Technologist
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Technologist
@Colter
Husband, Father of B/G Twins, CTO/CMO, Technologist, Business Advisor
Austin, Texas Katılım Ekim 2007
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Nothing says intellectual honesty like reducing millions of people to cherry-picked crime stats while ignoring poverty, over-policing, segregation, sentencing disparities, education gaps, and economic history. Rage-bait isn’t sociology. It’s always interesting watching immigrants come to America and immediately dedicate their platform to lecturing Black Americans like they invented racism analysis overnight. But hey that’s just my opinion and everyone is entitled to their opinions 😌🇺🇸
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ATTENTION to all the watermelon felons sending me death threats!
Here are 10 irrefutable facts why black fatigue is through the roof in America:
1/10 Black Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population but are a massive net drain on society. They commit 50 to 56 percent of all murders and roughly 50 percent of robberies year after year (FBI UCR data). Black males, who are just 6 to 7 percent of the population, drive the majority of this. Over 90 percent of Black murder victims are killed by other Blacks. Victim surveys (NCVS) match arrest stats, so this is not “racist policing.”
2/10 The Black White IQ gap is real and persistent at about 15 points (average Black around 85, White around 100). This holds up in major tests, meta-analyses, and even transracial adoption studies. It has a strong genetic component with high heritability. This gap heavily drives higher crime, lower education, and poverty, not “systemic racism.”
3/10 Family structure has collapsed. Around 47 percent of Black mothers are single, over 66 percent of Black children grow up in single-mother homes, and 69 percent plus of Black births are nonmarital. This is the biggest predictor of poverty and crime today. These rates exploded after the Great Society welfare programs, not because of slavery which ended 160 years ago.
4/10 They represent a major fiscal drain. Blacks are heavily overrepresented in welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, and other means-tested programs while paying far less in taxes on average. Trillions have already been transferred through welfare and affirmative action with zero meaningful closure of the gaps. This is dependency, not oppression.
5/10 Education is a disaster despite massive spending. NAEP scores show Black students lag Whites and Asians by about 1 standard deviation in reading and math. Urban school districts with high Black populations spend heavily but get terrible results. The problem is culture (“acting White”), behavior, and IQ, not lack of funding.
6/10 The victimhood mentality is toxic. Too many blame everything on “systemic racism,” slavery, redlining, or “White supremacy” instead of facing the data. Grifters like Tariq Nasheed and Dr. Umar push conspiracy theories that keep people stuck. “No snitch” culture and thug glorification make things worse. Culture beats legacy every time.
7/10 The economic and social costs are enormous. The 2020 BLM riots caused 1 to 2 billion dollars plus in insured damages alone, the most expensive civil unrest in U.S. history. Black areas show higher disorder, driving businesses and productive people away, killing investment and raising costs for everyone.
8/10 Police encounters are higher because of higher crime and resistance rates. Blacks are killed by police at 2.5 to 3 times the per capita rate, but this tracks violent offending and armed encounters. The vast majority of Black homicide victims are killed by other Blacks, not police. Compliance would prevent most incidents.
9/10 Old excuses like redlining and slavery do not hold up. Those ended decades ago. Gaps remain even in cities with Black mayors, police chiefs, and majority-Black leadership. Asian Americans and other immigrants faced discrimination and still outperform. Modern behaviors, crime, family breakdown, and low impulse control explain far more.
10/10 Bottom line: High time preference, low accountability, and entitlement culture turn a subset of the community into a constant societal burden. Yes, there is variance and successful high IQ Black people exist (like me), but group averages create real costs in crime, welfare, and chaos. Fix the family, enforce discipline, drop the excuses. Data does not care about your feelings.
Sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer, BJS NCVS, NAEP, Census, adoption studies.
I am Frieza to you monkeys.
Now go ahead and chimp out in the comments at the facts.
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@theoutspokenyew @MyronGainesX I think the point with the biggest impact is the lack of a father in the household. I agree, solutions are the better conversation but where and how does that start?
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I’m more interested in solutions than racial doom-posting.
Yes, we need to talk honestly about crime, family breakdown, education gaps, fatherlessness, trauma, and accountability. But sitting online insulting entire groups of people doesn’t fix anything.
What works is stronger families, better schools, mentorship, fatherhood programs, mental health support, job training, entrepreneurship, and holding violent people accountable.
Culture matters. Structure matters. Leadership matters.
If the goal is improvement, then talk about solutions. If the goal is just humiliation and division, then admit that.
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Will Ferrell hosted the finale of SNL on May 16th as the unhinged Dr. “Some wires got crossed... I accidentally removed your pen*s🤣” “Just one of those things.” What’s your favorite Will Ferrell movie or bit? Or none?
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@MyronGainesX @grok validate these claims and add 3 more claims citing sources. Also identify competing claims for poverty, over-policing, segregation, sentencing disparities, education gaps, and economic history
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Im now wonder if the problem im trying to solve with busybeaver even needs an llm, this seems like a problem you could offload to the cpu, will report back after experimenting with stats
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BusyBeaver-50M now has a Hermes adapter/harness.
It runs as a tiny strict-JSON tool-policy model under Hermes.
Cheap local action routing for:
inspect • test • patch loops • cron • messaging • retries • approvals • clarify-before-delete flows.
Adapter: github.com/DJLougen/BusyB…
Model: huggingface.co/GestaltLabs/Bu…
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Most sad thing about Local LLMs:
People are never satisfied.
6 months ago, when running Llama or GPT-OSS on giant servers wasn't even close to frontier models, everyone said they'd gladly use local LLMs even if they only hit last-gen performance.
Now we got 27b models running locally on MacBooks matching Sonnet-4.6, and people still find a way to complain.
The real smart ones just buy the hardware.
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@Briscolani @HighSchoolOT Not about that, about disregarding a warning that same day.
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Shaughn_A@Shaughn_A2
@HighSchoolOT I mean…that sucks and all but 🤷🏾♂️
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@HighSchoolOT I am sorry i just don’t see how this is taunting.You aren’t shitting on the competition or doing any offensive acts. He simply put his hand up while crossing the finish line. As a country we gotta stop being so soft about about every little instance.
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Mallard Creek boys track and field was disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct after winning the 4x400 relay in the final event of the day. Had the result stayed, the Mavericks would have won the team state championship. Instead, they remained in second place.
You can read the full story on the NCHSAA 8A Track and Field State Championships at highschoolot.com/story/live-upd…
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@lesliedouglasx @grok this is 12 year old data, do you have anything more current?
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At first glance, this seems like a division between the working class and the managerial class, but it's not quite that simple. There are engineers and surgeons on the Republican side. What we're really witnessing here is a split between those who work (miners, engineers, surgeons) and those who mostly pretend to work (yoga instructors, film industry workers, social scientists).
Emil Kirkegaard@KirkegaardEmil
Most left vs. right wing occupations in USA. (Measured by donations.)
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@WallStreetApes @grok what percentage of working class adults in the United States lack financial literacy and budget management?
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The cost of living is too high in America. People can’t afford to live
This woman has worked at the same company for the last 25 years, she works full time but can no longer afford to live because of increasing costs
“I'm so f*cking over this sh*t”
It an American works full time they should be able to pay their bills and have money left over to go on vacations and enjoy their personal time
The direction we are going can’t continue. Prices need to come WAY down, especially housing
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@WallStreetApes I question this. Where does she live, what's her monthly commitment for house and car and what else is she spending money on. Yes, prices are high but this is about other choices too.
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This American works full time in the operating room at a hospital and just got off a 12 hour shift
It’s after midnight and she must now go drive DoorDash after being on her feet for 12 hours because the cost of living is so high in America
“I work in the operating room and I just worked a 12-hour shift in the operating room and I cannot afford my rent. I can't afford my rent. I can't afford gas. I can't afford groceries. I can't afford any of my endless other bills that I am responsible for because I am an adult.
After working a 12-hour shift in the operating room. So you know what I have to do? I have to DoorDash, and it's 12: 30 at night after I've been on my feet in the operating room for 12 hours all f*cking day. I'm now out DoorDash driving”
I’ll never shop sharing these stories because we must ALL advocate for a drastically lower cost of living
We cannot accept this is the way things are. We cannot accept this is the direction we’re going and things will just keep getting more expensive
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🚨🇺🇸 So many questions… but mainly, what is going on in Austin, Texas?
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸 Austin is getting too wild... Watch the reaction of the guy in the red shirt as soon as the gunshots start… I’ve never seen someone’s demeanor change so fast. He literally starts lecturing himself for being there😂
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@cbsaustin And we have CBS to thank for their biased reporting, lack of crime stat coverage and unwavering support of DA Garza who made it his mission to go after police officers. That will scare every future cadet from keeping this city safe.
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The Austin Police Department says they are hundreds of officers short ahead of big summer and fall events. Find these stories and more at CBSAustin.com
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Today I was laid off from the IT field after 30 years at the same job.
I started part time in 96' when I was a junior in high school, just doing basic troubleshooting and fixing computers. I worked through college and then full time after.
What did I get for my 30 years of service?
Almost nothing.
I got 3 weeks vacation, which was supposed to be accrued only (which would have been 1.5 weeks) but after I complained it was changed to the full 3 weeks and paid medical for a few months.
No severance. No cushion. Nothing. 😒
Why was I laid off?
- Dwindling client base - The number was cut in half in recent years; several closed and some found other IT vendors. Splitting time between a smaller number of clients obviously is not sustainable.
- AI automation - gone are the days of needing to run around to every computer to apply updates, basic things can be fixed remotely, and AI makes reporting that took days take hours. Instead of asking IT for help, clients just ask AI which walks them through fixing many things - Instead of needing an expert, AI can do it all for you.
- Less need for IT support - back in the day, late 90's - 2010's, people had no idea how to do basic computing, hooking up computer, printers, ect. The modern workforce is able to do most of this stuff themselves and are much more computer savvy.
What will I do now?
Not sure. Since I have done this for 30 years, I'm unsure of the direction I want to go. I could get into another IT job probably, but we will see where the wind takes me.
Without X, I would be sunk - the cost of living is so high in MA, all of my regular income went to cover the essentials. Most of the money that I have earned on X has been saved so I have that to fall back on but I never intended for it to be my full time thing.
The direction X is going I sadly dont know if its viable to do full time and that's pretty sad for an account this size. At one point it seemed like a possibility, but the way things are looking now, it seems like they dont want to pay anyone for anything any more.
In the meantime, I will be trying to improve my X game and possibly doing more spaces, articles, research, ect - but at the end of the day, even if I do those things, I have no idea if it will be worth it or viable the way things are looking.
'Make your living on X' Elon once said - it seems like a pipe dream at this point but here's to hoping for the future. 🥂
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@GinaHinojosaTX Wow, Team Echo Chamber slinging false weight packaging it up as reality to tear the fabric of society, something special.
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I always love getting tacos with friends, but today was really something special.
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@witcheer Definitely use PCPartPicker to identify hardware conflicts with price comparison
pcpartpicker.com
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I'm about to make my next computer hardware purchase.
If you know your way around computers, please help me make sure this is a wise choice. it's a significant investment, and this will be my first time buying computer hardware.
I currently have:
>CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (6 cores, Zen 4, AM5)
>Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 A-RGB + Arctic MX-4 paste
>Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming A620M-PLUS WIFI (mATX, A620 chipset)
>RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000 CL36 (2×16GB Corsair Vengeance)
>GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti VENTUS 3X OC 8GB
>Storage: Kingston KC3000 1TB NVMe
>PSU: MSI MAG A650GL (650W, 80+ Gold)
I want to buy:
>Used RTX 4090 24GB
>PSU 850W 80+ Gold (e.g. Corsair RM850x)
>RAM 64GB DDR5-6000 (2×32GB)
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