@dustyslay Sounds like the hippos got you right where they want you then.
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Larry 🏳️
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Larry 🏳️
@ZemlickLarry
This line will go a lot faster if everyone would start pushing. I’m just here for the funny part.
Katılım Mart 2018
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Just watched a video on how to escape a hippo attack with my son. I don’t know who this video was made for but I feel safe now.
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Name one song you consider flawless.
Not easy to choose just one, I know, but I would love to hear yours.
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@mariolopezviva Just because 18% of people can do something doesn’t mean they are at the “top” of anything.
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I learned how to drive on a stick shift. It’s amazing how many people I know, don’t know how to drive a standard…
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Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
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Someone found the job listing.
$2,000 to $3,000 a month is what they are offering …
Covfefe Anon@CovfefeAnon
This is like the classic dril bit >I can't find workers for my farm >Offer a higher wage >No
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@BetterCallMedhi This isn’t new. It’s Military Industrial Complex shit, same story; different day.
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I just finished reading palantir’s manifesto & I need you to understand what you’re actually looking at because this is the MOST important document the tech world has produced this year
most people came away thinking «wow what a thoughtful essay about patriotism and technology »…I came away thinking this is the most elegant justification for corporate capture of the state apparatus ever written & I want to walk you through why
krp opens with «silicon valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible » & frames the entire document as a call to civic duty, but read between the lines and what he’s actually saying is that the engineering elite should be embedded inside the defense and intelligence apparatus of the nation, he’s describing exactly what palantir has already done and dressing it up as patriotism
«the question is not whether AI weapons will be built, it is who will build them and for what purpose »sounds like a warning but it’s actually a sales pitch, he’s telling every gov on earth that the choice is binary either you buy from us or your adversaries will build it without you, this is the oldest arms dealer rhetoric in history wrapped in SV vocabulary
« hard power in this century will be built on software »is the key sentence of the entire manifesto because this is where karp reveals the real thesis, he’s saying whoever controls the software layer of national defense controls the nation itself & if you’ve been following my threads you know that palantir’s gotham and foundry platforms are already plugged into the intelligence feeds the satellite data, financial transactions & communications of dozens of govts worldwide through a single ontological knowledge graph that creates a technological dependency so deep that migrating away would mean rebuilding the entire institutional memory of the organization from scratch
this is vendor lockin at the scale of nation states and I’m personally convinced it was designed this way from the beginning
«we should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act » is karp defending palantir’s expansion into every domain the gov used to handle itself, policing immigration, military targeting intelligence analysis public health, everywhere the state retreats palantir advances and what was once a government function becomes a private service that the government can no longer perform without plantir’s permission
and here’s what I think makes it even more concerning, these systems are increasingly autonomous meaning the AI layer is making targeting recommendations threat assessments & resource allocation decisions that humans inside gov are rubber stamping without fully understanding the underlying logic
a bureaucrat inside the pentagon / DGSI sees a recommendation from the system & approves it because the system has been right 97% of the time and questioning it would require technical expertise that no one in the room has, this is algorithmic governance wearing the mask of human decision making
«the atomic age is ending, a new era of deterrence built on ai is set to begin »is the MOST chilling sentence in the document because karp is explicitly saying that ai based deterrence will replace nuclear deterrence as the organizing principle of global power, and whoever builds that ai deterrence layer owns the 21st century the same way whoever built the bomb owned the 20th & he’s telling you plainly that palantir intends to be that builder
«national service should be a universal duty » & « we should only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk »sounds noble until you realize that he is proposing a system where citizens serve the state & the state is operationally dependent on palantir, the public bears the risk and palantir captures the value, soldiers fight wars planned by algorithms they can’t audit built by a company they can’t vote out
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@dustyslay @Breaking911 I don’t mind girls fighting, no one actually gets hurt.
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@Breaking911 I think I’m starting to turn around on whataburger after all!
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@joeroganhq Divorce might mess kids up, but what about the long-term effects of staying in a bad relationship just for the kids?
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Joe Rogan: "It f*cks kids up, when people get divorced."
David Cross: "What's your background?"
Joe Rogan: "My parents split up when I was 5, and my mother re-married when I was 7. They've been with my step dad ever since."
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I guess we would have to define “living high on the hog”. But even in expensive areas of the country, even if that money is taxed at regular income, if you’re spending all post tax dollars every year (none of it is being saved/invested), thats a high quality of living. Then throw in the fact that many live outside these expensive areas (IN, MS, OH etc,), and many won’t have a mortgage or be paying ordinary income tax on it. This is a very nice lifestyle just about anywhere.
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Would you consider someone with a net worth of $4,000,000 wealthy?
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@WallStreetMav @SteveOnSpeed 10M kicks off 400,000k basically risk free in perpetuity. Not exactly living high on the hog.
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@SteveOnSpeed $4 million is comfortable in retirement. Not wealthy.
Wealthy, never thinking about your budget, flying first class, vacation whenever your want, top hotels … that is $10 million in liquid investments.
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@ATabarrok I had to pay for Title insurance when I refinanced my mortgage.
But I refinanced with the same bank that currently held my mortgage.
So they weren’t taking on any new risk above and beyond what they already had.
I tried to convince them.
They owned the title company.
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@theficouple Your home is part of your net worth, but from a practical standpoint it’s not liquid and for most people the value of the home really only becomes liquid when you are dead or dramatically downsize.
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Will never understand why people don't include a home in their net-worth.
If the home is worth $550,000 and you owe $200,000 that $350,000 absolutely goes to your net-worth.
...What am I missing!?
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Kick streamer gets into a heated argument with three black guys on the street.
He threatens them:
“We got 18 rounds for you”
Then drops the hard R: “Don’t follow me to my truck N*GGER”
Pure chaos.
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@dustyslay I said “bless you” when you sneezed on the podcast today
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@klara_sjo Looks like they just added the ingredient list from all the different sub-components. Salt is on there a bunch of times.
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@OddStockTrader @CryptoMikli Had he just put it in the SP500 it would have been like 850k
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@OddStockTrader @CryptoMikli That’s a 17% CAGR over 16 years - that beats the SP500 (14%) over the past 16 years. I wouldn’t be bragging about these returns like he’s some stock trading genius, but he beat the market over 16 years which is rare.
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@KatlynNicole26 I don’t know if it’s a Black thing, I knew plenty of kids who killed animals growing up. Nothing sadistic, just shooting squirrels and birds with a pellet gun, or poking a frog with a stick. Most of them felt pretty bad after doing it and didn’t do it again, but it did happen
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