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John Riley
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John Riley
@JohnRileyPoway
Pursue Happiness.
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@JFleckenAlvarez My ass is spectacular.
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Name one case besides the Epstein network where this much evidence existed and so few arrests were made.
We’ll wait.
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@ewarren Shareholders are just optimizing for ROI. This is the right policy for the corporation.
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Giant corporations, including Amazon and Microsoft, have earned record-breaking profits and gotten massive tax breaks from the Trump administration.
So why are they laying off thousands of workers? This looks like another example of unchecked corporate greed.
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@VigilantFox It got worse AFTER govt expanded Medicare for Rx medications.
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LISA KUDROW: “Remember when medicine wasn’t big business? Because in the ‘70s, it wasn’t. It was still like the healing arts.”
BILL MAHER: “Healthcare is a mess in this country for many reasons.”
“But the top probably would be… the fact that a hospital is run very much like an airline.”
“They don’t want any empty seats on an airplane, and they don’t want any empty beds. That’s why when there’s a crisis, they’re overrun.”
“They should have excess space, but that would hurt the bottom line.”
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Somehow my colonoscopy already went way better than my brackets are doing.
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Daniel Dennett: "If I gave a prize to the best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin."
Not Newton. Not Einstein. Darwin.
In a 2015 documentary, philosopher Daniel Dennett makes a striking case for why Darwin's idea of natural selection is the single greatest intellectual achievement in human history.
His reasoning isn't just about biology.
Dennett argues that what makes Darwin's idea so extraordinary is what it unifies. Before Darwin, the world was split into two seemingly incompatible realms: the physical world of cause and matter, and the world of meaning, purpose, and consciousness. These felt like they belonged to different categories entirely. One explained by science, the other by something else.
Darwin's idea, Dennett says, is the backbone that bridges them:
"The Darwinian idea of natural selection unifies the world. It unifies the world of cause and matter and physics with the world of meaning and purpose consciousness. The whole spectrum of life depends on uniting the living with the non-living, the meaning with the non-meaning, the purposeful with the merely mechanical and merely physical."
That's not a small claim. It's a philosophical revolution disguised as a biology paper.
What Dennett is pointing to is that natural selection gives us a mechanism: a purely physical, purposeless process that generates purpose. Organisms don't need a designer to have goals. The appearance of design, the reality of meaning, emerges from the bottom up.
The best idea anyone ever had. No prize for second place.
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The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.
You want to know what insults Jesus?
Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.
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@Trevornoah According to Ayn Rand, the moral purpose of a person’s life is the pursuit of their own rational happiness and flourishing.
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@HannahDCox I live in CA where online sports betting is illegal. But it is still happening on the black market. A friend of mine in CA got a white labeled betting app from a bookie that he uses for online betting.
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There is absolutely no upside to legalizing online sports betting.
2-5% of people will become compulsive gamblers, and when half of young men have downloaded a casino into their pocket, that's a whole lot of people society is going to lose and/or have to clean up the mess for.
I was so glad to see the measure from Rep Reeves to expand this practice in Georgia fail. 120 votes were needed, 98 voted no.
Government can't stop vices but it can prevent predatory practices that prey on people.
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@_TekTweets_ Because the right embraces socialism when it suits them.
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@SenSanders It was much worse 200 years ago... before capitalism provided a means for regular people to build wealth and create a middle class.
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Wealth inequality has never been so bad.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck, 938 billionaires got $1.5T richer in 2025.
Justice Brandeis was right: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
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Luís Arráez is going to hit .400 this year, isn't he
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I’m sure the outcome of tonight’s game won’t really change your opinion, so I might as well ask now. Out of 10, how would you rank your enjoyment of the World Baseball Classic?
Ten being the highest score. I give it a ten. My only complaint is the pitch count limit. But I get why it’s a rule.
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@JohnRileyPoway @starheal I actually think the entire MAGA movement is another case of mass delusion, right up there with the gender delusion that we are just coming out from under.
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