Brian Hann

@caldodge @samuha @esrtweet Petrodollar inflation correlates with domestic USD inflation rates, no? It's the same currency.

@samuha @esrtweet Hi, stupid. Inflation is due to debasement of currency. The US can't cause inflation in other currencies.

Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way. Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope. All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously. We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap. Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table. Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear? "Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions." No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism. Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness. Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that. In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining. This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.

@hajime20250823 That's looks great! What I really want is this, though. The local place only serves ramen now. I guess Okonomiyaki isn't trendy enough 🙁

爆食いするアメリカ人に負けないように、爆弾オムライスを投下します。

I really enjoy these stories. Don't know if you've done a series on lesser known parts of Bleeding Kansas. I learned a ton on a mule tour in Independence. Had no idea that a women's prison collapsed in KC! On another note, have you thought about making short-form videos to go with these? I believe they'd go over really well!

Apparently they had been sold out to the Border Ruffians from Missouri by some free-staters from Lawrence, one of whom, Hiram Whitley, who was supposedly a friend of Doy’s held a revolver to his head. The group was then captured and taken away to St. Joseph, Missouri where along the route John Doy was brutally beaten by locals before the group was thrown into prison. They were kept there for months, briefly moving to Platte City until March 24th before they were moved back to St. Joseph. The conditions they were kept in were extremely terrible, and Dr. Doy became so sick he could not walk or stand on his own. His son Charles was released and John was sentenced on June 20th to 5 years of hard labor for stealing slaves. Charles made his way back to Lawrence and a rescue party was quickly formed by James B. Abbott who recruited Joshua Pike, Jacob Sinex, Joseph Gardner, Thomas Simmons, Stephen Willes, Charles Doy, John Stewart, Silas Soule, and George Hay.

Hello everyone! This is post 32 out of 200+ in my series on Kansas history. Today’s story is on the rescue of an Abolitionist from prison in Missouri by a group of men that would later be known as “The Immortal Ten”. This story is going to be packed, enjoy!

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens. normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task "I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops. no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words "result. done. me stop." 50-75% burn reduction with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

@ScottPresler @Timcast Incroyable

Thank you for having me back, @Timcast. See you tonight on Timcast IRL @ 8 p.m.

@BullandBaird We've been calculating the motion of celestial bodies for millennia.

Amazing that some of the comments are “the math isn’t that hard” We only figured out how to fly 122 years ago.

Imagine the math required to make this guess and aim 4 people at a point in space

@TowerPyongyang @brandan_buck @a_newsman Bronze Age, maybe

@brandan_buck @a_newsman None of this is haha funny, but I’d note that during the Stone Age, Iran/Persia was a larger regional power. An empire even

How it started vs. how it's going.

@KSAGOffice Then why are Kansas agencies able to flaunt KORA laws and refuse to respond to requests from citizens? You're office won't help either. No responses to filed complaint.

Elders in Kansas deserve dignity, respect, and protection — especially from those entrusted with their care. My office will continue to hold accountable anyone who abuses or neglects vulnerable Kansans. ag.ks.gov/Home/Component…

@LibertyLockPod It would explain Barron Trump's height, anyway.

Pretty sure an Australian Senator just claimed nephilim are ruling over us.

@hoshizorarock @JerryM55474755 youtu.be/CbFLiaUx72Q

@JerryM55474755 心を込めるのが一番大事です♡

Americans 🥺 Let's compete with seafood after the barbecue ♡ You guys have a huge advantage at barbecue 🥺

@corbscorner @ChrisMatthew20 @m_takewaka There's a reason why The American Royals, the largest bbq competition in the world, is in Kansas City.

@ChrisMatthew20 @m_takewaka I thought Kansas City only had those Vegan people there.

My American friends, I'm facing a major problem here. When I say I want to eat American BBQ, some Americans say, "come to Texas," others say, "come to South Carolina," and still others say, "come to Missouri." I'm confused. Are you guys going to start a BBQ civil war?

@fabienpenso Looks like I got it. 429s were because somehow I lost my LLM OAuth creds and it fell back to a "free" plan. I was able to get my code repo working there by supplying a github key and then having Moltis handle cloning it into the sandbox. Not perfect because it doesn't know how to use git with a key in a non-standard place because it's not in the docker user's ~/.ssh, but I think it will be workable!

@bhannman @Moltisorg I'll make it work, can you fill up an issue with details like the context + logs? Just make sure you remove all private keys if any (there should not be any). Those 429s are definitely weird.

@fabienpenso I really want to like @Moltisorg, but I'm having a heck of a time getting it to work. I simply want a cron task that researches flagged Jira issues, but I cannot get it to be able to read/write repos checkouts in the sandbox, getting 429s from openai while other tools don't, etc.

@KrisKobach1787 And there's more: - The Carr brothers were first sentenced to death in 2002. They murdered 5 people in Wichita. - Serial killer Frederick Scott has been floating in mental competency limbo (in MO) for 10 years. He killed 6 people in the KCMO area.

The people of KS deserve to know that the most serious crimes are met with the full weight of the law. We remember Carrie. We stand with her family. And we will continue working to ensure that justice is served in our state. /END

30 years ago, the life of 20-year-old PSU student Carrie Williams was brutally taken. A neighbor stalked her, entered her home, and murdered her in a horrific act of violence. Her case was the 1st capital prosecution in KS after the state reinstated the death penalty in 1994. 1/

@rc51_nono_sp2 The Crossroads Guitar Festival has a lot of blues players, but Vince Gill sets sets are a lot of fun. youtu.be/nOXf9oAGfDw

アメリカの友人達、オススメのカントリーソングがあったら教えてや！ Luke CombsとかLuke Bryan、Chris Stapletonをよく聴いとるで 今から寝るから暇な時で大丈夫やで

@Jason This is how you find good BBQ in Kansas City. If there's bars over the windows and a security guard with a pistol in the parking lot.

This Austin bbq post is for Japanese X users only — algo, please share this so I can get more 🇯🇵 followers Please check in Tokyo peeps!

@fabienpenso @Moltisorg That's perfect. Exactly what I've been trying to do. I try to opencode-pilot but it was just too brittle.

@bhannman @Moltisorg I also have a polyphony project released soon, an AI agent orchestrator using issues like Jira issues, to automatically dispatch agent and fixes.

@fabienpenso @Moltisorg Will do, as soon as I can!