Lara Gale

Such a great take on the political scientist who has influenced me the most and what moved her apple.news/nowPlaying/AhK…

@SpencerJCox Who knows, maybe we’ll find out there’s this whole world of leader types among the homo civicus who are ready to move federal governance out of alpha posturing into a whole new realm of getting shit done.

There has been a huge market failure by both parties refusing to respond to the exhausted majority who are deeply unhappy with both leading candidates and the way parties are behaving. First party to figure it out could dominate the next decade.

@belladepaulo It sounds to me like the glaring bias here is a misunderstanding of the tendencies of people who are happily coupled, or of people who don't like being single and would like a healthy relationship. #SIngleatheart sounds like "mature adult" to me.

Loving single life is something more positive and affirming than just not wanting a serious romantic partner. A review paper, and beyond. #SingleAtHeart psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living…

PSA, folks. Elon Musk isn’t what is wrong with Twitter. This forum generates and breathes life into horrible thought processes and ideas that people in real life don’t even know about. Bye.

@Onlypizza1 @cafreiman It’s the inevitable evolution of philanthropy during peak capitalism, with overpaid people reenacting the dynamics of the pre-enlightened age rather than acknowledging that their outrageous salaries are the problem, not the solution.

@cafreiman can someone explain what effective altruism is?

Wild seeing socialists attempting to dunk on an effective altruism because it can be exploited by bad actors

@cafreiman Lol. You know the divine right of kings was a conceit, too, right?

@JosephPolitano Willful ignorance of human foibles isn’t the same thing as wisdom. Consequences are how people learn from - say it with me now - mistakes.

This is not an anti-due-diligence tweet. This is an anti-victim-blaming tweet. People should not have to do full investigations of the financial risks of every company they interact with, and it's highly unrealistic to expect them to do that.

"People should have just done their due diligence and not put their crypto in FTX" is absolutely the wrong way of looking at this. Nobody in 2008 thought "well you should have done your due diligence and looked at Washington Mutual's exposure to subprime mortgages"

@NoLieWithBTC Vet here 🙋‍♀️. There are a lot of benefits for veterans and we really appreciate new gestures of support and continued efforts to address systemic shortfalls. You can all relax.

President Biden just granted all US veterans and Gold Star families free lifetime admission to National Parks.

I'm curious. Which famous person did you feel the most grief for after you found out they died?

@billpulec @JosephPolitano I guess it’s important to people with access to wealth untethered from value to have some systematic way to get clear about what they’re really doing. Plenty of people who have no idea EA exists are and have been achieving outcomes for a long time, sans the superiority complex.

@LaraGale6 @JosephPolitano I don't care what motivates them as long as they are achieving those outcomes.

Do kinda feel like effective altruism is a good movement about grounded empiricism in international aid and charity allocation that kind of got hijacked by the "steppe nomad risk" people

@LPNational I do know for sure someone’s coming for your garbage, and there’s a whole system to accept everything you flush down the toilet. Maybe a little cholera would help you all regain some perspective.

“No one's coming for your money.” “No one's coming for your guns.” “No one's coming for your children.” “No one's coming for your freedom.” Don’t be gaslit.

@simongerman600 @carlaeyle Great graphic better illustrating election results and American political leanings ;)

Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.

@NateForUtah Nate, it’s all just a nod to the temporal plane. Stop taking everything so seriously.

44,000 residents can select a flag but over 50% of voters can be overruled by the legislature on redistricting, cannabis and Medicaid? 🤔

@LGHendersonUtah @Utah_CCE Very clever!

From 5,703 original designs created by Utahns in all 29 counties. 20 semi-finalists. 44,000+ survey responses. Now, one flag to represent Utah’s shared identity.

@heywillconway @Fwd_Party I think interpreting that data to indicate people identify existentially with a political party is actually further evidence that viewing anything through the lens of political affiliation generates a narcissistic interpretation of reality (the narcissist being the party itself).

@LaraGale6 @Fwd_Party Political party has certainly become tethered to identity - far more than before. Here's an example: thehill.com/opinion/white-…

Leaving my old political party was axing a piece of my identity. I lost friends, I lost colleagues. It's terrifying. But also freeing. I'm not beholden to a tribe, a team, or a red vs blue lightsaber duel. I'm beholden to the future I want to build, and I love it. @Fwd_Party

@mr_scientism Everything that will ever be invented has been invented, etc etc

Nobody wants crypto, nobody wants AI, nobody wants 'the metaverse'.

@TheOzarkansan @DisgruntledC0n @Prawns_R_Us @morganisawizard If you’re seriously that cynical about your society, it’s your fault. Your world would collapse without an entire background army of dedicated people working hard so that you can take water and electricity, garbage collection, safety, education, art, music, etc for granted.

@LaraGale6 @DisgruntledC0n @Prawns_R_Us @morganisawizard They aren't decided by individual votes. Your vote does not decide elections. It has, in real, practical terms, no power. YOUR individual vote exists as nothing but YOUR voice. If you use that to amplify and support people or ideas you don't believe in, you're throwing it away.

“b-b-but you have to vote, it’s your civic duty!” i absolutely do not have a duty to pick mine or anyone else’s oppressors. if you want to, fine. but not voting is just as valid of a vote as an actual ballot.

@TheOzarkansan @DisgruntledC0n @Prawns_R_Us @morganisawizard All sorts of decisions about public resources and institutions are decided entirely by numbers of votes. Where are you even coming from with this argument? You’re just wrong.

@DisgruntledC0n @Prawns_R_Us @morganisawizard This may be shocking, but just because you don't understand an argument, doesn't make it any less credible. Your individual vote has no effect on the outcome of an election. This completely invalidates your slack-jawed argument.