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@9Sling @briankeepsworth

@briankeepsworth Easily offended I see? It's ok that married people cheat on each other and break up families but horrible when people marry someone they love. Weird flex.

Maybe because there's no adultery flag flying at the public elementary school by my house.

@itslinklauren instagram.com/reel/DXmsFzmD8…

The girls these days have no conversation skills. How were you not prepared for that question either? I’ve noticed this a lot with big influencers. They can talk to the camera alone, but maybe cause they grew up online, they struggle to converse in an actual on-air capacity with other human beings. It’s awkward. No gift of gab.

@Spiritualtie @bentbirds @elonmusk @ceosusan1 “I am profound. Listen to me babble.”

@bentbirds @elonmusk @ceosusan1 That kind of rhetoric doesn’t demonstrate strength. It demonstrates decay.

Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.

@techhousebro @PalmerLuckey @garrytan @AOC Name an economic system that that’s lifted more people out of poverty than capitalism.

@PalmerLuckey @garrytan @AOC that’s 2 of you. What % of billionaires derived their wealth from collusion amongst the deep state, banking & capital markets, private equity, et al - in a manner that hurts the avg. American? We can’t seriously be pretending that “make things people want” scales ubiquitously.

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers. If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems. The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale. We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability. Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

@HarrisD97571 @MZHemingway @NBCNews

Actually it’s the MAGA apostates of the Independent Church of Christian Nationalism, led by the false prophet who thinks he was anointed by god to become the Poop of talibangelicals who are using paid blame stream content providers to pretend it’s not true and/or misinformation. Rittenhouse himself released a statement confirming he was bitten by a brown recluse spider and hospitalized. You punching down in the most humiliating manner and hitting yourself in the face. Genius!

Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin, was hospitalized after he was bitten by a venomous spider, the noted firearms enthusiast says. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g…

@PaulaWright @MattWalshBlog

@MattWalshBlog I don't have an opinion but I do want to ask you what do you think Jesus would do?

I am challenging any death penalty opponent — there are millions of them, allegedly — to step up to the plate right now and explain why this guy should not be executed. His guilt is established beyond any doubt whatsoever. His crime is utterly savage and heinous. Tell us why he doesn’t deserve to die. Go ahead.

And here they are overlaid in RGB channels. Every single line matches perfectly. Public records via FOIA. Names fully redacted. 1.5 million clones + duplicated signatures = enough to swing any close race. This is why audits matter. Repost if your state needs to check signatures. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen in your rolls?

@AlpacaAurelius No clarity on age ranges? I’m guessing folks over 50 aren’t consistently putting up those kinds of numbers.

You need to be having more sex. This is medical advice. Having sex less than once a month increases your risk of death by 2.3 TIMES. The sweet spot in the study was 2 to 3 times a week. Daily sex also was associated with a 3 times increase in all cause mortality.

@albertus3M @kaurimark @brivael All critiques notwithstanding, no other form of economics has lifted more people out of poverty than capitalism, and it’s not even close.

@kaurimark @brivael No matter how low costs go, if you can't afford food, rent, healthcare, etc., the system is not working for you. Historically, employment has never been enough to enable most people to live decent lives. In fact, without wealth redistributio the historical norm is mass poverty.

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

Brilliantly done

@ChrisGloninger @epaleezeldin

@epaleezeldin ICYMI: Lee Zeldin voted against clean air, clean water, and climate action 86% of the time in Congress. Now he's running the EPA. I documented it all. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgloni…

The Trump EPA has ENDED the Green New Scam. We proudly rescinded what has been referred to as the “Holy Grail” for the “world is about to end” climate change zealots, the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding, without apology or regret. $1.3 trillion in savings. $2,400 more affordable new vehicles. The end of the start/stop climate participation trophy. All while protecting our environment.

@PropheSteve @rustyrockets

@rustyrockets Staged event in an attempt to garner sympathy.

Madness.

@stephanegaddis @elonmusk It’s called envy.

@elonmusk The left for some reason always had a problem with Elon Musk because of his wealth despite him producing clean energy vehicles. It never made sense to me why they were always fighting against him.

@westerncitizens @MarioNawfal Betting against Elon is a fools errand.

@MarioNawfal I tried cursor a year ago, but it was slow and buggy. Me and other i walk to much more prefer the terminal ones now, much faster. No bloat and lag. Cursor is just built ontop of open sourced VS Code, I would never pay 60 billion for that shit

🇺🇸 Elon just locked in a deal to buy Cursor for $60 billion. SpaceX has the option to acquire Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, before the end of the year. If they walk away, SpaceX still pays $10 billion "for their work together," basically one of the largest termination fees in history. Which tells you they have no intention of backing out. Cursor does $2 billion in annualized revenue and its users are mostly elite software engineers, exactly the kind of customer base Elon wants heading into SpaceX's summer IPO. The combined group is expected to hit $1.75 trillion at listing, the largest flotation ever. @elonmusk now has space, satellites, AI, social media, and the world's most popular coding tool under one roof. What he's cooking up will be wild. Source: Financial Times

@Peace_Is_Easy @ianmiles

@ianmiles This Elon Musk??? Just a Fraud.... Surrounded by Genocidal Zionist who he is terrified of...

Marc Andreessen just revealed the Elon Musk philosophy that completely broke his brain: "The best product in the world shouldn't even need a logo." We all know Elon is relentless about quality. As Marc puts it: "Do you want the best car in the world or not, right? Like that's Elon's mentality... And it's working very well." But at a recent event, Elon took this mindset to a completely different level. He dropped a perspective so jarring that Marc initially thought it was a joke. Elon’s thesis? "You shouldn't even have to have your name on the product. It's just obvious. Everybody knows." The logic is brutal but simple. If you build the undeniable, undisputed best thing in the world, everybody uses it. And because everybody uses it, you don't need to slap your branding all over it to prove it's yours. Think about that. We spend endless hours agonizing over marketing, tweaking brand colors, and putting our logos on every square inch of what we build. But the ultimate flex isn't a flashy logo. The ultimate flex is building something so undeniably brilliant that its mere existence is the brand.

The DOJ is asking to see actual ballots in Wayne County. Not reports. Not summaries. The real votes. And people like @dananessel and @JocelynBenson are freaking out about it. But I have a serious question… Why is transparency a problem? Wayne County is the biggest county in Michigan. If you’re going to verify anything, that’s exactly where you’d start. We audit EVERYTHING in this country—banks, businesses, even our taxes. But when it comes to elections, suddenly it’s: “Don’t look. Just trust us.” That doesn’t sit right. If everything is clean, then showing the ballots shouldn’t be controversial. It should be easy. Michigan voters deserve more than “just trust us.” We deserve proof. Transparency and accountability aren’t extreme. They’re necessary. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

@no_men_as_women @night_hawk1984 @newstart_2024 Then stay home, where it’s safe.

@night_hawk1984 @newstart_2024 You've fallen for gender lie-deology. Female, not male, is the vulnerable sex. This was understood and well recognized in law throughout all civilized western societies until five minutes ago. A core feature of a civilized society is that it protects the women and children.

Helen Andrews dropped a blunt explanation for why wokeness proved so hard to kill: It’s rooted in feminine patterns of conflict — where disagreement isn’t debated, it’s treated as emotional harm that must be punished or silenced. Instead of open argument (like James Damore’s memo at Google), the response became “I can’t believe you said that” followed by attempts to get the person fired. Men tend to argue, resolve, and move on. Women, she argues, are more likely to hold onto grievances. If wokeness is partly a byproduct of rapid feminization of institutions, Andrews warns it won’t simply vanish with one election. It may be structural. She points to overly “HR-ified” workplaces where feminine preferences for emotional safety now dominate promotions, culture, and daily life — often sidelining masculine strengths in the process. Do you think some institutions have become too feminized in ways that suppress open debate and masculine virtues? Or is this framing off-base?

@Devon_Eriksen_ Classic. People in the comments actually getting hung up on the semantics of the post while completely ignoring the philosophical reality. We’re cooked.

Most people think of philosophy as an abstraction that doesn't touch the real world, but they're wrong. Most real world problems are philosophy problems, and most philosophy problems are "giving things the wrong names". For example, if you call feral drug addicts "homeless people", then you can't solve the problem. You can only buy more houses for feral drug addicts to destroy. In this case, we called the police and courts the "justice system". But they're not. They can't be the justice system. The function of a justice system would be to give everyone what they deserve. Now, I deserve a hundred million dollars, a private Caribbean island, and a foot massage from Lauren Bacall in her prime, but I don't see the "justice" system lifting a finger to correct any of this, do you? No, what we are supposed to have is a public safety system. The function of a public safety system is to keep the public and their property safe. If we understood that, we wouldn't care about what criminals deserve. We would care how likely they are to do it again. Or something worse. In a public safety system, retardation and mental illness are not migrating factors. They are the opposite. Because they mean that the criminal is more likely to pose a future threat. We all understand this. We all understand that the feral retard who stabs strangers on the train for being White and beautiful is a worse person than the man who murders his wife and her lover when he catches them in the act. Not because of some abstract calculus of moral agency, of who is disadvantaged and who isn't, but because one is certainly going to murder more people if he can, while the other is a lot less likely to. We've known for centuries, if not millennia, that it's the same small percentage of people doing all the robbing, raping, and murdering, over and over and over again. And we've known for centuries that if you physically remove them from society, that's 100% effective in stopping them from doing it again. The only hurdle is philosophical. Call it a "justice" system, and you have to argue endlessly about morality and redemption, and then some leftie thug-hugger weaponizes your own Christianity against you. Call it public safety, and you confine the argument to likelihood of reoffense. Then you are in the realm of statistics. Which you can compute. It all starts with naming things correctly, according to their actual nature.

@radartabs @Keir_Starmer Bot👆

@Keir_Starmer Ban this site completely - it’s a total sewer, exploited by the far-right to foment hatred.

I know parents are worried about social media and its impact on their children’s safety. They rightly expect fast action. Today, I’m calling on senior leaders from X, Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok to step up. I will do whatever it takes to keep children safe online.

@plutuswealthy @chamath 👆This

@chamath The real play isn't vibe coding new apps. It's using AI to finally understand the legacy mess nobody wants to touch. The one who can point Claude at a 200K line codebase and extract the business logic in an afternoon is worth more than 10 developers starting fresh.

This is really accurate. As much as we all want to drink the vibe coding kool-aid, the reality is that 90%+ of all code in a company is maintaining and migrating existing stuff that is complicated and messy. You can definitely vibe code the remaining 10% but unless there is a working example of how to reinvent the 90%, AI will not live up to its potential. We started 8090 and built Software Factory to focus on the 90%. Many large enterprises now rely on us to help them migrate complex systems, rewrite old systems and maintain existing decisions. Cheaper, faster and better. Please consider trying it and seeing what it can do.