Thomas Cioppettini

It's crazy what you can do now with state of the art AI audio and video generation. If you combine the output with some clever editing it's hard to discern what's real anymore.

I'm sorry for your loss Jimmy Numbnuts.

@fuckyouiquit Any reform should come with a restructuring of social security. We should eventually have a system where people are funding their own retirement instead of current workers paying for retirees. This solves the early death issue as well.

Every dollar earned below $184,500 a year has a Social Security tax of 12.4%. Everything after that cap is exempt. If we lift this cap on the wealthiest earners, Social Security would be fully funded till 2070. The cap should not exist.

@2024dion I saw this incredible house that had two garages stacked on top of one another. It had access from the front for the upper (cars) and back for the lower (workshop). I've never been so envious.

that's a parody account but sunbelt tract housing developers are starting to build supersized rv garages

@paulg The Turbo encabulator isn't that complicated. A child could understand it.

Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets.

@krishnanrohit Bad economic policies tend to be great politics.

What's the underlying reason why so many people so radically prefer bad economic policies like price controls, considering we've known they're bad for decades now?

@forthrighter Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf.

Top favorite album of all time? Start to finish, not tracks. What's your "this shit transports me" favorite?

@satyanadella Hire this man.

@SCP_Hughes Everything is tradeoffs. Are you willing to trade some beauty for disability access, plumbing, electricity, hvac, sprinkler systems, insulation, car access, or affordability.

@SCP_Hughes Newer buildings are asked to do more things. Building codes don't really exist for old buildings, so your money that would go into making the building better looking ends up fixing mostly nonsense requirements.

Why do new buildings seem, on average, uglier than old buildings? We discuss some options: - Survivorship bias: only the beautiful old buildings have survived (we reject this option); - Cycles of taste: everyone always finds new buildings uglier (we mostly reject this too); - Ornament became too expensive because of rising labour costs (we reject this); - Ornament became too cheap because of mechanisation and then became low status (we reject this); - Some sort of Protestant or Puritan anti-beauty inheritance (we are doubtful); - Some kind of elite status game, perhaps a response to democratisation or elite overproduction (we think there is promise here, but serious work is needed on the details). I discuss this and more with @Aria_Babu and @bswud. Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/did… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2pIka6… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=qvueKt…

If anyone from SLED was wondering, the amber alert is working.

@klara_sjo For anyone curious about the original music, it comes from the Japanese translation of King of the Hill.

Historically accurate Roman marching music.

@ashlee3dee nee.lv/2021/02/28/How…

guy who's never optimized a game: why don't they just optimize the game

This is the music that is played in the clubs that Stefon attends. Didn't know you had that in you.

Just listened to an album that a friend said was their favorite and now I need to reevaluate who they are as a person. I'm not judging them, but this is not at all what I was expecting.

@PackTerrorist Queue up Fire on the Mountain if you haven't heard it

Haven’t ever really gotten into MTB but this might be the greatest song I’ve ever heard

@chopperface69 @micsolana Stupid insurance companies with their rules killed the industry. This is why we no longer have crazy local furniture store owners with insane deals and low low prices. That America is gone

@TomCiopp @micsolana Any piece of furniture can destroy your house if you try hard enough.

is it time to bring back water beds

@Darknesshas123 @matthewswspence Shipbuilding is more dangerous in the USA than South Korea. On a per ship basis more people are dying here than there.

@matthewswspence Productivity is low because of osha regulations. Not worker skill. It's really easy to build a ship in a day when you don't care how many dudes die in the process

The problem with US shipyards is that they suck at building ships. It’s not a labor shortage, they’re just bad at their jobs. Productivity is super low, you can’t fix that with more workers.

@matthewswspence The big question is why are we bad at making ships when the USA is the best in the world at making other capital intensive projects. (planes, construction equipment, etc.)

@atlanticesque There's actually a loophole for a single amendment that could still be passed. The apportionment amendment only needs to be ratified by a few more states and it is law.

It’s interesting how people say the Constitution is “impossible to amend” It’s not like it became procedurally harder to amend at some point. It’s the same process as it was back when we did amend it. What changed is *us* We don’t agree on anything anymore