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@realmfberlin I'm still mad about whoever invented gravity.

Who tf invented math and how we know he right?

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.” — Douglas Adams.

Why would someone who has a very high IQ achieve nothing worthwhile in their life?

@MaryBowdenMD It's easing cross-language communication, not forcing friendships. You can still make enemies 😜

This push to make us friends with the Japanese on X feels like propaganda.

@LibertarianG0th Who is this Reddit? 😅

I fucking hate Reddit.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @nanshisweets I really love strawberry rhubarb pie when I can get my hands on it. Other than that, I'd definitely take cherry and apple over pumpkin and pecan. But I do agree that for Thanksgiving, we usually have them too......for decoration haha

@nanshisweets Our three favorite pies for Thanksgiving are pumpkin, apple, and pecan.

日本語の投稿がアメリカの人に翻訳なしで届くようになったって本当ですか！？みなさん、サンクスギビングデーに本当にパンプキンパイを食べているのか、日本語で質問できるってことですか！？

There are at least 3 camps in the US: 1. Trump haters who oppose anything he does 2. Anti Israel crowd who hate anything Israel touches 3. People who've watched endless US wars and just don't want another one I'm mostly #3. But I do see some indirect value here. Every recent military move under Trump seems aimed at great power competition, mainly China. Iran is a key strategic partner. Same oil, same sanctions evasion networks, same interest in a weaker US footprint. Degrading Iran degrades that relationship. If a weakened Iranian regime also gives ordinary Iranians a little more breathing room, then that's a real upside. Still, I'm generally sick of these wars.

アメリカ人に聞きたい アメリカとイスラエル対イランの紛争はアメリカの戦闘行為は正しいと思っているの？ 正しい 正しくない どちらでもない 日本人には、どうして戦争しているのか分からないよ

Has anyone here watched the One Piece live-action on Netflix? I know it’s not anime, but I’m curious how people feel about it. I had to adjust to the costumes, it’s definitely a diff universe, but once I did, I thought it was really well done. I’m also a big fan of the original anime.

親愛なるアメリカ兄貴たちに このポストが見えているでしょうか？ 見えていたら 好きな日本のアニメを教えてほしいです。

All four are contributing factors, not causes. Crime requires an irrational choice. You're gambling your freedom, the one thing no rational person would ever put a price on. Poverty, leniency, discrimination, and inequality can raise the pressure and temptation, but they don't make the choice. Plenty of people face all four and never commit a crime.

From your experience of human nature and from your study and reading, what do you think is the main cause of crime?

@jackvlloyd Rothbard wanted a big tent. The LP let in socialists, anarchists, and conspiracy theorists, etc and still couldn't crack 5% of the popular vote. Half a century later and the label means nothing. Good luck reclaiming it though 🤷

Libertarian: - Capitalist - Pro-Western Values - Individualist - Pro-truth over falsehood - Pro-defense against tyranny Liberaltarian: - Socialist-leaning - Anti-corporation - Buys all foreign propaganda lies so long as it sounds "anti-West" - Enabler of foreign tyrants

@Handre Prosecuting con men for fraud, repelling foreign military invasions, enforcing contracts through the courts. There's more, but take your pick.

I present a challenge to any collectivist, fiat, or big government shill: Present me with any government action or law, and I will tell you why it's bad.

@rushicrypto Must be nice living in that simple world. No married couples filing separately, no LLCs, no family trusts, no REITs with 40K retail shareholders, no corporations, no pension funds. Just individual bad guys hoarding houses.

I’m tired of watching people treat houses like collectibles while others can’t even afford one. Why can’t it be simple? Low tax on your first home. Double on the second. Triple on the third. If you can afford 5 houses, you can damn well afford higher taxes. Right now it just feels like the system is built to make the rich richer and everyone else stuck chasing something they’ll never catch.

@rushicrypto You're right that they fund services. The miss is that the amount isn’t based on usage. It’s based on your home’s value. That’s why it feels like paying sales taxes or even rent on a property you supposedly own.

I’m very confused about the number of people who think “property tax” is a sales tax on you home rather than taxes to pay for public services you use every day. “I paid off my home why do i still pay property taxes?!?!?” Oh, did you also stop using the roads and libraries and sidewalks and parks? Not worried about fires anymore?

@JohnnyAGI I genuinely hope that going forward, everyone, regardless of politics, assembles peacefully.

I am so confused. How in the world did "the violent left" assemble 8 million people in over 3,000 locations across the country without a single incident of violence? No one even assaulted a police officer I was told the left were violent and hated America. What gives? 🤯

I've been a software engineer for two and a half decades. I haven't manually written a single line of code in a while. I use Claude and Codex simultaneously, with multiple agents in each. They're writing plans, implementing those plans into code, reviewing PRs across multiple branches, doing manual testing, hunting for edge cases and security flaws, reading and writing Jira tickets and Confluence pages, doing research, and writing and reading emails and Slack conversations. It's an orchestra of 2–5 agent sessions running at the same time, guided by multiple dozens of extremely detailed command files, skill files, and local tools that I had them build. I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "building with it," which is why I'm just describing it. But to claim I'm not afraid of it would be a lie. I'm afraid that for the first time in my life, I don't know where I'll be in the next 3–5 years. I'm afraid that less human eyes are on the code I'm shipping, and I could be missing security vulnerabilities. I'm afraid that entire industries can be disrupted so fast that people won't have time to adapt and that that could cause significant problems for myself and others in this field. I'm afraid that companies have been, and will continue to be, using AI as an excuse to fire people. So yeah, I'm definitely afraid.

Unpopular opinion: Most devs are scared of AI because they never actually tried building with it. Fight me 👇

@NathanpmYoung Best doctors for the diagnosis, favourite snake-oil salesman for the cure.

climate change: listen to the consensus of experts economics: here is my favourite crank

Humans require a philosophy to live. Religion is one attempt to fill that need. But so are nationalism, communism, fascism, etc. Gutting religion doesn't guarantee an improvement. What moves the needle is a philosophy that treats human life as valuable, reason as the standard of judgment, and individual rights as non-negotiable.

I honestly wish religion had never existed. Imagine how far we would be as a species if humanity consistently pursued evidence-based, rational answers instead of constructing narratives around imagined deities.

@Kekius_Sage Yes, if it doesn’t become our last invention lol

Could AI be the greatest invention humans have ever made?

@yay3d @BenjaminDEKR Quality vs quantity. One war to end all wars 😅

@BenjaminDEKR dont fuck up the system prompt because kill all humans -- is a solution

Reverse Terminator: what if we gave Claude and Gemini control of the military and the end result was 10x fewer wars?

@lunarwallfacer_ @sutherlandphys None of this may matter if we hit real AGI. If it's actually super intelligent, god-level, smarter than us, then every alignment scheme we’re debating right now is just a comforting illusion.

@sutherlandphys When you realise alignment is the process by which humans ensure the rest of the Universe doesn't kill them and that it can't obtain with an AGI your tweets start to sound like something went incredibly wrong with your mind.

When you realize AGI would be considered people, "alignment" starts to sound a lot like slavery

@askaya I define success as having a loving family, good friends and time to enjoy life with them.

I don’t usually generalize , but… most successful men have a wife. most successful women are single. why do you think that is?