Michael H

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Michael H

Michael H

@bidetblade

Katılım Kasım 2024
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@CalltoActivism I think the “root-of-all-evils” problems in the global South are corruption and poor governance. Is it morally imperative to help overthrow the corrupt governments and install better, non-corrupt leaders to improve conditions? It’d help more than sending donations.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM@CalltoActivism·
Wow. The Pope was just asked his stance on migration. His answer is amazing: “I would change the question: what is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate.”
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🔰Chief Georgist Shill 🔰
There is a gorilla penis on the wall If you do not suck the gorilla penis, you live If you do suck the gorilla penis, you will die unless 50%+ of all other people suck the gorilla penis
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@WhiskWraith @waitbutwhy If the blues and the reds went to war, the blues could just tell the reds: if you surrender we will spare you, but if you fight we will end you. And then all the reds would surrender since it’s the decision that is “optimal” lol
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WhiskWraith@WhiskWraith·
@waitbutwhy Well the blues seem to want to kill the reds and the reds were okay with the blues choosing suicide. Now everyone hates each other and I'm pretty sure both sides would willingly go to war to kill the other side. Other than that everything is great!
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
Yo also I feel like you should in theory be able to get better odds on DraftKings or FanDuel. Cuz they can separate out their customer base so that they only bet against retail, so they can give price improvement. Whereas Kalshi and Polymarket are full of sharps.
Daniel@dmu1313

1/ I continue to be shocked that @Kalshi and @Polymarket are being valued at ~$20B. Both these companies are essentially 0's unless they are acquired. They are poorly built and have no moat. They also have competitors entering the space who will likely displace them.

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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 lol maybe anticipating LLM-directed order flow will be a really nice source of alpha one day
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@waitbutwhy Gotta press blue cuz I know people I care about who’d press blue and if I press red I might have to live without them. No good living if you just live for yourself.
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Tim Urban
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy·
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
Crazy how the same group of politicians railing against people going to restaurants in 2022, for putting vulnerable Americans at risk, were encouraging bringing in illegal immigrants specifically with AIDS.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo

SCOOP: Gavin Newsom funded a left-wing NGO that specializes in bringing in undocumented migrants "living with HIV." The group's executive director claims that his "queer," "trans," and "nonbinary" clients—one in five of whom is infected—almost all gain asylum in the US.

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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 Yo wtf that’s actually kinda crazy I thought they only audit like 0.1% or whatever
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
Kinda funny how SPLC has to pay $3 million for people to do right-wing extremism, but you can just walk through any city, read the graffiti and it’s like the most horrible “kill conservatives, kill police” shit, and the leftists just do it for free.
U.S. Department of Justice@TheJusticeDept

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@ukboomers Okay he makes $350k but does he have free healthcare though? And he has to live under actual fascism. Checkmate Americans.
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John & Margaret@ukboomers·
Our grandson Alfie's friend moved to Miami last year. Surgeon. Was making £40,000 at the NHS. Now he makes $350,000. Left his London flatshare for a four-bed with working hot water. This country gave him everything. All he had to do was stay and fund our pensions. Ungrateful.🇬🇧
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 @saylor Oh yeah wtf. How does bitcoin go up like 4-5% and then $MSTR go up like 15%, but they’re a big pot of bitcoin with like 10-20% leverage. Shouldn’t they be going up like 5-6% or something? Idk. Crazy world bro.
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
I feel maybe he could have done something like go after the often excessively restrictive non-competes, which discourage competition and prevent workers from earning their maximum wage. I feel like that would hit so much harder than another property tax on a penthouse.
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 Makes me wanna go to Tel Aviv and stand under the Iron Dome system popping off so at least I can get my money worth.
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Daniel
Daniel@dmu1313·
The complexity of doing taxes is making me crash out right now. I crash out every year, but I'm crashing out this year too.
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 Be working Monday Tuesday Wednesday for myself, Thursday Friday for the government bro.
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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 lol who knew the final line of defense against the AI takeover is the middle-aged women at the government offices with the 3 inch plastic nails who process max 1 application every hour and file that shit wrong half the time lol
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Daniel
Daniel@dmu1313·
I think Trump has to follow through if the Iranians don't make a deal or else he loses the ability to negotiate going forward. But I don't think he would destroy ALL of Iran's power plants. That would allow for continued negotiations with more urgency.
SuspendedCap@ContrarianCurse

Honestly I think he might do it

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Daniel
Daniel@dmu1313·
No one knows if a deal with Iran will be made before tonight, but the fact that everyone thinks Trump is really going to blow up Iran this time is good for him. He needs the world (and Iran) to take his threat seriously in order to make a deal. I think a deal is made.
Daniel@dmu1313

I think Trump has to follow through if the Iranians don't make a deal or else he loses the ability to negotiate going forward. But I don't think he would destroy ALL of Iran's power plants. That would allow for continued negotiations with more urgency.

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Michael H
Michael H@bidetblade·
@dmu1313 The new DEI CIA just doesn’t work as well as the classic one lolol
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Daniel
Daniel@dmu1313·
@bidetblade I think they thought the Iranian people would start a revolution and topple the government once the leader was killed but that did not happen.
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