Perry The Cynic

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Perry The Cynic

Perry The Cynic

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Katılım Eylül 2010
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
If that’s the mission of a university, then they should take in <5% of the population. Instead, they conspired to make a college degree mandatory for most professions. It’s a bit late to protest now that vocational training shouldn’t be their mission. “Everybody should have college education” and “we are not a job mill” are intellectually incompatible. Most people can’t spend 4 years of their prime earnings lives without getting actionable professional training out of it, even ignoring the exorbitant cost of it.
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Liza Libes
Liza Libes@pensandpoison·
Conservatives often criticize universities for failing to prepare students for jobs. But that's like criticizing a library for failing to function as a gym. The purpose of a university was never vocational training. It was always the pursuit and transmission of knowledge.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@johnkonrad It boggles my mind that after ~10 years of explicit de-globalization, in the midst of a cold war with China, some tech companies still think that national interests don’t apply to them. Because “citizens of the world” or something.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@lordbuckly The sad fact is that California voters largely approve of the way their elections are run. It is simply not true that if only California had fair elections, Conservatives would win. Do not waste the political energy. The Laboratory Of The States works both ways, like it or not.
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Mark Groubert
Mark Groubert@lordbuckly·
Despite all the big talk on the Right about the 2020 election being stolen - and it was - here is an election steal on this Administration's watch, in the broad daylight and sunshine of California, and nobody is doing a fucking thing about it.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@beyondreasdoubt They want to control success outside the system by limiting it. And for communists, The State Is The System. Everything outside its direct control is a dangerous threat that needs to be coopted or eliminated. This is the whole of the game. Everything else is mere implementation.
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LB@beyondreasdoubt·
It’s wild how much communists just want to tax success
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@FilmLadd For Tyson and his kind, “science” is a voice from heaven and he’s a high priest interpreting it. Actual science is messy and flawed and only eventually self-correcting, and thus not a good source of social prestige or wealth. It is also not good at resolving political questions.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@TheHistoryOfTh2 I try, but I’m having increasing trouble finding opposing views with signal. Many who used to be useful this way have turned into mindless megaphones. Truly interesting opposing views are rare and precious, and will probably be gone or useless in a few years each.
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TheHistoryOfTheAmericans
TheHistoryOfTheAmericans@TheHistoryOfTh2·
I use X/Twitter explicitly to follow a lot of people I do not agree with politically, not to make fun of them (although occasionally I crack under the pressure) but to check my own premises. It really is a great tool for that. How about you guys?
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@esrtweet @wylfcen The glorious thing about the English language is how it compressed French, German, and a smear of others into one vocabulary without annealing much of it out. The vocabulary is abnormally rich. Delicious.
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Wylfċen
Wylfċen@wylfcen·
STOP saying “feminine.” That’s from Latin. The native English word is “wifely,” from Old English wīflīċ.
Wylfċen tweet media
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@NeverDeleteX @HedgeDirty Small business owners have false consciousness. They want to become large business owners and join the capitalist exploiter class, instead of joining the workers by going out of business. This is actually how marxism thinks about stuff.
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Dirty Texas Hedge
Dirty Texas Hedge@HedgeDirty·
Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@kchau If you control wealth, you own it. Just look at politicians. This is not optional; it is human nature. What capitalist share systems get you is a way for many people to share ownership in legible ways. And it turns out that power by share (of ownership) works pretty well.
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Kevin Chau
Kevin Chau@kchau·
For those of you challenged in the IQ department. When it comes to Elon, net worth means nothing. He just wants voting power and control over his companies. Unfortunately in the majority of the world- that control is tied to asset value. And asset value is how net worth is calculated.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@DefiyantlyFree At this point, it’s probably a superfund site and cleaning it up will cost billions and take 10 years. Maybe we could deduct the cost from our UN dues.
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Insurrection Barbie
Insurrection Barbie@DefiyantlyFree·
Why can’t we defund the UN and make their NY headquarters free housing for veterans?
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@marcorandazza You’re sitting in the first row, right? Everywhere else, it should fit under the seat in front of you.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@deltaIV9250 Not by a few orders of magnitude. But they’ll have enough to build orbital data centers, which will pay for the orbital (and lunar) manufacturing centers, which will pay for Mars. SpaceX is one long repeated bootstrap exercise, punctuated by fiery crashes. :)
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Delta9250
Delta9250@deltaIV9250·
In all seriousness I do wonder if SpaceX and Elon have generated enough money to do their mars plans
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@HedgeDirty If you want to say "FU" to the US government, you need more than money. Elon's FU instrument is the US military's dependency on SpaceX and Starlink. Money can be taken away by government fiat. Those roots go way deeper.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@HedgeDirty It's a gamble. If Starship shines this year, getting in on the IPO might be a good move. If it even looks like it's struggling, the stock will likely tank and I should buy later. That makes little financial sense, but in a retail-heavy stock, sentiment moves mountains.
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Dirty Texas Hedge
Dirty Texas Hedge@HedgeDirty·
My most milquetoast opinion about the present moment might be that I find the idea of investing in spacex automatically attractive in principle, but not actually attractive at the IPO valuation
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Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@EnceladusOrbi6 @MarcusHouse When he doesn’t want money and priority for NASA anymore. One main job of the NASA administrator is brown-nosing government for funds. Think of it as buffering the engineers from reality, because reality kills (projects, missions, careers).
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Marcus House
Marcus House@MarcusHouse·
I'm hoping someone can make this make sense to me. I just fail to understand what the point of SpaceX's side of the mission is even for. Just a docking demo it seems, but that means no NASA astronaut gets inside Starship HLS in micro gravity at all until Artemis IV? That can't be right. Will SpaceX do their own crew testing using Dragon before Artemis IV then? What are your thoughts?
Marcus House@MarcusHouse

I'm confused by this. If Orion is not testing with a HLS vehicle designed for landing on the moon, why is this worth the SLS launch? Perhaps just proximity/docking testing is enough, but I would have thought NASA would have a lot more requirements for this mission.

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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@yishan Low-end disruption is a thing, and it’s deadly. Not because low-end shitty product is great, but because up-market competitors choose to abandon the middle space that ought to be their moat. MBA thinking kills.
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Yishan
Yishan@yishan·
What have we learned from the history of tech competition? The competitor with the shittier, low-cost product that the market leader initially disdains can dominate the lower-end demand market and then moves upmarket, and eventually wins.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@instapundit The UK could make policemen swear to uphold their constitution first, but they don’t actually have one. ISTM that the notion of individuals placing law over parliament is utterly alien to them.
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Perry The Cynic
Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
@SaysSimulation The EUropeans are still stuck in that stage where even war is a domestic political EU problem first. Winning is optional; distributing spoils isn’t. The US is similar, actually. But the less actual power projection you have, the more the graft takes over. It’s all that matters.
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Labrador Skeptic
Labrador Skeptic@SaysSimulation·
On a separate but related note, the new generation Future Combat Air System, which was supposed to produce a stealth Eurofighter to compete with the F-35, has now officially collapsed. It was great on paper and in the planning. But, the Germans & French just couldn't work 1/
Labrador Skeptic@SaysSimulation

Very interesting resignation letter from the former UK Minister of Defense. The Euro leaderships have been agreeing amongst themselves that they will become militarily awesome. It's all been planning, not something they're actually doing. The UK doesn't have the money 1/

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Perry The Cynic@perrycynic·
The paradox is that to know when to get involved, you need a fairly good reading of the very people you’re benignly neglecting. Which means a great manager *seems* to neglect their reports while knowing very well what they’re doing. He’s just not getting in their way. None of this works in companies using “objective evaluation criteria” for raises and promotions. That forces everyone into exhaustive paperwork documenting requirements and fulfillment thereof. Neglect is functionally impossible unless the report opts out of promotion tracks entirely, or they have a very good relationship with their skip chain. In particular, any seeming neglect will be flagged negatively on the manager.
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Overeducated Gibbon
Overeducated Gibbon@MostlyMonkey·
Management is like 90% knowing when to get involved and when to benignly neglect your people.
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