Hunter Seefried

@twosnips @xwanyex What is the alternative though? If everyone just hunkers down and tries to ignore people smoking, tweaking, playing loud music, and other disruptive things on public transit, surely that will make public transit a much worse place to be over time, no?

@xwanyex You’re assuming this person will react violently when police escalate nonviolent situations every day and shoot people without cause. not even sure why you’re inserting yourself in this conversation when it was about leftists endorsing police activity lol

If a guy smokes on the train and the police ask him to stop and he violently resists and then the cops kill him, then that’s a good result for society. It’s obviously a personal tragedy. That person might have family. Individual lives will be disrupted. One easily mourns the loss of a life that ended so unnecessarily. But we’re not going to get anywhere on crime until people allow themselves to believe that this is a good outcome and that we are not infinitely obligated to optimize for preventing it.

"Christian characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are atheists." "Atheist characters in movies are poorly written because the writers are Christian." Stop fighting. All human experience is poorly written in movies because the writers are Californian.

it’s time

Multiple things can be true at once: 1. Calling the police in response to this is unhinged 2. Using customer information for personal reasons is almost always bad 3. Apologizing while shooting your shot is pathetic and makes your message more likely to sound creepy

@Aella_Girl I think you're discounting the role of virtue-signalling in vegetarianism. Obviously not the majority, but there are definitely people who only do it to impress their peer group or look like a better person

a great test of "would you have been chill with owning slaves, if you'd been born into a slave-owning family" is whether or not you're vegetarian today

Andor did something to me that no other Star Wars film ever could: they made me actually HATE the empire. Before they were just nebulous bad guys, but in Andor they became an oppressive violent force that exerted their authority just because they could and I wanted them to lose like never before.

It’s truly unbelievable that the State Department put this clip out. So, Iran can’t be allowed to have a nuke (which they don’t) or they would be able to close the strait (which they already did) because we wouldn’t be able to stop them (which we currently can’t).

Whoever dubbed this is great

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry. The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine. The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true. The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either. The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought. The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to. The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus. He is confident. He has always been confident. The confidence has never been the problem. The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

@ElMarko399679 @Handre I don't think any sane person is coming after people who used the program. The problem lies entirely with the program itself and those who created and pushed it

@Handre I used it but I have legit reasons. The frame on the truck was bent & driver door wouldn't open without bending the front fender & it messed up the door hinges. Also, i needed new tires, brakes, and the A/C system was bad. No way I would have got $3500 for that truck.

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

24 years old. Fully paid off Costco hotdog. It's not "parents money". It's not luck. It's consistency. It's discipline. I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

@Xisofuckingay @RepThomasMassie @KyleSeraphin The idea that the one guy who is trying to bring accountability to people in power is somehow a puppet of those people is wild. Truly one of the most insane takes I have seen in a while.

@RepThomasMassie @KyleSeraphin Thomas Massie is the new Trump. He tells you everything you want to hear just like Trump. Acts like he's against the opposition just like Trump. He's another puppet to give the people hope so they will stay comfortable, complacent, and docile.

This is the dumbest and most feeble minded message I have read in a long time. It reminds me of the rambling tough guy talk of Joe Biden. How pathetic.

For real, @RepThomasMassie ‘s contenders are all the same: fake.

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ngl, they got me in the first half 😂

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

This is 10x more impressive than Babe Ruth calling his shot in a baseball game

Novel form of terrorism where you force your enemies to choose between being bombed or shooting down the aerospace equivalent of a pristine 1965 Mustang GT

Never gets old