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Chip Meyer

@RealChippy

Technology consultant. I grok grok. Proud husband, father. Marked safe from being in the Epstein files.

Los Angeles शामिल हुए Mart 2022
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Enguerrand VII de Coucy
Enguerrand VII de Coucy@ingelramdecoucy·
A new Star Trek series, but it’s made by people who have actually watched and enjoyed the previous Star Trek series
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Vince Langman
Vince Langman@LangmanVince·
Are you still a fan of Tucker Carlson?
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
I had an amazing employer-provided PPO that cost me next to nothing. You stole it. You stole my doctor. My brother just died of cancer. He had no health insurance because he could not afford your premiums. It was cheaper to take the tax hit. You are a disgusting, fetid liar who did more to harm America's health than anything since tuberculosis.
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama@BarackObama·
The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
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J. Whitebread
J. Whitebread@JWhitebread1·
Project Hail Mary is an exceptional film. Great adaptation of the novel. Go see it. Anything I could criticize about it would be nitpicking. ... BUT HEY! THAT'S WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR! SO LET'S DO THIS! NITPICKS AWAY! If you loved the parts of the novel of where Grace "sciences" his way out of problems, a hallmark of Weir's writing, you aren't going to get much of that out of this film. They chose instead to focus on the relationship between Rocky and Grace, which was the right call. It's mostly a story about a man finding his courage through an unlikely friendship. Still, there are hints to those problem-solving scenes in the movie. One of my favorites is near the end of the novel where Grace uses the spin-drives on the Hail Mary as an improvised IR LiDAR to find Rocky's disabled ship. If you look at the displays, you can tell that's what he's doing, but they never explain it, it's more of an Easter Egg to fans of the book to let us know, hey, we love that part of the book too. Still, the movie has a LOT of musical montages, and long cinematic scenes where nothing much happens other than gorgeous visuals. They are beautiful, but, they could have cut a few minutes of those and put a LITTLE more of the science into the movie, I think. Overall, very great film though, great performances, great sets and visuals and really heart-warming.
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@Dystop1anFvtvre @johnkonrad Absolutely! It's so much more complicated than a single "comment" can cover. But I discovered a lot in the process. For instance, I can tell "bias" (political affiliation) from the importance a person places on a story. Predictions are tough, especially about the future.
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Dystopian Future
Dystopian Future@Dystop1anFvtvre·
@RealChippy @johnkonrad The crazy thing is, knowing the most about a subject and being able to make accurate predictions about a subject don’t necessarily overlap all that much.
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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
Today I had four books open, all my notes & a dozen AI agents doing hard research. My conclusion? The vast majority of takes on X regarding the shipping crisis & Hormuz were wrong 2 weeks ago Today every single account I read is wrong about something important. Every one. Including me.
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@johnkonrad I put the whole project aside when Elon stepped in, but I will take another look.
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@mitchellvii I think we should go back to senators appointed by the state legislators. Not the popular vote.
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Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell@mitchellvii·
The problem with six years for senators is they become too comfortable, and they're too vulnerable to lobbyists and outside interests. They forget who elected them. The problem with two years for House members is they're always running for re-election. We need to change it to four years for both, and elect them at the same time we elect the President.
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@HillsEmilyJ I agree! This was the best theater experience I have had since pre-covid! (Twice now, I have seen it twice so far).
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Emily Hills
Emily Hills@HillsEmilyJ·
That was INCREDIBLE. The theater wasn’t very crowded at all, but a couple had reserved seats next to mine. When they sat down, the wife apologized, and I said “no, now it doesn’t look like I’m at the movies alone!” 😂 She replied, “You’re with us!” 🤗 What a wonderful film, and a great experience getting my toes wet back out in society :) 11/10, movie and the day! 💜
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First time in a theater in a decade… waiting to see @projecthailmary in @IMAX 🍿😁💜

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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@SarahAHoyt Somehow, the right person at the right time always seems to emerge.
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Sarah A. Hoyt
Sarah A. Hoyt@SarahAHoyt·
What he said. My admiration for Data Republican is unbound. She is literally the miracle we needed and do not deserve.
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius

RE: Data Republican I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well. But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman. You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you. For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned. This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected. These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness. Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible. It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST. You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under. And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR. I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall. For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding. An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear. But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out. Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense." If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them. This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President. Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is. I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that. One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@sudsmixer @JWhitebread1 At least Rocky looked more like the book than the ship did. (Not complaining, the movie was far better than the book sketch on this).
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Ron Barnhart@sudsmixer·
@RealChippy @JWhitebread1 They couldn't blow off the dust since movie Rocky was the wrong shape and had no radiator like the book...
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@JohnnyLCKai When Back to the Future 3 came out, I took a group of friends to a premier in Hollywood. 8 hours. First, they showed #1 and #2, then the premier for #3. I never did that for Matrix.
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Johnny Lawrence
Johnny Lawrence@JohnnyLCKai·
This is #JohnnyLawrenceMovieMadness 128 films in one tournament down to 64 across all genres and eras that lets you decide which will be number one🎬🏆 🎥There is a poll in the thread for you to vote and please remember to share these so we get more people involved🎥 We’ve got Marty and Doc going back in time and spawning a trilogy of epic movies taking on a bleak futuristic film fighting to save humanity that also led to a trilogy plus 1. (#3 Seed) Back To The Future VS (#30 Seed) The Matrix #Follow #Share #Vote #Movie #Tournament #Poll #BacktotheFuture #TheMatrix #Films #Movies #Repost
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Sean Gois
Sean Gois@seangois·
@JWhitebread1 @bmariner Haven’t seen the movie but the engineering was the only thing I liked about the book. Otherwise it was unimaginative for an alien encounter. Their differences were only superficial. But solving engineering problems might not work for a movie.
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@JWhitebread1 @bmariner Heh. In the Martian book, they "joked" about playing Iron Man. In the movie, they skipped the science, did it anyway, and created a great scene.
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J. Whitebread
J. Whitebread@JWhitebread1·
Fair. One of the few things I DISLIKED about the novel was that he pulls the "science the shit out of this" gimmick a bit too often. I get that it is Weir's schtick, it's what made him famous, but once you determine that a pencil is falling too fast for normal gravity, do you really need to do a pendulum test to determine if you are in a centrifuge? It kinda drags in the beginning, once Rocky shows up, it gets much better. The movie very wisely glossed over that too.
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Frank Brown
Frank Brown@FrankBr05713205·
Has anyone ever seen the insides of one of these engines and can you identify what kind of engine it is?
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Chip Meyer@RealChippy·
@LionelMedia Same reason a bullet does more damage when fired than when dropped.
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