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@jlippincott Wow, if you're not a bot, I admire you for this level of self-awareness, vanishingly rare in today's world

I was wrong. Consistent deferral of consumption (saving) is the foundation of capital accumulation and wealth creation.

The S&P 500 is up 48% since this tweet.

@MsMelChen Totally, something magical like a Network, that stretches across the Sky... How about "Sky Net"

if we actually want to build these AI data centers, we need better names. I’ve been lurking in anti-data center activist groups and forums trying to understand what peoples’ concerns are. One thing that stood out is how fixated people are on the “data” part of data centers. It immediately triggers associations with surveillance, control and privacy invasion. So why not come up with some other innocuous, euphemistic ways to rebrand “data centers?” It’s like how the restaurant industry renamed dolphinfish by calling it Mahi-Mahi. Sounds exotic and distinctly un-mammalian. Some examples: compute hubs, knowledge engines, innovation nodes It just sounds like shared public resources that benefits all.

@AngelicaOung Man I hate your China shill era so much

Disappointing to find Fukuyama passing on fake news like that Trump was disrespected because Xi didn’t meet him on the tarmac. In a way, by blaming American downfall all on Trump, Fukuyama is avoiding the true reckoning: that his belief that the liberal democratic system is the best and ultimate evolution of political organization might be incomplete.

@FatherTres99 @cowboy_postbop I will fight you IRL those albums are goated

@cowboy_postbop Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell albums. Based on the covers, you'd expect some kick-ass Power Metal. Instead, it's some lame fat guy singing 80s Pop.

are there other pieces of media with as wide a gap between its assumed vibe and its actual vibe as “Saturday Night Fever”?

@SteveStuWill @countcarbon Rwanda with the buzzer-beater 🫢

This animation shows the dramatic decline in infant mortality in Africa from the 1950s until today. Behind those shrinking bars lies a monumental achievement: the avoidance of unimaginable amounts of human suffering. Credit: @countcarbon stevestewartwilliams.com/p/self-esteem-…

@BALANC3Dth0ts @MsMelChen @justinboldaji You must be new 😂

@MsMelChen @justinboldaji I feel like this is at least the 3rd time you’ve mentioned bukkake on here…🤔😂

Telling everyone how impressive my first gay bareback orgy was

@AngelicaOung Angelica it has been really strange following you years ago for interesting nuclear energy content, and then seeing you pivot to pro-China pro-Iran handwringing. I have no idea if you’re sincere or a psyop, but the arc has been remarkable.

Oh my god I’m so shook right now. I read that years ago and assumed it was all true. But apparently Marjane Satrapi made a lot of shit up in Persepolis. That scene where they give children plastic keys to heaven to get them to fight in the war? Apparently that didn’t happen. When you read a semifictional work like that somehow it seems to have its own authority. You’re told you’re reading someone’s story. You felt their feelings. But it can just be all made up! And the horrible things about Iran they made up make ppl in the west feel justify in doing horrible things to Iran to « free » the Iranian people. So many layers of horrible.

@MsMelChen just when I couldn't love you any more. 1000% agree and my friends are always subjected to rants about this. Not to mention that the computerization murdered our ability to work on cars, which had been a staple of american male life for decades.

Does anyone actually enjoy driving a new car? I recently had to rent one and my god, the experience of driving it was total horse shit. I can't be the only one. There must be arbitrage opportunities for anyone who only sells / rents cars made between the golden age of 1980s - 2002. Even a car made 10 years ago is SIGNIFICANTLY better than a brand new one. Seriously, stop scrapping old cars! They are gems. I thought we were in for a pleasant drive on winding country roads nestled in the Tuscan mountains in a supposedly top-of-the-line Alfa Romeo. Instead, on this type of road, the whistles and beeps are just incessant and the steering interventions which are mandatory features that can't be turned off, are downright DANGEROUS. I don't want lane departure warnings, I don't want lane keep assists that lock my steering wheel into place. I don't want my car to angrily hiss at me every time I go above the bloody speed limit. I don't want automatic braking because I know better than the car. And yes, "everything is computer" these days and IT SUCKS THE SOUL OUT OF DRIVING. I don't want to fiddle with huge touch screens on the dashboard when physical knobs are just easier and safer to deal with. I don't want the transmission computer and engine computer and cooling system to continuously be in an existential crisis and sometimes, inexplicably, fails to respond, respond incorrectly, or just outright fails. I don't want smaller and smaller engines in cars that are made with significantly more plastic by weight and volume in the name of fuel efficiency. I don't want a utilitarian hunk of plastic with advanced infotainment and spyware on wheels that is a total piece of CRAP. Whenever people tell me that technology just makes everything better I just scoff because it's not true for automobiles. Maybe that makes me a dinosaur or whatever but I will cling to my old gas guzzling clunkers from decades ago for as long as I can.

@MadnessWatcher @AngelicaOung Also strudels somehow involved, don't know how exactly but they are essential

@AngelicaOung At a moment notice, Europe can go into Valhalla mode. Odin will conjure factories out of nowhere, factories that are powered by Thor's hammer. Everyone will know how to operate the machineries and raw materials/components will magically appear from nothing. DO NOT DOUBT THEM.

I’ve repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly come across this attitude from Europeans. Some weird coy « you won’t like us when we’re mad… » It’s as if Europe is John Wick and Ukraine is John Wicks dog and now big bad Putin shot the dog Europe is going to go on the most incredible, kino, melee of bloodshed in revenge. Something primal and ancestral will be unleashed. I’m just not sure that’s how military power works tho. Am I missing something? Is there really a berserker factory setting that I’m not taking into account?

Hasan Piker screamed at his dog and applied a shock collar to her because she got up to stretch while he screamed “I FUCKING HATE THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH” You could not even make this up as satire. He lives in a $3 million mansion in Hollywood. Just the absolute epitome of a spoiled brat leftist. It’s like Mugatu in Zoolander throwing scalding hot coffee on his assistant because he got the wrong order.

@bendreyfuss @HistoryBoomer Ben what is your angle here, you posted about this issue on a public forum and are now spazzing at Carl's reasonable replies?

@HistoryBoomer I don’t want to litigate the dumb controversy over JK Rowling’s trans opinions. I obviously agree with JK Rowling’s opinion in that tweet but it’s a “dumb opinion” because who gives a shit what she thinks about it. So the billionaire got some mean tweets. Cry me a river.

Seems like the thing to do when someone sends you a nice private note expressing compassion is to say thanks and move on

@bendreyfuss Ben I think JK's tweet really well articulates her reasons for speaking out, and they are pretty reasonable.

@tom_jiahao I think they are *less* complex, but don't have easy technological shortcuts. For vision and hearing, which gather sound/light information, there ended up being easy ways to do that with electronics/computation. Olfaction is harder, and touch requires full-body mechanosensation.

Touch -> smell/taste -> balance -> hearing -> vision. This is the evolutionary order in which biological senses developed. The engineering difficulty roughly follows the reverse order. Vision is pretty easy now. But touch and smell are incredibly hard. Perhaps what took longer to develop are just a lot more complex (more hierarchies, more neural development, etc.)?

Wow what a great Thomas Sowell Quote

@tafphorisms If the old flags were iconic and good I would agree. But they suck incomprehensible amounts of ass.

I totally despise the trend to redesign flags. The original designs appeal to smart, curious people who take the time to learn local history. Redesigns are yet another example of the total slopification of culture in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

@AmoneyResists Andrew, he was appointed by the president, who won a very convincing victory in the last election. You can fire him by winning the next one.

How do we fire you? How much would it take for you to just fuck off forever and GTFO of our government, where you have NO BUSINESS BEING AT ALL? A trillion dollars? More? How much would you accept to do the most selfless thing you’ve ever done and JUST WALK AWAY & LEAVE US ALONE?

@HPluckrose Happy for you Helen!! 🙏 glad you are well!

I am inclined to think that a thinner face has decreased my benign daffiness quotient by about 10% and increased my schoolmarmishness by at least 25%.

@SarahTheHaider My friends and I who are from rural parts of Canada talk about this a lot. We had good parents and upbringing, but made our own way in the world basically from the beginning of our 20s. It does give you a really durable pride in your achievements.

@OrganizerMemes Love capitalism catching a stray there. I absolutely loathe these people and their worldview. The fact that they think they’ve achieved anything by helping elect Trump is just laughable. Taking some solace in the fact that they are headed for the dustbin of history.

Jill stein's campaign manager giving the game away here, they wanted Trump to win

@tracewoodgrains @ax3i0hm Speaking for myself, ‘ethnic cleansing’ is like 99% overlap with ‘genocide’. When you hear that phrase, it’s pretty much implied that the means of cleansing is murder. ^ not saying that’s the literal meaning, just offering that as a data point

@ax3i0hm I just don’t agree That’s when “genocide” is used “Ethnic cleansing” is used for the “some violence, mostly just anything needed to get them out” kind

awhile back I was surprised by pushback when I referred to forced displacement as “ethnic cleansing” in another context it denotatively means forced removal and connotatively means Very Bad, leading many to feel odd when you use it to mean forced removal rather than genocide