Jason Mill

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@S77745Kimberlee @DefiantLs Conservatives: fraud is bad, let’s expose fraud

Conservatives: here’s fraud in Blue States, bad!

Conservatives: here’s fraud in Red States, bad!

You: will MAGA say anything about fraud in Ref States?!!!

You don’t know you’re dumb, do you?

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@paulg Which of the professions on the list does the view of republican leaning respondents strike you as incorrect or even less correct than the Democrat leaning view of said profession?

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@preta_6 @drannamedical You're being perfectly clear Amy. People pretend not to understand things so they can continue sniping.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

Yes but it's not on account of you telling the one that the other one gave a different response, only that it's being told to rethink at which point it may employ a different reasoning model, cross check, or find an internet source vs previously just replying based on the model parameters.

It's quite common for an AI to immediately revise it's statements whenever the user happens to know it got something wrong and tells it so or asks it to check again, confirm something, etc.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@brycemalcom @BrianAtlas That is the literal definition of assault. I promise you that you don't have to be dumb. Just try a little harder. I believe in you. You got this.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@magills_ The last thing legitimate trans people need is disordered white females trying to speak for them, advocate for them, or trying to help them.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

"As the grandchild of immigrants, I can tell you they are not the problem"

This is rather specious, you being a descendent of immigrants imparts you with exactly zero special ability to know that immigration generally, in the present day, is not creating any problems or that all immigrants "give back economically more than they take".

It's that last part that's the key to Milton Friedman's claim and how it must be analyzed in the present under the current socio-economic and political circumstances.

Friedman was referring to something like open borders wherein anyone can just show up and get access to resources provided by the State. Not only direct welfare but also government services, education, healthcare, housing, etc.

Exactly because the Federal and State governments now spend so much on public services (which every person has access to, before even considering direct welfare and social safety nets) it's not automatically clear that any given person, newcomer or otherwise, creates more value than they consume.

In the distant past, government spending per person was very minimal therefore almost everyone who was as least minimally productive was a net positive. The mere fact of existing was probably a value creation in that some family member had to work extra to feed the person because there were no handouts.

That is not the case anymore. Society as a whole is a net negative now, which is plain in that despite obscene levels of taxation the government still runs massive deficits. And when the population overall is a net negative, then increasing the population makes it more negative unless the people added are well above average and well into the positive territory.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

No, what some of us are skeptical about is the removal of purpose, motivation, drive, and reward in a world of such abundance and the provision of goods, services, and resources without the need to earn access to them. It’s fine that some things might become so inexpensive or that some types of labor are done by robots but if most humans don’t need to do anything then we will have serious issues to contend with. Issues so serious they could lead to our quick extinction.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@gmiller @elonmusk It’s fascinating how little the vast majority of people understand about the human need for purpose.

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

There is a story that gets told about American healthcare -- The story goes like this: American healthcare is uniquely broken, uniquely inequitable, uniquely cruel to the most vulnerable. Our peer nations have figured out what we have not. Only problem: the story is made up.🧵

[Jake Lundahl @LundahlHorses]

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.

In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.

Absolute legend.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Since Trump took office, over 352,000 Federal employees have been fired, resigned, or retired and were not replaced.

The Federal workforce is smaller today than at any point since 1966.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@NaoSouONight @PicturesFoIder Maybe he did and then got up to summon the official for her?

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@k_k_ram @PicturesFoIder Maybe he did? The result would be the same either way, she's at the table already and game is about to start so she likely doesn't have time to run off and give it to someone. Solution is the official takes it, she plays, she gets it back later.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@garyseight @dom_lucre And that, shows how little you know.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@Quiqero @PicturesFoIder React like what? He took her phone, gestured with his hands seemingly to indicate all is well, then walked away.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@Ethereal_Tweet @PicturesFoIder Maybe but they're commenting about **this** video and his actions therein.

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@MattWardel @Ambar_SIFF_MRA Thanks for coming out, Matt. If someone asked you what color the sky is would you respond by saying the moon orbits the earth?

[Jason Mill @JasonMill]

@Heavens29180332 @PicturesFoIder That was being kind and amenable. Once she took her phone out and it was known/seen she had it then it's a clear rules violation. He graciously accepted her request for the selfie then called an official over to take her phone so wasn't in violation. She's gonna get it back.