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@REDavidson3

I float about.

Katılım Nisan 2022
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@Altimor My one interaction with the press was me asking if they'd say a very specific thing about me, them saying no definitely not, then them saying that very specific thing about me.
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Flo Crivello@Altimor·
Common knowledge by now for literally every founder I know. My last exchange with the NYT: NYT: can we talk about {topic} ME: no, you'll write a hit piece where you'll make {obviously stupid point} NYT: not at all! Article comes out, mfw it's all about {obviously stupid point}
Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdale

Top founders don’t discuss their company with the NY Times; they know it’s a negative mouthpiece for hateful propaganda that will ultimately always side against builders, and against America. It’s a huge mistake for founders to speak with them. Build your own voice and audience.

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RED3@REDavidson3·
@dvorstone I wonder how much of this is true because it REALLY makes sense to me. Specific people came to mind with this post and man would they be much happier. I've even considered buddhism myself because they still have monasteries, and for a while I despaired.
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Dvorstone@dvorstone·
It's honestly shocking how many people aggressively don't understand monasteries (or their modern proxies, such as leftwing activism or "spiritual retreats" and cults and even Islamic terror communities). Until the 20th century, monasteries were precisely a refuge for many uneducated, lower-class people looking for a refuge from the world. They were the "lay brothers." The educated monks who'd often become priests were "choir brothers," and Vatican II got rid of that distinction (among other reforms that gutted the monastic structure). Any healthy society NEEDS to provide some meaningful life for its entire population. Half of the U.S. population, for example, has an IQ under 100 and potentially any number of psychological or physical issues that make modern living hard. Historically, they'd be well-suited to monastic living but today, they'd be rejected. Alternatively, there were also entire "servant classes" that served a similar, non-religious function. These were people who were provided a strict, secure living, but one which didn't provide them the opportunity to marry or have a family. This allowed those people to have a dignified life that that was simple enough for them to excel in. We've made that economically impossible due to wage and labor laws. The benefits of such structures were many but one key one is that they didn't have children, thus reducing the birth rate of the lower classes. Today, we do the opposite. We give those people various forms of welfare and let them spend their lives idly breeding. The result is dysgenic and culturally corrosive. A culture follows what demographic is having children. The reason urban black culture came to dominate is that for that time period, they were the most demographically vigorous, i.e., they were having children. Welfare made that possible and proved catastrophic for American culture. Monasticism is simply one solution (for the spiritually inclined) for a more general problem: what do we do with low-aptitude people? Well, with AI tools, we're going to see the bar for aptitude creep up and more and more people will struggle to build a life. What will we do with them? Today, we offer them no meaningful life either in service to man, the state, or God. And guess what? Leftists know this and have sought to solve this problem with activism. The country is riddled with flophouses that function to provide meaning for people who can't function and succeed in society more broadly. Any loser can wander off and find a leftwing community that will take them in, feed and house them, so long as they accept their teachings and embrace their way of life. It is a mockery of monasticism but it serves a similar function. The comical gatekeeping of monastic living is absurd when you realize that people have romanticized it and tried to elevate it beyond what it was. Monasteries where were not filled with elites but often the lower classes looking for some life that they could actually manage.
Dvorstone@dvorstone

America need monasteries. What it has instead are cults and antidepressants. Life is hard, and not everyone is equipped to handle it, whether for temperament or aptitude or spirituality. We need somewhere that people can go and live simple but productive lives for as long as necessary. Our depressed and anxious shouldn't be medicated nor euthanized. They should be welcomed into a fulfilling life away from the struggles of modernity.

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@CartoonsHateHer Berkeley actually had that but a woman was always there to make sure no thought crimes were committed.
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Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·
We need woman exclusionary radical feminism. just a buncha dudes bro'ing out, cracking open a couple cold beers and discussing their favorite feminist literature.
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@theisabelb They don't get that they're the establishment
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Isabel Brown@theisabelb·
Just for the record, anyone who actually understands Harry Potter knows Dolores Umbridge would force you to write down “trans women are women” until it was etched into your skin.
Georgia Coley@artwithinpod

rewatching Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix and you kinda have to wonder now: does JK Rowling think the good guys in Harry Potter would be on her side today? does she think Harry, Ron and Hermione would be anti-trans? does she think Dolores Umbridge would be PRO-trans?

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RED3@REDavidson3·
@unironictechbro When I worked at the first one it was like 80% ex-googlers
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Full ML Alchemist@unironictechbro·
"i work at a startup" could either mean - series B, 400 people, catered lunch OR - 4 people, $200k in the bank, genuinely scared one of these is a startup the other is basically google with worse benefits
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@myhandle My best hygiene advice is to use hair conditioner every shower but shampoo only when your hair is actually dirty.
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Jakeup@myhandle·
my most Aella opinion is that soap is bad. daily warm water + soap-free gel keep skin clean+healthy. extra disinfection is needed only for your hands before meals and your dick before sex my least Aella opinion is that it's better to work for one smart boss than 100 dumb clients
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@DanFriedman81 Just the fact that other people talk about you is social proof.
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Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81·
Here is the value proposition of “matchmaking”: If you walk up to an attractive woman and try to get her to go out with you by telling her how much money you have, it will not work. But if you pay another attractive woman to talk that woman into going out with you by telling her how much money you have, it will go better.
Blaine Anderson@datingbyblaine

Why is matchmaking expensive? To illustrate, here’s how I’ll lose money on a client’s $49,000 package. Client is 46, 6’2, exited tech founder. He’s looking for a woman 27-33, very specific criteria around match personality, appearance, and profession. Without diving into specifics, she: • Isn’t easily searchable online... • Isn’t likely to reply when we find her… • Isn’t likely to be single… • Often has a deal-breaker trait we can’t screen for without a phone call… • Isn’t necessarily interested in my client… I was expecting this to be a difficult search, so I quoted $49,000. I wasn’t expecting ~100 hours of labor to find each match, not including communication with the client! To date I’ve spent $45,000 on salaries for the women staffed on his search, plus $2,750 on styling and photos, and we still owe the client 2 matches... Before considering overhead (let alone opportunity cost) this will be a huge L financially. Things balance out though. Most engagements are profitable. Some engagements are quite profitable. For example, a new client in NYC paid $30,000 and paused after his first match, because he’s 99% sure we found his wife. That's still a new relationship, and engagements last 9 months (6 months of active matching + up to 3 months of pause), so we could be on the hook for more work in coming months. But you get the point 🙏

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RED3@REDavidson3·
@elonmusk They don't charge for it?! There was Starlink on my bus in Mexico and they absolutely charged for it!
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@jimmygandhi @asymmetricinfo Their value as a signal has diluted significantly as their cost has risen. We'd be better off just issuing everyone an IQ test and looking at work history. Better signal at 1/80th the cost and 1/6000th the time.
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Jimmy Gandhi@jimmygandhi·
College degrees are important because they signal what a person will be capable of achieving in their adult life. It's a flaw to think a college degree is an end in itself. It leads to the absurd conclusion that Markwayne, despite successs in business and politics, is a loser because he doesn't have a degree.
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@BowTiedPassport I saw a European band at a ramen place get pictures. I still don't know why they are but the staff were ecstatic
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BowTiedPassport@BowTiedPassport·
One side of Mexico City that rarely gets mentioned: "Anonymity Arbitrage." I’m friends with a few guys who are famous everywhere but here. I’ve known one guy for years…just sports, gym, grabbing drinks. We talk a lot but he never hyped himself up. Then one day, we’re out in public and a small group rushes up, calling him by a stage name I’d never heard of and asking for pictures. I was confused because to me, guys just chill dude. I asked him about it..Googled him and turns out dude has a full Wiki page: a long list of accolades and multiple hit songs with high double digit millions of listens. In his home country, he’s a big name; in Mexico, he’s just another expat living in peace. You occasionally see a lot of big names hanging around. Shak popping into bars in Mexico City. Lenny Kravitz in a random market. For the most part…they can be semi regular.
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@ArtemisConsort They attribute the foreign difference to colonialism and the domestic difference to systemic white supremacy. Easy to rebut but it's not like the faithful to break faith from mere evidence.
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Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
The neoliberal mass migrationist position has an internal contradiction. Given the commitment to at least population-level blank slatism, they must attribute most differences in economic development between nations to systems: tax policy, lack of corruption, defense of property rights, etc. But all non-White groups votes vote for less freedom and more economic populism than Whites. On any issue from welfare to free speech, Whites are the only consistent defenders of the very policies these people say are the keys to growth, on average. If (highly individually productive) Indian immigrants were the whole electorate, they’d vote for censorship of “hate speech” and growth-destroying redistribution and regulation. And these differences in voting patterns persist over generations, and are even detectable between different White ethnic groups (e.g. Anglos are consistently more conservative than Italians). Which populations you have largely determines which policies you get. So whether you think growth is caused by people or systems, anyone who cares about it should oppose mass migration.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier

Mass deportations are a luxury good for people who care about population purity over prosperity and freedom.

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RED3@REDavidson3·
@NiohBerg The State also caused her to be raped. I don't know how the spirit of Ted Bundy possessed a social construct but it happened.
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@Rothmus Antivirus companies had margins like that, if they were doing poorly.
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@tom_paine1737 @atlanticesque Ah gotcha. As you say without LVT it's got problems. Basically a landed gentry. Unfortunately they'd immediately repeal LVT in favor of income or other taxes, more or less like in CA, so restricting suffrage to landowners doesn't work. Net taxpayers of all kinds might?
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RealTomPaine1737@tom_paine1737·
@REDavidson3 @atlanticesque Wasn't really clear to me from what you wrote (that might be on me...been having a bad day). Typical thing other folks (not nec you) say is that "only landowners should vote!!1!".
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𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque·
Talking to a normal friend about local politics, and she asks, "Why don't municipal governments just work like corporations, like, the more taxes you pay, the more of a say you get over government" What an interesting idea, my friend, I wonder if anyone has ever thought of that
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@tom_paine1737 @atlanticesque To be consistent, land owners can only vote in local elections because that's the only government they pay any land tax to. (Joking) I'm not sure what you think I believe. I'm very in favor of LVT, so I think there's a communication issue here.
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RealTomPaine1737@tom_paine1737·
@REDavidson3 @atlanticesque That's exactly backwards. Owning land, with the right to exclusive use, is an amazing privilege granted by the state, and without LVT, landowners don't fully paiy for it. If we're going to go down this road, coherent morality would say net landowners are the ones who should
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@levelsio I couldn't reply to the other one
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RED3@REDavidson3·
@MattWalshBlog If your kid is too neurotic about being perfect or everything will fall apart, then they benefit from hearing how you ended up despite not being perfect.
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Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
This is exactly the point. Parents somehow don’t understand this. But they were once children and they should know how children think. If your life is currently a total mess and you’re a pathetic loser and you want to tell your kids about your past indiscretions as a kind of cautionary tale, then okay maybe there could be some value there. But if you are happy, well off, and living well, then all your kids will hear when you tell them about your wayward youth is: “Hey kids, you can be a selfish asshole now and things will work out fine, just like they did for me!” That’s not what you want them to hear. But it’s what they will hear. So keep it to yourself. Nobody needs to hear your reminisces about the bad old days. Move on.
Thanos@Thanos_Snaps

@MattWalshBlog The concept of not telling your kids stories of your own debauchery is critical. If you did stupid things, you are literally the survivorship bias - something kids will not comprehend - and will draw the conclusion that they'll be OK too.

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Gary@plzbepatient·
This post is for NORTH AMERICANS ONLY.
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Jorge of the Wired@saturnine_grace·
Asking a girl with "Liberal" in her dating app profile if she's cool with a Platonist Conservative Marxist with Market Characteristics adherent who opposes Trump for esoteric geopolitical reasons
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