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@minordissent "Better" is relative. Wealth historically was a measure of how much leisure time you're permitted, rather than some mass of treasure. If you compare our leisure time with that of 11th century feudal serfs, they had on average about 600 hours per year more than us. Fuck off.

if you are intelligent and high agency, there has never been a better time in human history to be alive than today.

@vaporwarevc @theadrianmolina It's funny how much talk there is about how bad changing sleeping times is for you, when nearly every human alive experiences a sleep schedule that is scientifically abhorrent and disappears with 2 weeks of darkness.

It’s all fun and games until the sun sets at 4:28 PM and millions of people leave work in total darkness for three straight months. Seasonal affective disorder affects roughly 5% of US adults, with another 10-20% getting milder winter blues, and evening darkness is when most people actually experience their day. Studies also show more daylight after work means less crime (a 2015 Brookings study found robbery dropped 7% after spring DST started) and fewer pedestrian deaths in the evening commute. A dark morning is worth it.

It's all fun and games until the sunrises at 9:12 AM on December 20th

@mattvanswol @BillMelugin_ @FoxNews I want illegals killed as much as the next guy but you're retardedly short sighted if you think it's a good idea to create a secret police answerable only to the president at the same time as we're creating mass surveillance infrastructure as the pendulum swings back left.

@mattvanswol @BillMelugin_ @FoxNews 5 fatal shootings caused by the exact same scenario suggests you're wrong. What is likely happening here is a case of officer created jeopardy where they place themselves in the only exit path of the vehicle and fire as soon as they hear the gas.

BREAKING: Per multiple federal sources to @FoxNews, ICE has been instructed to immediately cease most vehicle stops during immigration enforcement operations nationwide, except for operations targeting the most egregious criminal aliens. This comes after two people were killed by ICE in shootings in TX and ME in the last week in incidents that began as vehicle stops. DHS alleges one of those incidents was a ramming attempt. I’m told this will be temporary until ICE officers receive new training on vehicle stops. The policy change will have significant impacts as many of ICE’s arrests begin as vehicle stops when they find and follow a target, as we’ve witnessed on multiple embeds. More to come as we get it. First scooped by @JennieSTaer

@N1archv I don't understand how within a year we have like 5 people dead to the exact same scenario (officer-created jeopardying their bodies in front of the only exit path of the vehicle and unloading as soon as they tap the gas) but ZERO alarm bells are rung in your retarded heads.

So, basically, everything that Greg Bovino has been saying about ice being castrated was correct. I, of course, would not arrive at this conclusion if ice did not have a long history of these “strategic de-escalations.”

@9mmsmg vert back to even a year ago" AKA revert it back to the day before Nikita "I don't have any control over the algorithm" Bier got hired. It's beyond pathetic that the most free speech place on the planet is being actively destroyed by a soyjack looking weasel.

X is interesting in that while they're by far the single best social media platform, every time they try and tweak it, they manage to screw it up worse. The "Oh, it looks like the algorithm wasn't showing posts from mutuals like it should" was really the chef's kiss. Every algorithm change has done nothing but make it worse. It's like the movie The Butterfly Effect where every time he goes back in time he makes things worse. Just revert back to even a year ago and leave it alone.

@honestpollster Everyone is talking past each other on this issue. The real problem is the police maneuver where they place their bodies in the only exit path of the vehicle and shoot the second the driver touches the gas. Training is EXACTLY what is needed to stop this from happening again.

Hot take: I'm not ready to conclude whether Mullin is better or worse than Noem yet. But I will say, when you are dealing with people's lives, I think it's prudent to mitigate risk temporarily when you are rolling out new procedures.

@angpeacock1111 I'd love to hear your other suggestions on how this could be happening. Happens constantly in the third world by the way.

Leave it to Americans to make everything into a racist right wing conspiracy. And a million views on this tweet? The world sucks. Just saying.

No one seems to be asking the basic question of why is there human shit on some of our produce in the United States? I don’t understand.

@ramzpaul Thankfully nobody does that anymore

Will mean it will be dark where I live in the mornings. The sun in December and January will now rise around 8:30 A.M. This was tried in the 70s and failed miserable after some school kids were killed walking in the morning dark.

@j_fishback It's like having a family member who's a drug addict. It's possible to support them without wanting to fund their addiction.

Wow.

@Khatspergers Skill issue. Use the side of the spoon to cut the noodles and you have a perfect size bit every time without needing to take a second sip to taste the broth.

I love Phil's cup noodle video because you can watch a 35-year-old man discover in real time that you cannot eat noodles with a spoon, and that it is more efficient to eat them with a fork

@kinocopter @AlfredAlfer77 @nikitabier I've seen this a lot all over the website. It's some H1B vibecoded shit they probably would need to re-code the entire website to fix.

@AlfredAlfer77 @nikitabier Ok maybe the issue is you’re shadow banned? Thanks Nikita for ruining the site some more.

Aannnnd I can no longer "post videos" (copy the direct link to a video and quote tweet or reply to something with it directly). Thanks again @nikitabier for ruining yet another one of the only decent features of this website!

@DrInsensitive A big factor of this is screen technology.

I am replaying Hexen, (the sequel to Doom, which is widely but incorrectly acclaimed as the father of FPS shooters) and I'm shocked by the low image resolution. The last time I played this game, in 1994, I thought the monsters were clear and detailed. That's how I still remember them, which means my brain upscaled the resolution of my memories. Now I wonder if my high school girlfriends had more than 32 X 32 pixels.

@Cyclistholocaus This nigga look like he think he James Fishblack.

They blast music, we blast music

@yonejutsu @DunkDawk @Bobbythirdway One of the only things keeping this system running is people like you who are stupid enough to think everything is going to magically fix itself when "your guys" get in power. Enjoy waiting outside.

@fasdafopic @DunkDawk @Bobbythirdway I mentioned less gdp, not more. Your reading comprehension is poor, so forgive me for not trusting your economic literacy either.

America redistributes a larger share of its GDP (29.4%) through transfers and taxes than any developed country in the world except France (30.1%). America is a world leader in socialism, but uses capitalist aesthetics to avoid an identity crisis.

@yonejutsu @DunkDawk @Bobbythirdway We have a ~$162 trillion deficit in planned pension and entitlement payouts. Between that and our national debt it's over $200 trillion. I'm not sure how you think you can "more GDP" your way out of this. The money is already promised to actual living people.

@fasdafopic @DunkDawk @Bobbythirdway No. Gdp goes down as it always does with lower population, gdp per capita and wages go up. Most boomers are already out of the workforce and are pure consumers relying on socialism (social security) for income. A parasite class occupying needed homes.

@yonejutsu @DunkDawk @Bobbythirdway The more I hear people say this the less I believe it's true. Our inverted population pyramid means we are destined for financial destruction without them. As the boomers age out of the work force, it ends up taking about 3 young workers for every retired person. It's bleak.

@fasdafopic @DunkDawk @Bobbythirdway Will be heading in a very positive direction if we can deport 100 million nonwhites while the boomers also die of natural causes. Abundance.

@CollapseAnime Tell that to the people who are a hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt.

you're still going to be ahead of someone who did literally nothing

@RodeoProfessor You can basically copy paste this story 100,000 times and you'll have an accurate view of modern day America.

I see we are doing the “zoomers are anti social weirdos” discourse again. Well, I was recently talking to some zoomer students who were laughing at a 60s hippy lib prof who was scolding them for not “working a season or two as a Warren Miller ski bum” like he did in the 70s. The connections he made there launched a career for him in western tourism and business. The reason they were laughing was because in their eyes, that door was closed for them, despite having the interest and the ability to go and work those jobs for a similar career path. I wanted to look into who exactly was responsible for the decision to replace American kids at Vail and Park City with J-1 labor from Argentina. Obvious answers like Vail Mountain are to blame of course, but something surprising to me was that American companies cannot sponsor J-1s on their own, they need to do this through a pass through NGO approved by the State Department as a type of “cultural exchange” for students (not our students, foreigner students). There are two main NGOs that do this for Rocky Mountain skiing and both of their CEOs make well over a million a year keeping your kid from these seasonal jobs while claiming American kids just don’t want to work, and need more diversity in ski towns (look at their promotional material if you don’t believe me). The truth is the pay is barely enough to cover resort dorm housing, so the big resorts barely enable young workers to make rent. The two that bring in the most J-1s to my local resorts are USE and PIEE. The Council on International Educational Exchange and the Universal Student Exchange. USE is headed by a Peruvian CEO Rafael Espinoza. The other group is headed by James P. Pellow who has an EdD (lol). These guys and their lobbyists benefit from a low paid foreign underclass of workers staffing ski resorts. Their organizations (plus the State Department) are responsible for taking away “ski bum” jobs from American teenagers under the guise of cross cultural exchange. The main lobby group that advocates day and night to keep your kids out of these jobs is the National Ski Areas Association. They lobby Congress, the State Dept, and Lawmakes to make sure the j-1s flow. Their materials claim that diversification and multi culture exchanges are much needed in ski areas! Vail Resorts and Powdr corp partners closely with USE and CIEE to keep their cheap foreign labor flowing. I never voted for any of this, zoomers surely did not, zoomers are being told they’re weirdos for not working these gigs, but good luck getting rid of any of this system as this is probably the first time you’ve heard of these groups.

@BillMelugin_ @FoxNews The training is literally going to be "don't block the vehicle's only exit with your body then shoot the second they accelerate." The legality behind that is already grey and has been ruled both ways in various courts across the country. It's just stupid and gets people killed.