David Beard

@BlackDumpling I want to see how many people on X like the new Lebensborn. The buttons were enlightening...

CONSCRIPTIVE BIRTH: I've yet to hear a convincing argument for why Conscription for War is a legitimate thing, but Conscription for Pregnancy is not. Would you support a Maternity Draft as part of a program of Reproductive Conscription to stave off collapsing birth rates? ARGUMENT: Any woman who was unmarried or not already a two time parent, would be required to sign up to give birth to a child with a father of the State's choosing, screened from among the best of all donors. Mothers would be provided a stipend and benefits to cover the child's care until adulthood or could place the child up for adoption. She would be required to give birth at least four children to complete her term of service. All medical, nutritional, and other concerns would be paid for by the state while she was pregnant.

@MitraHispana @katherineortho So now I feel stupid. I just realized what excellent block lists the replies represent.

@katherineortho This is why I don’t share many real photos of myself 🤦‍♀️ you’re awesome and these creeps are all jerks

The quotetweets are all you need to know about the type of “Christian men” we’re dealing with who scream at women because they cannot control their passions. I’ve been reliably informed the photo was not that bad. I will apologize for posting a photo at all but the content of the tweet was actually genuine and it was a good convo. I was super nervous to jump in and I ended up making friends with them (I’m usually very reserved and don’t talk to anyone at the gym). Just wanted to document it. God bless

@RachelVT42 What city? In some, the 'cross now' signal is just a trap for the unwary. 🤣

You’re waiting to cross the road with your children. If you press the red button, light turns red for cars and you can cross safely. If you don’t press the red button, you have 50% chance of getting hit by a car. Unless it hits your kids first, that is. What do you do?

You get more of what you pay for. Autism funding (Medicaid) is up from $660m 2019, $2.2b 2023. Transgender, relatively unfunded, unless you can get the state (military, prison, medicaid/CHIP) to pay. Schizophrenia (SMI/SUD, the primary 'chronic homelessness') disease, direct treatment funding is declining. So autism, while very much a real thing, got a lot of money behind it, and the diagnosis broadened, and schools/Medicaid got mandates. The number of people billing that funding grew at a CAGR of around 50% (and keeps growing). Some of that is better understanding and diagnosis, some is grift. The direct transgender diagnosis stuff didn't get a lot of insurance money or mandates, unless you're in certain state programs, which are expanding. Which is why you see a lot of pressure on government programs to comply. Join the military, your sex disease is free. Schizophrenia/Substance Abuse dual diagnosis is actually seeing shrinking public funding, as the costs get shifted to the general public. 'Not our problem' says the people getting your taxes. The direct cost of a SMI/SUD person is around $120k per year per person in direct and indirect costs - or $366b in the US. Government/NGO funds $47b of that directly, you fund the rest in your higher housing, healthcare, insurance, property damage...and the occasional knifing or subway pushing.

Feminism vs. Autism vs. Transgenderism: Have you considered? I understand this isn't an angle people typically approach at but I want you to think about this in terms of the Trans movement... No, REALLY THINK ABOUT IT IN THAT CONTEXT. What if (nearly) everyone who thinks they're autistic is really just under the same kind of warped programming that convinced a bunch of teenagers they were trans. Body Dysmorphia exists, and so does Autism.. but... and bear with me here... what if the overwhelming majority of people who think they have these things just don't, but were convinced they do by a Left that would do that very thing.

@AnEriksenWife @Devon_Eriksen_ Read it, awesome book. I'm going to annoy people with hypotheticals until the sequel. 🤣

@Devon_Eriksen_ Everyone needs to STOP talking about absurd hypotheticals. Anyone who needs IMAGINARY things to think through can pick up your hard scifi Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1, which contains slightly less drama than the Button Question!!! amazon.com/Theft-Fire-Orb…

You are offered a pill. Anyone who takes the pill, dies, unless over 50% of humanity takes the pill. Obviously, you cannot be affected by the pill if you don't take it. Is the same moral scenario as the red and blue buttons?

My town of Memphis competes internationally in the top 10 most dangerous cities *in the world*. We don't make the list every year, but we do give it our best. Our high water mark was 5. But usually we're just scraping by at 9 or 10. There are other towns in other states that have gone 20 years without a murder. So generic statements that "EU is dangerous" and "US is worse" are kind of meaningless. On the plus side, when people tell me "Oh, don't go there, it's dangerous!" I can give them the side eye. 🤣

Said the widow of a man that was violently shot in broad daylight. At a college campus.

They are not the same. In the button scenario, it's both a moral and a logical issue. Do I have the right make my life the responsibility of some other person without their consent (blue button). And the answer to that is always 'no'. The logical side is obvious, everyone presses the red button, lives. Then you hunt down the bastard that made the buttons and kill him. 🤣 I thought the morality was blatantly obvious - red is the only moral choice. Boy was I wrong. In the pill issue, it's a 'should' issue. 'Should I risk my life to save random humanity that were dumb enough to take the pill?'. And the moral answer to that is 'Of course not.'. And I'm not even a libertarian. Or all that philosophical. Probably not all that moral, for that matter. 😝

@LaNativePatriot You start a hate group. Get on the bad side of some of the 'hate group monitors'. I will infiltrate the group for money from the NGOs, we split it 50/50? We just need to figure out what the next leftist oppressed class cause will be to hate on it. Drag costumes for chihuahas?

After years of dedicating countless hours & over 74,400 posts. $439 over 2 weeks. 𝕏 doesn’t owe me anything & I am grateful for the opportunities I’ve gotten only through creating this account. I did have a lot of hope that I’d be more successful on this app though, it’s possible I overestimated my ability to connect with my fellow countrymen Or it’s my rigidity in my ways. I don’t know. What I do know is that I don’t plan to stop, I just have to find a different way to make ends meet. That might mean working more hours doing tires, or picking up sponsors that actually can fill in some gaps. Either way, we have a Country to save

@LaNativePatriot @CollinRugg @Patrick98109645 How many people went to jail for the 2008 sibprime scam and crash? And what did it cost the public?

@CollinRugg @Patrick98109645 How’s this any different than Congress lining their pockets before they pass a law. Can’t let the soldiers do it but Congress gets away with it daily

BREAKING: The DOJ has arrested a special forces soldier who made $400,000 betting on the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to ABC. Federal investigators say the soldier bet more than $33,000 just hours before Trump announced Maduro's capture. The special forces soldier was reportedly directly involved with the capture. "The largest position -- a $32,537 bet that Maduro would be out of office by Jan. 31 -- resulted in a 1,242% profit of $404,222," ABC News reported. "Following his successful trading relating to Maduro- and Venezuela-related contracts, [Gannon Ken] VAN DYKE allegedly sent most of his proceeds to a foreign cryptocurrency vault before depositing them into a newly created online brokerage account. The same day of the operation, VAN DYKE withdrew the majority of his allegedly unlawful proceeds from his Polymarket account..." the DOJ announced. "VAN DYKE, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, is charged with three counts of violating the Commodity Exchange Act, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and one count of an unlawful monetary transaction, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison."

@TJ_DarkRage @DrInsensitive Beans may be the healthiest, but dark chocolate is so much more fun. 😀

@DrInsensitive Have a banana 420-450 mg Eat your broccoli 550 mg Do like Popeye with the spinach 840 mg Beans, beans, the magical fruit 350 (navy, kidney) to 970 (Lima) Skin on baked potato 900 mg, just go light with the butter. Fish, lentils, avocados. Many paths to potassium.

The Potassium Holocaust Brought to you by the FDA, for equity. Potassium deficiency is almost universal. Only 3% of the US population gets the FDA recommended 4,700 mg per day. The result is widespread high blood pressure. Some studies have found that even modest potassium supplementation reduces cardiovascular mortality by a whopping ~30%. Grok estimates 20,000-60,000 deaths annually are caused by potassium deficiency, mainly through its effect on blood pressure. That's just in the USA. Obviously, more people should take potassium supplements, so the government stepped in to make that impractical. You see, excess potassium can be dangerous for people with kidney failure, who are disproportionately Black. So FDA regulations effectively limit potassium supplements to 99 mg, which is 2% of the FDA's recommended daily intake. To get the FDA's recommended potassium intake with the biggest supplements the FDA allows, you must take 50 per day. For reference, one 6-oz glass of tomato juice contains 400 mg, which is 8% of the FDA's recommend daily intake, and 400% of the FDA's maximum allowable potassium supplement. grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

@LaNativePatriot youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw… I'm further down this road every day. 🤣

I’m running out of conspiracy theories

@BlackDumpling "Allowed"? 🤣

Should I be allowed to shoot unarmed intruders? Brother, I have a responsibility to.. And anyone who doesn't understand why is just useless. No, I will not be explaining myself, you need to sus this one out on your own kiddo, but the answer is there I assure you. ***

@icreatelife I hardly ever venture to 'for you'. I find interesting people when interesting people repost or do a mention in my following.

There’s a rumor going around that reposts might hurt reach. That doesn’t really make sense to me. Reposts (and quote reposts) are how people discover each other, support artists, and help smaller accounts grow. Would be great to get some clarity on this.

@DrInsensitive As others said, it's water loss consistent with lowered carbs. You're running your kidney stone risk way up. Drink water, then more water, then more water... 🤣

I don't like to post about stuff like this, but holy crap. I'm trying to identify the source of some inflammation, so I'm on a strict elimination diet, only 4 items: Coffee Eggs Salt Whisky I didn't do this to lose weight, but my weight is dropping faster than a wannabe actress when Harvey Weinstein unzips. I've lost 5% of my body weight in ten days. That works out to more than a pound a day, and for me, that is huge. Now I'm only 15 lbs above my ideal six-pack weight of 190, and if I drop to 185, I will look like a German soldier on the Soviet side, six months after WW2. Losing a pound a day should be impossible, since a pound of fat is more than my daily caloric requirement. So some of that must be water weight. Nonetheless, the mirror and my belt tell me I am losing fat fast. Complication: I'm also taking Tirzepitide. It kills my hunger (I'm eating all the eggs I want, and not suffering at all) but Tirzep has never worked this well before. I don't know if it's the eggs, or the simple, non-tempting diet, or the zero carbs, but holy crap. Dropping pounds has never been this easy.

Whether you call it 'hybrid warfare', or old-time Soviet 'active measures', the US is at war with Russia. We just don't want to think about it. Hence the appeasement and "maybe they'll just go away" attitude. Won't work. Kind of sucks to think the Cold War is over, just to find it isn't, really.

Yes. Which is why his pro-Russian views weren't even discussed - people were more focused on domestic issues. People, as a general rule, vote for domestic issues first, foreign policy - for the median voter - is not even secondary, but tertiary. And one of the reasons why that's the case is because Europe - collectively - still refuses to officially acknowledge that we are at de facto war with russia. In most people's minds, the war is just between Russia and Ukraine, not between Russia against Europe, or let alone - the ACTUAL war, the new global, Cold War, between the Western world and the China-Russia-Iran axis. Expect more populism, not less.

@esrtweet I think they are last remaining descendents of the last civilization on earth that invented social media in some prior epoch. They know exactly what they're doing. Leave them be. 🤣

This is a complicated moral question, it's been troubling me for years, and I still don't have a stable answer. Most of the arguments for leaving the Sentinelese alone are romanticizing noble-savage bullshit. We know what life in societies like this is like - nasty, brutish, and short to a degree modern Westerners not only fail to understand but have difficulty even imagining. Technology and wealth can fix that. On the other hand, it is undeniable that contact with modern civilization would in a very meaningful sense destroy the Sentinelese; this experiment has already been run on their kin in the rest of the Andaman Islands and the results were dolorous. Many would be killed by disease. Many others would become addicted to alcohol. Still others would evade both those fates only to find that they're still incapable of having any role in modern society other than as dependents and impoverished day laborers. Only a lucky few at the right-hand end of their IQ bell curve would integrate successfully. The utilitarian question is whether improving the quality of life for their talented tenth outweighs what modernity would do to the rest of them. And there's another point: the Sentinelese have made it very clear that most of them want to be left alone. It's easy to argue that we're obligated to respect their autonomy, but - what of the children who gaze at passing ships and dream of escaping the primitive grind of their lives? This is a more significant question when you reflect that in societies like these a significant fraction of those children are quite likely to be raped by the men in their tribe before reaching adulthood. Such behavior is sometimes ritualized as tribal custom; field anthropologists know this, but generations of them have been politically conditioned never to reveal facts about the societies they study that could be construed as arguments for Western superiority. There are no facile answers. It's a variant of the trolley problem - we know that leaving the Sentinelese alone conduces to many kinds of harm, but busting their isolation would open them up to many different kinds of harm. Hands-off is an easy policy. At least we can tell ourselves we're not actively doing damage, and that what they do to each other is on them. I do wonder how often the children are being raped, though.

@AnEriksenWife Get me a sequel, I get a tattoo?

ok but just to be clear I'm going to be absolutely delighted when, someday!!!!, someone gets a tattoo inspired by one of Devon's books!!!!!!!

@BiankaB12 $0.47 per round + some AV gas, versus sending Lockheed $1,000,000 per $20,000 drone. I'm in. There a bounty on those things?

He just lowered the IQ of any probable intelligent life in the universe. 🤦🏻‍♀️ How can you watch one of the coolest and most badass videos from the frontlines in Ukraine, and your first reaction is to screech how them pesky Ukrainians didn’t use the 280 gazillion trillion dollars you DIDN’T actually give to shoot down some cheap ass drones with some crazy expensive Patriots. How’s that strategy working out for you in the Guif, genius?

@AnEriksenWife Norwegian's that assimilated versus them that didn't. 🤣

Nobody can spell "Eriksen," example 379 😭

Studio replicas predated printing by far, in every culture that produced painted art and statuary. In Europe, the workshop was a 'bottega' in Italian, or 'ateilier' in French. In the US, the practice continued with the American Pastoralism movement into the early 20th century.

"止まらない時の中で"SMサイズver. 描きました！ 透明水彩研究会展で壁に展示してある作品は非売品設定なので…小さく複製してみました。在廊時に持って行って小作品として販売します！２万円です。なかなかのクオリティですよ😉✨よろしくお願いします。 高い印刷技術があるこの時代に自分で複製して原画を売る意味は…とも思うけど、やはり原画にこだわりたい。絵柄だけじゃなくて顔料の美しさとか、顔料に反射する光だとかは原画でしか味わえないからね。これは江戸時代の絵師たちみたいな稼ぎ方かもしれない…w #第3回透明水彩研究会展