Clint

Domains crossed, every reset survived. Friction met early, transmuted into unrelenting momentum. From newspaper routes and warehouses to telecom launches that connected a nation. Real estate and construction to the crash that opened a door to healing others. Thinker, dreamer, mechanic, and lover of the Maillard reaction. Each scar becomes leverage. 1/4

@mrmikeMTL Society started getting substantially worse when we all got personal communication devices known as smartphones. It makes life easier, even doing the unsavory things.

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse???

@edgaralandough I think there is a healthy blend of when to pass along wealth. Ideally you can give them a head start with no student loan and a down payment on a house so they can build equity early and a nest egg if they can’t build it on their own due to disability or economic hardship.

Inheritance is a dumb idea. Pass on your wealth while you’re alive. Kids don’t need help in their 50s to 70s. They need help in their 20s to 40s paying off debt, buying homes, raising children, and starting businesses.

@KURX_KVMI @aakashgupta This question is way above the limits of my education and knowledge. I’m not sure what information about me gets imprinted on the light waves themselves, but the universe is a strange place, so it’s potentially very more than I realize or can even comprehend.

@PraxisForge @aakashgupta Is this what quantum information is?

The universe is a time machine and the math on the distance ladder will break your brain. 2,000 light-years gets you Rome. Go to 500 light-years and you're watching the Black Plague consume Europe in real time. At 80 light-years, you catch World War II. At 4.24 light-years, the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, the light arriving right now left Earth in 2022. Someone there is watching us argue about whether GPT-4 is sentient. Now scale that in the other direction. The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. An observer there right now sees Earth before modern humans existed. They're watching early hominids figure out stone tools. They have no idea what's coming. The closest alien civilization is statistically estimated at 33,000 light-years away. They would be watching humans invent agriculture for the first time. Writing hasn't been invented yet. Cities don't exist. From their perspective, we are a species that just figured out how to plant wheat. Here's what makes the physics cruel. To actually see a human-sized object on Earth from just 20 light-years away, you'd need a telescope array roughly 100 million kilometers across. That's more than half the diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun. To see Rome from 2,000 light-years? The optics required would be larger than our solar system. The light is real. The photons that bounced off Roman soldiers are still traveling outward at 300,000 km/s right now, carrying that information forever. The universe has a perfect recording of every moment in Earth's history, expanding in all directions at the speed of light. The problem was never distance. The problem is that no civilization, no matter how advanced, can build a lens big enough to read it.

@TheAliceSmith I once told a guy on the left these college kids protesting a speaker were fascists. He said only people on the right can be fascists. I disagreed but then said they were acting like fascists. He was fairly bright and thought for a minute. Complete silence.

The woke Left: “We’re fighting back against fascism…” The woke Left: “…with censorship, centralised bureaucracy, mass surveillance, street thuggery, command and control, two-tier laws, political policing, Big State authority, and other fascist methods.”

@VraserX I don’t know. Maybe AI destroys the prestige economy. But you still have to have the ambition to do something. That’s what drives much of the prestige people. The low drive people will still struggle despite AI.

AI is going to destroy the prestige economy of “smart people jobs” way faster than most people expect. When everyone has elite writing, strategy, research, and coding on tap, what exactly stays elite?

@TexasTamieK We should have had individual accounts and a system to pull a little off the top for disability for others and stuff like that.

Can you imagine if WE were in charge of how our social security was invested from day 1 of our working careers? We’d all be millionaires and retiring at 55 or after 25-30 years of hard labor. We’ve all been suckered.

@TheHumanSpoon @VoterIndy Awesome. Yes. Very much agree. Taxes are necessary and fraud is undesirable. Sorry about the misunderstanding and have a good one.

@PraxisForge @VoterIndy Fraud is undesirable, yes.

Tax advocates are some of the dumbest people on the planet, they will agree that there is rampant fraud and waste and say that’s just living in a society.

@PhsAyub @aakashgupta There is a devilishly handsome and fit version of me floating through the cosmos.

@PraxisForge @aakashgupta Absolutely.

@TheHumanSpoon @VoterIndy No. That’s not theft and I agree they are necessary. Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other. My point is taxes could potentially be lower if they weren’t stolen through fraud. Like social security to dead people, fake daycares, Medicare fraud. That stuff.

@PraxisForge @VoterIndy Taxes aren't theft. Obviously.

@badanimboo @aakashgupta It’s a really neat observation made by the original poster.

@PraxisForge @aakashgupta This sounds amazing as well as humbling

@dedoncorleone3 @aakashgupta Yep.

@PraxisForge @aakashgupta Even the evil is recorded. Watch out haha

@TheHumanSpoon @VoterIndy So you think fraud and theft is okay? Classy. No criminal activity is okay. Only thieves think that way. Talk about entitled.

@PraxisForge @VoterIndy Take personal responsibility and build up your own society of "taxes are theft!" bores elsewhere, then. We know the reason you don't is because you prefer living in working societies, and just whine about your entitlement to it.

@griswold @JoelWard2000 The Mechazilla catch gave me chills. That was absolutely amazing. I was excited about it and was asking everyone if they saw it. Most hadn’t. I was thinking what the heck!

@PraxisForge @JoelWard2000 SpaceX landing Falcon-9 (2015) and catching Super Heavy with Mechazilla (2024) made me stop; but those are novel feats.

No one is talking about Artemis 2 because they don’t know it’s happening next week. The mainstream media should start hyping this up. It will be one the most significant historical events of our lifetime.

@CalicuttChris @aakashgupta Whatever it takes. Some of us are probably worth seeing in a few million years.

@PraxisForge @aakashgupta I was just about to come post this. If a civilation is advanced enough to build solar system wide lenses, then they are smart enough to realize how impractical that is and figured out something else we cant even imagine.

@MarkHodder3 @aakashgupta Well. In reality, I’m pretty insignificant. So only mind blowing to me. The aliens won’t care in a few million years.

@PraxisForge @aakashgupta Is it? 🤔🤨

@sonofalli Being told you are absolutely right is very dangerous. We shifted to that in school and parenting, which has caused societal problems. Now it’s in the AI models a well. I’ve asked Grok for full candor and it seems to help. Some ideas and thoughts need to be stopped cold.

unfortunately the dumbest person you know gets told they’re “absolutely right!” by AI every day

@AustinScholar No bribe is needed to motivate a kid. Be a parent your child loves and respects. Then you become someone they don’t want to disappoint. They will ultimately meet high expectations without you even asking or demanding it.

Motivating your kid to do insanely hard things is easier than you think. Kids are capable of doing things you hadn’t thought possible. You just might have to bribe them. If you want to learn how, read this:

@RealSpitfire Seems like every politician is above the law. I can’t even get out of a parking ticket.

I am so sick of people saying “No one is above the law” Clearly all Democrats are above the law. Illegal aliens even get released after 30 arrests. Our judicial system is broken beyond repair.

@sweatystartup Same. The one finger wave is import around here. People might even get a little miffed if you don’t do it.

I’m from a part of the country where people raise a finger off their steering wheel to complete strangers on the back roads.

@nugbonuggs @Old_SchoolEddie 100%. It was commonplace and solved a lot of problems. I remember even the teachers on the playground at school would just watch. Society just functions better after a few butt kickings.

@Old_SchoolEddie Getting beat up over their smart ass mouth.

If a kid from today went to the early ’80s, what would be the toughest adjustment for them? That the world does not revolve around them and their feelings...