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You're in this side of Twitter, reading about WiFi money, You love the idea of starting your thing, making money, becoming independent, it's only positive! Yet, you do nothing. "It's not the right time" "I can't think of a product" "I'll start when X happens" Sounds familiar?

@coastersRfun @MarioNawfal Sample difference + death is not the only noteworthy outcome of both rollercoasters and car accidents

@MarioNawfal For context:

🇮🇹 Italy has a roller coaster that drags you to the edge of a 42-meter drop, stops completely, and makes you stare straight down at 87° before letting go. Oblivion: The Black Hole at Gardaland. Your brain has nowhere to go but panic.

@kieralwellness What's your hypothesis?

Can’t make it up.

@CaimanPI Film camera vs smartphone

I realize having strong opinions on video games is a stupid thing to care about... but man it just fucking sucks how the future of graphics technology is in the hands of the most tasteless, uninspired people imaginable

@McClint57188728 @kenblackwell Very easy to do at home actually

@kenblackwell We need an LLM built and trained purely on Thomas Sowell's books, writings, speeches, lectures, debates, and citations. Call it the Oracle.

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old. Let that number sit with you. Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention. What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with. While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another. He doesn’t argue feelings. He measures results. He isn’t selling anything. His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Sit with that, too. Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it. Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who. Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations: “I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.” “Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.” That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences. The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn. Sowell says it plain: “The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.” The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business. Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle: “Stay away from the race hustlers.” “Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.” That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before. Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing. Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions. What are the incentives? Who actually benefits from this policy? What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later? Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart. The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television. He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side. Ninety-five years of telling the truth. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

@SamoBurja Blank slate theory has been largely proven wrong, hasn't it?

This would be very dubious even if blank slate was true and we were all equal in abilities at birth, because the only way it could be true, given empirical results is if education is actually very technically difficult to achieve.

The no-genes people have taken the very questionable assumption that we can simply educate children whatever human stock and sustain our civilization that way.

@TetraChad I think this originates from Ukraine, heard refugees explain it to me 3 years ago

Espresso and orange juice is huge in asia. Which means it'll probably be a big trend in the US in a year or two (trends start in asia now) Cap it.

@Bowtiedplayer I don't, this blends into much broader topics (trust to institutions, self-care, health knowledge, professional and personal situation at the time of the coercion) I would consider it like asking if she likes pepperoni on pizzas when assessing if she likes Italian food

Dating question for you all, serious note. When would you bring up COVID and vaccination status? Some would say first or second date, and I don't think that's realistic at all and would make you sound like a sperg. This is a hardline for me though and it does need to come up at some point if me and her get more serious. I'm not looking for larp comments on this one. If you're a Roman statue profile pic account or if you're some weird trad Cath account, sit this one out. Serious answers only. The thing is, there are self-identified as conservative, registered Republican girls who nonetheless went ahead and got booster shots. That doesn't work for me. It also doesn't work for me the "oh but I changed my mind later and now see it was wrong blah blah", nah man. Pass. This is one of the qualms I had with NYC. There are some things anyone may need to compromise on a little bit if we're honest, but this isn't one of them. What would you do?

You're in this side of Twitter, reading about WiFi money, You love the idea of starting your thing, making money, becoming independent, it's only positive! Yet, you do nothing. "It's not the right time" "I can't think of a product" "I'll start when X happens" Sounds familiar?

@TetraChad Jung's persona: coherence to a fabricated sense of identity A form of self-protecting shallowness

Corporate ppl are so weird. Why do they talk with a weird professional demeanor even when they're not at work

@obakachantachi @WexlerRules @MorbidKnowledge And home, once they locked him there

@SalticidX @WexlerRules @MorbidKnowledge Probably felt safer on the trains than he ever did at school

Man with Asperger’s has been arrested 32 times for impersonating NYC transit workers and hijacking buses and trains, just to drive the routes perfectly. Darius McCollum is a New Yorker with Asperger’s syndrome who gained international notoriety for his lifelong obsession with the city’s transit system. Since the age of 15, McCollum has been arrested 32 times for impersonating Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) employees and "hijacking" subway trains and buses. Remarkably, he never sought to steal the vehicles; instead, he would drive the actual routes, make the correct station announcements, and keep perfectly to the schedule. His story was the subject of the 2016 documentary "Off the Rails," highlighting the intersection of neurodiversity and the criminal justice system.

@WexlerRules @MorbidKnowledge He was traumatized, that partly explains the compulsive behavior

@MorbidKnowledge NYC legend

@TetraChad It reminds me of the cobra hunt story The British colonialists in India gave a reward to anyone bringing a dead cobra, to eradicate them Soon enough they got themselves a massive pile of dead cobras, all of which were bred just to reap the reward

@SalticidX That's already the case.

How dystopian tech should be used to benefit society: Social media companies should use facial recognition to redirect rev share to the subjects of viral vids (instead of the person filming) Right now you can film someone doing something embarrassing and get paid to ruin their life. If the person whose life got ruined got the money instead it would reduce (but not eliminate) the incentive to film everything all the time and thus improve society

@TJ_Bongiorno No, because of execution paralysis, it scares me and I associate it with unpleasant feelings It doesn't stop me but it makes me want to disidentify from it

To all those building: do you like your business? I’ve gone through many phases with the brand Different levels of “proud” & not-so-proud I’m very proud of the current state I really like The Outgoing Co

@TheSalesBull1 Everything you described applies similarly to France

They tax hiring They tax earning They tax spending Now Brits are renting longer Marrying later Having fewer kids It’s not a pay rise It’s a tax wearing a costume

The minimum wage is £12.71 an hour But the worker only takes home £10.48 The government takes a cut from both sides of every job in Britain THREAD

@fde_enthusiast7 Daily Wire is a PR platform, you pay to get published on it

I’ve blocked 5 of these accounts today -“hot” femael -generic conserva posting barely above Facebook level -100k to 400k followers Where do they come from?

@VinnetuGS @LizD2706 My tweet wasn't meant to be a criticism of American politics (or of any country)

@SalticidX @LizD2706 There is no difference bw Biden or Trump or anyone else,America is killing ppl all over the world non-stop.The last potus Iremember who didn't invade or bomb a country was Jimmy Carter

Honestly Comparing The Two doesn’t make much sense, Russia is a dicatorship, figure skating is directly founded by the state. Sport is used as propaganda, skaters have no freedom of speech or are openly supporting the invasion and Putin. Americans athelets can and have been very

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