Shane

A homeland worth fighting for. May God continue to bless the most beautiful nation on earth.

If you get paid $10,000 for each rep of an exercise but the weight is your bodyweight what exercise are you choosing, and how many reps are you doing?

weekend in seattle so far: - i have not seen a single laptop running claude code - no one has mentioned ai, except to disparage it. they don't know gpt5.5 just dropped - many young people are unemployed, but in a genuine way and not the gross "starting something big" way everyone is relaxed. the performative anxieties of the bay area do not exist here. no one has told me about their startup. much to consider

Senator John Fetterman: “After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.”

Okay: In this case, the red button is simply replaced with "Don't do that". This is NOT what the original question said. The original question required the active participation of the red button pushers. The equivalent scenario would have the red team **turning on the blender**.

“I would vote blue to save people who voted blue because they don’t understand the question but those who voted red because they don’t understand the question are horrible people” Put it in the louvre, this is pure crystal-distilled tribalism

Red pressers fail to understand that changing the wording or making contrived allegories changes the optimal answer because it changes the average answer, and the scenario is entirely dependent on the average answer

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

Evolution isn’t random you idiot .

When I told my wife about this game she asked something I haven’t heard at all in the discourse: how would you tell our kids (ours are under 7) to vote?

Wrong. After everyone survives because the blue buttons won, we go on a systematic eradication campaign against anyone who pressed the red button.

The funny thing is, most people voted blue which means everyone's fine regardless and the people who voted red are pissed about it lmao.

Final thought: the argument seems to be that "in the real world" (aka you lost the poll) people are selfish, and therefore you must press red. But... you also pressed red. Every red vote claims they are a victim of other red votes' selfishness. But nobody confronts this idea lol

Two buttons lie before you Button A - if you can get 50%+1 of people to agree with you, no one dies Button B - if you can get 100% of people to agree with you, no one dies

All the red button pushers are mad but as you can see by the results, they lived. And they will live to cry about it.

Red is unambiguously the "game theoretically correct" position, but it's actually encouraging that the majority still picks Blue, because it means that a majority of people are willing to take on meaningful personal risk to save their neighbor, which I think is beautiful

You have to admit this is a hilarious tweet. Blue has won and everyone lives but all the red pressers are coping about their high IQs or whatever while having to love the rest of their lives knowing they would cowardly condemn their fellow man to death to save their own skin.

Nuclear-powered shipping is so obviously the right solution, it pains me we didn’t go this direction decades ago: - 10,000x fuel-density: less space for fuel, more cargo, more revenue. - 5-10 yrs between refuels: less stops, longer or new routes, higher uptime. - 7,600 U.S. military naval reactor-years: nuclear at sea is already proven. - 440 civilian land reactors: no reason civilians can't do it at sea as well. - Already proven with NS Savannah. - No dirty exhaust. Can't wait to see what Nick and his team do to push this forward.