Dominic Weber

Optimise literally everything.

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@IITheOneandOnl1 @bgeschob3n @TheMasterGregor Habe xps-Platten zugeschnitten und mit ablösbarem Kleber beidseitig angepappt. Gibt auf reddit einige gute Beispiele.

[aidan l. coyne ✝️ @raptros_]

I was informed about car seats today

> new safety law is announced
> I ask the lady if it's actual safety or just rent seeking
> she doesn't understand
> I pull out diagram explaining what is safety and what is rent seeking
> she laughs and says it's good safety sir
> look inside
> it's rent seeking

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@rominwins @tleilax___ Robots don't pay taxes.

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@lars_garr @AStratelates @MikeySante58410 Correct. Which is why the 2-5% is a good base rate to do a closer look on, as it's a screening tool, not a diagnostic, unlike the amnio.

[China Uncensored @ChinaUncensored]

I knew the narrative warfare against Taiwan would be ramping up. Expect to hear more of this. It will boil down to “the US should abandon Taiwan.”

It takes years and about $20 billion dollars to make a semiconductor fab. So even if you—mistakenly—think the only value of Taiwan is semiconductors, then no, Taiwan is not 18 months away from losing strategic value.

But then there are all the other increasingly important strategic reasons Taiwan is important.

-If China captures it they’ll have broken the first island chain and be able to project power throughout the Pacific (they’ve already been creating undersea maps for submarine warfare as far as Hawaii and even Alaska).

-China will become the dominant power in the Indo-Pacific gaining control of $5 trillion of shipping going through the South China Sea

-the entire region will see that US defense guarantees are meaningless and will have to capitulate to the CCP. South Korea is already dangerously compromised. But what will happen to Japan, the Philippines, India?

-the US will have abandoned one of Asia’s largest democracies to an authoritarian regime that is already talking about committing genocide on the Island

That’s just a few of the reasons Taiwan is not EVER losing its strategic importance, especially not in 18 months.

Stay on guard! As we get closer to a potential CCP invasion of Taiwan, we’ll be hearing more and more voices calling for the US to abandon Taiwan. Know better. Counter the psyop.

[Sam @Dollarydoos_]

Put another way: people are not nearly enough cognisant of the fact that they are going to die. Like, really, actually, lights out die. You should be memento mori maxxing whatever your station in life.

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@FreshFifth @Robotbeat Are you saying grok is suggesting chemtrails? 🤯

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@SecondA16110022 @aut0m8d They probably are ok and show a significant relative risk increase (~2x) but the absolute risk is still small in most cases. https://t.co/ph2ILm7LB3 puts it into perspective quite well.

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@alyssaleann As the man in a relationship with someone who ticks most of your boxes, I think you've given me a great peek into her perspective and I really want to thank you for this.

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@calleyme11 @westerncitizens @DominiqueCAPaul If you work more than a minimal amount of 8 hours/week, employers do pay UVG. https://t.co/RX8KqmxVsj

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@CancerCultureX @Harlekin1980 @aktienmessie Was zum Fick ist diese Darstellung. Ohne Sinn.

[wanye @xwanyex]

There’s a moment that happens to new parents, probably around four in the morning, when you’ve been up all night with a sick kid, and they’ve just thrown up again, and you’re so fucking tired and frustrated, but it’s outweighed by the sympathy you feel for this helpless dependent, and most of all you just want them to feel better, and then it hits you that this is what your mom did for you, and in that moment you understand your parents in a new way, fully comprehend what they did for you — like, you really get it, way down in your stomach, not just in the abstract way that anybody can understand what parents do for children — and you realize that from now on you’re always going to see things from the perspective of the parent, not as a child, and a lot of your complaints and hangups and neuroses will melt away, never to return, and from now on the stories you’ll tell about your childhood, stories you’ve told 1000 times before, will have a slightly different character, will be based on a fuller understanding of who you are and what actually happened to you, and you’ll think, “my God, in all those years of childlessness, I’ve cheated myself of this realization, of this opportunity to understand the world as it really is and move on.”

And if you’re childless and reading this, then maybe you’re thinking, “sure, but obviously I can intellectually understand this without having children of my own” and it’s just, like, no, probably not.

It just doesn’t really work like that.

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@vxunderground @drakvaar It's called *serial* for a reason smh 😤

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@jaroondee @sovietsoleri Throwing it with the carrier would probably be harder.

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

“The problem is opportunity cost, not cost, and if you cannot understand the difference you cannot understand the problem. Parents are poorer relative to their childless peers, relative to where they themselves would be had they not had kids.

If the problem was pure “cost,” then child grants would help immensely—they would make children more “affordable.” But we know from countless schemes the world over that they move the needle slightly, if at all.

This is why poor Americans can “afford” more kids—their earnings are lower and so are the opportunity costs of bearing and caring for children. The middle class strivers bear the brunt of the pain here: their time is money, and for the upper middle class, it is good money. These are the women who delay as long as possible, and have fewer children than they would like.”

Great read from @SarahTheHaider

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@HanneGrape @la_divafabula @Mosquito1835139 Du willst nicht unbedingt unser System kopieren, denke ich. https://t.co/Wcr7RBjy96 Wir sind auf Platz 2 der OECD bei den Ausgaben, 1.5x über dem Durchschnitt. DE folgt auf 4. https://t.co/8ip2xRPd6N

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@NukaRhyPiratin @wegscheiderin Beim Bäcker grossen Sack Weizengluten kaufen. Kommt beim Selbstmachen inklusive Gewürze dann auf ca. 5/kg.

[🐝🇬🇷 @bee_fumo]

someone traced the all the non profit grants for the age verification laws

https://t.co/ztYu0Lz6rr

[Dominic Weber @AppliedHedonism]

@_EnergieReal @SimeonPreuss "Aber das dauert doch 30 Jahre, bis die dann ans Netz gehen!"