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@TankDerek

'You've got some sort of mystical grandmaster thing going on.' Cybersecurity / National Defense

Seattle, WA, USA, ᐰ เข้าร่วม Ağustos 2011
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Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@adam_menszer @seconds_0 Energy? It’s massively more energy intensive to ship things by truck than by boat. Our rail networks are already maxed out and we aren’t building more due to land use restrictions. And only a few commodities can be shipped by pipeline
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Adam Menszer
Adam Menszer@adam_menszer·
@seconds_0 I keep hearing about the Jones act, however isn't rail/trucking/pipelines vastly better in the US? I'm not sure I see the value in repealing part or all of the Jones act. I read your post, but I can't make the math work.
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0.005 Seconds (3/694)@seconds_0·
The Jones Act has 4 requirements: Vessels must be U.S. built. Vessels must be U.S. owned. Vessels must be U.S. crewed. Vessels must be U.S. flagged. The crippling part of the Jones Act is that U.S.-built U.S. shipyards, for a variety of reasons, are incredibly inefficient. We don't have that many of them, and they cost about five times what a ship from South Korea would cost. As a person who actually believes in trade, I fully would love for South Korea to become our US shipyard. We just buy ships from them because they're good at making them. Coastal water transport in the U.S. could be 60% cheaper. Because of the Jones Act, it's actually cheaper to ship goods from the U.S. to a foreign country and back to the U.S. than between two ports, which is completely bonkers insane! As a byproduct, we have killed all of the growth within the Mississippi, which should be the most powerful inland economic advantage in the world. Maintaining the requirement of U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, and U.S.-flagged is perfectly fine and in line with my general national security concerns, but U.S.-built has destroyed our shipping industry. There's tens of billions of GDP lying on the table here, and a direct step in reducing our dependency on foreign suppliers. It's also how you kickstart rebuilding an American shipyard industry. If you 10x the number of U.S. ships working in ports, you start building all of the maintenance businesses at U.S. ports, and the demand increases. The U.S. bill requirement of the Jones Act is horrifically destructive to America and, in particular, horrifically destructive to middle America, and it should be destroyed.
Xx_Towel_xX@isqueezetp

@seconds_0 @MarysRoommate you want foreign vessels in our inland waterways?

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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@besttrousers More of an International Studies 211: An Introduction to Geopolitics in the Middle East
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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@VirilityMaxxed @GBBranstetter The 2001 and 2002 AUMFs did not provide the President carte blanche to invade anyone they want. The 2002 AUMF applied to Iraq (and has been repealed) and the 2001 AUMF only applies to forces affiliated with al Qaeda (such as the Taliban)
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Virility Maxxed@VirilityMaxxed·
War Powers Act and AUMF of 2001 have changed things. See Biden, Obama and Bush admin. All continued or started new “wars” without declarations of war. For a fair treatment: “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Obviously we have laws in place for background checks and certain restrictions on who can purchase what.
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Gillian Branstetter
Gillian Branstetter@GBBranstetter·
Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement
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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@KyleWOrton It was hardly an elected government by 1979. The Shah eliminated every political party but Rastakhiz in 1975 and the state was trending towards autocracy, not pluralism
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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@SOPHONTSIMP I’ve worn bowling shoes worn by hundreds of people, which seems roughly as gross tbh. If the face pads were wiped down between use I don’t see the issue
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GOON MASTER SOPHONT SIMP
GOON MASTER SOPHONT SIMP@SOPHONTSIMP·
This kind of setup is still incredibly expensive.
JShodanVR@JShodanVR

I don’t understand. This stuff is real, it exists, you can actually buy it, and yet the VR market is almost dead. What happened to the kids in the 90s who dreamed about this possibility? Why do modern kids now go crazy for games where you don’t really do anything, where at most you just swipe up and down, or spend their time screaming in stupid games that require no concentration, like amoebas with no curiosity? This stuff finally f***ing exists, and yet the videogame market pretends it’s invisible. F***! F***! F***! In 1998, when we were 13 playing Resident Evil 2 on the PlayStation with my friends, we would have killed to be able to play something like this. Credits: @VirtuixOmni here’s their YT channel: youtube.com/watch?v=Evyjom…

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Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@gvvenk @StLouisVI @micah_erfan The US did not impose a government upon Iraq. The constitution was drafted by Iraqis and the first parliamentary elections were held less than 2.5 years after the invasion. The civil war was literally the last thing the US wanted
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Gvvenk@gvvenk·
@StLouisVI @micah_erfan How stupid are you? The US forces invaded country and forcefully imposed rule on the people and set up a civil war by intentional incompetence. The US and Israel destroy countries: Libya, Iraq, and Syria. Millions have died. And, the countries are destroyed.
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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@dcwuser @dilanesper @DavidAFrench Yeah, the freedom of religion argument doesn’t really make sense to me (couldn’t this also rationale apply to state vaccination mandates for school attendance? The court has upheld those before). States have pretty broad police powers
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David Wright
David Wright@dcwuser·
@dilanesper @DavidAFrench I’m against the policy but I honestly don’t understand why it’s unconstitutional. I can’t see any clause in the constitution that could be read as forbidding it.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
One big thing about tonight's ruling regarding trans kids-- even if you read the dissent, it's fairly clear that the parents were eventually going to win on the merits, and very possibly 9-0. There's no dissent arguing "actually California should be able to do this".
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montag@impossible_eng·
@AlanMCole People also use "price point" for "price" now (I hate it).
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Alan Cole
Alan Cole@AlanMCole·
I was gaslit about this. They all said "no, we only use 'face card' as a metaphor for a credit card and your face gets you (or doesn't get you) stuff, especially in the phrase 'face card declined' or similar." This was simply a lie. I was right. They use "face card" for "face."
Alan Cole@AlanMCole

Good zoomer slang: "crashing out." It's just very evocative and intuitive. Bad zoomer slang: using "face card" to mean "face." This doesn't do anything! It doesn't help!

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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@Viamgold @BIMBOSATTVA_ Most colleges have actually been slightly biased in favor of accepting men since at least the late oughts, because far more women apply to college than men nowadays
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Joseph Mama
Joseph Mama@Viamgold·
@BIMBOSATTVA_ No actually I’m upset because I’ve been second in line for every college acceptance, scholarship and job opening in my life to women who do this instead of working
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→prudence／／🌲❤️‍🔥・
→prudence／／🌲❤️‍🔥・@BIMBOSATTVA_·
People, not just men and women, reacted so negatively to this for the same reason; these are normal healthy happy people who are attractive and were probably popular growing up and they have good educations and come from good home lives and now work good jobs... Spite
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Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸@portraitinflesh

I remain deeply baffled by the backlash generated by this video. The very worst you can really say is that it's a bit irritating, and even that's a bit of a stretch, for a silly bit of fun less than twenty seconds long. Yet a non-trivial number of men react with deep, fiery rage.

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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@jakehalloran1 @BarneyFlames The late 90s, pre-9/11 budgets were marginally slimmer. But it’s shocking how much money we were burning during the Cold War compared to today
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Jake Halloran
Jake Halloran@jakehalloran1·
@BarneyFlames *gestures* all of this is paid for by the smallest military budget as a share of gdp since ww2 lol
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Total NIMBY Death
Total NIMBY Death@BarneyFlames·
Third worldists don't understand that all of America's vast war machine only costs 3% of GDP. If you make $100,000 (comfortably above average), you pay a mere $2000 annually towards the military.
Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️@InezFeltscher

Obviously this is bad faith but even in good faith these comparisons always irritate me. Superficially and theoretically, yes, there’s a choice between guns and butter. But in reality, that’s not the choice at all. The reason we haven’t fixed LA homeless has absolutely nothing to do with anything foreign-policy related. It’s a choice. We spend gazillions of dollars (much more than on our military) “at home”. The problem isn’t that we don’t spend enough on butter because we buy too many guys. It’s that our butter spending is retarded and counterproductive at best, actively pernicious at worst. There are a ton of programs that we pay for that are so damaging, I’d literally rather light the dollars on fire on the White House lawn.

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rohit@krishnanrohit·
To christen 2026 SpaceX should go public by merging with Tesla, once they're done buying out xAI
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Thag Simmons
Thag Simmons@d_h_sanders·
The word “enshittification,” initially a provocative and exciting term to describe a novel phenomenon, appears to be going through some kind of process where its quality declines as people recklessly modify its usage to score cheap discourse points.
Seth Harp@sethharpesq

Enshittification is most intense at the airport. Every crew is a skeleton crew. Digital systems are brittle. At every step you’re tagged with a fee. You’re the target of relentless advertising and surveillance. The surrounding are dirty. The food is garbage. The air is unclean.

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Arpit Gupta
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage·
@ernietedeschi Now we are all French
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Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@DufourZane5941 @mattyglesias Hmmm, can’t say I agree. The former is about defiance of common sense as means of drawing a line between yourself and the rest of society. The latter is about stoicism in the face of uncertainty about your place in the world.
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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@gikogently @teortaxesTex Yeah, they might have a big signing bonus but they’re ultimately still GS employees. He’d have to be a GS-15 to be pulling 200k (he’s definitely not)
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DQN SUPERSTAR@gikogently·
@teortaxesTex I think he's baiting the minnesodomite (said affectionately) I think their base pay is ~80k with a signing bonus and an additional student loans forgiveness (if theyre gov owned) For a job where you can get shot by a drug runner or hit w/ a brick from a lib its a "fair" comp
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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex·
Do Americans even understand what's going on here? These people are scum who'd go to low-paid menial jobs or straight to jail if the regime that has need of them falls. With Trump, they've won a lottery. This is Oprichnina. You've never had something like this.
ALX 🇺🇸@alx

ICE: “I love my job. I can't believe I get paid for this. I’d do this for free.” PROTESTER: “I get $200k. I’m a physician assistant.” ICE: “How long did you have to go to school?” PROTESTER: “7 Years” ICE: “I only went to high school and I make $200k.”

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Derek Tank
Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@gzcl3000 Tbf, he was probably middle class by the standards of the time but definitely poor compared to most people today
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Derek Tank@TankDerek·
@gzcl3000 David Hume is the working man’s philosopher
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