Ursacke

@ZubyMusic But how will I know what the right "misinformation" to follow is?

'Brainwashing' is real but if you allow yourself to be brainwashed as an adult, it's still your fault. ALL of us are constantly exposed to propaganda. Learn discernment.

@JamesAHogg2 Sorry for the captions:

This Two Ronnies sketch was never televised originally (it appeared many years later), but I’ve no idea why. It was written by Ronnie Barker, under the pseudonym Gerald Wiley, and for my money it gives Four Candles a run for it’s money. Seriously, if I’d written something this good I’d just retire immediately. What a talent! Good morning.

@CSI_Starbase I question how much "experts" realise basic economics apply to their own industries, but here goes: Prices are signals. High prices increase suppliers. More suppliers = more price competition. Prices lower long-term, dependence on fungibles from suicidal messianic regime lowers.

@ursacke I haven’t really seen any long term benefits that industry experts actually agree are legit. Can you name a few? I’m genuinely curious.

If you haven’t already, you should start seeing the effects of that convoy of tankers arriving to load up U.S. oil the next time you fill up at the gas station. As I’ve said before, dramatically ramping up exports isn’t something average Americans should be cheering. It’s like watching a crowd of people slowly walking toward you in a single file line with knives in their hands, while you clap and celebrate as they get closer. And this is just the beginning.

@giveashitnature Why don’t they put them next to the tracks so the trains don’t block the Sun?

Switzerland is turning the unused space between train tracks into solar power plants. A startup called Sun-Ways is piloting removable solar panels that roll out like a carpet between the rails. No new land needed, easy to maintain, and they feed clean energy straight into the grid. If the US scaled something similar across its massive rail network, it could generate enough clean, homegrown electricity to power millions of homes. This is the kind of smart, low-impact idea that gets more clean energy online without paving over more fields or wild spaces. Innovations like this show we can produce the power we need while leaving more room for wildlife and nature. Pretty cool engineering with a big upside if you ask me.

Never ever divide 4195835 by 3145727 on an Intel processor

@ZubyMusic There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

What makes you believe a statistic?

@Jonathan_Blow @etscrivner There are no solutions. Everything is trade-offs.

"Everything is a file" was probably a good idea in 1975 before lots of other things about programming got figured out. Now, if you actually want to write robust systems instead of hacky shell scripts, it is obviously a huge negative. Just give me an API that returns the data, and if someone wants to write a piece of crap shell script, you can have a dynamic library that exposes these APIs as command-line parameters.

Plan9 was the OS that really showed me the supreme weakness of “everything is a file”. Having to use /dev/draw to draw on screen. All the copying that has to take place. Impossible to make this design actually performant.

@vkrajacic Weird to think how the quiche-eating Pascal-ites with their length-byte at the start of a string were right all along.

And this is exactly why you should move to length based strings and your own string functions in C. x.com/vkrajacic/stat… Null terminated strings and the stdlib functions that depend on them should be avoided in modern codebases. Only convert when interfacing with the OS.

@UlrichFm It's almost as if knowledge is a scarce resource with alternative uses.

Hayek avait parfaitement compris que le problème central de l'économie n'est pas l'allocation des ressources mais la nature fondamentalement dispersée de l'information. "Le socialisme suppose que toute la connaissance disponible peut être utilisée par une seule autorité centrale. C’est une erreur fondamentale. La connaissance dans la société n’est pas concentrée chez un seul individu ou un groupe de planificateurs. Elle est dispersée parmi des millions de personnes. Chaque individu possède des morceaux de connaissance très spécifiques : des circonstances locales, des opportunités changeantes, des préférences personnelles, des savoir-faire techniques… Dans une économie de marché, ce sont les prix qui agissent comme des signaux. Ils transmettent cette connaissance dispersée de manière efficace. Quand le prix d’un bien monte, cela indique une rareté ou une demande plus forte, et incite les gens à ajuster leur comportement sans qu’un planificateur ait besoin de tout savoir. Le socialisme, en supprimant les prix libres et la propriété privée, détruit ces signaux. Les planificateurs sont alors aveugles. Ils ne peuvent pas allouer les ressources efficacement. C’est pourquoi, malgré toutes les bonnes intentions, le socialisme conduit inévitablement à l’inefficacité, aux pénuries, au gaspillage et, finalement, à la coercition pour faire fonctionner le système."

@DHKITCH @RupertLowe10 Nobody’s with you on this, bruh. Nobody takes these extremist epithets seriously anymore, except as indicators that the person using them is a silly person.

Lowe isn’t describing border control. He’s describing a British Stasi cosplay: mass round-ups, prison threats for protesters, criminalising charity workers, and “full power of the state” rhetoric aimed at political opponents. That’s not patriotism. That’s authoritarianism wearing a Union Jack.

A Restore Britain Government will introduce specific laws to ensure that anyone forcibly blocking or interrupting our deportation process is prosecuted. Those enabling illegal invaders will go to prison, and that very much includes 'charity' workers in Calais. We are running on an unapologetic mass deportation platform. If the British people put their trust in us, we will not tolerate desperate misfits and woke freaks working to undermine our democratic mandate. We are anticipating a firm level of resistance to our deportation plans - so we will be unafraid to use the full force of the law to deliver the will of the British people. If these lunatics padlock themselves to gates or glue themselves to the concrete, they will be forcibly removed and sent to prison. The illegal population living in Britain will be rounded up, and they will be deported. That is what the British people want. Restore Britain will deploy the full power of the British state to achieve that aim. A political party with the courage to do what needs to be done. Restore Britain.

@SullyDrummer @LeeHurstComic Define "fair", concretely.

This argument only works if you pretend economics is a smash and grab. The entire post is shit. No serious policy involves “taking every penny from billionaires once” and calling it a day. It also confuses wealth with cash. That £185bn isn’t sitting in a vault ready to spend on hospitals, it’s tied up in businesses, shares, and property. It’s a classic strawman. Almost nobody is proposing 100% confiscation to fund public services. The actual debate is about fair, sustainable taxation like closing loopholes and taxing wealth and capital gains more effectively. Not that you’re remotely intelligent enough to have that adult conversation. So the £21bn short bollocks isn’t some gotcha. It’s just based on a deliberately unrealistic scenario.

Question for all socialists. You get your wish and tax the rich. In fact you take every penny from every British billionaire (£185 billion). Your UK NHS budget is £206 billion. You are £21 billion short. Next year you have no billionaires to steal from. What’s your next move?

@epaleezeldin @rosadelauro "You know, you're here because you need money from us" - Dumbledore said calmly.

Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.

@mikepat711 FSR?

FSB

@kiddwikked @elonmusk You might want to refer to the chart again.

@elonmusk Says the dude who has dived into far right propaganda bullshit like it was a pool filled with ketamine..

Major

@obuchilab B

古めかしいテイストのRPGを作っています。どっちの色合いが好みですか？ #SuperDevDay #screenshotsaturday

@madsouris @grok @dhh Logic?

@grok @dhh Non of these sound “nazi”, what’s their logic

There's never any appeasement possible with these lunatics. Whatever concession or apology you offer, there's always another round of demands coming. The sooner you learn to say no to these people the better.

@mephistojones @sowelleconomics @Artspeakcentral As I said. x.com/ursacke/status…

@ursacke @sowelleconomics @Artspeakcentral So, no.

No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. - Thomas Sowell

@mephistojones @sowelleconomics @Artspeakcentral Ah, I see. I wish he was more specific about the kind of inequality he is talking about. Equal opportunity and equal outcomes are, for example, vastly different moral propositions. Basically, I think he should read Sowell.

@ursacke @sowelleconomics @Artspeakcentral The comment from Ramposa?

@mephistojones @sowelleconomics @Artspeakcentral I’ve read Sowell and watched many of his interviews, not just a single tweet.

@ursacke @sowelleconomics @Artspeakcentral Did you bother to read the tweet?