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@drethelin

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If, after reading my tweets, just one human is inspired to say something weird to a friend, or perhaps lick a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

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Remember how when the Matrix came out it seemed kinda implausible that the 90s were the last golden age of mankind?
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I can't believe a literal "It's media" actually happened
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As someone who was born in Russia I gotta say it’s pretty creepy to watch Americans actively dehumanizing millions of Russians right now
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Girls are really into proselytizing therapy lately, really weirds me out
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it was foretold
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Bluechecks hate when the peasants address them
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I think about this a lot. I think you genuinely can’t entirely separate the strong emotions and stubbornness that build good things from the interpersonal consequences of those emotions
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so boeing planes are falling apart because they got rid of bullies there's a lesson in there
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A good time to remember: It's better to own your proclivities, than dissemble about them.
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I think it would really be fun to be Contrapoints roommate and just come home to the apartment transformed into some new kind of gay maximalism every few months
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What if the Fermi paradox is because humanity is shadowbanned
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If I was writing a science fiction story where one of the elements is that a billionaire did this and it worked, I think the approach would be to hire primarily middle aged married guys with kids, let them all also live on the compound, have them train with your kids etc
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It is really funny* that that any mention of potential mail-in ballot fraud has "no evidence" meanwhile the idea that the president is planning a violent coup is happily bandied about by the most officially credible institutions in the media
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For Sale: Aella Bathwater (VERY RARE)
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There are a lot of theories about why modernity lowers birth rates but here’s one I haven’t heard yet: Prussian style education systems with their long, age segregated days mean many people’s exposure to kids is limited to seeing them as annoyances
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It's been a while since I read dune but I feel like the Fremen's advantages in combat would be a lot more compelling if the spice gave them all minor precognition
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Eugenics Is not only possible, it’s in progress. The real question is: who’s farming Americans?
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@eshear I still think you should've streamed the whole thing to twitch
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@norvid_studies The warlike nature of the Frenchmen makes them not scared to wield weapons of cosmic power as tools
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Physical Reality is suborned to the Social Reality created by the Will of the fearless.
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You know I keep that mf egg on me
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I feel like there are a significant chunk of High Verbal IQ guys who, because they innately feel Smart, get insanely bitter when confronted with Math and Engineering that they don't grok
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I don’t need therapy because if I want midwit know-it-all opinions I can just read twitter
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Occasionally people ask "why even be concerned with IQ?" and the answer is because the people ideologically committed to its nonexistence will forcibly put low IQ people in charge of things, if you let them, and act like you're the monster for objecting.
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Nothing to see here. Just the owner of this site doing a little race science while warning that black people's low intelligence will lead to deadly airplane crashes.
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Occasionally people are like “why defend a billionaire” about Elon musk but I say this: he’s worth defending. He’s putting in more time and energy trying to genuinely do cool, important, and impressive things than almost anyone else. Human excellence should be lauded.
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why are they constantly having to explain weird biden camera things
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@jack @getvicarious Bro what the fuck just tell your employees to enable a standard easily usable timeline
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“Of the 6 six people who started PayPal, 4 had built bombs in high school.”
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Some people have a seeing eye dog to help them navigate outside, but what most of us on here need is a Stop Posting Parakeet
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scientists invent wood
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Scientists in Sweden have figured out how to harness solar power, store it and release it on demand in the form of heat decades after it's been captured
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@EYakoby hey have you heard of walmart
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I feel like Scott Adams might be the most sobering demonstration of what happens when a reasonably interesting out-of-the-box thinker gets famous for contrarianism and then gets reshaped by the concomitant interactions into someone completely wack
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The problem with “cancel culture is actually just consequences” is it’s generally the consequences of getting on the bad side of some gossipy bitch
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Clown makeup defeats facial recognition without requiring masks that kill your peripheral vision or bandanas that can easily fall down. In another 3 months all serious protesters will be clowns.
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I think something that leads to a lot of flawed reasoning about crime is nice people imagining what it would take to get them to commit that crime, which, because they’re nice, is desperation or emergencies
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For evil to triumph, all that is required is for good men to respond rationally to incentives.
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I have no choice but to stan
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It's not that children are unaffordable: It's that children + class signifiers are unaffordable.
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Glenn Greenwald literally cannot leave his home without armored cars and armed guards, but I'm sure these other journalists are the real victims out there
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why didn't you make this offer 6 months ago?
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Letter to @POTUS : “Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration.”
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Occasional reminder that most of Bezos’ wealth consists of an incredibly complex economic machine. Thinking it can be productively redistributed to the poorest is akin to redistributing the parts of your car to your poorest neighbors.
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There are 10 million ARs in America. In 2015, there were 252 people killed by rifle. There are 1.1 million doctors. In 2016, there were north of 250,000 deaths by medical error. The average AR is literally orders of magnitude less likely to kill than the average doctor.
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Mass shooters from Parkland to Poway choose the AR-15 because it’s so deadly. It rips through the body with such high velocity that it pulverizes solid organs such as the liver, kidney, and spleen like mini grenades. We must ban the AR-15 as a weapon of mass shootings and terror.
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soon
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LET THE CHILDREN GO
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“Who will do investigative journalism if not the New York Times?” They’re called anime avatar Twitter users and they are braver than any US Marine
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It may not be fair to call someone a fucking idiot because they disagree with you on the minutia of control circuit design or lathe calibration but people who have obsessive attention to detail without contempt for others who lack it are too rare to build civilization with
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Since men have a strong desire for sex, they tend to send propositions to lots women on dating apps, on the off chance it works, it’s all upside. This barrage of low quality interaction drives women away, making the situation worse for all the men. The Tragedy of the come-ons.
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We make people spend their most fertile, horny, and energetic years sitting 8 hours a day in a box being lectured by an incompetent system
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@xsphi health and auto insurance are mandatory so those, a lot of other insurance is less about it being +EV on the money and more about having a middle man who's fighting against their people in a situation like a car accident
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Another related one is after spending 12-18 years in regimented pseudo jail the drive to be free of ties is maxxed out at the worst moment
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this is called a Target and it got burned down
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Studies show that if you include a link in a claim, people are more likely to believe that claim even though 86 percent will never click the link.
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Something I’m thinking about right now is if the nukes end up flying probably none of us will have enough warning to make a smug tweet about it
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@Aella_Girl May I reply to this tweet?
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I feel like there is not enough fiction about what to me is one of the core horrors of Nazism or Communism which is this idea that millions of people, many of whom might've tolerated or even liked you can, over a few years, grow to desire or at least condone your murder.
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What's the concrete harm here?
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Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗
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Next time someone asks me about concrete harms of biases in AI models, I'll send them this 💀
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Absolutely flabbergasted when people are like “how can you defend BILLIONAIRES?!” While they defend the us government which, may I remind you, is a multi trillionaire that spends the money bombing other countries and funding cartels, terrorists, and pointless bullshit.
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I think for me the practical argument for why Nazis and Commies should be allowed free speech is the most compelling one. Enforcers can't be trusted to define what constitutes a nazi or a commie.
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Watching RRR on netflix, really appreciate how every shot of this movie is visually over-the-top in a different way
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@Aella_Girl for educational purposes you should make a gif demonstrating the difference between standing hornily and standing non-hornily
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@hyperdiscogirl maybe the whole thing was AI from the beginning, clippy's first business
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The opposite of a shotgun wedding is concealed marry
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There's a lot wrong with this tweet but it reminds me of something I think a lot which is that seemingly superficial personality is genuinely inseparable from underlying traits.
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Why do they make washers, driers, and stoves with glass fronts but not dishwashers? What are they hiding from us?
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be kind to others you never know what someone is going through
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@anomalyuk I actually got in trouble in kindergarten because I could read and write Russian and my teacher didn’t believe that was real writing
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@elonmusk DRIVE THEM FULL FORCE THE OTHER WAY YOU COWARDS I WANT TO SEE THE COLLISION
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Obviously you have drones and cameras and stuff also to increase the effective strength of your limited manpower But even just a dozen trustworthy men with rifles will get you defensible enough for most post apoc situations I think
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Teachers are like the epitome of a run-away memetic takeover of society ever since the 1800s, they have this narrative of being the gatekeepers of all knowledge and therefore of success and people bought into it enough that many worship “education” regardless of content/tradeoffs
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One of the things that I dislike about prison abolitionism is once you've stopped caring about all these crimes why do you care if the cops do them too prison is bad? get over it.
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The best builders have a mixture of frustration at the inadequacy of the world and intense joy at actual achievement and especially collaboration
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You can have free speech, as long as you don’t have a family, job, or house that can be easily threatened.
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@ritholtz doomsday clock is literal made up nonsense, calm down
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You can write a tragedy in six words, that's pretty cool. I can write a dystopian future in one URL:
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The thing about modern weapons and training is that a 40 year old man with a defensible vantage point and a rifle can take out a huge number of plausible raiders, physical strength not needed in the same way you’d need for say, defense of your Roman counter estate
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All Incels are descended from the first virgin, Cain, who killed the Chad Abel for being beloved of god.
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This is a common error communists make. They fail to recognize that giant companies literally represent the will of the people. Exxon is not burning billions of barrels of oil by itself for fun. All the things people want gas for still exist even if you guillotine their CEO.
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Just a reminder: The vast majority of people bare NO responsibility regarding climate change. 71% of carbon emissions stem from just 100 companies - The average person's personal behavior bares no consequence on climate change. We can't end the crisis by recycling more.
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In 20 or 30 years documents will be declassified revealing a plethora of bluechecks were paid by the CIA.
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I wonder how many people realize that the claim that Trump tried to do a coup is literally a conspiracy theory?
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A lot of people say "Don't Read the Comments." But actually, you shouldn't read the articles either. Most don't realize this.
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Romance is not a competition to see who can hold the most power in the relationship, it's a collaboration to see how hard the relationship can flex on the rest of society
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anyone can draw a fuckin doodle of train routes on a map but no one wants to spend the trillion dollars to make it happen. "we" is fake and Elon Musk realizes that if you want to make change you have to do it in a way that doesn't require collaboration of entire governments.
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When people freak out over the Cybertruck like it’s some sort of next level innovation... we could be doing so much more as a country. People need to dream bigger.
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In addition to 5 days a week of actually being in school we somehow allow them to assign an unconstrained amount of homework
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completely losing my mind over this courtroom sketch of ghislaine maxwell staring straight at the artist and drawing them right back
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The extensive firearms training that Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry have done makes me want to see an action comedy where someone tries to kidnap a celebrity action star only to find out that their dedication to roles was serious enough that they became legitimate action badasses
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I do think the idea that technical competence is signaled by assholery is probably too popular among online assholes though, particularly ones who don’t actually build
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Being unable to do basic addition but able to do important proofs is actually classic mathematician behavior
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Am I hallucinating that a year ago this thing couldn't do basic addition?
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otherwise I just think "being good at knife fights and fanatically devoted to paul and surviving in the desert" would really not carry that much weight in conquering a galaxy
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This is a good book @RealGDT
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Set up life in the compound to be relatively egalitarian to minimize resentment, maybe have root access to the computerized security systems, but otherwise I think if you work had to build the system out of good soldiers/engineers there won’t be much to gain from couping anyway
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I say Houston should own it, take this opportunity to become America's Venice and start a serene trading empire that lasts 1000 years.
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Men will literally invent an entire imaginary medical profession based on their hunches and obsessions and call it “therapy”
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Not only would it make them hard to beat in a swordfight it would make squads of them insanely effective since the cumulative effects of ALL your guys being able to react to stuff before it happens and trust each other to do so would be huge
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As far as I can tell it only gives them all blue eyes which is the least interesting aspect of Spice! There should be more going on with the fact that they literally live on Spice Planet
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@Bernstein He’s not wrong.
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People always post memes about how new mass shooters were on the FBI’s radar already but I just gotta remind you that you REALLY do not want to live in a world where being on their radar means you get preemptively arrested I’d much rather live with mass shootings than the NKVD.
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