Sam 🇨🇦 🔰

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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰

Sam 🇨🇦 🔰

@sam_ess604

I ask questions and attempt to spit facts. #georgism #ClassConscious #NeuroDivergent

Beigetreten Mayıs 2021
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰
Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
IT and development roles, it seems to me, will not be the last to fall, but among the first. I came to programming early—eight years old, clutching my first stack of books, convinced there was something enduring in learning how systems speak. Years later, I tried to return to it in earnest, intending to formalize that curiosity through a computer science degree. But the ground shifted faster than I expected. I had already watched my previous work in copywriting dissolve into automation, replaced not with malice but with quiet efficiency. Then, almost without warning, the same current reached programming—AI no longer just assisting, but producing code with unsettling competence. At that point, the path I had imagined no longer felt stable enough to justify the investment. So I stepped away—not out of defeat, but from a recognition that the landscape had changed in ways I wasn’t prepared to ignore.
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Reethu@ritu_twts·
Be honest devs, Is coding still worth learning in the AI era?
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@stardewy_ I eat two cups of lentils with pumpkin and chia seeds as well as a couple eggs in the morning for about 50g of protein. I'm full till dinnertime after my morning meal, and top things off with a complete protein and some carbs in the evening.
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sadie adler@stardewy_·
how are you guys eating 100g+ of protein in a day
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@VraserX Built in computer use would accelerate a project i'm currently offloading to the API and manually doing with a user interface. Getting hyped.
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VraserX e/acc@VraserX·
OpenAI drops GPT 5.5 this week. An omnimodal model with native agentic capabilities and built in computer use, not some bolted on side tool. If this lands, it changes everything.
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
> be landlord discourse > “they provide housing bro” > “they take risk bro” > ok zoom out for 2 seconds > housing market isn’t just “people building homes” > it’s a balance sheet game > banks create credit > credit bids on land > land prices go up > now every new buyer (including landlords) has to borrow more just to access the same dirt > debt service becomes the floor for rent > landlord isn’t setting rent in a vacuum > they’re passing through: > - land price (capitalized expectations) > - interest payments (credit expansion) > - taxes + maintenance > raise land values → raise collateral → banks lend more → repeat loop > “landlord greed” is downstream of that loop > the system literally forces higher rents over time > meanwhile public infrastructure, population growth, and zoning > all get capitalized into land values > society creates the value > landowners capture it > so yeah > you can remove landlords tomorrow > but as long as: > - land is privately captured > - credit flows into land > - gains are capitalized into prices > congrats > you just created a different middleman charging for location > landlords aren’t the root > they’re a transmission mechanism > fix the land incentives (LVT) > break the feedback loop > rents stop behaving like a debt derivative > until then > enjoy arguing about the middleman > while the balance sheet runs the show
DividendBoomer@BoomerDivvies

Why are landlords so hated? They provide housing, take on debt, and handle repairs. Then they get treated like villains for charging rent. Try having a place to live without any landlords.

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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
I was a poor kid in Canada, and a Child Psychologist working for the school gave me a rigorous academic assessment to determine my giftedness. I was way ahead of other students in most academic subjects and behind in just one or two. I received the title of gifted based on academic performance.
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Kyle Kushblasta
Kyle Kushblasta@SkinnyTuna·
@PointyFingShoes my parents were pretty poor but in canada the gifted tests werent scantron stuff they were like playing with blocks
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Kyle Kushblasta@SkinnyTuna·
so wait was the “gifted kid” thing just a more polite way of cloistering all the ADHD kids away from the normies
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@TheActMan_YT Arc Raiders doesn’t have a retention loop, it has a checklist. Grind gear → beat bosses → done. No evolving content, no stakes, no reason to come back. Games like Fortnite survive on novelty and tension. Arc Raiders runs dry. Don’t even get me started on modern MMO loops.
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@HomelessEconomy “They” might want to branch out a bit — Post-Keynesians like Steve Keen, Michael Hudson, James Young are a solid start. Then maybe dip into MMT.
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
>be econ student but not braindead >read Das Kapital >realize marx spotted a real problem but aimed at the wrong target >workers vs capital wasn’t the full picture >land quietly siphoning everything in the background >learn Georgism >oh >rent isn’t just "paying a landlord" >it’s economic rent >unearned value from location, infrastructure, society itself >city grows >nothing changes about the dirt >land price doubles anyway >owner gets rich doing literally nothing >wages go up? >land rent goes up faster >productivity gains? >capitalized into land prices >UBI? >lol landlords already priced it in >argue about capitalism vs socialism online >meanwhile both ignore the same leak in the system >private sector builds stuff >public sector builds infrastructure >landowners capture both >see rent control debate >price ceiling on symptoms >ignore the asset bubble underneath >construction slows >everyone acts surprised >hear "greedy corporations" >check balance sheets >most profits normal >check land values >oh >understand why cities like Vancouver feel impossible >it’s not just wages >it’s not just policy >it’s land absorbing everything >realize taxation isn’t the issue >what you tax is >tax labour? >you punish production >tax capital? >you slow investment >tax land? >you can’t move it >you can’t hide it >you don’t reduce supply >land value tax clicks >capture the unearned >leave wages and production alone >housing gets cheaper to hold >speculation dies >building actually makes sense again >stop arguing ideology >start closing the rent-seeking loop
Handre@Handre

>be social studies student >professor assigns Das Kapital >Marx explains how capitalism exploits workers >makes total sense >capitalism = bad, socialism = good >graduate with $87,000 in student debt >can't find job that pays living wage >blame greedy corporations >apply for government job >get hired at Department of Education >spend 8 hours daily in bureaucratic meetings >produce nothing of value >complain about private sector efficiency on X >vote for politicians promising free healthcare >support rent control to fight housing crisis >wonder why no new apartments get built The same students who read Marx's theory of exploitation never question why government jobs exist or why their "public service" requires extracting wealth from productive workers. They rail against capitalist surplus value while collecting paychecks funded by taxation—the ultimate extraction..

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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@ProfSteveKeen Korea's got the triple dividend stack set in motion. AI/Automation Dividend, Carbon Tax Dividend, and Land Tax Dividend.
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Dear Son.@DearS_o_n·
Name a huge scam that has been normalised?
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Dave@GamewithDave·
For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
Watling acting like land value is some unknowable signal when in reality it’s literally where the surplus shows up. Credit flows into locations, prices get bid up, rents follow — you can observe the whole loop on balance sheets. “the information doesn’t exist” is just a way to dodge the fact that land values are an outcome of the monetary system, not some mystical market signal. We’re already tracking it every time banks expand mortgage credit and collateral values reprice. You don’t need perfect info, you need to stop pretending the residual doesn’t exist.
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Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️
Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️@LVTYIMBY·
Hey, you want to deny that government can do anything? Just repeat "Hayekian" any time anyone suggests doing anything with the government to totally own those statists, rather than actually studying the problem.
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
Money supply doesn’t expand in a vacuum, it expands through balance sheets. From an MMT lens, government deficits add net financial assets to the private sector. That keeps households and firms solvent even as private debt rises. The question is where those flows go. In the US, they don’t just flow into land and financial assets—they also get routed through heavily subsidized, price-insensitive sectors like healthcare and higher education. When demand is backstopped (student loans, Medicare/Medicaid, insurance), providers can raise prices without the usual market discipline. So you get cost inflation + rent extraction instead of productivity gains. At the same time: income + credit → land prices → more collateral → more credit So you end up with two reinforcing loops: 1) Asset inflation (land/financials) 2) Service inflation (healthcare, education) Government spending isn’t the root problem by itself—it’s that these flows are captured by rent-seeking structures instead of expanding real productive capacity. That’s why costs explode even when output doesn’t.
The Homeless Economist@HomelessEconomy

No its land speculation and land values rising pushing up the cost of housing and production

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be honest rn no judgement which game do you have the most hours in
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
Discussion should be open, because that’s how people build fluency in a subject. But research itself isn’t a free-for-all—there’s a difference between participating in a conversation and contributing new knowledge. Experts refine truth, but broader discussion is what keeps it from becoming dogma.
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Hitchslap@Hitchslap1·
I have developed a one question IQ test. Should all scientific questions be open for research and discussion?
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@TiffanyFong As someone with Bipolar and ADHD it works in my cocktail of supplements and prescriptions to get my brain stimulated, often without triggering mania. I hate the cognitive fatigue and low executive functioning I have when I don't have something tickling my dopamine receptors.
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Tiffany Fong@TiffanyFong·
People who smoke weed: why do you enjoy it? I hate being high
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
@VraserX AI gamedev is really taking off. We're sitting on the ability to create entire asset pipelines for games with 2D/3D graphics, and with every iteration of LLM's we grow closer to engineering any video game system in natural language.
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VraserX e/acc
VraserX e/acc@VraserX·
I’m building a simple iOS game called RuneSlide. This is the first playable version. Swipe the board. Merge matching runes. Pick relics during the run. Try not to trap yourself. Built it in a few minutes with Superapp, without a programmer. 🥰 Already feels weirdly addictive.
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Sam 🇨🇦 🔰@sam_ess604·
> be canadian city trying to grow > population increasing > people need housing + transit > seems straightforward > build more housing > build infrastructure > problem solved right? > wrong > land prices already high > why? > because previous growth got capitalized into land > every new transit line > every zoning change > every new amenity > instantly shows up in land values > not in wages > not in productivity > in land > developers now don’t just build housing > they have to outbid speculators > cost of land becomes the project > so what happens? > only the most expensive projects pencil out > luxury condos > tiny units > max density, max rent extraction > “just build more” crowd confused why everything is still unaffordable > because supply is being built on top of a speculative land base > new supply doesn’t compete down prices > it validates the land price > higher prices → higher appraisals → more borrowing capacity > more borrowing → higher bids on land > higher land → higher rents needed to justify builds > feedback loop engaged > now add infrastructure > government builds transit to fix affordability > land near stations spikes immediately > congrats > you just transferred public investment into private land values > now the next project costs even more > because land got repriced > repeat cycle > developers delay builds waiting for prices to rise > owners sit on empty lots > municipalities depend on rising assessments > everyone is financially aligned to NOT lower land prices > so housing + infrastructure get “blocked” > not by a single villain > but by the balance sheet structure of the system > you’re not fighting NIMBYs > you’re fighting a land value spiral > until land stops absorbing all gains > every solution feeds the problem > build more → land up > invest more → land up > grow more → land up > cost of living isn’t a mystery > it’s capitalized
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀@EricDLombardi

Our political class has hated progress and development in the real world for the last 30 years. A group of largely unambiguous and mediocre people who have overseen the decline of our society through the constant management of scarcity through feel good processes. We must reject this mindset in Ontario and Canada. The primary problem with High Speed Rail is that the vision is too small, too one-off, and too near-term. Getting this done is possible at viable costs, but not under our current approach that will raise every objection to building it as a legitimate roadblocks of democracy. The people of Canada want to have infrastructure and services befitting of an advanced and developed society. “No” is a bad answer. “How” is much better.

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