Jolls @EconEngineer

@RichardHanania Because of free markets period. Not mass migration.

@DissentFu @exhale603156241 Oh great comeback

If humans were to adopt monkey economics, we too could enjoy the luxury and wealth of monkey civilization.

bug girl @buggirl

a day ago

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

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not me, actually I want purpose / meaning WITHOUT public acknowledgement ; I actually find status and acknowledgement anxiety producing and uncomfortable ("status and acknowledgement" = eye contact)

critter @BecomingCritter

23 hours ago

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This isn't right... Republican voters have an orange return envelope for their ballot. Unaffiliated voters have an purple return envelope. If someone wanted to tamper with ballots, this makes it easier... Why not just use the same return envelope for everyone?

@buggirl That's why we are better than monkeys

Bill Maher’s guest claims “we learned” Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, and the conspiracy theorists have “moved on.” Maher pushed back and predicted the audience would be split “50/50” on it. Then he actually polled them and was left completely stunned. IAN BREMMER: “He did actually kill himself. We learned that, right?” MAHER: “We don’t know that.” BREMMER: “Well, I mean, they’re not talking about it. The conspiracists have moved on. We got a letter.” MAHER: “Well, I bet you if I polled the audience… it’d be about 50/50.” [Maher polls the audience] MAHER: “How many people think it was a suicide? That he killed himself in prison?” [Room goes quiet] MAHER: “Nobody. Nobody!!” BREMMER: “There was one person right there.”

@TheBritLad Godspeed to our British brothers and sisters

Net worths of politicians whining about Elon Musk’s fortune from SpaceX: 🔵 Ro Khanna: $250+ million (inherited) 🔵 Gavin Newsom: $30 million 🔵 Elizabeth Warren: $12 million 🔵 Bernie Sanders: $5 million (plus 3 houses) A bunch of virtue signaling hypocrites.

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward. I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress. When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment. Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks. They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around. Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits? The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

Danny Bernstein @bernsteind

2 days ago

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics. this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

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Here is a story about a group of students who fundraised and worked for an entire year to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to speak at an event: "We were a small college club with around 10 members and on a whim one of our members emailed tyson's agent to see if we could book him. We found out it would cost 40k (it raised to 50k in December of that year where I think it still might be) for his speaking fee plus expenses to have him come to our college for 1 day where he'd host a small lecture, a press meeting, dinner with up to 6 people, and the main lecture and a book signing time permitting. We decided to go for it, and spent a year where our club exclusively worked on bringing him in. When he arrived, myself and others introduced ourselves and our fields of study. He went after first of us in humanities or soft sciences pretty much relentlessly from the get go. We're all used to the philosophy major working at McDonald's joke, but he wasn't trying to be funny, and spent the ride from the airport making repeated comments about the uselessness of our majors. Additionally he spent about 5 minutes trying to show that logic was stupid but he was citing logical rules and Occam's razor. The small lecture was him bragging about how famous he was, and how easy it is to pull yourself out of poverty or etc. The dinner was for leaders of other clubs so helped us raise money. He took the piss out of how one student held her fork, and was impossibly smug when giving advice to physics students. The main event was a terribly boring lecture consisting of fart jokes and fan service; teasing the upcoming TV series he was in and not much else. He spent a quarter of the time reading Sagan's blue dot, which is nice but shouldn't have cost us because it wasn't his material. He left at about 2am, and we were all exhausted because we had spent the day busy setting up and tearing down. The whole affair cost nearly 85k. The additional money being for locations, personnel, air fare, Tyson's hotel, catering, etc. We all decided he was an ass hole. I'd never want to spend 16 hours with a celebrity again." From another member of the same group: "Neil deGrasse Tyson, who came to our university, gave a crappy speech rife with lame fart jokes, was rude and disrespectful with the people who organized the event (there were a couple campus clubs working on it for about a year). He equated one of the group's member's philosophy major as a degree in mental masturbation. We were so pumped to hear a talk about the universe, astrophysics, black holes and dark matter, and instead he gave a speech on debunking lame pop media science misconceptions such as the "supermoon" because the organizing club is known as a skeptic/secular humanist society. He then basically said he did us a favor and that we "owed him one" for that. He delivered a private lecture to our group and members of the campus physics club in which he realized he had said something witty, whipped out hsi iphone, and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to come up with the perfect wording for it to post it to his twitter. In the middle of a lecture we spent a year's work and $55k total to organize."

Andrew Côté @Andercot

2 days ago

I think Neil de Grasse Tyson just plain sucks. He has none of the depth of Carl Sagan, none of the humility Hawking, nor scientific accomplishments. He is a gotcha sound-byte narcissist, an absolute dead weight to society, he just fucking sucks

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I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.

Elon Musk is hording a trillion dollars in a giant looney toons vault instead of doing something useful with all that money. He could be funding my trans communist poetry slam or my furry porn drawings. BUT NO!

AOC must issue a correction! 🤣

The same government that funded bio labs around the world that brought you bangers like COVID-19 and Lymes disease is here to protect you from powerful LLMs.

If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace. Instead it’s radio silence from the media

@NickKnudsenUS I'm sorry you're retarded

We hear it as consumption. But it's almost all for allocation. This is a huge issue we need to get past. Name anyone you would rather see allocate 1T+. Well done.

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

2 days ago

Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.

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@SenWarren You could give “the typical American” 11 MILLION years and they still would not create PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, Neuralink, Boring Company, Ad Astra, all while single-handedly saving free speech for all mankind.

@Purespinor @BobMurphyEcon @___TheGOOdWitch I like evolution but I'm pretty sure it hasn't been recreated in a lab setting