Wes Carvalho
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Wes Carvalho
@wescarvalho2
Objectivist, software engineer, aspiring investor. Proud extremist.
Austin, TX Katılım Haziran 2021
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@oscredwin took me too long to realize she's intentionally urging foreigners (visiting the philippines?) to kill themselves
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Loving the Community Note. "Provides important context" indeed
girl@maka_dagat
filipino here! instead of ube, u might actually want to try its alternative — kurot 🫶 almost the same as ube, purple-pigmented but richer, sweeter, and fuller in flavor. in fact, you can eat it raw unlike ube which requires a taxing preparation. foreigners should give it a try!
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@Noahpinion n-no it's fine i just thought it would be more chinese is all
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This fuels my belief that:
A) We ARE living in the Chinese Century, but
B) The Chinese Century is going to be a lot less Chinese than the American Century was American.
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
CHINA IS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS TRAVEL FOR TOP AI PROFESSIONALS IN PRIVATE FIRMS SUCH AS ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING AND DEEPSEEK
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Vegans don’t harangue non-human carnivores so I think they know.
taoki@justalexoki
vegans will look you dead in the eye and ask you what makes humans special like they've got some massive gotcha
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Wes Carvalho retweetledi
Okay so deport them too, fuck it
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
Asking whether immigrants are net takers is a bit unfair, because the vast majority of native-born Americans are also net takers.
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@shlevy > where I count the seconds until someone wins
So are you playing burn or oops all spells?
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Wes Carvalho retweetledi
If you were sent back in time to the Middle Ages, what would you do to support yourself?
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Young man complaining about how a girl who calls him every day and cooks him dinner sometimes refers to herself as “just a friend.”
Husband and I told him: ASK HER OUT
He said “It’s not really a good time to date” because of 2 upcoming months-long bouts of army travel
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@shinboson @seashelljulia I don't think that's the same for the kids, but also this is a society-level recommendation, but IMO the parent-level is the relevant one here.
People mostly have kids because they want to raise someone genetically related. Raising some smart kid != raising _your_ smartest.
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Incredibly hot take but if you have the financial means to do this with your future child you might be morally obligated to do so
Gene Smith@GeneSmi96946389
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
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I think more people would be in favor of immigration if immigrants said, "Thanks for letting us come here. It's a privilege to participate in this society. Let's make it better together."
Instead, they are led by example to say, "I hate looking at white people."
SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma@SubwayTakes
White people should not be allowed to sit on stoops in Bed-Stuy!! @arooj_aftab
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@Lasermazer @shlevy > but it's not clear why this should make it wrong to promote unreason in others
This is a major theme in both Fountainhead and Atlas.
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@wescarvalho2 @shlevy She did talk about how to decide the "essential characteristics" of man in quote below. Reason may be necessary to prolong one's own life, but it's not clear why this should make it wrong to promote unreason in others, or otherwise use them for own ends x.com/Lasermazer/sta…
Jesse Mazer@Lasermazer
@RishiJoeSanu Aristotle's essentialism was tied to notion that essences contributed distinct top-down causality (see his rejection of 'harmonia' view of soul starting p. 326 at ancphil.lsa.umich.edu/-/downloads/fa…), Rand has much vaguer (IMO mostly rhetorical) notions of how to justify essentialism
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Many here have reconsidered religion upon facing the inadequacy of the materialist worldview.
If you find this narrative compelling: are you aware Rand claims she has an alternative, a secular worldview with objective morality grasped by reason, with no faith or supernatural?
Kitten 🐈@kitten_beloved
I get asked about my conversion to Catholicism a lot but always shied away from giving a serious response, twitter just didn't seem like the right forum Today's substack essay is that serious response, enjoy adorableandharmless.com/p/instinct-and…
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@Lasermazer @shlevy It does impinge, but the reason you should care is that you can get more value out of other people by leaving them free than by enslaving them. It's wrong because it's not an effective way to live.
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@wescarvalho2 @shlevy Rand at courses.aynrand.org/works/the-obje… says it's wrong to survive "by looting, robbing, cheating or enslaving the men who produce", but she has no problem with a man using domesticated animals for work, isn't diff that slavery impinges the exercise of reason/freedom of "man qua man"?
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@Lasermazer @shlevy Well, no. She doesn't believe in essences. Her
objectivity of moral truths comes from thinking that there's only one reason you need morality in the first place (to live instead of die). Any possible alternate morality is just arbitrarily made up to some extent.
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@wescarvalho2 @shlevy But she believes in objective moral truths that follow from classification claims, like the idea that rationality is the essential quality of humanity (rather than, say, making art or humor), doesn't this imply claims about essences are objectively true, not just pragmatic?
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@MorlockP The flags will continue until contract law improves.
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Shameful that the US government strips people of their right to sign certain contracts
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84
HOA bans American flags for being "triggering." This is illegal. This violates the 2005 Freedom to Display the American Flag Act. Federal law protects your right to fly the U.S. flag on your property. HOAs can only make reasonable rules on size/placement. Not ban it. If your HOA tries to ban it, heres what to do: Cite the 2005 Act and refuse to comply. Document everything. Send a cease-and-desist via attorney. Your flag. Your right. 🇺🇸
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@Lasermazer @shlevy But that doesn't mean that any classification scheme goes. There are certain distinctions that are necessary for achieving human goals.
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@Lasermazer @shlevy She's pretty clear that she doesn't regard free will as an article of faith; it's something that's directly evident in your conscious experience.
And she doesn't hold the "essentialist" position you're ascribing to her either; she agrees that we choose how to classify things.
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SURELY it's important that she be the most attractive to MEN, not the prettiest to WOMEN
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unfortunately the correct casting for helen of troy in 2026 is sydney sweeney
Maximilien Robes@unclearirony
@goblinodds Helen should trigger the anima, not a polite gold clap for prom queen
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@travis4nh In historical periods of deflation, all else has sometimes (AFAIK mostly?) _not_ been equal. Goods prices have decreased because of rising productivity, not shrinking money supply.
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@travis4nh Yes, I realize money supply changes will cause CPI changes all else equal. But when you say "inflation" or "deflation," people reasonably assume you are talking about the change in CPI measurement, not about one specific cause, even if it's the dominant one today.
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deflation is bad because (a) it makes it harder to make payments on debts - even debts that are good and manageable in the expected monetary environment, thus leading to waves of default and value destruction (the residual claim on a firm's assets <<< value of working firm)
Covfefe Anon@CovfefeAnon
Deflation is good and necessary Our current monetary system is set up in such a way that if deflation ever happens the entire system would collapse This is not an argument against deflation, it is an argument against a maturity transformation based fiat currency system Every actual argument about currency has been settled by the creation of bitcoin - imperial economists pretend that there all kinds of positive features to constant inflation because the Regime needs some intellectual backing but the moment an alternative, deflationary currency appeared it absolutely exploded in value on the basis of nothing but being non-inflationary
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@travis4nh To make matters worse, most people probably don't even make the consumer prices versus money supply distinction, so they're just treating both cases as identical phenomena.
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@travis4nh This is 90% of the disagreement here.
When people say "inflation" (esp. "2% inflation") they're generally referring to CPI, not money supply. When you say "deflation," it's pretty natural to read you as saying "negative CPI" unless you clarify.
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