Candle in the Wind

In search of new ideas and better ways of living.

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@xwanyex Women do not seem to have an intuitive grasp of how the criminal justice system should work.

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@xwanyex How about giving parents an extra vote for each child under 18

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@XiXiDu “Free”? Paid for by German taxpayers.

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@captgouda24 @tylercowen Banger tbh

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@memeticsisyphus The counterpoint is that republicans had to say Trump won the 2020 election.

Though I had a sense they all knew it was false, doing it purely for political gain. Trans activists seemed sincere

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@Aella_Girl You’re confused because you aren’t considering two other outcomes, 3) 51% people pick red and you pick red and 4) 51% of people pick red and you pick blue.

3 is better than 4. Picking red means you are guaranteed to avoid the very worst outcome (your own death).

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@xwanyex Totally wrong. Net worth is the metric. Lower head count—>lower overhead—>higher net worth.

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@XiXiDu How are you confident they could pull off a 9/11? You don’t think they’d have done it by now?

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@xwanyex It’s irrational to try to vote based on what is good for the whole of humanity. It’s too difficult to know. Just vote based on what benefits you and let others do the same.

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@WhitTucks This is a larger tax increase (9.9% vs. 4% on income over $1m). Bezos gone. Schulz gone. Starbucks opening offices in Nashville. Blue state populations in decline. Etc.

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More evidence that Anthropic is losing the AI race.

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@MostlyMonkey Harvard lawyer here who married a nanny (now SAHM). (Zero regrets.)

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@RichardHanania Agree that red state policies are better, but isn’t this partly because their economies were smaller in the first place? E.g. China’s economic system isn’t better than the US’s just because it experienced double digit growth for several years.

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@phl43 “No one is talking about the risk that a regime bent on developing nukes might be replaced by a regime bent on developing nukes”

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@tomjohnst0n @phl43 @ZachG932 Who knows if the negative international opinion will last or even matter in the end.

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U.S. presidential elections are like a series of cycling between good cop and bad cop.

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@phl43 @ZachG932 Israel would be better off today if it didn’t retaliate in the aftermath of Oct 7? Bold claim. It’s largely achieved all of its war aims. Not sure how Israel is better off with an emboldened Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran.

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@MostlyMonkey I see we have arrived at a consensus.

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@goodtaxtakes Surprise surprise, he was formerly at Berkeley.

Even better, his next tweet says California’s state income tax is low!

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@MortenStostad Billionaires have already left the state.

“State taxes are low”? California is the highest taxed state in the country.