The satire writes itself in a clown world. I'm a liberal baby, classical. I argue with strangers, and I disc golf with friends. Sometimes that flips. tOSU 2015
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Advice for Struggling Youth
Today: Global VP in the Fortune 1000
Starting Point
1) No trust fund
2) No Influential Friends
3) No Ivy League degree
Challenge
1) Bipolar Disorder
Order Of Operations
1) Work hard, create value
2) Get boss promoted
3) Get promoted
Rinse & Repeat
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This "weed and porn" argument with Basham and others re: libertarianism is going to make me become the Joker. A couple things.
1) It's just viciously unfair to say that libertarians "only" or primarily care about weed and porn and other vices. It's possible that's true of some libertarian, somewhere, but it is not representative of libertarian media commentators, institutions, or political figures. LP presidential candidate @ChaseForLiberty, who is often tarred as some kind of left-libertarian (I think for basically no other reason than he is gay), did not prioritize "weed and porn" over any other issue—he prioritized national debt and spending, reckless foreign interventionism, and other standard, across the board libertarian grievances. Cato and Reason publish tons of material wholly unrelated to so-called vice liberties. I am myself a prominent libertarian commentator, and I certainly do not elevate vice issues more than necessary; most of my focus is on size of government, tech regulation, debt and entitlements, and so on.
2) Uh, yes, we libertarians do want legal weed and porn, in that we do not think government should unduly constrain those things. That's a difference between us and other factions of the right, you got me there.
3) Really this debate, though, is about priorities. If you're saying there are, or should be, more important freedoms to fight for than the vice ones, okay... please explain to me how I can get more economic freedom by just declining to fight for weed and porn at all? Basham et al keep acting like we libertarians are not helping, even though we never fail to come to the defense of the liberties they say we are supposedly indifferent too. Can you prove otherwise? When have we stood idly by while the government was doing oppression and just said, "Well, it's not weed and porn, so I don't care."
4) If anything, it's the non-libertarians who are failing to fight to defend freedom at all. In this moment of total Republican control of government, is the right meaningfully constraining the size of government, freeing the economy, reducing entitlements? Of course not. I don't even say this as some kind of Trump hater, as I am broadly positive about the administration's regulatory approach to tech—and frequently say so!
5) So, like, you're bashing us for not being more enthusiastic about your own failure to fight for the aspects of limited government that you and I both like, and then you're also mad I am at least happy I've held on to the aspects of limited government that I like and you are indifferent to. Why is this my problem?
6) Covid. Covid covid covid. Trump's impulse was to shut down the country and hand the government over to Fauci. Meanwhile, LP presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen declared the pandemic response "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime." That's why I voted for her.
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The Republicans case for midterms is literally this:
Yes we lied, yes we are ineffective, yes we backpeddled on almost everything, yes we are gaslighting you, yes things are getting worse with no end in sight, but if you don't vote for us again you love men in women's sports, you're poor, you love terrorism and you clearly hate America.
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Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when millions of immigrants flooded our shores, no paperwork was required to immigrate. No passports, visas, or work permits. Anyone who could afford a ticket could board a ship, arrive in America, answer a few basic questions, and be on their way.
They could stay as long as they wanted, work wherever they wanted, buy property, start businesses, and basically do anything any American citizen could do. In fact, in most states, they could legally vote in local, state, and even national elections, subject to the same poll tax, literacy test, or other qualifications required of American citizens.
If they wanted to naturalize, they just needed to register their intent and were given seven years to complete the paperwork necessary to become American citizens, which millions of immigrants were proud to do.
Things began to change in the 1930s with the advent of social security numbers, and then more so with the Alien Registration Act of 1940, signed into law as a WWII security measure. When the war ended, instead of being repealed, in 1946 it evolved into what we now call Green Cards.
In effect, we had completely open borders and the country thrived. In fact, during the decades we now call the Gilded Age—the high-growth period that Donald Trump claims he wants to emulate—our borders were wide open. The reason this worked so well is that we had no welfare state. People came to America for freedom and opportunity only. They came to contribute to our economy, not live off it. They did not drain our resources; they added to them.
The lesson is that immigration is not the problem. The problem is the welfare state. Shut off that magnet and America will no longer attract people looking for free stuff. In fact, we need to turn off that magnet for everyone, so those who are looking for free stuff will leave to seek it out someplace else.
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The strategy we laid out brings clarity for users and developers across Cronos. Go check it all out at cronos.com/strategy/
(1) We're naming our trading app @UltApp. Ult is short for Ultimate, the most powerful ability you unlock. Our goal is to give you the most powerful ability to trade: anything you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. Most of what's inside Ult doesn't run on @CronosNetwork, so the old name told traders the wrong thing of what's available in the app to trade.
(2) The first of more tokenomics discussions to come, starting with two proposals. 100% of Ult and Cronos Launch revenue goes toward buying and burning crypto-com-chain:native, and the community burn gets automated. This is just a start.
(3) The mandate for Cronos Labs is clear. Our focus is Ult and products that drive 100% of revenue to crypto-com-chain:native. Every other Cronos Labs project will be sunset over the coming months. Look to each project directly for its own communications.
(4) Some of what developers told us they want:
A clear path to be considered for listings at @cryptocom We're laying out the review eligibility. Token launchpad information comes out this week. Equal treatment for developers on other launchpads, and for tokens that already exist on Cronos Network. We want everyone to win.
Ease of building: familiar EVM tooling and a 24/7 settlement network with key integrations like a direct on/offramp with @cryptocom and Native USDC. Then distribution as Ult grows, for example through token listing and routing once execution quality improvements ship.
This is just the start of much more to come, but we wanted to lay down the foundation. See you on Ult, Thursday September 17th, on iOS and Android available to the world.
Not guilty by reason of insanity for murdering children makes absolutely no sense, and in fact I think it perfectly exemplifies why that plea should not exist at all.
Anyone who would murder children is insane.
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The UK has had basically no growth for two decades and has become poorer than the poorest US state, Mississippi
Will the new government do something serious about that, or will the UK's decline continue?
Entrepreneurs leaving and 3,000 new welfare recipients each day won’t work
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🔥Tuesday I tweeted Mike Johnson would recess Congress until after the election in an attempt to stymie our latest Epstein bill. Johnson went on TV adamantly saying that was STUPID and we’d work every day. Today he announced we’ll recess on Sept 17… until after the election!
“LET ME TELL YOU HOW STUPID THOMAS MASSIE’S COMMENT IS.”
LindellTV's @alisonintheknow asked @SpeakerJohnson directly about @RepThomasMassie's allegation that Johnson plans to keep the House in recess until after the midterms because of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Johnson didn’t mince words:
“Let me tell you how stupid Thomas Massie’s comment is.”
Johnson says Republicans are “here to work” and will remain in Washington throughout September according to the House calendar.
“That is a nonsensical statement by someone who is not participating as a full member of the Congress, and it’s really sad that he doesn’t.”
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Massie named: Jes Staley, Leon Black, Les Wexner, David Copperfield, Lapo Elkann, Tom Pritzker, Glenn Dubin, Frederic Fekkai, Eduardo Teodorani, Jean-Luc Brunel, Daniel Siad, Ramsey Elkholy, Prince Andrew, and Leslie Groff.
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🚨 HOLY SH*T. Rep. Thomas Massie is literally reading the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators LIVE on the House floor:
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Am I the only one who doesn’t understand why we need data centers?
I spent all morning searching Google and Wikipedia and couldn’t find a single good reason. Then I watched a 45-minute YouTube explainer in 4K, but it was mostly about AI, and I’m just waiting for that bubble to pop.
I opened 200 browser tabs, downloaded a few hundred research papers, translated three from Chinese, and uploaded 2TB of sequencing data so colleagues in eight countries could analyze it with me. Then we discussed the results on Zoom while Slack transcribed the meeting and emailed everyone a summary.
Around lunch, my phone backed up 14,000 family photos, synchronized my contacts and calendar across six devices, routed me around traffic, checked the weather using live satellite data, booked a doctor’s appointment, refilled a prescription, paid a bill, transferred money between banks, approved payroll for hundreds of employees, and ordered groceries.
Later, I read about hospitals retrieving patient records and medical scans in seconds, emergency services coordinating disaster responses, scientists designing protein therapies and sharing enormous datasets, utilities balancing the electrical grid, and airlines continuously rerouting thousands of flights.
But these all felt like pretty niche edge cases.
So I asked an AI agent to turn everything I had done that day into a Twitter post, make it increasingly insane and obvious, and optimize it for maximum engagement.
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Yeah stop boo’ing Deshaun! Even if he sucks, gets paid hundreds of millions and is a bad guy. It’s mean to Boo!
Even if AI and data center buildouts are a “bubble” about to burst from a financial investment standpoint, that would not mean that building up massive amounts of machine computational power is a bad thing.
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It’s easy to enjoy the finer things in life. Nice dinners, fancy cars, extravagant vacations, swimming Hapuna beach on the Big Island at sunset.
It’s also easy to enjoy the simple things. A hike through a temperate rainforest. The whirr of a bumblebee or hummingbird near a flower. The first Spring bloom. The sound of your baby laughing. These are the two categories of things that everyone insist you have to savor and enjoy. And I totally agree that these make life worth living.
But everyone knows that. Everyone treasures these things especially because every day on social media you see some influencer or another imploring you to do so, helping remind you of what “really matters.”
What I want to talk about today is enjoying the basic things . The so called “normie” things. Or maybe pedestrian.
I get flack from people in my comments or after I do a podcast where I talk about one of my favorite nighttime activities: watching TV. It’s one that I’ve done for most of adult life on a regular basis and I probably do more of it now than I have in the past. And no, I don’t wear blue blocking goggles - although I have tried and recommended it in the past, and I still do keep a pair around for when I really need to control my circadian rhythm. And I’m not watching history documentaries or avant garde films. More often than not I’m just watching some TV show that millions of others are probably watching or streaming or talking about with their friends at work. I enjoy it, it doesn’t detract from my life or productivity or ability to enjoy other so-called “finer things.” Why wouldn’t I watch TV?
Lots of things are like that.
The happiest most fulfilled people I know are those who appreciate the finer things in life and are quick to stop and smell the roses, but also won’t sneer at something just because it’s popular.
A good heuristic is to never sneer. Sneering because something is beneath you or too popular with the masses is never good look. Things are often popular for a reason, and liking one thing doesn’t preclude you enjoying another, finer thing.
So watch Netflix with your spouse. Catch the game. Go to a bar and shoot pool or have people over for UFC. Watch the art film and the Hollywood blockbuster. Listen to pop music and classic rock. I promise you that it’s better to truly and authentically find joy in more things than to find joy in just a few.
