Daniel Jones

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[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

This is one of my favorite @ComicDaveSmith clips in a long time, and it's something we should absolutely be talking about more:

Academia is a Ponzi scheme and a gov't welfare program that primarily serves to start kids' adult lives off in debt.

"If Thomas Sowell's or FA Hayek's economics were followed, all of academia is put out of business. So, shocking that academia hasn't valued them as being really intelligent thinkers. It's directly against their incentives."

"Academia is entirely a government program. It's completely artificial. There's no market demand for it...Student loans is a government program....Pick an 18 year-old and walk into a bank and say, 'I want a $200,000 loan,' but for a business, for a house...you'll get laughed out of the bank."

"It's unbelievable there's not one college professor who feels a moral obligation on day one to go, 'Hey, I'm teaching you environmental studies, and they're charging you 200 grand for this degree; you should really think about whether this is worth it.'"

"College is a multi-trillion dollar program. Where did we take that from? Who did we take that from? What else might we have had if we hadn't done this?"

"You've got your kids all going into debt on essentially a welfare program, but who gets the welfare? Not even the kids. The kids just get the debt."

On a personal note, I spent six years in higher education. I got a Masters in Computer Science (CS) from one of the best CS schools in the country. It did not take long once I got out into the real world to see how much more impressive programmers are just in the games industry than in academia. All of CS is just chasing private industry and trying to teach their students what those people accomplished.

• Unix and C++ were invented at Bell Labs
• Java was invented at Sun Microsystems
• The GUI was developed at Xerox and put into mass production by Apple
• Every single tier 1 ISP that laid the cables to make the internet as you know it possible are private sector businesses

I was even studying AI in grad school, and of course the AI breakthrough came out of the private sector when academia was busy fiddling around with dead-end tech demos that would never pass the Turing Test.

College is an outdated model from time when that was where you went to find all the books. Government student loan programs need to be ended NOW, and if you're someone who takes part in the hiring process at your company, do what I did and encourage your company to remove college degrees as a prerequisite for applying. This madness must stop. It's turning all of our kids into socialists because they blame the failures of this system on capitalism because that's what their Marxist college professors who've never worked in the real world told them to blame it on.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Massie: "DOGE never really happened... Elon Musk found it was easier to land rockets backwards and put internet on Antarctica... than it was to get anybody in these two chambers to cut a penny of spending."

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@CynicalPublius He has to say this though, at some point with the humility and gravity associated with war and risking lives he needed to at some point stick to a reason. Even if it wasn’t anywhere near the whole picture. It’s not 4D chess when you say it’s over and it isn’t, x4

[Chrissie Mayr🇺🇸 @ChrissieMayr]

This is perfect and exactly what AI needs to be used for 🥳🤣🥳

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

The end is the best.
This guy sums up what I hear from practically every person I know. Perfectly.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Follow the Constitution.
Read the bills.
Stop governing by emergency.
End the forever war.
Cut taxes & spending.
Stop borrowing trillions.
No CBDC.
Protect free speech.
Repeal the Patriot Act & FISA 702.
No qualified immunity for government officials.
End civil asset forfeiture.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Trump has spent a decade purging conservatism—constitutional, economic, and even social (in the deepest sense of humility and respect for others)—from the Republican Party.

We should take solace in this absolute defeat because it’s a real chance to rebuild American conservatism.

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@ProfRayWills @archcontext The giant turbine would not be evident?
The tiles would have the same colour and reflective properties that the existing tiles do? Reflecting sunlight and the sky so beautifully?

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

It goes without saying that I have major disagreements with both Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed, and neither one particularly likes me.

Rogers and I regularly battled in the U.S. House. I���m a staunch defender of liberty and the Constitution, and he’s a champion of big weaponized government, mass surveillance, and endless wars. He tried (and failed) to oust me from Congress.

When I was considering a presidential run in 2020, El-Sayed wrote a gratuitous op-ed to warn people that “Justin Amash is no hero,” calling my principles “heartless” and finishing with the reminder: “Your enemy’s enemy is not your friend.”

In short, I have no soft spot for either of these guys.

I also don’t vote for “the lesser of two evils.”

I believe you should support a candidate only if you truly want the person to hold that office.

I’ve already voted, and consistent with the above principle, I didn’t vote for Rogers or El-Sayed.

But I do know which one would be more dangerous in the U.S. Senate—and it’s not even close.

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The answer isn’t getting the right person into power.

The answer is limiting power so that the person doesn’t matter.

[𝗚⃪𝗿⃪𝘂⃪𝗺⃪𝗽⃪𝘆⃪ 𝗚⃪𝗻⃪𝗼⃪𝗺⃪𝗲⃪ @Gnome4308]

Every libertarian I know says “End the Fed” and just hopes everyone else just understands.

They don’t. @ComicDaveSmith explains it perfectly

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

First time I've seen a legit infographic of Starship pushing Orion to the moon! They're also already modifying Orion to be able to handle being pushed by Starship. I like that things are being modified to follow common sense and not stuck in the "well it can't do that" as an excuse to do things poorly and compromised.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Correct.

Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.

Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.

Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.

Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.

Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.

SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.

That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.

End of story.

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@AC_Scrowrender @creation247 I think you changed the topic sir.
I was talking about justice and watching the taking of someone’s life. Death as a penalty is very understandable.

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@RealQualityGuy2 @Nicksdankmemes3 You described the problem and then your solution was to not address the problem - ‘we’re a two party system.’
That’s not a good system. Or at the very least, it’s a system that with some small changes might perform a hell of a lot better.

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@AC_Scrowrender @creation247 If your argument is that there’s a law with certain definitions, I make no rebuttal.
But a traitor to what? When a man rapes a woman, he’s a traitor to what it is to be a man - execution? When an adult sexually abuses a child they are a traitor to humanity - execution?

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@AC_Scrowrender @creation247 You’re not witnessing justice though. You’re not witnessing this person restore those people’s lives,or heal th pain they caused,or anything like fixing things. You’re witnessing our brutal & questionable attempt to create some justice. Nothing about it means anyone should watch.

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@creation247 I appreciate that you lent into this more. It’s weird that it’s not simple to people. Justice can be gruesome and regrettable and complicated, and it’s still justice. I wonder what the ideas are that made people ready to respond they way they are

[Daniel Jones @DanielJ69037131]

@creation247 The attitudes towards life in your comments are nuts. I can’t believe my eyes.