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@Pranklin_My_Boy @sm0k3_pop @BitPaine Equating Christianity with terminally fatal charity requirements illustrates minimal understanding of the scripture, and highlights an inability to construct a good faith argument. Try again brother.

@RileyGrant @sm0k3_pop @BitPaine You're not a Christian. That's my first principle. 🫶

1. Subsaharan Africans create the AIDS epidemic by butchering and eating monkeys, allowing the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus to jump to humans. 2. Subsaharan Africans spread the virus widely due to the barbaric practice of “dry sex” where they shove rocks and dust in women’s vaginas to make them feel tighter (this sounds like a racist fever dream, but it’s very real - look it up). 3. American taxpayers fund research to understand HIV. 4. American capital markets and pharmaceutical companies develop medications that effectively cure AIDS. 5. American taxpayers pay to send these miracle drugs for free to the fourth world countries that gave us this virus in the first place. 6. American government asks that in exchange for decades of charity, these countries allow access to their minerals so that we can do something with them. 7. They say no. 8. “America is the bad guy.”

@Pranklin_My_Boy @sm0k3_pop @BitPaine You’ve yet to explain why the US has any obligation at all to provide these medications and services to another country in the first place. You can’t make it past first principles and you’re out here trying to weaponize vulgarity to assert superiority. Wild.

@sm0k3_pop @BitPaine Jesus Christ can you not even read? LMAO.

@Novarcharesk3 @SketchesbyBoze This is a tweet about microprocessors btw.

@Novarcharesk3 @SketchesbyBoze We learned to inscribe special runes onto special rocks, and in doing so, they become capable of anything. Magic is all around us.

@GotDusted @IterIntellectus I think you missed the point. Why do governments need to approve a vaccination made for an individual already facing a high probability of near future death? Why not allow the market to discern snake oil salesmen from effective providers?

@IterIntellectus U can’t generalize a single case on an animal over countless cases on humans. Surely AI helps, but governments can’t approve a vaccine which is individually made based on individual treatments. That’s not how medicine work.

“it’s trivially easy to make an mRNA vaccine to cure cancer” followed by “but we’re still extremely far from proving it works” is not the flex you think it is but also the most accidentally honest summary of everything wrong with modern science i’ve ever read. the science works, the institution doesn’t. and the institution will let you die on a waiting list before it admits that a guy with chatgpt and $3,000 just did what they need 15 years, $2 billion, and six committees to approve. academia has become a parking lot for bureaucrats who gatekeep cures and progress because their tenure depends on it. the biggest medical advances in history didn’t have an IRB protocol. medical breakthroughs happen because someone just did the thing.

@nonfungibleyash @minjunesh @shortmagsmle @martianwyrdlord No one is arguing that this approach should be used to create scalable, mass market cures, though? They’re pointing out that we have the tech to generate singular, personalized cures for individuals facing a high probability of near future death. What is confusing about this?

@minjunesh @shortmagsmle @martianwyrdlord THIS

> Random guy: Claude, cure cancer. Make no mistakes. > Biomedical engineering industry: yeah don’t do this. It’s easy and effective but we can’t make enough money off it.

@minjunesh @shortmagsmle @martianwyrdlord Why is testing needed for an individualized vaccination created for a singular individual facing a high probability of near future death? What’s the worst that can happen, the individual dies anyways?

@shortmagsmle @martianwyrdlord That's not what the post says. Cancer has been cured in mice a thousand times over. He is pointing out that human testing problem, which is not a technical problem, is the real bottleneck.

@Cryptopathic @coinmamba Failure?

@coinmamba There is evidence that the numbers were inflated ~10x by some sources, which influenced american leadership into believing an internal revolution was far more likely than it really was, and is why they were not prepared for this failure.

Not sure why Iranian regime has so many supporters on X. Didn’t these guys murder thousands of their citizens just past month?

@elonmusk @PatrickHeizer ?? Not sure that having cancer is safe, either? Is absolute safety of a vaccine the top priority in an individual facing a high probability of near future death regardless? Maybe I’m missing the point?

@PatrickHeizer Well said

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.

@GovBobFerguson The people have voted against an income tax every single time, Bob. You refused to give them a vote in order to side step the democratic process. Is that not what Kings do? Force taxes upon their constituents without giving them any say? How do you justify this?

The Millionaires’ Tax passed by the House represents historic progress in rebalancing our unfair system. It sends significant dollars back to Washington families and small businesses. It expands the Working Families Tax Credit to 460,000 additional households – that’s money straight back into the pockets of working families. It saves working parents money and ensures our kids are prepared to learn by funding free breakfast and lunch for all Washington K-12 students, which has been a priority of mine since I ran for governor. The Millionaires’ Tax will apply to less than one half of one percent of Washingtonians, but make life more affordable for millions. I look forward to signing it.

@jonfavs Jon, the people of the state have voted against this every single time it’s been pushed. So the state decided to push it through “as an emergency” in order to circumvent the will of the people. Every poll showed abysmal public support. Do you simply hate democracy?

This billionaire thinks that asking people who make over a million dollars to pay an income tax is a "dystopian and malevolent scheme."

@akm515 @chamath The people have voted against it every single time. So what did the state do? They passed it as an emergency so that the people would not have a say. Every poll showed abysmal public support for it. If this is something you stand behind, you do not stand for democracy.

@chamath Dude stop crying. It's a 10% income tax on those who earn more than $1M per year. You'll be fine and so will others who qualify for this tax. Government budgets need to get their fiscal house in order at all levels. It's not ideal, but they need to start moving the needle.

Here is what a tax like this does: 1) It excites people with zero agency and infinite envy. Beware of these people. 2) It will keep middle class people firmly in the middle class with no real chance of getting wealthy if they stay in Washington State. It should be clear that this IS the strategy. Learned helplessness of the electorate will keep Washington State’s current elected officials in office. 3) It will never allow the upwardly mobile of building any assets or real wealth unless they move. Capping the American Dream is a dystopian and malevolent scheme. It cannot be a valid strategy. But unless droves of middle and upper middle class people leave Washington State, this strategy will win.

@allensnow3852 @MartinLZinn @shanaka86 Thanks for your service. But care to elaborate what I’m wrong about? I can provide whatever receipts you would like. When did you get out?

@RileyGrant @MartinLZinn @shanaka86 30 years USMC an Special forces veteran bud you are absolutely full of shit

The United States Navy deployed a laser weapon to this war. CENTCOM released footage of the HELIOS system mounted on a destroyer operating off Iran’s coast. The New York Post, citing sources familiar with the operation, reported HELIOS has been used against Iranian drones during Operation Epic Fury. In early February 2026, weeks before the war began, HELIOS took out four drones in a live test. USNI Proceedings confirmed it. Whether HELIOS has recorded confirmed combat kills in this war is not yet publicly verified by primary military sources. What is confirmed is that the system is deployed, operational, and pointed at the same airspace through which Iran has been sending hundreds of drones and missiles every day. Here is why that matters regardless of the kill count. Every Patriot interceptor costs $3 to $4 million per missile. Every THAAD interceptor costs $10 million. The UAE has intercepted more than 755 drones and 172 ballistic missiles since this war began. Run that arithmetic at even conservative figures and you are looking at several billion dollars in interceptor expenditures across the Gulf in under a week. HELIOS runs on electricity. The marginal cost of firing a laser is essentially zero. The ship’s generator produces the power. There is no missile to reload, no magazine to deplete, no resupply ship needed. Against a Shahed drone that costs $30,000, a laser engagement costs less than the electricity bill for a large apartment. The economic architecture of drone warfare has been Iran’s most sophisticated strategic weapon in this conflict. Flood the defenses with cheap munitions. Force the defender to spend $1 million to stop a $30,000 projectile. Do that a thousand times and you have imposed a billion-dollar tax on the defense while spending thirty million on the offense. HELIOS breaks that equation at the physical level. If directed energy weapons can absorb even a fraction of the drone saturation that has been overwhelming Gulf air defenses, the cost asymmetry that makes Iranian drone doctrine viable begins to invert. Iran spent years developing the doctrine that makes Shaheds strategically valuable. The United States just deployed the technology that may make that doctrine obsolete. This war is the first real combat test of whether it works. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@allensnow3852 @MartinLZinn @shanaka86 There’s widespread footage of the weapon being used in tests over 10 years ago. Unlike the Chinese, ours are actually verifiably operational. There’s nothing hypothetical about them being deployable or any reason to doubt that they’re currently in use.

@MartinLZinn @shanaka86 On the weapon your a 100% correct but Iran doesn't have a missile or weapon that can get past a united states Navy destroyer's defenses let alone an aircraft carriers

@kendouhua @deanwball @cmsholdings @GavinNewsom @AOC @SpaceX If SpaceX, a US company using US land and US resources to operate, redlined its contracts with the US Government to determine what the US government was allowed to do with said tech, then SpaceX would deserve it. See how easy it is to employ consistent logic?

@RileyGrant @deanwball @cmsholdings Can't wait for @GavinNewsom or @AOC to assert control over @SpaceX

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

@SickAssPen @romanhelmetguy So if you’re “thing” was nuclear weapons (which AI is a weapon quite comparable to), you’d have the right to dictate their use to the USG? Yeah, buddy, not gonna happen.

@romanhelmetguy Hi I'm a private citizen that made a deal with government to sell them access to my thing. Now they want to change the language of the contract they agreed to so they can use it in a way I didn't agree to. Fixed it for you.

Hi I’m a private citizen who developed a superweapon potentially a thousand times more powerful than nukes and now I’m selling it to the govt but I get to choose who they fire it at and how, everyone please respect my decision.

@RyanStalling123 @ChitownPirate @Lee_in_Iowa Cool, neither of those answer the question though. Cope harder buddy. There is no honor in ignorance.

@RileyGrant @ChitownPirate @Lee_in_Iowa We both know the answer to that first question Rylie. Don’t play dumb. Regarding the 2nd question, there are literally countless ways to try and find fraud that don’t involve a specific state audit of citizenship records. You point out it can never be perfect, no shit.

For the record, “proof of citizenship” isn’t going to be your driver’s license—or even that Real ID they pushed people to get. Nope. Passport or birth certificate and marriage license (for women who married & changed their names). Getting this stuff is tedious & costs a lot.