Mercer Lawrenson

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@gregorrobertson Let the market set the price.

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@sarahhepola Yeah, If I have a spare or a patch I can fix it.

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@simonsarris My wife last night

[AJ Olding @AndrewOlding]

I'm pretty confident that the people who use "retard" as an insult are much less likely to kill a baby for having Down Syndrome than the people offended by the use of the word "retard".

[Bryan Breguet @Prominent_Bryan]

Raise OAS eligibility to 67
Claw it back much, much sooner
Asset test it (including primary residence)

Use half the savings to boost GIS for actually low income seniors (maybe expand the eligibility)

Use the other half to reduce the deficit

Join my movement

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@Elliesmommyy23 These baby faces come from not seeing enough work in the sun.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

re: frugality discourse, I made less than $70K post college, packed lunches, had roommates for 8 years in order to save lots of money. Then I bought land and built a house with savings. The anti-avocado toast boomers were 100% right. People are *completely* against tradfeoffs.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Nice to see the tables turning a bit on this one

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

A 5-gallon water cooler jug of water produces about $132 in economic output from data centers, but only about 2 cents from almonds.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive.

this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important.

so: not paying that cost is telling

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@simonsarris @allie__voss Yeah, That's why you need to limit screens from the start. Then your friends are in the physical world.

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

Just used the Resolve photo editor. Lightroom is dead.

[shako @shakoistsLog]

substack should have a button on paid articles, enabled as an option by authors, that lets a benefactor "buy it for everyone." e.g. a rich benefactor may think it to be worth $500 or some such amount to make an article behind a paywall free for everyone.

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@realEstateTrent When you have a framework that includes sin, it helps in explaining to kids that somethings are wrong but justice does not always happen in the short term.

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

the annual social cost of cancer and auto accidents are very roughly equivalent

imagine a new cancer drug came out that reduced mortality by 90% across *every* cancer

And the AMA aggressively lobbied against it because of its potential suppressive impact on hospital visits and surgeries...

That is the unions wrt to autonomous robotaxis right now.

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@alpharivelino Yes. Such a disaster by both partners.

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@shelovesore There is a reasonable view that good Friday is made up and that Christ died on Thursday.

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

“I have two versions of outlook and neither of them are working” is actually a generational NASA quote now. Not quite One Small Step but every generation lives in a different world

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

The alleged victim in this case, Kenneth Herring, blew through a red light and slammed into a semi-trailer, hard enough to make it tilt. An off-duty officer who approached him noticed that he seemed impaired.

/1

[Mercer Lawrenson @MercerLawrenson]

@Romy_Holland @simonsarris No one is born with character. It's vary important in life, and parenting has a huge effect on it.