Ben Hanson

@iron_ulfhednar So I can use another helmet - great!

bye Vertex 💀

@Defence_Index @grok what watch is featured in this video clip

⭕🇺🇸🇮🇹 US LOSES BIG AS ITALY DUMPS BOEING FOR AIRBUS Italy has officially abandoned Boeing’s KC-46 Pegasus and signed a €1.4 billion deal for six Airbus A330 MRTT tankers instead. Rome originally picked the American KC-46 in 2022, canceled it in 2024, and has now fully shifted to Europe’s tanker giant, handing Airbus another major global victory. Italy is now the 19th operator of the A330 MRTT platform.

@TalkativeTri Since they are promoting the unique it will probably have a better drop rate than say a palm of the dreamer (maybe)...but I wouldn't plan any league start dependent on a unique.

GGG keep dropping Path of Exile 2 news daily, but the most recent info included the COOLEST unique item in PoE2. I'm tempted to leaguestart it, whether it's trash or OP...however finding it might be tough. Then, there's boat league, build drama, races... 100% breakdown 🔻🔻

@TalkativeTri Well at least the meta builds will take a bit longer to figure out because they introduced so many new factors to consider. POE autists will no doubt figure it out in short order however ;)

Shamelessly ripped from the Path of Exile 2 sub. The amount of socketables was honestly the one thing I'm not excited about COMING in 0.5. The endgame ones are sick, but socketables are SO SATURATED everywhere else...

@markbdelaney Same, also dont like golf.

Know a guy worth ~$10M - Only worked W-2. Closest thing to entrepreneurship was owning a few SFHs. - Doesn't journal, cold plunge, or biohack. - Drinks regularly - Doesn't play golf Biggest advantages: - Took a risk mid-career to go eat-what-you-kill - Super likable

@NeverSinkDev Seems like a lot of new complicated mechanics that require casuals to research them out of game to play them properly (why I avoided temple). Hoping I am wrong. Old mechanics look better which is good. New bosses look fantastic and the graphics look improved so that is great.

THAT UPDATE IS ABSURD. THIS IS LIKE 3-4 DLCS WORTH OF CONTENT. I'm constantly blown away by GGG. I'm not sure if these people even sleep.

@TSLAFanMtl 100%

This thirst-trap headline makes a positive sound like a negative. Car drives like 3x more miles than the average car does in its life - still drives well with no mechanical issues - and still has 2/3 of its original battery's useable range. If anything, this is a testament to EV durability and longevity.

@jeremyct So Dental insurance is nothing like medical insurance. Dental insurance is an allowance and fee schedule and not real insurance. And there is no way an ext cost that much. Divide by ten for FFS, even less with insurance.

my son had a cavity recently. took him to the dentist and they ended up pulling the tooth. the visit cost $2400. insurance only covered $250, so we’re left paying $2,150. i’m already paying $612/month for family health and dental insurance. yeah… something about this system doesn’t add up.

@piersmorgan You mean Argentina right...bc that is who wants to take it from Britain.

If President Trump wants to take the Falkland Islands away from Britain, then we must reclaim the United States. Perfect way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence. King Charles can announce it to Congress next week.

@KonstantinKisin I would agree that knowledge of basic economic principles is not in a good place right now. Especially funny because the developed world has never been in such a good place precisely because of free market capitalism. Probably both causally related.

The anti-capitalist brainrot is so powerful. It's actually virtually *impossible* to become a billionaire without creating an immense amount of wealth for other people. Billionaires usually employ hundreds to tens of thousands of other people, to say nothing of creating products, goods and services that are so valuable people are prepared to voluntarily part with their hard-earned money in exchange. People want to hate on big tech oligarchs and there's a lot to dislike, but the one thing you definitely can't argue is they haven't created wealth for other people. How many millionaires are there just because Google, YouTube and other platforms exist? How many people have a good job because of them? In communist societies and dictatorships, the best way to create wealth is using power to control "state" resources. That's why most Russian billionaires are very close friends and allies of Vladimir Putin. In a capitalist society, the best way to create wealth is to solve other people's problems for money at scale.

@ChelsElaina That is indeed rough. But it makes for an entertaining post so I thank you for that.

I’ve been on enough dates to confidently say: the bar for men is not just low… it’s underground here are a few of my personal favorites:

@AlexanderKalian How dare you challenge the hype with facts :)

I can guarantee that AI will not "cure cancer" - at least, not in any clean singular way. Cancer is an umbrella term for many different diseases, affecting different tissues, with different pathologies and treatment pathways - each requiring different cures. And this is before we discuss the inherent challenges faced by AI drug discovery, which are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. This "AI will cure cancer" narrative among AI utopianists, demonstrates a mixture of overconfidence, ignorance, and naivety - about both the capabilities of AI, and the applied domain of biology that they so naively delve into.

@3D_Orville That clause/restrictive convenant does not seem legally enforceable. I would check with a lawyer.

A potential new job wants me to sign an agreement that says I cannot work for another additive manufacturing company within 5 years of leaving them. Is this unreasonable, or just new to me? It feels unreasonable. This is my trade, if they terminate me, I SOL???

@OrevaZSN Start a business that grows to employ thousands of people and generates a valuation of a billion dollars. Boom - now you made 1 billion by creating something from nothing and you didn't steal from anyone. Easy peasy.

You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.

@Timcast You cant tax profits that don't exist lol.

You can't fund UBI through taxing AI The math does not add up You need greater input than output for the system to function and taxing AI to give UBI generates massive output with insufficient input. The cost of the system will be greater than the revenue dispersed creating a negative feedback loop and economic regression The argument then becomes that UBI will only be supplemental but you still run into the inflation problem again. When given a choice between working 40 hours a week and receiving 10K UBI and 15K wages many people would choose unlimited free time and 10k In order to then hire someone for jobs we cannot automate you have to then increase pay for those jobs thus the cost of the good increases and the 10k supplemental now is largely useless for most goods and services I break the question down like this How many people do you know play guitar? Most say quite a few How many would choose to be a musician professionally if they had the choice? Most say in fact quite a few How many have the talent to actually make it? none if any And that still assumes most people would choose to pursue a passion with some economic benefit The reality is that many people would choose UBI and 40 hours of some creative work that ultimately provides no functional value to society and that generates no revenue. We effectively use tech to subsidize net negative output from people That system is bound to implode The most important thing to understand is that there are core necessities such as housing and healthcare that cannot be meaningfully automated. UBI is a pipe dream that can't even exist in a society with replicators from Star Trek. Land is still owned or leased and money is the means of distribution. If you want to argue for government control of property then youre just arguing for techno-communism

@yonann Histrionic tech grift is so cringe

Chris Camillo says 15 people called him in one week ready to quit their jobs after setting up a $650 Mac Mini "Over the course of the last week I've probably gotten 15 calls from people in my network that told me they were about to quit their job" "They got a Mac Mini, got it set up and said Chris I can literally start any business in the world and have it running in 48 hours" "Every hour matters, I cannot give up hours, I must quit my job, so if you're young and you've been complaining because the world was jaded against you and you didn't have any opportunity, YOU JUST GOT IT"

@AlboMP These posts are so pathetic I think I should frame them lol.

Overnight, I joined a virtual Leaders' Summit on the Strait of Hormuz co-hosted by President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer. Australia has consistently called for an end to this conflict. The longer the war goes on, the more significant the impact on the global economy will be, and the greater the human cost. Australians are feeling the impact on fuel supply and prices and we are working to shield families from the worst of it. Australia stands ready to support efforts to restore stability and security in the Strait of Hormuz and I welcome the announcement overnight of the Strait’s reopening. We want to see this hold.

@TheICHpodcast Bilaterall BSSO and a Lefort can result in permanent IAN paresthesia. I assume that's what he is talking about. Its very much worth it and life changing for those truly needing it... but in this case no. Numbmogging

Clavicular explains his upcoming $35,000 double jaw surgery that will ascend him 1.5 points… “They basically make a cut on the lower jaw and move it forward, and apply screws, and the same with the upper jaw”

@ericweinstein You know I really enjoy listening to yours and Penrose's and others theories. I don't understand any of it, but it's soothing and pleasurable none the less. Maybe it's just that there are people out there thinking and working toward big things that is so gratifying.

Stuart, I have had no feelings about you one way or the other. I would have been happy to meet you. I still would, although you are souring me a bit. I have strong feelings about Roger and physics. We all love Roger. And most of us *love* some, but not all, of his ideas. Let me be clear. Your collaborator and I share a belief which I believe we arrived af independently. Gravity/The metric is central to “Observation”. This has animated my life since around 1983-5. I believe in my case it means something more specific than in Roger’s case. I deeply admire Roger so i welcome his saying this, whether or not i have priority. Happy for the company and his idiosyncratic perspective. What I mean with great specificity is that the quantum world takes place on a 14D space of metric tensors, and that the spacetime metric g of Einstein is a map from a 4D “classical world” X into its own bespoke 14D “quantum world” Y(X). The quantum data Q(Y) is pulled back or observed as g^*{Q(Y(X))) back on X. No microtubules. No consciousness. Just math. So you have a different theory. A bet. Your bet is that consciousness is necessary for observation. That it is part of the Everything in the misleading phrase “Theory of Everything”. Great! More power to you. No objection. Make that bet. But then you are going to educate me about how I don’t get it. How consciousness is part of the physical substrate. Or whatever. Uh…That’s not going to work. You have a bet. That’s all you have. And you seem to have no idea what a “Theory of Everything” is. Its a term of art Doc. It’s mostly a 1980s declarative marketing branding excercise gone horribly wrong, like calling your chocolate company “Galaxy’s best Triple Chocolate(tm).” If physics were chess, it would be the rules of chess. Not the strategies. Not the games. Not the theory. It’s just the rules. It’s emphatically not EVERYTHING. I’m sorry you got sucked into that. Truly. Now, I’m not sure triple chocolate exists. And I don’t believe you have a theory of everything. Nor do I believe that Roger’s great Twistor program, which I adore, is the missing link. You’re just a competitor. And I think that is great. If you have technical chops out here, explain what you mean. Happy to do it in private also. If you have something to teach, teach. But don’t drag consciousness into physics unless you can prove that it belongs at this layer. And you haven’t remotely done that. And if you succeed at that, I will have been wrong. And will be happy to say so. But you haven’t won yet. You normally don’t take victory laps while the game is being played and you haven’t won. It’s not a great way to meet people. Least of all your competitors. And, honestly, I’m not entirely sure what you are doing on the field. But I’m happy to hear you out. I stand by what I said. Color is not part of what we mean by physics. Wavelength and frequency and photons are. Color is not. And it is important to NOT expand physics to include consciousness unless someone can make that case. Which I am open to hearing. But that is gonna be a tough climb. Sorry.

@TalkativeTri If POE were to drastically reduce one shots then yeah you can slow it down and keep it fun. As it stands one shots are frequent, xp penalty is harsh so incentives are to move fast and clear fast. Tame harsh mechanics or allow giga power creep to continue.

The most frequent response to my more engaging, less screen vomit, smoother progression pitch for Path of Exile 2 is: "Go play Elden Ring, we don't want PoE2 to be souls-like like you." That's not the vision at all. That is a strawman of my opinion - an easy way to "dunk" on me.