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Tony Andarian

@AndarianP

Tony Andarian is a retired computer scientist. Andarian Publishing is his imprint for developing the Sanctum of the Archmage epic fantasy novels and games.

USA Katılım Şubat 2022
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Jeffrey A Tucker
Jeffrey A Tucker@jeffreytucker·
We need: 1) universal unlimited HSAs, 2) catastrophic plans at any age without "preventive care", 3) individualize med risk assessments, and 4) med insurance off ramps for business that do not mandate purchases from ACA exchanges. Why won't we get them? The politicians are owned.
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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
Stop lying. Trump has held the position that Iran cannot be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, and should be stopped by military force if necessary, for decades. He most certainly ran on it. The ballroom isn't a policy issue of the kind or magnitude to have been part of the campaign. To throw a fit about it because it wasn't is unreasonable, to say the least. Since I have a life and my patience with groypers pretending to be America First while undercutting reasonable presidential policies is limited, this will be my last response to you.
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Rep. Lauren Boebert
Rep. Lauren Boebert@RepBoebert·
Did you know the reason a DC “Judge” halted construction on the White House Ballroom is that a lady who walks her dog by the White House complained it was ugly!? AND THE JUDGE GRANTED HER STANDING AS A RESULT. This judge sided with a liberal dog walker over national security.
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Erin Derham
Erin Derham@HistoryBoutique·
@Variety @naomirwolf Is he seriously comparing law enforcement protecting themselves FROM lunatics - - to a lunatic terrorist who tried to kill a room full of people?
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Variety@Variety·
#GeorgeClooney decries political violence after the Trump attack at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: “I disagree with everything that this administration stands for, but there’s no place for the kind of violence we saw two nights ago in Washington, D.C. Nor is there a room for this kind of violence in Minnesota with Alex Pretti or Renée Good.” Clooney made a push for unity while accepting the Chaplin Award in NYC, concluding that “the question is simply, what are we, as citizens of this great country, to do? And it is that answer in all of us, left, right and center, to build a more perfect union, heal our wounds and begin to truly make America great again.”  variety.com/2026/film/news…
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The Misfit Patriot
The Misfit Patriot@misfitpatriot_·
@MSherisse64847 Because blackpilling is giving up. It’s a cowards way of dealing with challenges. Claiming it doesn’t matter and there’s nothing we can do is for fucking losers, and I’m not a loser.
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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
@CynicalPublius I've been seeing comments on screenshots of others' posts for a LONG time. Not sure I see an uptick in that yet, but I haven't been spending time looking.
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
Since the great monetization re-shuffling, I see big accounts commenting on screenshots of somebody else's posts instead of just quote posting. This sucks because then you have to go find the original post instead of just clicking on it. Grok has assured me that under the new rules, quote posts with meaty commentary constitute original posts for monetization purposes. I really wish people would go back to the old method of quote posting.
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Hannah Wallen | Too Dangerous For #Facebook!
Here is another way to think of this scenario. You are on the sidewalk in front of a burning house. You do not see any evidence to determine whether or not there is anyone inside. You do not see any evidence that the fire will be put out before it consumes the house. Do you go inside, even though you cannot determine whether there's anyone inside, just in case there might be someone in need of rescue? If not, then no matter what you think right now, if presented with the choice in the absence of any evidence as to which button anyone else has picked, knowing one button carries a risk of your death and the other does not, you would push the red button. If you do, then you might be a blue button pusher. Now, imagine another person is with you on the sidewalk. You discuss the fire briefly and both conclude that none of the available evidence can help you determine if anyone is inside. The other guy decides to check inside. You think the roof could collapse and the timing would be unpredictable. Do you try to stop him? If so, you would not only push the red button, but you'd try to stop others from pushing the blue button. Imagine you are unable to stop the other guy. You see him take off running, but the smoke blocks your vision and you can't tell if he went inside, or ran somewhere nearby for some reason. You are certain that the condition of the building and the fire make a roof collapse very possible, but still not very predictable. If the roof collapses and that guy is inside, he will die. If you enter, you might be able to rescue him, but you might both die, or he might not be in there and you might die in there alone. Do you run in after him to try to rescue him? If so, you could be influenced by others' actions to push the blue button. If not, you'd more likely push the red button. You've probably faced things in life that inspired you to act in ways that you didn't think you would. You think - or at least hope - that you'd behave in a way that is brave, or altruistic, or otherwise admirable in such situations, but when confronted with the reality, you have a different response. It's only moderately useful to do these thought exercises like the red and blue button meme. Mostly, it just pressures people to take a side and defend it as if their life depended on it. If it really did, you'd have to think... what is the smarter choice here, in a situation where literally nobody has to risk death: believing that some people chose that unnecessary risk anyway, just because they can or on the assumption that others have... or believing it to be entirely unlikely that anybody would take such a risk if they had another, no-risk (to them) choice? Do you feel morally obligated to do something profoundly stupid and risky just because someone else -might- have done it? I don't. I think it's more likely that regardless of what people think they would do, everyone will push the red button if such a situation arises, especially if they are alone with the buttons and their own aversion to death. For that reason alone, it would be idiotic to push the blue button. I also don't feel morally obligated to do something profoundly stupid and risky just because someone else might have done so and might now be depending on others to do the same. I would push the red. And if I saw another person reaching for the blue, I'd probably kick their dumb ass for even thinking about it. What the fuck is wrong with people that anyone would think it's a good idea to push the maybe death button in a no death or maybe death choice, when nobody has to do that?
󠁧󠁢BeuwenDragon@BeuwenDragon

Blue button pushers are easily manipulated by deceptive wording, selfishly resorting to emotional coercion to manipulate other people into gambling their lives to save them from the consequences of their own choice, all while gaslighting everyone to thinking they are altruistic.

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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop. Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly. The fundamental question is simply this: Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever. I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. Then they stole the charity.
X Freeze@XFreeze

Interesting how it works Elon puts up his own money, rounds up the absolute best AI talent on the planet, leverages every connection he has to secure serious resources, and launches OpenAI in 2015 as a pure non-profit explicitly created to develop AI for the benefit of humanity, with zero profit motive and open research Then the “team” decides they want the bag They push Elon out, take control, and quietly flip the entire thing into a for-profit machine All while preaching the same sanctimonious lines on repeat: “We’re still mission-driven!” “AI for the good of humanity!” “We’d never abandon our principles!” The ultimate betrayal: Elon got zero equity. Not a single share. He funded it. He built the foundation. He got nothing while they turned his non-profit into their personal cash cow This is the level of betrayal and hypocrisy we’re dealing with And for the record.... this lawsuit doesn’t put a single penny in Elon’s pocket. Any win goes straight back to the non-profit to restore the exact mission he founded

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Jeffrey A Tucker
Jeffrey A Tucker@jeffreytucker·
There is a math problem behind the SPLC's scam. The regulatory requirement is that nonprofits (not schools or churches) raise a third of their revenue from the public and not merely earn it from assets. If SPLC had $1B in the denominator that earned 10%, that means it needs public support at $50M yearly, with a numerator capped at 2% from any single source. That means: vast numbers of smaller donations are required to maintain the nonprofit status. How to make this happen? They had to stage theaters of the problem they pledged to solve, if only to avoid a forced conversion to a foundation.
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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
@pbreit @jack_whitcomb_ I'm not here to give you a remedial course in reading comprehension. If you can't understand what I just wrote, that is NOT my problem. The question is not worthy of attention on your terms. And I won't grant it, or you, that attention. Take a hike.
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P Breit 🇺🇸@pbreit·
@AndarianP @jack_whitcomb_ No. The whole point is that a lot of people will press two given the setup for whatever reason. “Everyone in the world” was explicitly stated.
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Jack Whitcomb
Jack Whitcomb@jack_whitcomb_·
I'm convinced this is just a poorly phrased question. If you pose it as: - Anyone who presses the red button lives no matter what. - Anyone who presses the blue button dies, unless > 50% of people also press the blue button. then it's clear that pressing the blue button is dumb.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

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?

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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
@LoveMyGrands8 @JustTheTweets17 @RepBoebert I'm sorry, but what part of "tell your BS story walking" do you have trouble understanding? As I said to the last cognitively challenged individual who asked your inane question, we voted for the judgement of the president who's building the ballroom. Troll blocked.
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Dani
Dani@danielle819·
@mattvanswol @McCormickProf Trump still rails on Obama constantly, and when Obama was president, he faced multiple assignation attempts including someone shoot at the White House and ricin mailed to him.
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Robert P. George
Robert P. George@McCormickProf·
I'll probably get clobbered for this, but here goes: Please, can everyone, right or left, MAGA or anti-MAGA, Republican or Democrat, stop catastrophizing and trying to get everyone on your side worked up into a rage? It's not Flight 93. We're not on the verge of fascism. We do not need to take desperate measures. Our fellow citizens with whom we disagree are not devils incarnate or personifications of evil. We need to argue with our political adversaries--passionately perhaps--but with respect for their humanity and dignity. We don't need to destroy them. That mustn't be our aim. We all say we believe in democracy. Good! But democracy is all about persuading, giving reasons, engaging one another as fellow citizens, despite our disagreements. Let's rebuild civic friendship. We can do this. (Thank you for your attention to this matter.)
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
Actually, drastic measures are required when your political opponents consistently try to murder your President. I can’t believe this has to be explained. You cannot continue as normal when one side is murdering or trying to murder the other side. And the response from the people who spent two years calling the President a fascist, a dictator, a Nazi, a king? “Well, you have to understand why people are upset.” No. I don’t. The Left told the country it was 1933. They told them voting wasn’t enough. They told them the man in the Oval Office was Hitler. Some of them believed the Left. Some of them acted on it. And now you want to lecture us about civic friendship? Civic friendship ended the moment one side decided the other side wasn’t human. That line got crossed a long time ago and it wasn’t crossed by us. One side has suspended the rules to the soccer game, taken up arms and is killing and trying to kill the best players in the other team. We are not going to pretend nothing happened and continue playing soccer and get killed for it. You prosecute the people inciting it. You defund the NGOs laundering it. You investigate the networks moving the money. You make it expensive, professionally and legally, to call your neighbors Nazis on television. That isn’t the end of democracy. That’s how you save it. You want civic friendship back? Tell the Left to stop killing and trying to kill people the disagree with. Until then, shut up.
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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
@KelemenCari Overall, probably the income tax. That's not to minimize the damage being done by property taxes, though, especially in recent years, and in making home ownership unaffordable.
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Cari Kelemen
Cari Kelemen@KelemenCari·
Which would have a greater impact for the better? Eliminating the Income Tax? Or eliminating the Property Tax? Love to know your reasoning.
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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
@LoveMyGrands8 @JustTheTweets17 @RepBoebert You can tell your "Epstein cabal" BS walking, Banana Brain. That you lack the critical thinking to realize you've been psyopped by the same operation that convinced the WHCD shooter that Trump was a p**o is YOUR problem. We voted for the ballroom, and YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR US.
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Tony Andarian
Tony Andarian@AndarianP·
@JustTheTweets17 @RepBoebert We voted for the judgement of the individual building the ballroom, Captain Presumptuous. And many tens of millions of Americans are solidly behind it. YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR US. Like I said: Elections have consequences. Deal with them.
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