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@NoLongerBennett $15/lb for prime boneless whole ribeye at Costco... I think it was ~$18 a couple of weeks ago.

We may never see this price again.

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@ShamashAran Unfortunately, the ones that don't deserve it are closer than those that do deserve it.

If America leaves NATO, Russia will retake parts of Europe within a few years. And they deserve it.

@GlowCatsVault @jerr_rrej @ramzpaul Astoria OR is only about 0.5% black, so not very likely to see any.

@jerr_rrej @ramzpaul I don’t think there’s a single black in “The Goonies”.

Im a White millennial. Was a 1980s baby. The White demographic was 80% at my birth. TV, movies and video games were tailored for White children. When I was 10 years old, my neighborhood was all White with a lot of elderly White retirees on the block. By the time I was a teenager, my neighborhood was half mexican. It’s completely mexican now. When I was 30 I got a career in tech. 80% of the office was White in 2015 and now it is 50% indian H1Bs. Millennials have seen our world crumble in real time. We were the generation who saw everything became anti-White before our eyes. Now the schools are brown, TV is brown, movies and video games are brown. Grocery stores and malls are brown. Public spaces and parks are full of foreigners. Schools and workplaces are brown. This is why I am racist and more radical than my parents and grandparents. Young Whites are brutalists and realize that their inheritance was taken from them.

@secondorderfx @theobjectivist "Required deregulation"- sometimes government helps you by reducing the weight of the boot on your neck.

@theobjectivist Every word of this is true. The $200 flight required deregulation. The antibiotic required patent law. The internet required DARPA. The progress is a product of markets and the institutions that make markets work. Both parts of that sentence matter.

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

@wwwLiveFarm You're 6 minutes late!

“By the book.”

@NoLongerBennett He cannot be contained. He will rise even if buried in the earth.

He is not perishable. #AmbiguousEasterTweets

@mattbramanti @NoLongerBennett KPFT... there's a call sign I haven't heard in a while (I left Houston in 1989).

@NoLongerBennett you were just warning about video as a cognitohazard and now you're squirting pacifica radio into my brain

Either of these two people could wind up judge. archive.kpft.org/mp3/kpft_26032…

@NoLongerBennett NM is a tiny state (0.6% of the population of the US). If a similar per capita penalty went nationwide, it would be more like $50 billion- about 1/3 of Meta's annual revenue. Might be more attention grabbing.

chump change

@RessurWrecked @AppyOrtho @WilliamShatner Shatner (born 1931) is almost 15 years too old to be a boomer (born 1946-1964).

@AppyOrtho @WilliamShatner He's a Boomer Canadian. He is physically incapable of thinking of the south as anything but a cartoonish land of white robe wearing buck-toothed slavery lovers.

During the first airing of my Star Trek series where a kiss was objectionable; many southern stations pulled the episode & condemned the show. Using today’s vernacular it would absolutely be called“woke DEI crap”because it went against “norms” of society for its time. Not a lot seems to have changed.🤷🏼😑

@j_fishback or, D. None of the above?

Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals

@travis4nh @ikebub You don't seem to be popular with the porcine wing of the party.

2/ What part of my voting record is insufficiently "constitutional republican" for you, @ikebub ? x.com/ikebub/status/…

What's antisemitic about it, Dennis? If I said "we need a mongol horde to conquer the theater kids", would you accuse me of being anti-Persian and anti-Hungarian ? If I said "we need to drop a nuke on theater kids", would that be anti-Japanese?

@NoLongerBennett @orthonormalist Did room service run out of steak and lobster? Perhaps they should speak with the concierge about alternative dining amenities.

@orthonormalist fuck those airmen though

I pay taxes specifically so soldiers and sailors can have a modicum of comfort while killing the shit out of anything that breathes wrong, in fact.

@sez_who_ @parhloumahrukh Uhh... not an American saying that

Why do Americans insist on saying Germany instead of Deutchland. Why do they say Los Angeles instead of”Los an-Heles.” Why do we say Spain instead of España. It’s bc it’s our language and we say it our way just like everyone else says everything their way. Guess what, we’re “Os Estados Unidos” in Brazil. But you’re not calling that out because you know as well as I do it’s stupid to call out someone’s language. Only Americans say stupid shit like this.

why do Americans insist on saying eye-ran and eye raq, yet they can say Italy

@NormKoger @TechLayoffLover Born too late for cold war space race/ weapons development. Born too early for private space. 2/2

Back in the '80's, this old cold warrior took his post enlistment GI bill to study Physics - with the plan of doing weapons design. Folks who didn't grow up hiding under desks during air raid drills at school can judge me. But Mr's Reagan and Gorbachev put a stake through the heart of that plan just about the time I picked up my sheepskins. Bummer, right? Thing is, that academic background had prepared me well to pivot to other things - which I did. These changes aren't always bad. I ended up in game design, and my kids never hid under desks during school air raid drills. Win-win. Apocalyptic interpretations of CS placement changes are laughable, unless of course the degrees in question were never really worth much anyway. These kids need to improvise, adapt, overcome - just like their parents' generation - and their future will be brighter than their parents. That's the way the world works. Always has been.

A CS professor at a mid-tier state university just sent me their internal placement data Fall 2023: 89% of their graduates had offers by graduation. Average starting salary $94k Spring 2024: 71% placement rate. Average dropped to $78k Fall 2024: 43% placement rate. Those who got offers averaged $61k Spring 2025: 31% of graduates employed in software roles six months out This semester? 19% placement rate and falling Faculty meeting last Tuesday got heated when the department chair suggested "pivoting curriculum toward AI collaboration skills" One professor stood up and said "we're teaching students to build the systems that eliminate their own jobs" The career fair last month had 12 companies show up. Half were MLMs and insurance sales Students keep asking why they're learning data structures when the job postings all say "3+ years experience with LLM integration" Professor told me the hardest part is the parent meetings "My daughter took out $140k in loans for this degree and she's working at Starbucks" Meanwhile the university is still running ads promising "94% job placement rates in high-growth tech careers" The disconnect is crushing everyone involved Faculty knows the industry has fundamentally shifted but the marketing department is still selling the 2019 dream These kids mortgaged their futures for careers that evaporated while they were in class

@NormKoger @TechLayoffLover The wall came down when I was in my 2nd year of an Aerospace Engineering program. When every aero manufacturer was slashing headcount mid-five figures at a time, I decided to go more generalized and transferred to the Mechanical Engineering department. 1/2

@TwoRulesOfWar As long as they steer clear of Kuwait on the way out.

So, basically there’s no effective air defenses left.

TUNE IN: Maye Musk recounts a story of her son Elon. "So I was having breakfast with his kids... 15 years ago. He came down from the stairs… and he says 'I designed a rocket.' And I said, 'Oh, OK. Would you like scrambled eggs?' … how do you answer?"

"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." — Davy Crockett x.com/1776pax/status…

190 years ago today, a group of determined Texans put their names on a document that changed history. They declared that Texas is a nation. That truth hasn't changed. Happy Texas Independence Day. The best way to honor them is to finish what they started. #TexasIndependenceDay #TEXIT

@BlackthornDF @travis4nh Maybe, but that stranger's penis is also in Mumbai, out of raping range of my daughter, and his bunghole is not shitting on my driveway.

We already live in a world where the middle class can afford both. We're just paying the lower class via taxes and welfare but not getting any work out of them. The problem with the "domestic robots" that I've seen thus far is they are telefactor units with only partial AI, so you're inviting the creepy stranger from Mumbai or Bangkok into your house anyway.

good thread, but here's my take: I would FAR rather pay $20k to have a Tesla robot that can cook and clean than have some weird stranger in my house. I would pay $40k to not let weird strangers in my house. "Yeah but you get to know them" But I don't WANT to.