isn't going to like making that ruling. One election and decades of gerrymandering gone.

Last week I caught a side note in some future-predictions blog mentioning that when AGI is real, about 1.5 billion people will be unemployed. Call center jobs are probably the first ones to go.

But really, do we want tech that unemploys 25-30% of the planet? The energy demands won't keep up.

Add "call centers in India" -- AI will probably completely steal those jobs within 3 years. It was a good 15 year run though.

Yeah, FWIW we had a rental go vacant for 4 months. I wish there were more "illegal immigrants" interested in renting homes.

But alas there are no illegals anywhere, only humans who are a vital part of our country. Always have been. But I can think of a few other useless people.

I got to visit Russia in 1991 and while there were no "American Girls" left, I remember strange limos pulling up to my teenage friends and me and trying to sell bottles of vodka for like $2.

I had an original Charlotte Hornets hat that I got 50 offers to buy.

Good ole People-to-People-Intl!

Having worked at an epigenetics startup for 5 years, I would agree.

You could, however, determine if someone had been raped, and other DNA tests would tell you Hitler was guilty of it. Sadly, courts haven't used this to convict felons without tormenting victims by forcing them to testify - yet.

My kind of book! added to my to-read list and sent myself a kindle sample. Thanks (for winning so I heard about ya)!

I mean besides Robert Reich @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy -- who happens to be the first name google autocompletes when you type "former labor secretary."

Must be a clever dude.

Maybe these things are not at all related, but we've had a lot more periods of great growth associated with a widening wealth gap, and relatively few periods where the middle class benefited as much as the rich. Makes you wonder if there's an Nobel prize winning economist who's studied it.