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@patrickbetdavid Gaslight Anthem, they weren't even the headliner. I had never heard of them before, but it hit HARD.

What's the best concert you've ever been to?

@RedPillMediaX That just tells me how financially illiterate people are. $1600 per month! That's absolutely retarded. I don't even spend half that for a family of 6. Maybe average is just a poor metric and we should look at median.

The average cost of groceries for an American family is $400 / week. That’s $1,600 a month. The average cost of gas $120 / week. That’s over $2,000 a month just to survive. That doesn’t include rent, healthcare, etc. Republicans have fucked the American people.

@PlaceboWalrus Will 100% buy a robot that can do my boring house chores. Don't have to fold the laundry? Great, now I can do something else.

Why do all these dorks think we want a robot?

@Cernovich My boys for sure, even my 9y/o daughter asks to rough house all the time.

The amount of physical activity, play fighting, and wrestling that my boy requires continually surprises me. It’s HOURS. Not complaining, it’s great, but you do start to see how structural problems arise due to sit-down schools, broken homes, etc.

I'm going to put this out into the universe. Having kids isn't that expensive. With the exception of rare cases (expensive medical conditions), those struggling to make ends meet with kids, would be struggling without kids too. They're just bad with money. The gov. subsidized your kids with the EIC on your taxes if you're low income. End the "kids are too expensive" cope.

It does not cost 27K a year. That's fucking retarded. It CAN if they have a super rare disease I guess, or if you voluntarily buy shit you don't need. The lower end seems more realistic at 11k. If you're lower income you get subsidized by the government for kids. People in mud huts are having shit loads of kids, "it's too expensive" is cope. And if you're not a complete shit bag, you'll likely get a return on that investment from your kids including, but not limited to savings on elderly care (you think kids are expensive? Hah.)

@HSRdirector @MattHennessey @WSJFreeEx Give me 500k per kid then I'll have "as many as I can".

this advice from @MattHennessey in @WSJFreeEx mirrors the advice I receive from my older patients. I routinely ask my older patients for life advice and repeatedly they tell me “have as many children as you can”

@BrianRoemmele That was pretty cool

Where are they now?

@Delta_Enforcer @EdLatimore Amazing how hesitant someone gets when you're not taking the lumps for them lol

@brew_that @EdLatimore Exactly. This happened with my little sister. Eventually i just let her get thumped. Just enough to be sore for a week. She calmed down after.

Men (This is hypothetical, obviously) You're out with your girl/wife, one thing leads to another, and she gets into a fist with another women. They're of equal size and there are no weapons. She is getting her ass beat. What's the protocol? Are you allowed to seperate them, jump in, or does just gotta wear that ass whopping until the cops arrive?

@eclairification Everyone is laughing at you. And everyone knows you are 1,000% responsible for your own situation. But uh, good luck I guess

the federal minimum wage is still 7.25. I am 34 and have never made more than 20k/yr, rarely more than 15. it’s really important that i, as a working person oppressed by capitalism, follow news and politics coverage written by people paid 6 figures to live in the culture city.

@EdLatimore Coworker in my old department said anytime a woman texted him, the default response was an unsolicited dick pic. He's in our HR department now.

If your girl is into that, more power to you. But–and I may just be speaking as a man with zero desire to see one (outside of prison, but that don't count)–I don't get why guys send these. Especially unsolicited to girls you don't rock with at that level. Has the reward ever worked out to the point where the risk of probably having to register (if she goes to the police) is offset?

@EdLatimore I was about to disagree but... both are cookie cutter vomit fests with no character. Though I tend to have a much stronger negative reaction to LinkedIn

LinkedIn is boring compared to Twitter the way the suburbs are boring compared to the projects.

@TiffanyFong I've heard bazookas too

who the fuck calls titties “cannons” ?

@Clara_Gold Nailed it.

I realized fundraising was the first time in my life I got rejected at scale. And honestly, as a woman, I was not emotionally trained for it. Before the feminists come for me, let me make my point. I think the first real arena where most people experience power, desire, status, and rejection is dating. And dating trains men brutally. A lot of men learn very early that if they want someone, they have to walk across the room, risk looking stupid, get rejected, survive it, and do it again. They learn that rejection is volume, timing, targeting. It’s a numbers game. A lot of women are trained very differently. Especially if you’re a pretty girl, you don’t usually walk into a bar looking at a guy thinking: “Can I have him?” You only think: “Do I want him?”. You don’t build your identity around shooting your shot 100 times and surviving 99 no’s. You don’t get trained to ask directly, get rejected publicly, and act normal 5 minutes later. You get trained to be “chosen”. To be impressive enough that the opportunity comes to you. And then you start building a company. And the whole paradigm changes. Suddenly, everyone can say no to you. Investors say no. Candidates say no. Customers say no. And when your rejection muscle is weak, your brain does the dumbest thing possible: it makes the “no” mean something about you. That you’re not smart enough. Not compelling enough. I think this is one of the most underrated gender differences in fundraising. Not that men are inherently better at it. But a lot of them have built thicker rejection scar tissue earlier. They know how to hear no and keep moving. They know how to make it less personal. They know how to treat it like volume, timing, targeting, iteration. I didn’t. I’ve raised 3 rounds. On the surface, the story looks great: I raised with Sequoia, OpenAI, Khosla. Woohoo. The real story is less sexy: every round wrecked me. I lost 5kg each time. I probably donated a few years of life expectancy to the cap table. Because every round, I only got 1 term sheet. One. EVERYONE else said no. And when almost everyone says no, your body does not care about the intellectually correct explanation. It only hears: Maybe they’re right. Maybe you’re not that compelling. Maybe you’re not the founder you thought you were. For a long time, I thought confidence meant learning not to take the no personally. I don’t believe that anymore. Maybe some people are built like that. I’m not. 30 years of being trained to be chosen does not turn into resilience because someone in a Patagonia vest says fundraising is a numbers game. So now I think confidence is something less glamorous. Confidence is taking the no very personally. Letting it ruin your day, losing your appetite, spiraling for hours… And still taking the next meeting. Confidence is just being bothered as f*** and not letting it make you smaller. I still don’t fully believe my own BS as I’m writing this, but I guess that’s the point. Can’t wait for the next round to find out.

@diosHD_ @StefanMolyneux Exactly this.

@StefanMolyneux comatose people can’t physically vote. the experiment wouldn’t be possible if “everyone” was literal 🤷‍♂️

I’m sorry you don’t understand the word “everyone.” Maybe grab a dictionary before debating in English

@SaraForTexLege We don't need to import anyone. We just make it work with the people we have. Things will be different, we'll adapt. Besides, if immigration is the solution to our problem, would it not be immoral to take them from their country who would benefit from their presence?

Y’all are going wild in these comments proving exactly my point. I never said illegal immigration, but man y’all will just make up whatever you feel like. 😂 Yowzers.

The birth rate in America is below replacement value. We quite literally NEED the next generation of Americans to support our aging population. The failure to have that foresight is how civilizations die. Xenophobia may be what ends the American experiment.

@SaraForTexLege You need slave labor to support our aging population? What kind of support do we need that for? We need to live with people who don't respect our culture so that the people who didn't have kids to support themselves in their elderly years don't fail? WTF?

@Bayhawks28 @PeterSchiff They only pick on people they can get away with

@PeterSchiff But why did they single you out? I say this respectfully - but you're not that important on a global stage for them to go after you. If the irs are dirty, surely they would go after bigger fish. Wouldn't they?

I just discovered the improper quid pro quo the IRS offered Puerto Rico to convince them to shut down my innocent, solvent bank. They told OCIF that if they did this favor for them, then “when CRS countries and/or OECD want to list Puerto Rico as a high-risk tax haven jurisdiction in the future, the U.S. Dept. of Treasury will be able to recall this action as proof that there is a strong regulator there and that inappropriate conduct will not persist in Puerto Rico.” This despite the fact that they all knew my bank was doing nothing to actually facilitate tax evasion.

@ric_rac If it helps.... it's Thursday now

How is it only Wednesday?

@mcnicollme @lilcrazyhorses @StefanMolyneux 1. That clarification is not in this conversation anywhere 2. There are people who physically cannot vote, how do we handle them? The scenario as-is leaves it wide open for interpretation and assumptions

@lilcrazyhorses @StefanMolyneux The originator the scenario clearly wrote, and then clarified, everyone (including babies, mentally ill, illiterate, disabled etc) ‘Everyone’

This is actually a test of basic empathy and intelligence. Most people in the world are too dumb or uninformed to understand probability or percentages. You are also including babies, toddlers, children and people with autism, learning disabilities, dementia and brain damage...