Duncan de Laurentis

Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness"

@chalrie54 @BeuwenDragon If we're going that far down the realism path, perhaps consider that the entire scenario is impossible anyways?

@BeuwenDragon The problem with this thought experiment is blue winning everyone lives, blue loosing only people who press red lives. There is a very large subset of the global population that cannot press a button. Think infants, coma, paralyzed, unconscious, etc etc. Not pressing is a problem

Blue button pushers are easily manipulated by deceptive wording, selfishly resorting to emotional coercion to manipulate other people into gambling their lives to save them from the consequences of their own choice, all while gaslighting everyone to thinking they are altruistic.

@ribellaag @Edu_999999999 @spidermnfavs At no point, eh?

@Edu_999999999 @spidermnfavs em nenhum momento no desenho o aang enfrentou um espírito se colocassem ele aí, ele tomaria uma porrada ao menos, independente da idade vcs são burros

na série essa cena foi usada pra mostrar que era impossível derrotar esse espírito sem usar a técnica de dominação espirtual do unalap, por isso usaram a korra, a personagem mais forte da série, pra tentar ganhar dele e falhar. vocês não entendem porra nenhuma de nada seus burros

@MartyJames2107 @gator_gum If your party members are susceptible to being bribed into crossing (which arguably isn't even what's happening), then perhaps the problem is with your party and its members.

@gator_gum You don't mind laughing when Clowney fucks over Pollievre and Canadians by bribing floor crossers though do you hypocrite. Clowney should stand to gain a cent over Brookfield deals he uses our tax dollars on. Let alone Billions.

"The PM should be held to a higher standard" is a garbage way of saying we want to screw Carney. You don't make rules for one guy. If he needs to liquidate, then every politician needs to liquidate. Harper, Poilievre, Carney, Trudeau. All of them. Trying to create a new rule, after the fact, for one guy isn't "justice" its garbage.

@Fed_Up_GenXer @WatcherUpNorth @glennbeck A coup? You mean Conservative MPs leaving their cesspool of a party to join up with pragmatists who want to lead instead of whine?

@WatcherUpNorth @glennbeck I almost passed out on how dumb you are …….There is no democracy in Canada …..full stop ……A coup just happened for a full take over …..what about that dint you get? Glenn is spot on an everyone knows it who’s been paying attention

Canada is not a democracy. It's not even a free nation anymore. How could it be when Parliament is sidelined for eight months, allowing the executive branch to reign unchecked? Or when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed? Or when courts rule that the government broke the law and nothing changes? Or when the state controls your speech, your property, your energy, your news, your guns, your healthcare—and offers you assisted suicide when the wait times get too long? Canada has become something else: a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings, where the individual exists to serve the state. Look how far Canada has fallen. Because this could be America's future overnight.

@AmeriqueJohnny @BuddyWells1 @marketsafari47

The UK, Canada, Germany and Australia for sure are rapidly becoming totalitarian. These countries all put people in prison for re-sharing social media posts or other supposed “hate speech” (i.e., any speech or expression the regime disapproves of). If that’s not totalitarian, I don’t know what is. These countries are all significantly further down the path of totalitarianism than say Russia - their eternal bugaboo because Russia is mostly white and mostly Christian, both of which the left hates - which is fairly described as authoritarian, but not totalitarian. The primary difference is that an authoritarian regime is fine with passive acquiescence to the existing authorities just as long as you don’t make trouble, whereas a totalitarian regime is interested in what’s in your head and your heart.

Norway has been a welfare state for around 80 years… and its sovereign wealth fund, from nationalised oil revenue, is now equal to around $350 000 per citizen. Thats a lot of time and a lot of money. Norway currently scores amongst the highest in the world in terms of democratic, market and economic freedom. No-one should ever take Ayn Rand seriously.

@Conigman @Olu_Utd14 Morality sourced from a deity is just as subjective, then. If the object of your worship tells you to kill and maim, does it become morally good to do so? What if another worshipper of that same god finds your actions reprehensible? Who is right?

@Olu_Utd14 None of what you said makes morality objective. If it is not objective, then no one's morality is any more correct than anyone else's That means your morality is no better than Hitler's.

Let me walk you; Electricity requires an external power source because that’s how physics works but morality isn’t electricity… It’s a product of conscious beings capable of empathy, reasoning, cooperation, and social living… Humans developed moral systems long before modern religious doctrines were formalized. Across different cultures with different gods and sometimes no gods, similar moral principles emerged: don’t murder, don’t steal, protect your community; Why? Because cooperation increases survival. Empathy strengthens social bonds. Groups that worked together lasted longer… If morality truly required belief in God, then: A non-believer would be incapable of genuine kindness. A believer would be incapable of wrongdoing… But reality disproves both. There are kind atheists and cruel believers. That alone weakens your analogy… Also, if someone is only good because they fear punishment or want reward, is that morality or self-interest? Acting morally because you understand harm and care about others doesn’t require a supernatural threat. It requires awareness and empathy… it requires you to be HUMAN!

@TheReclamare Cost isn't the only consideration. Driving 5+ hours to Montreal is boring and exhausting. Taking a train for 3 hours is comparatively relaxing. You can nap or work on a train, and it requires nothing from you to get where it's going. That's worth a lot to many people.

With data from the Airports and VIA, the current total unique passenger count is approx; VIA - 1 million Air - 1.6 million Car - no data* * suggest the volume of auto drivers willing to paying 250% to 1,000% more to travel on HSR is inconsequential

The proposed CDN High Speed Rail will cost every taxpayer $7,800 for every single ticket sold, during the lifetime of its operation This is based on European adaption of High Speed Rail, using Canada's transport statistics, and common sense🧵

@tarkovtips A new update! Pretty much what we wanted. Really sick the Blicky's involved, I can't wait to attempt this. Love to see cool quests like this. FWIW, it should have been an Other boss, instead Of Reshala. Looks like fun though. See you on Customs!

Prapor has a new quest for you (let's rather call it a challenge): you have to find and eliminate Reshala and three Guards using this wonderful blue item, loaded with the round n' fun yellow thingies (they got significantly buffed, so keep that in mind if you're doing the Zabralo scam right now).

@minzlicht "Even if benefits were high and risks zero" So, you freely admit that benefits are low and risks plentiful? Lol. Lmao, even.

Ask a colleague why they refuse to use AI. They say it uses up all that water. You point out the water use is far smaller than some would have them believe. Then it's the hallucinations. You mention accuracy has improved dramatically. Then, finally: the process is the point. The struggle. The craft. The deeply human act of sitting with uncertainty. They're not reasoning. They're rationalizing their gut intuitions. My amazing student @vicoldemburgo, with Éloïse Côté, Reem Ayad, @yorl, Jason Plaks and I have a new preprint that explores this more thoroughly, called "The Moralization of Artificial Intelligence". We started by asking how moralized AI has become in public discourse. Analyzing 69,890 news headlines from 2018 to 2024, we found that AI was moralized at levels comparable to GMOs and vaccines, technologies whose moral opposition has been studied for decades. It ranked above both. The sharpest spike came within weeks of ChatGPT's launch in late 2022. When we surveyed representative samples of Americans, a majority of AI opponents said their views wouldn't change even if AI proved safe and beneficial. That's consequence insensitivity, the hallmark of moral conviction, not practical calculation. Across art, chatbots, legal tools, and romantic companions, AI moralization loaded onto a single latent factor. A global moral stance, dressed up in whatever practical language is available. The behavioral data make this concrete: a one standard deviation increase in moralization scores predicted a 42% drop in actual AI usage, even when it would have benefited that person personally. The conviction preceded the behavior by up to 573 days. The next time someone gives you three different reasons to oppose AI, each one dissolving under mild scrutiny, you're probably not watching someone think. You're watching someone feel. Preprint avaulable here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

@danroliver @hardwarecanucks Ah yes, because people buying the literal cheapest MacBook possible are absolutely gonna be plugging it into a Studio Display.

@hardwarecanucks I believe the thinking here is that you plug in your Studio Display to the back port so you get display, power, and hub in one connection.

Small nitpick about this. Both USB-C ports will accept 20W input, but USB 2 should have been the rearmost one. Most people would be inclined to install the charging cable in the furthest port from them. On the NEO, doing that will block the highest bandwidth port (10Gbps vs 480MB/s).

@keremey57 @CDBurgess67 @HarrisonKrank All this means is that the companies in Alabama are rich but the people are poor, not a good look.

@duncanmacinnes @CDBurgess67 @HarrisonKrank Alabama GDP per Capita: $61,846 Canada GDP per Capita: $54,935

Half of Canadians live south of this line but all Canadians live in a country poorer than Alabama.

@Bombay6_ @canadude1867 @HarrisonKrank policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/04/canada…

@canadude1867 @HarrisonKrank It’s just a fact dude Stop getting triggered & wake up to why Canada’s economy is stagnant, unemployment is so high, why young people can’t buy homes, etc - just read the Globe & Mail article This isn’t about Alabama lmao

@keremey57 @CDBurgess67 @HarrisonKrank Alabama poverty rate: 15.6% Canada poverty rate: 10.9%

@CDBurgess67 @HarrisonKrank And still poorer than Alabama, that's embarrassing as hell

@vtlynch1 @AndreaPointe @ZacksJerryRig @DonHuffines Wow, for someone who wants Zach not to weigh in on this because he lacks expertise, you sure are yapping a lot, mister "Software Design"

Friend, I am very confused why this would be your reply. Zack says: "Emails from the FBI released by the federal government = low credibility." He is being sarcastic, and meaning these emails are VERY credible. He says they are "from the FBI released by the federal government." To me, this suggests Zack believes these emails are all 100% proven information. He is right that this email was *released* by the FBI - it was an email in their custody which they collected in the course of the Epstein investigation. But every single word included in these emails is not a factually true word. I do not mean this in a "I doubt the evidence" way. I mean in a literal sense: this collection of 6 million files includes many "notes" from the FBI and other authorities, which are only documenting what someone said to them in an interview, in the same way a court transcript would. People can say false things or things which were never proven. These files also contains "tips" sent to the FBI, which could come from anyone including anonymous senders and random members of the public. What does this mean? It means some statements and even entire documents released by the DOJ are either unproven or known to be false. We know about specific document because there is a second file in the DOJ release: an FBI 'Import Form' which was attached with this when submitted into the Epstein case log. That FBI Import Form is here, and everything I say below is directly cited from what the FBI said here: justice.gov/epstein/files/… Here are the facts on this email: This email was originally sent to a man named Eddy Aragon. Eddy was the host of a nighttime AM radio show called 'The Rock of Talk' and had been frequently talking about the Epstein story. We, the public, do not know who sent it to Eddy because it is currently redacted, but it was a protonmail account. That is a secure email service. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes it more likely to assume the sender was 'anonymous' because protonmail is frequently used when people don't want to be traced. Eddy got this email on 11/21/2019. He went to a physical FBI office on 11/25/2019 and gave them a copy of the email. Eddy said he was concerned it was real - but he had no *proof*. He only says: "it could be valid since [the email] uses his full first name and thinks he is listener to his radio show" We do not know what else the FBI did after that. Thats it. An unknown sender sent a small radio show host this email, and because Eddy thought it *could* be from a listener, he took it seriously. The FBI took it because they accept tips from anyone, and any of those tips in the Epstein case are now released in the Epstein files. So, this email is one of those random tips. You can see that if you read it. We have to consider that anyone in the world could have sent this. This email is sent after Epstein is dead which was a big public news story and he was *already* the attention of conspiracies and online hate - proven by the fact that Eddy was talking about it on his own show. The email also makes a demand for money - 1 bitcoin to a bitcoin address. This could effectively just be 'spam'. This could have been sent to a thousand people who were talking about Epstein, hoping one would fall for it and send bitcoin. It is additionally suspicious that if this person has the evidence and knowledge they claim - why ask for only 1 bitcoin in 2019? The price was much lower then - only $10,000 USD. Would someone in that position only ask for $10k? If they need protection from powerful people, $10k isnt even buying that in the cheapest place. They know this involves the whole globe - shouldn't they be asking for way more? At the same time - if $10k is all they asked, how is it possible they didnt find anyone else to buy it? Epstein's victim's lawyers would have paid MILLIONS for the alleged videos if they were real. This anonymous sender was asking Eddy Aragon - someone who, respectfully, no one has ever heard of - for a bitcoin for this massive evidence, but not sending it to Epstein's lawyers, the FBI, DOJ, Biden, Rogan, any other radio or podcasts hosts? Why not? We can see there is both factual and intuitive reasons to believe the allegations in this email are totally fake, and possibly from a random person simply hoping to scam people out of $10k. Now, Maybe Zack has other evidence, or other reason to support his belief. But he only provided this *one* piece of proof when he said "we have reason to believe that there are several young females illegally buried on your current property." And that one piece he chose is an unproven "tip" email, with far too many missing details to say is proof of anything. Why he start and end his proof with a fake email? If the person who owns this land wants to let Jerry come dig around, that is their right to do. But you can already see in other replies people jumping to a "why say no if you have nothing to hide" mentality. Which means there will be negative attention if they ignore or say no, which is their right to do. AND many others would still double down if the owners said yes to Zack's offer and nothing was found. If this email's claims are made up, there really is no other high-quality evidence to support the idea that people were secretly murdered and buried there. I am not saying ALL the files are fake. I am not saying ALL the claims are false. I am talking about only this ONE email because it is the one Jerry has attached here and is talking about here. Do you dispute what I have explained? Surely it must matter this email is *not* proven

Dear @DonHuffines, We have reason to believe that there are several young females illegally buried on your current property. (Formerly known as Epstein Ranch) I will pay for 100% of the costs to professionally scan and exhume the remains. As a republican running for public office in Texas I'm sure you would want to help put an end to this terrible chapter of US History. My DMs are open. We can give the bodies the respect they deserve. - Zack Nelson

@SharpFootball How has nobody linked the Veritasium video yet? youtu.be/J3i3F2e4IYs?si…

Tom Brady sharing how QBs should adjust their mechanics when playing in windy conditions is awesome

@Jess_Riedel @MiStormChasers "6. Warm water from the condenser can divert out of our system to deliver waste heat to the city’s snowmelt system in colder months." I can't imagine that water would be useful for much else, it seems like it would otherwise cool in the condenser. hollandbpw.com/en/how-it-works

@duncanmacinnes @MiStormChasers That doesn't include the foregone value of what they'd otherwise use the waste heat for. x.com/Jess_Riedel/st…

The City of Holland Michigan rarely ever plow or salt their roads or sidewalks in the downtown district. Yes, you read that right. Holland has installed a unique snowmelt system which circulates 4,700 gallons of water per minute at a heated temperature of 95°F through a network of underground tubes that would span a whopping 190 miles in total length if all tubes were to be connected into 1 straight line. This underground system can handle up to 1” per hour snowfall rates at an air temperature as low as 20°F. The system is responsible for keeping nearly 700,000 square feet of roads & sidewalks within Holland clear of snow and ice. This means that plowing & salting are rarely ever needed from the City of Holland. To read more about this, visit Holland’s website! cityofholland.com/879/Snowmelt-S…

@Jess_Riedel @MiStormChasers Well, I looked up the city budget for Holland. They spend about $210,000 a year on their snow melt system. Muskegon, another similarly-sized Michigan city, spends about $350,000 on winter maintenance. I'd say it's a good investment.

@MiStormChasers Melting snow is generally an extremely expensive way to get rid of it due to sheer energy costs. How do their energy costs for this compare to the cost of plowing they are avoiding?

"Players will alway [sic] optimize the fun out of every game" Then that sounds like an issue with the players. "Yes, why shouldn't I press the ... button?" Uh, because by your own admission you don't think it's fun? Duh.

@Qwerty13th1 @happysmash27 @JamrockHobo Tons of games used to (and many probably still do) have cheat codes included. Everything from Duke Nukem to SimCity had cheat codes, were they badly designed because they gave the player too much power?

@happysmash27 @JamrockHobo Interesting that you call it cheats when the things discussed are things in the game provided by the devs.

This comment has become the final boss of every serious conversation about game design. Yes, why shouldn't I press the "nuke all enemies, win the game" button? Players will alway optimize the fun out of every game, and good game design mustn't let that happen. It's not the player's responsibility to shoot themselves in the foot to maintain an enjoyable gaming experience.

@BryanSanders25 @seanfrank @j_bertho @RockChartrand None of those factors preclude socialist policies, no type of "diversity" does.

@duncanmacinnes @seanfrank @j_bertho @RockChartrand You have no argument so you play the race card. Believe it or not even if you take out all those people America is still more diverse. Our climate, industry, geography, access to the seas, all of it is more diverse than Denmark, this is just naming a few things too.

Denmark isn’t socialist in the way socialists mean. It has strong property rights, flexible labor markets, low corporate taxes, no state set minimum wage, and a business friendly economy. Its welfare state is funded by capitalism, not a substitute for it. Crucially, Denmark doesn’t pretend the rich pay for everything. The poor and middle class are heavily taxed too, mainly through high VAT and broad income taxes. Everyone pays. The costs are shared openly. Socialists want the outcomes without the conditions or the bill: redistribution without broad taxation, benefits without personal cost, control without productivity. Denmark does the opposite. Markets create wealth first, then everyone helps fund services. So “be like Denmark” is sleight of hand. Remove capitalism, property rights, or shared burden, and Denmark stops looking like Denmark fast.