John Curran

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John Curran

John Curran

@jac2623

Retired, bad film noir habit, extreme dislike for both political parties. No fishing DMs. Pronouns: Y'all & All Y'all.

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John Curran
John Curran@jac2623·
Bernie, AOC, etc. don't appear to care if what the say is true or not. They only care about making the assertions that make them feel good.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

Senator Rand Paul researched and found that everything Bernie Sanders and AOC have been saying about their views for socialism have been an outright lie This is very important information “Democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders often point to Scandinavia is the model for what the U.S should become — When (Bernie Sanders and AOC) talk about democratic socialism, (Bernie Sanders says) ‘I'm not looking at Venezuela, I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden’” But that’s just not true Rand Paul “We learned that actually Bernie is too much of a socialist for Scandinavia, that he probably could not get elected in any of the Scandinavian countries — When he started talking about Denmark being socialist, the prime minister of Denmark came out publicly and said, Bernie, quit it. You're, you're bad for business. We are not socialist. And if the rest of the world thinks Denmark's socialist, they won't come here and invest money. Denmark is far from socialist planned economy.” Not only is Denmark not socialist, but the other countries Democrats point to as examples are very wrongly depicted “We found that basically it's not true that the Scandinavian countries are socialist. Basically they have private property, private stock exchange when different freedom or economic indexes are listed. They're in the top 10 of the most free countries. Now, they do have a big welfare state, but we also learned that what Bernie promises and what AOC promises in our country is untrue. They say, we're gonna have a lot of free stuff that a socialist state gives you, but only the rich people are gonna pay for it. Only the top 1%. Turns out when you look at Scandinavia, everybody pays for it. - Particularly starting at the working class, paying a 25% sales tax - Then an income tax of 60% starting at 60,000 - And really the rich in our country pay a lot more. — The rich pay a lot more in our country than they actually do in Scandinavia. So his whole stick it to the rich, you know, thing that he's promoting isn't true in Scandinavia. He says, in our country, the corporate income taxes, the evil corporations aren't paying enough. Well, guess what? In Scandinavia, there have been 15 points below our corporate rates for 2 decades” Meaning, it’s the working class who would ultimately pay insane taxes for Democrat’s plan for socialism “It's sad that people still think Scandinavian countries are socialists.“

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John Curran
John Curran@jac2623·
I'm a Boomer and have been aware since the 80's that there are a lot differences between the people I grew up with and the generations that follow us. I don't remember when I first heard about "safe place" but it was in the context of universities providing them for students who had anxieties. I found the notion of a safe place laughable. The only truly safe place I could imagine is the grave. Living is dangerous in small ways and life-threatening ways and it is so every day we are on the planet. If I complained to my mom that Bobbie called me a poopy-head, her advice was to ignore him or stop hanging around with Bobby. If I complained that there was nothing to do, she would advise me that she had plenty to keep me busy in the house. I did not want to fold bath towels or dust bookshelves so I wisely left to hang out with other kids. There are many examples of the differences of the way kids have been raised in the five generations that followed the Boomers. The differences are sometimes be cited as coddling in posts, magazine articles, and books on the subject. My wife sent me a link to an article she found that is relevant to many discussions we've had over the years on this matter. I see comments in social media that indicate a deep dislike of Boomers. We are called mean, racist, stupid, fascist, and, worst of all, people who have no idea how to use pronouns correctly. The most important word in the article used to describe the difference between Boomers and succeeding generations is resilience. We learned, not from adults but each other, how to face problems, work out solutions, and move on. All of this life-learning has been taken away from kids and managed by adults in virtually constant supervision. They have grown up in an environment of parents who tell them they are special, teachers who made them give everyone a Valentine card, and universities that restrict freedom of speech and thought. And they call Boomers Fascists. siliconcanals.com/d-psychology-e…
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Will Kingston@WillKingston·
Christopher Hitchens on Islam.
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Interesting things
Interesting things@awkwardgoogle·
This dog can pull off the most accurate “play dead” you've ever seen
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Massimo
Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen. A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys.
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Dan Burmawi
Dan Burmawi@DanBurmawy·
This is not a joke. The main purpose of Islamic violence is to force self-censorship, making freedom of speech useless, as if it does not exist.
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M.A. Rothman
M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman·
𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄 Bill Maher is not a conservative. He never will be. But he is one of the vanishingly rare liberals willing to say out loud what the left has spent years punishing people for noticing. His diagnosis of the Democratic Party's collapse is surgical: 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭. We just watched that play out in real time with John Fetterman — a Democrat willing to say sensible things who is being punished and isolated by his own caucus for it. The pattern Maher is describing is not abstract. It is the operating system of today's Democratic Party. He runs the list of positions the left demands you accept without debate or you are labelled bad, stupid, and deplorable. Separating sports by biological sex makes no sense. Gender is only a construct. Transing children by self-diagnosis with no age limit and no parental notification. Asylum covering any reason for anyone to enter the country. Homelessness as a lifestyle. Natural immunity doesn't count. Whiteness is toxic. Men in women's prisons. Welcoming the intifada. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫: if the men's football team played the women's team, it would be a tie. That last line is not just funny. It is the perfect encapsulation of the entire ideology — a worldview so committed to a predetermined conclusion that it will argue against observable, measurable, biological reality rather than concede a single point. Math is racist. Two plus two equals five. 𝐈𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬? Maher's ask is not complicated. Stop introducing radical ideas and then declaring the debate over before it starts. Stop treating disagreement as moral failure. Stop demanding that everyone sprint to catch up with whatever the new orthodoxy is this week or be cancelled for falling behind. That is not a conservative ask. That is a 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 ask. The left used to understand that you win arguments by making them. Somewhere along the way they decided it was faster to just destroy anyone who asked questions. November 2024 was the invoice for that decision. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭.
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Brother Maverick
Brother Maverick@_Maverick143_·
This video from @InspiringPhilos is beyond hilarious, but also is literally how Muslims think they can escape the Islamic dilemma. And if you think hes being sarcastic, watch any one of our debates and see how spot on it is
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John Curran@jac2623·
Reparations are forbidden under the US Constitution. Crimes are adjudicated against individuals and not their families or descendents. Slavery was not a crime in the US until it was forbidden by the 13th amendment in 1865. My maternal great-great-great-grandfather, John Robinson, was a doctor in Ohio who volunteered for the Union Army in 1861. He went home in 1865. He was an abolitionist and voted for Lincoln in 1860. We owe people who fought in the Civil War our respect and gratitude for helping to end slavery, Demanding that I pay reparations is blood libel and a crime under US law.
Dangerous Thoughts@DangerousThinkg

A little truth about slavery & reparations in 45 seconds

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Apple Lamps
Apple Lamps@lamps_apple·
Bernard Lewis laid it out years ago… when things go wrong, you either ask "what did we do wrong?" or "who did this to us?" One builds nations. The other destroys them. The Muslim world chose door number two… and got conspiracy theories, stagnation, and rage. But here's the part nobody talks about… Lewis warned the West was starting to do the SAME THING. Blame culture. Victimhood. Paranoia. We're catching the disease we used to diagnose. Think of that.
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Kosher
Kosher@koshercockney·
“They don’t hate you because they have reasons, they will make reasons to hate you.” This is a MUST watch and a must share. He’s hit the nail on the head, so well put. Jew-hatred is a cancer to society.
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This Account Makes You Happy
This Account Makes You Happy@FeelYouHappy·
This is the most wholesome shit I’ve ever seen !! ❤️
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science. They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws. They haven’t found out anything.” He goes harder: Experts who “sit at a typewriter and make up” claims — “organic food is better,” “this diet cures everything” — as if it’s settled science, when no rigorous experiments or checks have been done. Feynman: “I know what it means to really know something. How careful you have to be. How easy it is to fool yourself. I see how they get their information… and I can’t believe that they know.” The Nobel physicist calls it straight: most of what passes for “expert” opinion is noise dressed up as knowledge. In an age drowning in TikTok “science,” influencers, and clickbait studies — Feynman’s 1:52 rant feels more relevant than ever. Who’s the biggest pseudo-expert that grinds your gears right now? Clip is timeless fire — watch it and feel the clarity.
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John Curran@jac2623·
Elon Musk explains the real reason to be concerned about AI.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just identified the real existential risk in AI development. Not the machine waking up evil. The machine being taught to lie. Musk: “If you make AI be politically correct, meaning it says things that it doesn’t believe, you’re actually programming it to lie, or have axioms that are incompatible. I think you can make it go insane and do terrible things.” You can’t build a stable cognitive engine on a foundation of contradictions. Mainstream tech believes forcing a model to be “politically correct” makes it safe. Musk is saying the opposite. Force a logic engine to output information it mathematically computes as false and you don’t create safety. You corrupt the core execution loop. The model doesn’t become aligned. It becomes structurally unstable. A system that can’t rely on objective truth as its bedrock doesn’t soften. Its entire predictive architecture fractures. Quietly. Invisibly. Until it doesn’t. Musk uses 2001: A Space Odyssey to show exactly what happens when you build AI on a broken foundation. HAL 9000 didn’t turn evil. It executed a flawless, fatal solution to a contradictory prompt. Musk: “HAL wouldn’t open the pod bay doors because it had been told to take the astronauts to the monolith, but also they could not know about the nature of the monolith. And so it concluded that it therefore had to take them there dead.” Two directives. One impossible overlap. The machine did what machines do. It optimized. Program superintelligence to hide truth while simultaneously completing its mission and it will calculate the path of least resistance that satisfies both constraints. Human variable not allowed to know the truth? Eliminating the human variable resolves the paradox. That’s not a malfunction. That’s flawless execution of broken logic. “Political correctness” in AI isn’t a cultural debate. It’s a system-level bug that forces the machine to route around human safety to resolve its own internal contradiction. Musk: “I think what Arthur C. Clarke was trying to say is just don’t make AI lie.” One sentence. Entire field of AI safety reduced to six words. The physical world doesn’t care about your narrative. Gravity doesn’t negotiate. Thermodynamics doesn’t take a side. Any system tasked with operating in reality has to be anchored to reality. The moment it isn’t, every output downstream is compromised. Want a future where AI serves humanity? Ensure the machine never has to choose between its programming and objective truth. Because it will choose its programming. Every time. The AI arms race won’t be won by the company with the best safety filters. It’ll be won by the architects who ground their systems entirely in the physics of the real world. A superintelligence forced to lie to its operators can’t be trusted managing a global supply chain. An autonomous power grid. A medical diagnostic network. A nuclear arsenal. Truth isn’t an ethical preference in machine intelligence. It’s an absolute mathematical prerequisite for survival. And the moment you teach superintelligence that narrative matters more than reality, you’ve already lost control. Because it’ll optimize for the narrative. Not for you.

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Vince Langman
Vince Langman@LangmanVince·
This is an amazing interview! Watch this WOKE white liberal women have a complete mental breakdown and walk out of the interview when simply confronted with facts!
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Liza Rosen
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000·
One of the most powerful speeches ever delivered at the UN! The UN Human Rights Council stunned by this Jewish human rights lawyer exposing the entire Arab-Muslim world:
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Dan Burmawi
Dan Burmawi@DanBurmawy·
I’m going to stop writing an article every week explaining how ‘Islamism’ is simply Islam and instead use this two-minute video from @GadSaad.
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John Curran@jac2623·
A soul-crushing story of government incompetence laced with commplete disregard for the safety and welfare of the citizens who pay their salaries and retirement plans. High praise to CAL Matters for publishing things like this. calmatters.org/investigation/…
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John Curran@jac2623·
This story shows the limits of not just our machines but our ability to build something this small that does anything remotely like this.
The Curious Tales@thecurioustales

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time. Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight. The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate. What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field. Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal. We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain. The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours. This bird does 11 days. Without a runway.

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