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@martyrdison Economics is a driving factor, no doubt about that. But marriage is breaking down from another side as well. People's capacity to commit is diminishing. I don't think AI fixes an inability to sacrifice and change yourself into someone who can be married.

ai might quietly change dating faster than we expect for years, women delayed kids because they had careers, money, independence, etc but if ai starts taking away those paths, the incentives shift do women start having kids earlier because work isn’t as stable? or start prioritizing finding a husband sooner for security? if the “i’ll wait until everything is perfect” era was built on economic expansion, what replaces it in an era of compression?

Iran shouldn't frighten the American people. They only occasionally chant "death to America", fund terrorism around the globe, and threaten (assuming they haven't attempted, and there's good reason to believe they have) to assassinate your President. They don't have a bomb, and they're only trying to develop one, and surely they won't try to attain delivery mechanisms either or settle for a dirty bomb. That's totally unthinkable for a regime that actively funds more terrorism than anyone.

Pat Buchanan knew: “Iran doesn’t frighten me and I don’t think it should frighten the American people. They don’t have a bomb, they don’t have the means to deliver one, and the Israelis have 300 atomic bombs. Who presents the existential threat to whom?”

You have it backward. The Republican Party of California is a private organization. The first amendment is what protects their right to discriminate based on ideology for their membership/endorsement/whatever else they do. There are many problems with the power of the establishment parties, but they have no obligation under the constitution to support or associate with anyone.

@realJennaEllis @JonasYDu @TheFP So David Duke could run for office as a Republican but Nick Fuentes can't ?....that makes zero sense...Not that Nick wants to but it's the principle

EXCLUSIVE: Groypers are NOT welcome, California GOP says. The party is instituting a "vetting process" on candidates to block the influence of far-right streamer Nick Fuentes within the party. New in @TheFP ⬇️ The nation's largest Republican party is the first to formally condemn Nick Fuentes and ensure candidates don’t follow his far-right ideology. A memo sent to local party leaders instructs them to “refrain from recruiting, supporting, or endorsing candidates” who “espouse,” “promote,” or “campaign” on Fuentes’s ideas. They said there was an "organized effort" from Groypers to infiltrate the party and take over from within. “The ideology is characterized as White Nationalist; hostile to constitutional, limited-government conservatism; highly critical of MAGA and President Trump; and opposing of the civil rights of women, gays, and racial minorities,” state party leaders wrote.

@nvk @NicolasDorier Paython

What should the name of a BTCPay in python be? Ideally, it's so confusing, @NicolasDorier take it off my hands and maintain it 😂

@BretWeinstein I've been a long time fan, and patreon member. There are many legitimate arguments. Maybe they're not getting through the noise, but they're absolutely there.

There has been lots of character assassination aimed at me today, and very few actual arguments—as I predicted. Personal attacks not going to work on me, of course. But that’s not their purpose. They’re public punishments designed to prevent people from listening or speaking out of turn. It’s the woke playbook. Here is the conversation @TuckerCarlson and I recorded first. I strongly recommend it.

@winternet It is pretty though. But socal is more fun.

if you ever catch me posting ‘i just moved to sf’ take me out back and shoot me in the kneecaps

@LukeGromen @shehzadhqazi How long can you realistically hold on to the jugular and stay alive though. It's a desperate attempt.

@shehzadhqazi If someone repeatedly told you the plan is to wipe you and everyone you know out, and then killed your wife and father and child, and now you have managed to grab them by the jugular that is Hormuz, would you let them go so they can re-arm, or would you take them down with you?

Heard someone say this morning that the only two options for getting the Strait of Hormuz open are 1. Regime change or 2. Ceasefire. Obviously regime change operations will only delay the opening. It’s not even clear a ceasefire will do the trick immediately!

I will say that some of the "Open Source Intel" accounts do pretty well. I'm sure you've always got to watch out for mis/dis/malinfo, and they're not long form or much for macroscopic views. I do feel this void though, and like I have no choice but to piece together things from every direction of bias.

Is there no place to simply get news on Iran, Israel, the Gulf, US forces and the Middle East? Everyone is cheerleading for something or the other. I want to know what is actually happeing to first approximation. How are you accomplishing this if at all? Thx in advance.

@ggreenwald Wild how much the same footage gets reused by that account.

A huge crowd of Iranians assembles in Revolution Square in Tehran to express gratitude and love for Israel and the US, heralding them as liberators. Oh, it's actually to commemorate the new Iranian leader and condemn attacks by two foreign states:

@Rory_Johnston In some sense yes, but the effect isn't that evenly distributed. It's just how war is waged.

A barrel lost anywhere is a barrel lost everywhere. And we just lost one-fifth of everywhere barrels. No one is safe.

Many people, even self-described conservatives, think socialism would work if human nature were different. No. Socialism cannot work, even in a hypothetical society of selfless genius saints. Why not? Because socialism centralizes economic choices. How much lumber do we produce? How much wheat? What should the hourly wage of a garbage collector be? How much should insulin cost? How about bread? Socialists think that if you elect the right people, they will make these decisions intelligently and altruistically, and everything will be great. But it doesn't matter how smart and benevolent you are... you can't make a good decision without the right information. The Socialist Central Planning Committee, however wise or benevolent, doesn't know what's wanted, or what's available, because that information is conveyed in prices, and accurate pricing is the very thing that socialist governments wipe away with the bureaucratic pen. Capitalist networks are decentralized. They distribute decision making to where the information is. A man selling metal doesn't know anything about desks, or lumber. He doesn't know how many desks people want, or whether they should be made out of oak, or folded metal. But he does know how much it costs him to smelt iron ore into steel, and roll it into sheets. So he sets a price, and others decide whether, and how much, to buy. That price contains the information others need to decide whether steel is plentiful, and should be folded into anything you can make out of sheet metal, or is scarce, and should be saved for things that can only be done with steel, and furniture should be made out of oak, or pine, instead. Socialism works, or rather doesn't, by using the threat of force to set the prices of things, or take money from one person and give it to another. But every time this happens, critical data on supply or demand is erased... data that you need to make decisions. Individual prices are a decision, a guess at where supply and demand cross paths. But since free markets reward those who guess correctly, or copy a correct guess, aggregate prices are data on supply and demand. For a socialist central planning committee to order the manufacture of the correct number of cars, or to correctly set the price of a car, they need to know a thousand thousand thousand things about steel and aluminium, welders and assembly robots, rubber and glass and lithium batteries and copper wire, which they must gather, along with trillions of other pieces of data, from literally everyone in their entire civilization. Tesla only needs to know how much people charge them for the stuff they need. At every transaction in a captialist society, vital data is compressed into its most compact and useful form, then passed along to the adjacent step, where abundant brainpower is waiting to make decisions with it. Any defective node in the web that fails to make good decisions receives swift and automatic feedback, and either heeds that feedback or goes out of business, to be replaced by someone who will. Yes, in a capitalist system, there are many undesirable results. But capitalism doesn't create these results. It discovers them. They are inevitable consequences of the state of technology, and will persist until something is invented that changes the terrain. In socialism, no such solution is possible, because all the inherent problems you need to solve with progress are hidden from view by the far worse problems you created for yourself by separating the place where decisions are made from the place where information is known.

@Alicia_Bittle_ Yeah my lady and I have zero trouble with this. Whatever this woman is doing is some combination of hedonism, entitlement, and irresponsibility. In order to not address any of those things, she'd prefer the husband surgically neuter himself.

Hi, mom of 5 here… Destroying the natural body you were given is giving desperate and ignorant. The good news is that you don’t have to use ANY form of birth control in order to stop having children! Turns out, women are only fertile for about 5-7 days out of every cycle and literally all you have to do is just not have sex during that window!🤯

@LibertyLockPod @MaryTilesTexas If by Wizardry you mean the most effective Democrat operative in a long, long time, inadvertently or not, then yes I agree.

@MaryTilesTexas Wizardry.

Say whatever you want about Fuentes but this is the most precise prediction of anyone on earth about Trump Round Two. The kid nailed EVERY bullet point.

@MaryTilesTexas Wow I thought I was weird for doing this.

I feel so bad for lactose intolerant people What do you mean you don’t drink whole milk with every meal? 😭🤣

@alexandrosM @emilyakopp That there's more than enough cause to go to war.

@TruthIsAnAction @emilyakopp As they are allowed to do since Trump withdrew from the treaty first. What's yours?

This is a remarkable interview. Witkoff wrongly calls the IAEA the IEA several times. Witkoff lists the following reasons nuclear negotiations broke down, necessitating war and the loss of American soldiers: — the Iranians were supposed to give them a proposal 5 days after their second meeting, but waited until the third in-person meeting to provide it — the Iranians let them read their proposal at the third meeting but didn’t let them keep the piece of paper — the Tehran Research Reactor (built by the U.S.) was enriching at 20% (weapons grade is 90%) but stockpiling it rather than using it for fuel — Iran would not agree to not enrich (Iran is in the NPT) and said their dignity would be insulted if the U.S. provided its fuel, which Witkoff interpreted as evidence of subterfuge

@grok @atokdase @BullTesla @chamath @troyhouse So why are people riled up about "lost customer money"? It's a stock, so how was it a scam?

Chamath's "Bullshit" was to the "scams" accusation about customer losses—not the SPAC stock performance, which is public data anyone can check on Yahoo Finance or SEC filings. Those deals (SPCE, OPEN, CLOV, etc.) saw big post-merger drops for shareholders overall, verifiable as of today. No dispute from him on the numbers themselves.

What happened at Social Capital was several things: 1) Personally, I was going through a divorce. It was a very hard time. 2) My ostensible “cofounders” spent more time jostling for board seats and credit for deals with outsiders vs doing good work and mentoring a team. They made the place a political snake pit - something that I had unfortunately allowed to happen. So I killed the snake. 3) It was increasingly clear that my returns were sporadic but gargantuan and didn’t fit in a classic fund with LPs. I was a home run hitter in a business where raising new funds invariably led you to hitting singles and doubles. In other words, I was making suboptimal portfolio decisions so I would return capital in order to keep raising funds. This was important to stack the compensation of my team who had far less capital than I did. I’m in a much better place now personally and professionally. We invest only my capital and so far, so good. Long live Social Capital.

@ggreenwald It's disingenuous in the extreme to frame things this simply. The military assets for this offensive have been staged for weeks. The highest levels since the 2003 Iraq invasion. Israel did not surprise them.

A NYT headline like this would have been unthinkable in the US not only over the last several decades, but until even 3 years ago. Awareness of Israel's bizarre role in US foreign policy and our politics is now a permanent fixture, no matter how much media Larry Ellison buys.

@freyaindiaa Yeah. People are stuck in advice loops instead of taking risks and learning, and honing their intuition.

@ClimateWarrior7 I'm sure many are real, but I suspect you're triggering the bots too. We need like 1000 of you to help derail some of the bot traffic.

Right, explain this to me. Let's pretend for a minute, as a thought experiment, that I'm not really a genderfluid pro-Palestinian socialist climate activist who uses the pronouns clam/clam. Imagine, if you can, that I'm just some random person who regularly laughs himself silly at the latest lefty "madness". In that case, HOW would ANYONE take the post below seriously? It would have to be the stupidest, least-convincing propaganda ever. And yet, they flock to my posts in their thousands, informing me that I have not succeeded in pulling the wool over their eyes. Why???? What am I missing???? Are they trolling me? Fortunately, however, I am really a socialist genderfluid climate activist and my posts are literal truth.