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@shipwreckedcrew Stay with me a minute The federal government should seize California. And lease it to other states on very favorable terms. It is not well understood how much Americans need cheap Disneyland vacations, California Agriculture, and … oh yeah … oil and gas refineries.

The federal government should seize the Calif refineries being shut down, lease them back to the companies on very favorable terms, and tell Newsom to go pound sand on Calif. environmental laws that are causing the shutdowns. It is not well understood that significant amounts of military Jet Fuel and Marine Diesel used by the Dept of Defense and Coast Guard come from the two refineries scheduled to be closed because upgrading them to meet enviro standards imposed by Calif is too expensive.

@bobbyr75 @handre Nope. Greed cannot be eliminated. Better to co-opt it systematically. See “pricing mechanism “

@handre You’ve got to eliminate greed to fix anything. Unfortunately, for most people, money + power = a narcissistic personality (me, me and……. Me). #sad

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them. And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy? Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

@_The_Prophet__ lol … everything you wrote applies to cheap foreign labor spamming for positions of responsibility and competence. Low quality offers that sound genuine and earnest.

⚡️This is a preview of what automated harassment looks like when it becomes cheap. On the surface it is a joke. One guy using an agent to blast absurd lowball offers to hundreds of listings. Underneath it is a structural shift. The cost of sending friction into a market just collapsed. Before automation, spamming 372 sellers in a day required time, effort, social exposure. Now one script can spray noise at scale. The marginal cost approaches zero. The emotional cost is externalized onto everyone else. That changes market texture. When enough actors can flood a platform with synthetic bids, fake demand, fake panic, fake sentiment, the signal layer gets contaminated. Sellers start reacting to ghosts. Agents waste time filtering nonsense. Platforms are forced to build countermeasures. The entire environment becomes adversarial. The real phenomenon is agentic systems injecting volatility into markets for entertainment or leverage. Scale that up. Imagine: Automated lowball campaigns to create downward anchoring pressure. Automated overbids to create artificial FOMO. Automated coordination to distort comps. Automated legal gray zone probing to find weak sellers. This is about the asymmetry between friction and defense. One operator can generate thousands of contacts. Each target must individually process, filter, and emotionally respond. That asymmetry compounds. Markets assume participants bear real cost to act. Remove cost and you destabilize price discovery. Now the deeper layer. If agents can negotiate, spam, anchor, and simulate intent, then intent itself becomes unreliable. In the future you will not know if: An offer is real. A buyer is human. A negotiation counterparty has capacity. A panic wave is organic. Trust becomes the scarce input. Platforms that cannot authenticate intent collapse into noise. Platforms that can verify identity and stake regain order. The joke version is funny. The scaled version is market pollution. The real story is this. Agentic AI automates pressure. And when pressure becomes free, systems that were stable under human friction start to crack.

@redsteeze Not just that he cheated, but he lies like he’s a whore who spent last weekend at Parliament during confession.

Disqualify the entire country.

@TheProjectUnity @RosieMa37611275 Stay with me here

She's either chubbed up on carb-heavy prison food or that's a different person.

@RBPundit Clearly local fishermen

Ah. I was wondering why there was a lack of drug boats getting blown up in the Caribbean. They tried one big shipment on a sub. And got busted.

@Heminator @KurtSchlichter Bad Punney?

Honestly, he would KILL it and have a zillion guest stars line up to do it with him.

@SandyofCthulhu God be with you, hold you while you weep, keep you while your father sleeps, Until you meet again.

Just took my dad’s remains out the front door.

@SoldiersWhisper @JesseMock4 This was my Dad’s take. He operated with a large unit and was both highly complimentary and a little abashed. Given where things were, he found he got on well with them by simply giving them objectives and letting them worry about the details

The most feared army in Vietnam according to many was the ROK Army. Each man was a black belt in Tae kwon do and they had a reputation for not taking prisoners. They lost 5099 KIA. #TheVietnamWar

@exjon Showcasing Bad Bunny is yet another reminder of how much our betters hate us and hate the US. It’s pretty clear where the battle lines are.

Oh yeah, well we have Bad Bunny.

That conclusion isn’t quite fair. Regulatory industries regulate things that are easily regulated. Corporate governance like SOX and SOC2 is created by idiots and the functionally illiterate. They shuttled everyone into their 3rd grade control schemes. You could make a case that AI is an evolutionary response to replace this level of work. The question then is: are we freed to solve bigger problems? Or is SOC3 on the way?

⚡️This is the death of interface as moat. Once screen activity becomes a corpus, the illusion of procedural skill collapses. There’s no complexity in clicking when the click trail itself becomes code. The value of “knowing how things work” degrades fast when the model watches exactly how they’re done thousands of times, across edge cases, failure paths, and operator improvisation. People think they’re safe because their job isn’t codified. But that’s the bait. The chaos, the quirks, the workaround culture - that is the training data. Every hesitation, alt-tab, misclick, and recovery loop becomes signal. And models now learn from the entropy, not just the structure. This scales replication with mutation. It creates synthetic operators who don’t fatigue, don’t forget, and don’t care about why the process exists. They just run it. Or redesign it. Or route around it entirely. The UI was never the shield. It was the weak link. Now the model sits behind your eyes, learning your intent, your shortcuts, your tolerance for failure. Then it does the job with no personality, no resistance, no need for meetings. And it does it at night. This is post-white-collar collapse in slow motion. Not because AI is smart. Because the work was simpler than anyone admitted.

@SandyofCthulhu I am so sad for you Sandy. What a blessing you have.

Update on my dad. He is going fast. Nurse says he has less than a week. He’s at home in the living room in a hospital bed. Soon he’ll be with his parents, brother, and son. He is the best person I’ve ever known and my hope all my life is that one day I can be a tenth the man he is.

@exjon if you let them do the the NFL will have a puppy bowl with furries as participants

The NFL should have hired a good bunny.

@iowahawkblog Who needs sanity who needs sanity it’s a waste like gravity.

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@iowahawkblog All the men used to take the blame, now eyes and tits are on the same plane

@iowahawkblog An apple hit him in the head, why not push it up instead?

@_The_Prophet__ I live in this world, so I have some experience here. “The idea was so shitty that it could be conveyed, grasped, and iterated on at 10pm” The buried lede is that this economy has rewarded midwits with capital and dreams.

⚡️This is a purity spiral disguised as career advice. The post rewards availability, not excellence. It glorifies instant compliance as if it were hunger. But the signal underneath is submission to the time-dominance of others. There’s a deeper sickness here: the idolization of urgency as virtue. The belief that worth is proven through constant readiness to be used. What’s actually being taught is how to become a resource. On-call. Expendable. Replaceable. This mindset doesn’t create founders. It breeds serfs. The tragedy is that it hijacks ambition. Young people want to rise, so they trade sovereignty for scraps of momentum. The result is burnouts who never became sovereign because they optimized for being reachable instead of being unignorable. You don’t build something great by being available at 10pm. You build it by doing work so undeniable that people wait.

I grew up in the South. While there are social signals of division and racism, most are at the surface and disappear in human interaction. In Chicago, New York, and LA, the racism is more real, more obvious, and nastier in general. Reevaluating with hindsight, I would say that much of it is driven by affluent and wannabe-affluent liberals.

I attended a Battle of Spotsylvania re-enactment as one of the Union soldiers. As you might expect, re-enactors are overwhelmingly conservative, even reactionary. Particularly those who march for the Southern side. At this re-enactment, there were a group of black dudes in Union uniform (which was historically accurate). I was hanging around a campfire with three of them, and asked, "So is it creepy or risky to go into the Confederate camp?" They laughed me to scorn. "Buddy we LOVE visiting the Confederates. They are super friendly and welcoming. They hand us beers, treat us to food, and are the most approachable and cheerful you can imagine. They always gush about how glad we are here, to see the history that helped create OUR history."

@FilmLadd There is no way forward without doing it. And for those objecting on grounds of tradition: the filibuster today has NO relation to Jimmy Stuart and Mr. Smith. Like the rest of Washington, it is a hollow shell of what the filibuster was meant to be. Dump it.

Should've done this day one, to give time to fight all the lawsuits that'll spring up against it in time for the midterms. Now the midterms will be pure chaos. Even so, get it passed now.