The Janitor

@conservbrownman @avidseries You sure about that, big chief?

@avidseries Wrong. Catholicism is true Christianity, not sola scriptura nonsense Luther pulled out of his ass.

I think it's all the paganism.

@avidseries Its so clear that you've never been to a hospital in a professional sense. Those people you described are given ways out every single day in the US

"Eventually [your health issues] will add up beyond your ability to manage them on your own, and you will be sent off to a nursing home. You will become bedridden, unable to walk or even to turn yourself over. You will become completely dependent on nurse assistants to intermittently shift your position to avoid pressure ulcers. When they inevitably slip up, your skin develops huge incurable sores that can sometimes erode all the way to the bone, and which are perpetually infected with foul-smelling bacteria. Your limbs will become practically vestigial organs, like the appendix, and when your vascular disease gets too bad, one or more will be amputated, sacrifices to save the host. Urinary and fecal continence disappear somewhere in the process, so you’re either connected to catheters or else spend a while every day lying in a puddle of your own wastes until the nurses can help you out. The digestive system isn’t too happy either by this point, so you can either have a tube plugged directly into your stomach or just skip the middleman and have an IV line feeding nutrients into your bloodstream. Somewhere in the process your mind very quietly and without fanfare gives up the ghost. It starts with forgetting a couple of little things, and progresses until you have no idea what’s going on ever... [People] don’t remember their own names, they don’t know where they are or what they’re doing there, and they think it’s the 1930s or the 1950s or don’t even have a concept of years at all... So of course you start screaming and trying to attack people and trying to pull the tubes and IV lines out. Every morning when I come in to work I have to check the nurses’ notes for what happened the previous night, and every morning a couple of my patients have tried to pull all of their tubes and lines out. If it’s especially bad they try to attack the staff, and although the extremely elderly are really bad at attacking people this is nevertheless Unacceptable Behavior and they have to be restrained and tied down to the bed... Every day, your doctors will meet with your family another time, and eventually, as your condition worsens and your family has more time to be hit on the head with a big club marked ‘REALITY’, they will start to relent. Finally, they will allow your doctors to take you off of the machines, and you will be transferred to Palliative Care. And you will die, but not quickly. It takes time for the heart to give up, for the lungs to fill with water and stop breathing, for the toxic wastes to build up. It is generally considered wise for the patient to be on epic doses of morphine throughout the process, both to spare them the inevitable pain as their disease takes their course and to spare their family from having to watch them... A lot of families, faced with the prospect of missing work and school to sit by what’s basically a living corpse day in and day out for weeks just to watch it turn into a non-living corpse, politely decline. I absolutely 100% cannot blame them. This is the way many... die. Old, limbless, bedridden, ulcerated, in a puddle of waste, gasping for breath, loopy on morphine, hopelessly demented, in a sterile hospital room with someone from a volunteer program who just met them sitting by their bed." slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who…

@JohnnyMend13450 @YammerTime01 Please learn some fucking sentence structure and punctuation. I can't even read that nonsense

@YammerTime01 You brainwashed propaganda chugging Tesla hating losers w/ zero accomplishments in your pathetic lives are the same 2019 cherry picking bubble crying clowns keep seething on red day while we 10x in 5yrs as you rot in moms basement shorting future you absolute fucking failures

$TSLA is a < $10 stock (ttm earnings $1.20 and declining, capital intensive/low margin auto manufacturing business). The path to and the timing of the share price collapse is uncertain, but not the outcome.

@WesleyP79096 @JohnnyMend13450 @YammerTime01 Or bail out his failing ventures with acquisitions by wmhis other companies

@JohnnyMend13450 @YammerTime01 You do realize that a lot of us are early investors in Tesla! But when Elon decided to betray Tesla investors by getting overly involved publicly in politics and decided to divide and destroy democracies then got outed as a pedophile those of us the conscience bailed.

@avidseries @MattWalshBlog It happens all the time, idk what you're talking about

@MattWalshBlog Assisted death is really the only remaining cause that's worth anything at all. It ought to be a universal human right. People who oppose it, expose their cruelty and/or superstition.

The "social conservatives" were right about everything. We have been right about everything for decades. Literally everything. We told you that if you tolerate euthanasia even for the terminally ill, even for the "extreme cases," very soon it will be used to put down anyone the state deems inconvenient or burdensome. And that is exactly what has happened, just as we said it would.

@beffjezos Smh. I thought you were smarter than to fall for his orbital data center BS. Go to wyoming where you can buy thousands of acres and tell me that it'll be easier to build in space than there where there's already resources, transportation infrastructure, and workers

Nobody understands that this gap will convert to a gap in total AI compute, asymptotically. Elon will win the game, ultimately

@smuglydismissed @reluctantmutant @billpeduto The people can't govern themselves in western pa. Have you seen the absolute shit state of things over there?

@reluctantmutant @billpeduto No, it lets people govern themselves as opposed to being disregarded by the city government who wants nothing but tax dollars and compliance.

Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) home of the most fractionated government structure in the U.S. 130 separate local governments for 1.2 million people. 25% live in the city of Pittsburgh, the other 900,000 live in 129 individual cities, boroughs, villages & townships.

@RetiredEnginerd @girldrawsghosts You're literally just extrapolating short-term thinking. You think we'll still be using lithium batteries as energy storage by the time the infra demand catches up to transportation demand? That's a pretty myopic view of battery tech in the context of profitability

@galacticjanitor @girldrawsghosts Sorry. Short term thinking, next quarter, next year is too boring for me to bother with. History is often endlessly interesting. Today is a stage. Dance like nobody is watching.

- make EVs - destroy your entire brand bankrolling anti-EV candidate - tariffs crash US EV production - Chinese competition surges past you - Iran war destabilizes global oil manufacturing - everyone wants EVs now - not yours though - you could have it all, my empire of dirt

@RetiredEnginerd @girldrawsghosts Ok, and we're is it today?

@galacticjanitor @girldrawsghosts I don’t not merely think. I know. Solar is fusion with fewer steps. The demand fo grid battery capacity will continue to chase solar, and solar’s experience curve effects are sliding up the exponential scales.

@RetiredEnginerd @girldrawsghosts If you think the demand for EV battery packs is even remotely close to the demand for infra batteries, youve completely lost it. Sure it might be more profitable, but the demand is a fraction as large.

@girldrawsghosts EVs are not the most profitable use of battery cells.

@GovernorShapiro Death by public hanging would be reasonable

Today, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for second degree murder are unconstitutional. I have long believed this law is unjust and wrong. As Governor, I took legal action in this case arguing to strike down this sentencing framework. Common sense and true justice dictate that we need different penalties for different conduct. For example, the getaway driver shouldn’t get the same sentence as the person who pulls the trigger. Per the Supreme Court’s order, it is now time for the General Assembly to act and come up with a thoughtful, just process to address those who are serving life sentences for second degree murder.

@nonametyty @chrisbriem Did you get better jobs by making the move?

@galacticjanitor @chrisbriem I moved from Columbus to Pittsburgh...oops. Not really because I like Pittsburgh but because my wife's family lives here and we needed help with kids.

But for everyone planning for some mythical - or large(?!), population growth in Pittsburgh, please explain how you will slow down mortality first... Natural Population Change per 1,000 Population for the 40 largest MSAs in the US.

@MostlyMonkey ... But then every 2 years is the same thing as well?

@BarrettJ Just be careful lifting by yourself, man.

Is it a lot of weight? No, not really. But as the skinny computer nerd who waited until age 40 to see the advantage of weight-lifting, 3 sets of 3 reps at 200lb is pretty damn cool. Onwards and upwards!

@kylaschwaberow @ThomAquinas77 Are you waiting for the rapture before 2030 as well?

@ThomAquinas77 Yeah mine too. I’m convinced it’s gonna happen, just not sure exactly when.

$TSLA will triple in 2026. Book it.

@a7las1984 @Michael_Druggan Idk why you people conflate test levels with some sort of virtue. People get old and their levels drop. It isn't the end of the world. unless it's causing some other issue, there's no need to get on trt.

@galacticjanitor @Michael_Druggan They should get on TRT and honestly many of them already have higher Test levels than today's 18 year olds anyways

I completely disagree. This is exactly how 110iq and below people should be thinking about politics. Bad things happen when these type of people try to pretend like they're capable of understanding the world. Just let them have fun and the adults will handle things. We should probably stop letting them vote though.

@a7las1984 @Michael_Druggan Idk. There's definitely some wise, smart old dudes who should still be voting.

@Michael_Druggan I'm all for IQ and Testosterone level requirements to vote

@Austen I feel like the chances of someone having a 150+ IQ and actually having been tested for that are just about 0

I don’t think many of the >150 IQ people I know use nicotine? Like very few. Also people don’t understand how rare 150 IQ is.

@avidseries Thank you for sharing both sides of the story. We need more fair and balanced analysis like this

OK, sure, maybe Muslim immigrants in Denmark cost the country a little more — alright alright, a lot more — but, you know, you also need to take into account that they... uhm... rape more.