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Devin
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Devin
@dachesney
Believer in entrepreneurship for development and underdogs. Banana explainer. Capitalism is good actually.
DC เข้าร่วม Ekim 2013
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I love flags, but I heard the algorithm now penalizes them!
David Sacks@DavidSacks
The last of the virtue-signalers have finally dropped the Ukraine flag from their bio. What do you think that means?
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@Noahpinion Mexican coke for everyone would be a genuinely hilarious Trump policy position.
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@Noahpinion They don’t speak English, at all. And Portuguese is really hard to understand even for Spanish speakers.
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What I wonder is why America and Brazil aren't closer allies. Our countries are basically north and south versions of each other. We're a bit richer and they're a bit sexier, but otherwise we're basically the same
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@wanyeburkett It’s a two step maneuver: 1) we over estimate these outlier skills as evidence of generally exceptional intelligence in all realms and 2) there is a big difference between potential intelligence and finely honed skills. The distribution on the former is much more regular.
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@wanyeburkett Incentives not to transparently gouge people and present them with reasonable prices up front might increase. Also might push medical profession to lobby for lower out of pocket costs so they don’t get left holding the bill.
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@TylerAlterman Transcendence is great but fleeting and achieving it is a really long and boring process.
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Sometimes I watch musicians in flow and wonder: how are musicians not the happiest class of people on earth?
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@Noahpinion Prosperous would be a better word than rich. Rich is about social comparison, prosperous is about health, means to autonomy and quality of life.
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Really I just want the whole world to be rich. After that, everyone can have their dumb little culture wars and fight among themselves over memes and pop stars and corrupt politicians and whatever. Go crazy. But until everyone in the world is rich, I have to care about stuff.
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@wanyeburkett They are self righteous busybodies who just can’t admit that driving is usually a better experience than all the alternatives and most people will pay very high costs for it because they prefer it so strongly.
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@AlecStapp It amazes me that people have become so used to hysteria as the only means of climate communication that they actually believe 2 degrees is going to directly kill large swathes of the population.
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I’ll bet you $1 million dollars that 12 percent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona will not die of extreme heat in the 2030s.
Roger Hallam@RogerHallamCS21
12 per cent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona will die of extreme heat in the 2030s. So let's get to work on this one. 654 people died from extreme heat in 2023. Pretty bad. But that's not the stat to look at. It is the fact that death levels went up a whopping 700% in a decade. So get the calculator out - that's 4,500 dying a year in 2033 and 31,000 dying each year by 2034. Depending on how you do the maths, you can predict 180,000 deaths during the 2030s - ie., 12% of the population dies from heat during that decade. There are two take aways here - 1. The maths does not lie - Phoenix will experience social collapse at some point in the 2030s, along with the rest of the world's cities in the new death zones of the planet. 2. People will not believe this because they do not get exponential growth. Of course you could say that this is an exaggeration because the government will respond with adaptation measures. The answer to this is: yes and no. One of the key factors here is how bad things get. Paradoxically, the worse the situation, the more the government will double down on denial and do nothing. While where the situation is 'not so bad', then adaptation measures will be brought in. Read the article and note that protection for outdoor workers is being brought in in the northern states but is blocked in the more vulnerable states. Why is this? Because fascistic tendency hates life and would rather idealise death. If you have a better explanation, then please let us know. Think about why people smoke. And then think about it seriously. The real question for humankind over the next decade is: do we want to live or die? And more profoundly, do we want to love life or hate it? It's not clear at the moment what the answer will be. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
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@asemota If the jury was made of his peers in Texas or Florida, do you believe the result will be the same?
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I am amused by all these takes. It was a very transparent trial and a decision made by a jury of his peers in the same Blue state where he had committed the crimes. Nobody is above the law.
Ben the Seer@MikaelCBernard
Convicting Trump in a blue state just before an election is a very bad idea. I don’t know what brand of weed the dnc is smoking, but this is looking more like a witch-hunt. Undermining strong institutions to get back at Trump is setting the wrong precedence.
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@wanyeburkett This case is the Al Capone goes down on tax evasion of our time.
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Look, if you don't want your political opponents to prosecute you and throw you in jail, and you live in a country with a fair and impartial jury system like the United States, one thing you can do is NOT COMMIT A BUNCH OF CRIMES
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@wanyeburkett Homeschooling is an erosion of the social contract that binds society together. It’s an exercise of privilege that is hostile to the common good as an effort to delink one’s children from the fate of their peers who don’t have the option to do so. I understand why but it’s bad.
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@mattzieger Pretty wild that there is no downward bounce at all during the pandemic! What about the great resignation?!
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My hunch is remote or hybrid friendly roles are pretty life changing for most people. Plus wages are up for nearly everyone.
Eric Soda@EricSoda
A record 63% of US workers are satisfied with their jobs. That’s the highest level ever for this survey which goes back to 1987. Take a look at the spike upward after the pandemic.
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The cringe on this is almost audible. I mean she has the jacket on and everything! Cognitive bias is a powerful thing!
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
“I’m a Minneapolis based pilot for Delta airlines.” “Tell me what a typical workweek is like for you as a stewardess.”
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@TylerAlterman This is an unorthodox suggestion but I just read this book about the mind-body connection and how repressed emotions manifest as pain and it resulted almost immediate improvement for me. Irritable bowels are one of the symptoms they discuss. amazon.com/dp/0446392308
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Esoteric question: I have trouble digesting these days. What internal mode or attitude towards eating/digestion makes digestion go smoothly?
Looking 4 deeper answers than "relax." Eg I'm investigating how digestion is affected by treating food as a sensuous aesthetic experience
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@pitdesi American guy goes abroad for the first time and learns about exchange rates. Adorable.
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In case you were wondering:
Russians spend 38% of their income on food and drinks, compared to 8% in the US.
Does he just say preposterous stuff confidently and dumb people think he's smart?
I have not listened to him before.
Catch Up@CatchUpFeed
Tucker Carlson goes shopping at a Russian grocery store.
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@ArmandDoma The bottom quarter of the distribution is a really dumb place.
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@wanyeburkett Actually it was the high school that produced Vince Young.
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@wanyeburkett This was my high school’s rival school growing up. They couldn’t count but they were sure good at football!🤣
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@gymnast97_meg @MichelleKHOU @KHOU Student at one of the country’s worst performing high schools upset that the coursework is too hard.
GIF
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