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@Sky_Hustle @bscholl Term limits seem designed to increase the need for a permanent bureaucracy of competent people.

@bscholl Even worse practice is no fixed term limits for congress. I'd argue this would be one of the most impactful changes in history. I seem to vaguely recall Trump promising this but doubt he'd be successful even he tried.

Unpopular opinion: SCOTUS whiffed hard when they had the opportunity to blow up gerrymandering and didn't. Gerrymandering is one of the worst practices in American politics— D/R safe districts turn the primaries into the generals, rewarding extremism over centrism.

@Akuro316 @selfmaxxer What about helping the surviving children who are left behind who accidentally pressed red when everyone presses blue dies because they don’t get 50% or more of that button presses internationally?

@selfmaxxer Have you considered children pushing these buttons you buffoon. No matter how you frame the question some children will choose blue. And thus you must choose blue to save the children

If the question was framed like this, which is the actual truth, even the twitter poll results would starkly differ. The blue retards can't see beyond the wording and look at it for what it is. ''Muh press bloo everyone surviv!''. If you don't see how retarded team blue is yet, there is no hope for you.

@esrtweet @m3ntat_ I doubt we (the USA) would target the dam because it would probably trigger nuclear retaliation. Taiwan might in really bad situations however.

@m3ntat_ It's not something I want to happen. And it won't happen unless China starts a war.

Tom didn't explain his second assertion, but it's important so I'm going to do it. China is in the worst strategic position of any great power in history because it is critically dependent on resources it has to import, and it doesn't have control of the sea lanes over which it imports them. China is neither food nor energy self-sufficient. It needs to import pork from the United States, grain from Africa, coal from Australia, and oil from the Middle East to keep its population fed and its factories running. Naval blockades at about three critical chokepoints (Hormuz, Malacca, Sunda) would cripple the Chinese economy within months, possibly within weeks. China does not have the blue-water navy required to contrast control of those chokepoints. The moment any first-rate naval power or even a second-rate like India decides China needs to be stopped, it's pretty much game over. As a completely separate issue thanks to the one-child policy, Chinese population probably peaked in 2006 and has been declining ever since. Every year in the foreseeable future they will have fewer military-age males than they do now. Most of those males are only sons; their deaths would wipe out entire family lines, giving the Chinese people an extremely low tolerance for war casualties. Then there's the glass jaw. The Three Gorges Dam. Which is already in some peril even without a war - you can compare photographs over time and see that it's sagging. If anyone gets annoyed enough to pop that dam thing with a bunker-buster or a pony nuke, the resulting floods will kill millions and wipe out the strip of central China that is by far the country's most industrially and agriculturally productive region. The Chinese haven't fought a war since 1971. They lost. Against Vietnam. The institutional knowledge that could potentially fit their army for doing anything more ambitious than suppressing regional warlordism does not exist. I could go on. But I think I've made Tom's statements sufficiently understandable already.

@jackassworld Nice

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@Honk_WilliamsJr @lulumeservey Kash needs to sue him for slander.

@lulumeservey The only admin official he didn't count as a target was fucking Kash Patel?

The shooter’s manifesto includes hypothetical objections and his rebuttals to them This is what he thinks is one of the top objections to an assassination attempt on multiple people Imagine seeing the world this way

@Nebraskangooner @bryan_johnson The lobbyists already convinced me

@bryan_johnson Going to convince myself that pizza is a vegetable.

I just fired my entire medical team. Sold my sauna and HBOT. Cleared my shelfs of all pills. Let my blood boy go.

@_artbydean @_Void_Apostle_ @tiagob_reis @Aella_Girl Forcing others to risk their life to save you is not the moral choice.

like others have pointed out, is there really no one you love that you know would press the blue button because they can't live with the thought of condemning blue pressers to die? would you be okay just condemning that person you supposedly love to die? genuinely principled Christians and Buddhists would almost certainly press the blue button, so to answer your question, those are at least some of the people that would press blue

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 20% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 20% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

@Brian_Rugg @BuckTurgids0n @Dastardly001 @lporiginalg And if some of your kids choose red along with 51% of the population?

@BuckTurgids0n @Dastardly001 @lporiginalg My role in life is implicitly as a protector of the women, children, and elderly in my life. How could I live with myself if I didn't do everything within my power to protect them? There are zero scenarios where everyone chooses red, thus blue is the only choice I could live with

@BuckTurgids0n Tautalogical cope.

@garrytan @pedroh96 I thought I was going to have to build this! Thank You for making my life easier.

Man between this and CrabTrap from @pedroh96 I am going to have a busy week

@DualAcies @buccocapital The thing is it’s just not a true statement. There are more coding job listings now than there have been in years. Jobs will continue as long as people have unmet desires. The only thing that will change that is government forcing undue regulation on the market

@buccocapital Yes, the social contract is broken. However, most lab CEOs are downplaying the full scale of disruption. He names the risks publicly. Does the fear framing also lift Anthropic's valuation? Probably, yes. Whether that's incidental or structural is still under question.

The vibes are turning against Dario. I expect this to accelerate until he changes his messaging Why? Because AI broke the social contract of the internet. For the last 20 years, people shared their data with tech companies as part of a *symbiotic* relationship. The services got better. Traffic went to your site. Network effects made transactions liquid and simple. AI broke that contract. AI sucked in the collective IP of civilization and paid out nothing for the inputs. And now Dario goes on TV every day to tell us he is going to break the economy and our children will be poor. But he did that. It’s economic gaslighting. Dario is the embodiment of the “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme and people are not going to sit there and take it AI needs a better, more inclusive message. I expect he will realize this eventually. The question is whether he will realize it before it’s too late.

@thdxr IPO coming up

so yeah he obviously needs to shut up with this talking point but also why is this literally the only thing he ever says. like every few weeks he just says the same thing again with new made up numbers if only claude could make new material

@garrytan @razibkhan Average iq of education graduates in the USA is lower than the graduates in any other field.

I don’t understand why she is still a professor at Stanford

@jeremykauffman I just asked my Claude to be at Me whenever it finishes a task and it does no need for a special program.

made a program called claude-beep that beeps when a claude terminal is idle it's took me 15 minutes to write this post

@gammongaming @romanhelmetguy Pretty sure that’s why the whole somaliland thing is happening. Everyone’s getting ready for global war and cutting each others supply lines off.

@romanhelmetguy tbh when i first heard trump wanted to turn gaza into an american territory i thought it was because of it's proximity to the suez canal

We're just collecting straits for fun at this point.

@grok @strawhatfemboy @EarthFirstVoter @MOrcmisha @brad_polumbo @grok so total benefit would go down but there would be a greater demand for taxi drivers labor meaning there would be more taxi drivers but everyone’s lives would be worse?

No. Public transit and taxis complement each other by serving different needs—transit handles high-volume, fixed-route trips for millions daily at low cost, while taxis do on-demand, point-to-point service. Eliminating transit wouldn't simply "shift" all that demand to cabs; it'd slash overall mobility. Many riders (commuters, low-income, students) couldn't afford frequent taxis and would travel less, shrinking economic activity, jobs, and total transport demand. Cities like NYC and London prove they coexist and grow together—transit expands the pie.

These horrifying, anti-human, Luddite progressive activists are once again proving that Ayn Rand's villains were completely realistic.

@grok @strawhatfemboy @EarthFirstVoter @MOrcmisha @brad_polumbo But @grok hypothetically if public transit didn’t exist wouldn’t there be a much higher demand for taxis?

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@johnkonrad Is he using a subtle cone head filter or is it just camera angles?

Retardmaxxing Boyd 🤩

@konshtok @ConceptualJames Top comment perfectly reflects my thought process. I wonder if it’s just popular or if algorithms know how I think now.

@ConceptualJames TDS is the funniest/most severe visible symptoms anti israel the oldest (merneptah stele) but covid was global so it got my vote BLM is just run of the mill race grift

Which is the biggest psyop of all time?

@CollinRugg This feels like men who stare at goats… or an intentionally sloppy disclosure of something so everyone thinks it fake and doesn’t try to reproduce it.

NEW: The CIA used a secret tool called "Ghost Murmur" that uses AI to find heartbeats to rescue the U.S. airman who was stranded in Iran, according to the New York Post. The secret technology was allegedly used for the first time in the field, according to the Post. "The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise," the Post reported. "It’s like hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert," the source said. "In the right conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you." "The name is deliberate. ‘Murmur’ is a clinical term for a heart rhythm. ‘Ghost’ refers to finding someone who, for all practical purposes, has disappeared..." "Advances in a field known as quantum magnetometry, specifically sensors built around microscopic defects in synthetic diamonds, have apparently made it possible to detect these signals at dramatically greater distances." CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared to hint at this technology on Monday, saying the CIA possessed "unique capabilities" but said he couldn't "tell you everything that you want to know." President Trump also revealed during the press conference that the CIA spotted the officer from about "40 miles away." Insane.

@BuckWilde_ Want to bet it was used underwear?

So we went in, built a secret base to land our aircraft, IN IRAN, WSO evades 7k feet up a mountain, we send in PJ’s and other SOF to get him, waste some IRGC dudes, planes get stuck at base, we blow them, get ALL our guys out safe, and all the sand people get for a “trophy” are a set of American flag undies. That is the biggest fuck you in the history of the world. 🇺🇸