Keyboard Chicken

@DefiantLs If you’re my employee and post what she did, I’m firing you because you’re too stupid to work for me. I don’t care which direction it’s aimed at.

Liberal on TikTok: “I made a stupid video about the president, the far right found it and posted it on Twitter, and then got me fired from my job”

@lippyent Small counter top on cheap metal filing cabinets was my desk. I literally had just a bed with no headboard and a small tv until one of my neighbors was moving and didn’t want to take his couch. Every so often I got poked by one of the pins he used to keep the upholstery on.

What cheap furnishings did you have in your first place? Hmm 🤔?¿

@DefiantLs Oh. So that’s his grift. I mean it worked fo Al Gore.

Prince Harry wants you know that climate change is a serious and real issue.

What radicalized you?   For me, it happened back in my freshman year of high school in the early 2000s. The head coach of our hockey team believed in getting the team home to our own beds after road games no matter what instead of staying in hotels. Hotels were a distraction. With no hotel costs, he wanted to use the money to upgrade our road meals. Nothing fancy, just basic meat and potatoes type places like Cracker Barrel or Perkins instead of cold Little Caesars on a dark January bus ride home across rural North Dakota. The athletic director and superintendent shut the idea down and basically just absorbed the savings from his no hotel policy into the athletics budget. So after that our coach, the other assistants, the parents, and us players started fundraising in the off‑season in hopes to get better meals on the road. The first year went great. We raised a ton and were easily able to have nicer sit down meals on every single trip. We all sat together at big tables, had actual food choices, ate healthier and built even more camaraderie. It was fantastic all around. But then other sports teams and parents caught wind. It was seen as unfair. The AD, principal, and superintendent demanded we stop, in order to keep things “equal” across all sports at our public school. They even tried to force our coach to hand over the privately raised money so it could be redistributed. Thankfully, our coach was an old‑school Canadian ex‑pro hockey player who didn’t take shit from anyone, and told them to F off, and we continued with our meatloaf road meals as planned. The principal and AD eventually backed off, but the superintendent had a vendetta against our team and probably mostly just our coach so he never stopped. He even went as low as instructing bus drivers not to take us to the restaurants we’d planned for on the road. Our coach always overrode it, once even driving the bus himself since he had the license from coaching cross‑country. Over the next few years we continued the fundraising for better meals. Some of the other teams, and other parents continued to badger the supt., our coach and even sometime us players about it instead of just joining us in fundraising. Watching peers and especially some of our own “leaders” work so hard to sabotage a positive thing for us was eye opening and really stuck with us. It gave us an early look at how petty and nefarious and systems and people can be, even at the local level. And honestly, in the end, all it did was radicalize about 30 teenage hockey players for the rest of their lives who walked away believing “equality” was the dirtiest word in the English language. 😂

@washghost1 To be fair, they did move to the side at an opportune time at the end of the clip. Where I live, they stay two or three across and have a dozen riders making passing on even straight stretches nearly impossible.

I think this is a lot of people’s pet peeve

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

The official Sarasota County Democratic Party posted this after the Trump ass*ssination attempt This is not fringe. This is the mainstream Democrat Party view Absolutely abhorrent How are we supposed to share a country with these people?

Now this is a move I can unequivocally support. The @splcenter is one of the most malignant and shameless scams I have ever encountered.

@Timcast The best way to stop the government funding corruption, is to stop funding the government.

HOLY FUCK WHAT

@DelusionPosting I guarantee she’s one of those women who says she was raped. And I guarantee he never talks about it.

@AandGShow Aren’t they supposed to be five?

Mom!!!!!!

@dogsmellsgood Now I realize our phones are eavesdropping on us. Or, in this case, reading my thoughts because I was genuinely wondering if it had a name about three hours ago. Earlier today, I was using it to mute an annoying sound and thought to myself, “I wonder if anyone else can do this.”

Holy fucking shit. Finally found the name for it. Im going to cry Ive never been able to explain this to anyone they never know what im talking about

@FoxNews So… you’re admitting you’re incompetent?

BREAKING: "While health care fraud might be President Trump's shiny new political talking point, California DOJ has been going after health care fraud since 1979. For decades." "Trump is late to the party." - Rob Bonta, California Attorney General

@consultnt_a Eating pizza with a fork. Ketchup on a medium rare steak.

アメリカ人はパスタを半分に折ったりピザにパイナップル乗せてイタリア人を怒らせてるけど、逆にアメリカ料理の何をどうしたらアメリカ人はキレるんだろうな ベーコンのしゃぶしゃぶとか、マッケンチーズにケチャップかけるとかか？

@JaxJacksonw1fk @pika_nekopanda I'll add: while it was a heavy emphasis on the "sneak attack", our school also taught the economic factors that led to Japan siding with Germany, specifically the US's oil embargo in an attempt to curb Japanese expansionism.

@pika_nekopanda Perl harbor, coral sea, midway, island hopping, Japanese atrocities, Japanese internment, the bombings of Japan. Lots of emphasis on how hard the Japanese fought, debate if the Nuking was necessary(we expecting over a million casualties invading Japan), tech changes and kamikaze

親愛なるアメリカニキへ質問です。 アメリカでは太平洋戦争を学校でどのように習いましたか？ ちなみに日本での習い方を正直に話すと、空爆や原爆の被害を細かく深掘りして習います。東京、広島、長崎、沖縄の出来事を重く扱います。そして真珠湾に関してはそこまで大きく触れません。

@AndrewCohill @learning_yohei "More difficult to buy a gun than vote." Correct. Unless you meant the opposite. Then, in what way? My state has auto-registration at the DMV and same-day registration at the polls. Also, when buying a gun you need an ID. But not to vote in my state.

@learning_yohei In most states, you can buy a gun in a gun store after filling out a Federal form and passing a background check (which typically only takes about twenty minutes). It is more difficult to buy a gun in the U.S. than to vote, which seems backwards.

映画で、銃を売っている店を観ました。アメリカ人はそこで銃を買っていました。銃は誰でも買えるのですか？それとも免許証みたいなものが必要なのですか？年齢制限などはありますか？🇺🇸🤔

@brockpierson I’m pissed you reminded me it was from 1991.

Anyone here old enough to remember the PC game Lemmings on DOS from 1991?

@reddit_lies Americans were far more altruistic when their taxes were lower. I wonder why. 🤔

"How are you in danger?"

@DelusionPosting I went to my local library and asked for a Stephen King book and now I’m facing 12 years in a forced‑labor camp.

@MamanakisMarty @DelusionPosting Better question: why was there a wall in the first place?