Merlinsscience

How you know when you've possibly rubbed off on your daughter... Daughter: "I'm looking for The Iliad." Bookstore dude: "Can u spell that?" Daughter: "Yes, but can you?" Dad: 🤐

Please stop trying to make fetch happen. The show is TRACKER -- not Reenie & Mel. If you want to give them their own show- just do it. #trackercbs #Tracker

We need 80% less Reenie & Mel. An ensemble cast is not what made Tracker good. Stop screwing with what made it different. #trackercbs #Tracker

@RepJeffries Stupid rhetoric like this is why leftist crazies attack law enforcement in public. #BeBetter

America will not be lectured about civility by far right extremists in Congress. Particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat police officers on January 6. There will be ample time to vigorously debate the issues of the day. Now is a time to unify.

@brianstelter Maybe it’s time for you to stop stoking the leftist rhetoric. You’re triggering the crazies. Also— why does your 6 y/o have a cell phone? #DoBetter #BeBetter

My 6-year-old son texted me, "Are you OK?" Yes, we're all OK. I FaceTimed him and said I'll be home soon. But I worry that one day I'll be texting that same question to him. It seems that in America, everyone eventually winds up too close to a terrible spasm of violence.

@RudyUsed All good here. You?

@merlinsscience D team at best. How you doing ? Hope all is all

I am sorry but your only job is a protection detail and you miss this ? This is the best we have available? I would say the same for the other two dumbasses that proceeded Trump and Vance too!

@NYCMayor You're entire tax increase plan is causing all prices to rise.

At our city-owned grocery stores, staples like eggs and bread will actually be affordable. And we're going to do it the right way, without cutting workers' pay or dignity. Because in the wealthiest city in this country, buying groceries shouldn't be an unsolvable equation. It should be simple, fair, and within reach for everyone.

@FullMeasureNews Interesting that the interviewer failed to ask questions regarding using TIFs to build and the ever-increasing utility rates to residents due to them. This felt like an Apologist marketing video more than an investigation. 🥱

Rapid expansion of data centers sparks rising protests. fullmeasure.news/newest-videos/…

@RepMariaSalazar You're getting ratio'd and Community Noted because you're full of crap. Americans voted for Mass Deportations. Make it happen. They may have dignity in their country of origin while they legally apply for citizenship.

READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH. Calling the DIGNITY Act “amnesty” isn’t just wrong. It’s a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill. This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, and hard, earned requirements to step forward and face the law, so American workers are protected, not undercut. Amnesty is the chaos you’ve defended, millions in the shadows, no control, no accountability, and a system that stopped working a long time ago. No shortcuts. No giveaways. No blanket forgiveness. That’s law and order. That’s DIGNITY.

I feel like im debating with an AI that has no actual life experience. Real world experience is mandatory to understand real life. I own real stuff. Its stuff I bought with money I earned from trading my skills for someone else's money. This isn't a theoretical discussion. Life doesn't revolve around technicalities. Your "vision" could only occur in a post-apocolyptic reality. For the record-- Communal living with authoritarian leadership is called: "A Family." That model does not scale. Never has. Communism attempts to mimic it, but It always collapses (from within) when others take more than they contribute. Its always been rife with favoritism and nepotism and the "people" just get the shits of it. The leadership lives like kings and the rest are miserable. Socialism is meant to be communism with extra steps to make it "feel" better. Suffers from the same shortcomings. But added the extra step of spreading the misery around to everyone. So, only the ruling class thrives. StarTrek life requires a complete reset in population, free energy & replicator technology.

Okay so in what way am I wrong Mr. ex-IC guy? I'm assuming you mean intelligence community by IC? So you've travelled the world, cool but in what way does what I am saying seem incorrect? Point it out. Ask yourself "why" do places on the planet that you're lumping into the catch-all "socialism/communism" fail to provide for their citizens? I know why I think it is, I think it's greed, they just funnel the resources into their own pockets. Authoritarianism can exist in or out of that economic model, obviously, so a surveillance state isn't universally attributed there. Perhaps the risk of having less is higher overall. Imagine we have no real currency because currency means nothing, not because of ideology but because it's in-fact worthless due to robotics and automation. That's the point I am trying to drive home. It's not like we get a choice here and to think we'll own property outside of the whim of our government is laughable. If they decide one day to freely distribute it to all or to the corporations running society at that point, what then? I'd just like a single actually good argument, if you were involved in US intelligence then surely you're capable of thinking about this a bit more thoroughly than simply gaslighting the situation overall. "Yeah who is gonna do this task and we still own the land" is an absurd argument. Not only that but are you suggesting only the few who own land get to have any survivability in that future? The rest of us suffer or die of starvation to prevent social programs and "socialism/communism"? We can't work, we own nothing, so we just die?

Food should be free. Prove her wrong. You can’t, can you?

Just finished watching Bob Lazar on Joe Rogan. Wow. I get it when he said, "maybe I'm the asshole." Makes me believe him. That kind of introspection only occurs when you're being honest with yourself.

Well... That's entirely horsesh!t. You don't know me from any random guy on the internet so claiming it was an emotional response is silly given my experience. I've been pretty open about my background over the years. I spent a long time at the DOD and then retired from the greater IC not too long ago. I've lived and operated in communist and socialist regimes all across the planet. I have witnessed what Real socialism/communism actually looks like. I don't cower, I acknowledge reality. I've lived in places that truly own nothing. I've stayed in homes of people who use their own feces to seal roof leaks and grow the food they eat. All the water they consume is "recovered." The "nothingness" you speak of has no meaning to me. Travel the world- touch the reality that exists outside of the internet. Live amongst the people that won't even notice the apocalypse because their lives won't change.

Completely emotional argument based on a cold war programmed fear of the USSR-esque Communist state and subsequent Fox News chants about "entitlement". The government will own such a sophisticated high tech military that if someone wants to FAFO for their "private property" but the government wants to take it, they'll be erased. That's reality, us peasants with the equivalent of pitchforks and torches will not be standing toe to toe if the government seizes our property just as the government already does to build in specific places when people's property is in the way. Point being, we own nothing. We have temporary stewardship and the whole system is changing rapidly to where everything can self sustain through robotics and automation that can build, repair, power itself, etc. No human labor has value in that future, money therefore has no value in that future. Property ownership is merely at the will of the government you and I will be essentially owned pets living under. If you lack the foresight to see why this will inevitably be our future, you're the one lacking in intelligence. Go cower at the word "socialism" all you want, we will not live under the same capitalism as we did under any version of what is to come.

I'm all "hopped up" on paying taxes for me and mine, laughing about how silly communism really is. Every aspect of it flies in the face of mother nature and it has failed EVERY time it has been tried. Meritocracy is a true equalizer. It is the civilized version of Survival of the Fittest. Good luck- I wish you well.

@merlinsscience @CulturedGent @JebraFaushay "Oh FFS-- "the govt."" I don't even know why you're replying the way you are. All hopped up on emotion and mad. Calm down, no one knows what the future holds. The point is, we won't NEED to do things the old way. Stop blocking progress with limited thinking.

@Me32975y45 @CulturedGent @JebraFaushay Your post-apocalyptic vision is possibly the only way "no one will own anything and everyone will love it." Until then, I'm just here living reality.

@merlinsscience @CulturedGent @JebraFaushay "none of the examples are "free."" They aren't free now, they WILL be. That's what you're not getting. In the future these things will take care of themselves. There will be no labor required. Capitalism can still exist. It just won't need to revolve around survival.

I never said we need it. I said that none of the examples are "free." But, because we don't live in a communist death cult, people own property and deserve reward for use of it, their labor and their intellectual property. Like it or not- Capitalism is the closest system to the natural order of things that man has ever created.

@merlinsscience @Me32975y45 @JebraFaushay Why will we need money? Think harder.

@CulturedGent @Me32975y45 @JebraFaushay I agree. The idea that robots and AI will take care of us, free of charge, is truly stupid.

@Me32975y45 @merlinsscience @JebraFaushay The IQ of some of these people might actually be in the negative.

Oh FFS-- "the govt." Isn't an amorphous philanthropic entity that sprinkles money around like fairy dust. The government's money comes from the people. And solar equipment, control, connectivity and distribution requires money to purchase install, operate and maintain. So... Still not free.

@merlinsscience @CulturedGent @JebraFaushay It's called solar genius, and if the farms and the robots are owned by the government, there's nothing to pay for.

@CulturedGent @JebraFaushay Even though thats incorrect, even a "fraction of a cost" isn't free.

@merlinsscience @JebraFaushay Seeds aren't going to be a problem. The land will likely be bought at a fraction of the cost purchased by force by the government, that will suck.

@Me32975y45 @CulturedGent @JebraFaushay The farms and the robots are still owned genius... the electricity required will still also have to be paid for. 😵‍💫

@merlinsscience @CulturedGent @JebraFaushay Seed comes from farming, which will be done by robots. Energy will come from the sun. Robotic vehicles and workers will do the distribution.