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@iowahawkblog Where do I send the $600 deposit?

If you want REAL disruption forget electric Ferraris, get a BurgeTech 9-cylinder radial gasoline iPhone

@DerekPederson3 Just the fact people call it THE great filter is indicative of the problem. The filter is more like a reverse telephoto lens, multiple elements(distance , time, evolutionary luck, etc.) that scatter the chances rather than focusing it.

Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.

@harginski @500Indy1911 The electric motor of the hybrid system.

@500Indy1911 Idk shit about Indy cars. When the spotter said “deploy deploy deploy” as he was on the final stretch, what was he referring to?

This is the best single lap in Indianapolis 500 history. Absolutely incredible. And by Turn 2 he said he wishes his wife and 3-week-old daughter was there. Indy, man. #Indy500 || 💕

@simonmaechling “Wellness” industry is in the Trillions, far exceeding the pharma industry.

MAHA was never really about improving health. Like most anti-science movements, it follows the same formula Create fear. Attack expertise. Profit from distrust. The goal isn’t better public health. It’s replacing evidence-based medicine with a wellness industry worth billions.

@jarvis_best @TheAtlantic The author of the tweet is The Atlantic, Robert Kagan is now off writing a think piece on the Buffalo Sabres.

@TheAtlantic Has anyone informed the author of this piece that he is literally Robert Kagan

The U.S. is effectively checkmated in Iran—and this defeat will carry lasting consequences unlike any America has endured before, Robert Kagan argues. theatlantic.com/international/…

@irishdudeabides @Rainmaker1973 🇺🇸 sent nearly $50 billion in supplies to ussr under lend lease, that’s equivalent to nearly a trillion dollars today. Russians would be proud Siberians today if not for that.

@Rainmaker1973 Good to see Grok understands who crushed Nazi Germany

World War II timeline [🎞️ stoferr]

@megbasham Patently false, perhaps purposely so, but likely just rank ignorance.

No one tried to assassinate Barack Obama. No one tried to assassinate Joe Biden. No one tried to assassinate Kamala Harris. But President Trump has now survived three serious assassination attempts. This is not both sides issue.

@upstatefederlst 2 things, we all watched whatever movie was on tv, but not together, ABC7 in NYC played a 4:30 movie every day, if I mentioned it in school 30ish % watched it too, when we bought houses we saw the special hoses that said “safe to drink” and grimly recalled the taste of hose water

What I learned here is that everyone had time to watch infinite movies from the 1940s while also drinking from the hose and not coming home before midnight.

@graceyldn Either, “No thank you, but good luck(or God bless)” or “I don’t know your charity and can’t give you anything “ and keep walking.

@Kekius_Sage At this moment? Probably staring out the window, or putting down a book, about to stare out a window.

If you didn’t have to work for a living, what would you be doing?

@Gentleman_Ways Definitely MaW, all the other bands were well respected in their time as songwriters and musicians, not so Men at Work. Colin Hay has some impressive solo work as well.

Let’s have some fun on this Friday afternoon. Which of these 80s bands were the most underrated musicians? Would you choose a different band?

@BradDuplessis The funniest part is they will not be able to process this in the slightest, it will move through their rusted steel trap minds like a T-1000.

@PAHoyeck Reading any classic Sci-Fi requires a suspension of disbelief like a movie would and not just about sexism or racism etc. I think editors just became much better/important since then, helping writers do much better work, think of all the impressive debut novels last 20yrs.

Just finished Rendezvous With Rama. Interesting idea, somewhat underwhelming execution. Would probably have been better as a short story. I always feel this way when I read Arthur C. Clarke.

@Noahpinion Because so many people died it required growth in immigration and allowed social advancement both vertically and horizontally, like the 19th amendment. It also was towards the end of ww1, so economic power that had been added by war spending to fight was redirected.

Why did our society bounce back so much more quickly from the Spanish Flu than we did from Covid??

@r0ck3t23 Lol, once again, Dentist? Gone? No more 🦷, ai is fixing teeth? What about doomsayers? Oh yeah, he’ll be doomsaying till the end. He’s safe. 🫥

Eric Weinstein just described the end of the mapped life. For ten thousand years, humans had to earn the right to exist. Pick a noun. Become the noun. Die as the noun. Accountant. Teacher. Radiologist. The box had a name. You climbed inside and stayed until retirement or death. Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over.” Not automated. Not replaced. Named. You picked a noun. It told the world who you were. Then it told you who you were. If your future has a title your parents recognize, that future is already dissolving beneath you. Weinstein: “A tsunami of a lifetime is coming and nothing your elders have seen is gonna prepare you.” People hear this and assume it’s about unemployment. It’s not. It’s about identity. The machines aren’t absorbing tasks. They’re dissolving the categories we built ourselves around. You spent your whole life becoming a noun. The noun is about to stop existing. When the label disappears, what’s left of you? Weinstein: “Get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.” Stop being a noun. Start being a verb. But the most important thing Weinstein said has nothing to do with strategy. It touches something much older. Something closer to the bone. In a world where AI is world-class at everything, what is the point of a human being? Weinstein: “I think you should be able to just have a life. I have a golden retriever. I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world.” For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output. How much you could lift. How fast you could think. How much value you could squeeze from a single day. We trained ourselves to think like machines because machines didn’t exist yet. Now they do. And they will be better than us at every measurable thing. Most people hear that and feel terror. They should feel something closer to relief. When a machine can do it better, the metric dies. When the metric dies, the cage opens. You were never supposed to be a spreadsheet. You were never supposed to justify your breath with a job title. Your golden retriever doesn’t optimize. It doesn’t produce quarterly earnings. It doesn’t prove it’s worth to anyone. It just lives. And you love it anyway. That was always the offer. We just couldn’t afford it. Now we can. We spent ten thousand years trying to prove we were machines. The machines just arrived to tell us we never had to be.

@PAHoyeck Fine—> tight clothes and well built Really f***ing stupid—> even better

Are any of my mutuals skilled enough at logic to parse the claim that analytic philosophers are "fine" but also, at the same time, "really f***ing stupid"?

@PAHoyeck 🫸Sorry, I just Kant.

Dating is so scary, because what if their favourite philosopher is Immanuel Kant?

@PAHoyeck Oh no, please not the defining of Midwit again, I can’t keep questioning myself like this.

Happy to report that I'm at least medium intelligence

@PAHoyeck Holy moly, I will buy 2 vacation premises in no time if I can just validate my premises.

Valid deductive arguments with all true premises are the new currency

@PAHoyeck More coffee! Soon you’ll hear the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and you shall be prepared for anything. That’s how parents with young children manage!

Fun fact: After only three hours of sleep and four cups of coffee, you are unshackled from space and time altogether and begin to see things as they are in themsleves.