Bunsbert Montcroff

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It should be based on market need across the board. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to finance your fricking arts degree.

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Arts and Gender Studies are remarkably cheap compared to STEM degrees. Charge less tuition for cheap degrees like art degrees, problem solved.

Idaho Falls...

At least we're not Pocatello

Fontainebleau State Park? I haven't stayed in them, but the cabins looked pretty nice last time I was there (in October), there are trails through the woods, a neat little museum, easy access to the Tammany Trace, and you're right on the lake.

Also check out Bogue Chitto State Park. My parents live on the Northshore and I've always wanted to check that place out, looks pretty cool.

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What did Mandela do?

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he has "man" in his name!

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This is probably the most concerning aspect of the whole thing to me. Americans who don’t understand their own Constitution.

It applies evenly to anyone in the U.S., whether you are a citizen or not.

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look up the practice of expedited removal, which allows for people who entered our country illegally to be deported without a hearing before even an immigration judge. there are limits/exceptions to this policy, but as a few other posters have pointed out, when it comes to aliens who have entered our country illegally, the extent of the due process they are afforded is not the same as a legal citizen.

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This is interesting you bring this up. I've been a ChatGPT Plus subscriber for some time now, but recently it's been telling me a bunch of wrong shite. I'll get it to summarize things for me occasionally and normally, everything is fine. But not long ago, I read something that it had recently summarized and it was clearly wrong. When I confronted it about this, it said it was sorry but it actually used reviews and other pre-released info to generate the summary.

Then I found a few other instances where it did the same thing. Then it told me something else incorrect and I think I'm out on it.

Been messing with Grok and it seems to be on the right track. Today I actually killed my sub to ChatGPT and signed up for Gemini Advanced to see what it can do and so far so good.

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you can try chain-of-thought prompting to get the model to "explain" its reasoning, but if some of the training data or the tokens the model is relying on are bad (like fake news or misinformation) the output will be bad too...

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Adam Smith emphasized in book IV of The Wealth of Nations, trade sometimes needs to be limited, not least because ‘defence is of much more importance than opulence’. It is not much use being prosperous if one is not free, and therefore security threats are good reasons to forego economic opportunities.

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I don't see how this applies to the administration's tariffs, which the White House itself has said were "to balance bilateral trade deficits" not for national defense.

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According to Smith, it was perfectly justified to burden foreign traders for the encouragement of domestic industry when this was needed.

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Again, I don't see how this applies to some of the countries on the administration's tariff list, which a "reciprocal tariff" isn't going to have any effect on domestic industry.

Now, who knows if the administration is just posturing to get leverage against our trading partners for more favorable agreements of if the President is a true believer in mercantilism? I hope it's the former rather than the latter.

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Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent trade from balancing. Tariffs work through direct reductions of imports.

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so we're going back to mercantilism, yay

friedman said as far back as 1962 that you could have capitalism without freedom, but not freedom without capitalism. seems like clinton, bush, et al. missed that point...

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And I see you are part time in Boise. How is Bogus Basin and is it worth making the drive from Twin Falls?

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Your closest resorts are probably Magic Mountain, Pommerelle, and Solider? Not counting Sun Valley just because it's so darn expensive, and you probably know about it.

Bogus will be bigger with more vertical than the modest resorts close to Twin Falls. It has some beginner terrain, a ton of intermediate terrain, and some advanced/expert terrain. It will probably be busier than places like Magic Mountain and Pommerelle, but not Utah or Colorado busy. We went up last weekend on bottomless powder days and there were no crowds or lines (except to get on the lifts first thing in the morning). I think most folks in Boise have transitioned to golf, bikes, fishing, the Greenbelt, etc. Could still find lots of untracked powder even after lunch.

My wife (no pics) will ski groomers while I'll ski the trees and bumps in between and on the sides of the trails. When I'm solo I try to ski off trail as much as possible, and I still discover new side hits, fun lines, etc. after being season pass holders for several years. Lots of groomers but good off-trail skiing too. We have planned out and almost taken winter trips to Brundage or Sun Valley but Bogus is so close and easy that we haven't yet. The drive up 55 with the Payette and certain death if you go off the side with no guardrails freaks me out even in the summer. And 95 (the long way to McCall from Boise) just closed for a landslide...so Bogus it is for us! The vibe is totally chill, the people are super friendly (it is Idaho, after all), not too expensive, and as of today the base is still about 100 inches deep. Worth a trip in my book :cheers: