Mr. Froggy Kitten

Avoiding Mr. Wong at Golden Dragon Super Buffet since 2011. I hate socialism. If you like socialism, you’re an ignorant fool. IFB non-stupid people.

[The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript]

One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.

A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.

And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.

Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.

We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.

Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.

Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.

And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.

That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.

Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.

I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.

But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.

Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.

Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.

I’m going with the beaver.

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@FloppyDeepDive 🤣 It was so protected that I couldn’t ever play it. My original boxed copy never would load anything.

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Texas Senate Bill 4 (2017), codified mainly in Texas Government Code Chapter 752, bars local entities (including cities and their law enforcement agencies) from adopting, enforcing, or endorsing policies that “prohibit or materially limit the enforcement of immigration laws.” It specifically restricts local governments from prohibiting or materially limiting their officers from exchanging information with ICE, assisting or cooperating with federal immigration officers “as reasonable or necessary,” or related activities. The Fifth Circuit has largely upheld the statute. Violations can bring civil fines and, in some cases, removal actions against officials. It also requires compliance with ICE detainer requests at jails in most circumstances.

Paxton has already sued Houston over earlier versions of similar policies, so he has the legal authority and precedent to sue again over this new executive order. Whether he chooses to do so in the short time he has left is probably a waste because the incoming Democratic AG is unlikely to pursue the same enforcement.

tl;dr - Yes.

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@usr_bin_roygbiv 🤔 https://t.co/NQ5VffA5JH

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Holy Crap!

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@MyPupDaisyIV I’m super grateful of the correction. I guess we’ll find out pretty quickly if the credit consumption has increased or if it’s back to normal. 😬

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I did the same exact thing! 🤣 I was super relieved that it wasn’t something I had done. Unfortunately just asking sucked up what little remaining credits I had left. It feels a bit like a gut punch though without some sort of warning. I’ve been pumping how awesome grok bot has been to anyone who’d listen. I’ll be tempering my enthusiasm until the dust settles. I’m nervous to see how quickly the usage will get gobbled up when I reset on Thursday!

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@farzyness @mikepat711 No warning though? Not cool. I brag about it all the time but this hurt bigly despite careful pacing.

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@elonmusk @DogecoinNorway No warning? Not cool! I ration and use it for making work repetitive tasks easy. I would’ve been more careful. Next week is going to suck when it didn’t have to with even a little bit of warning.

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@SoryNotaBot @cyberpeterg Same

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@TheOasisBBS Yep, that’s an insta-buy! Looks great!

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@gregnacu Strongly recommend. I love mine! I use it with the Kickstarter tank mouse from a few years back.

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@gregnacu Your efforts are VERY much appreciated! 😃

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@QTRBlackGarrett I dig Captain Beyond. Particularly their first self titled album. Early 70’s super group mix of Iron Butterfly on guitar/bass, Johnny Winter’s drummer and the OG Deep Purple singer Rod Evans.

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🚨 1/ Watch this AI Doomer trailer. Then read the timeline.

Netflix drops “The AI Apocaloptimist Doc” tomorrow — Sept 15 — to 260+ million subscribers.

This film took 3 years to make. It premieres 12 days after Sanders–Casar, 7 days after the Anthropic “whistleblower,” 3 days after Amodei’s “Pace the Frontier.”

That’s not a coincidence. That’s a launch. 🧵👇

H/t @TheRoyalGrift for the scoop.

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@jondelarroz Me too. Footfall with Jerry Pournelle was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. I need to reread it.

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@gguworld My wife was there in nosebleed seats. Lucky!

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@limegpt @ericzakariasson ...and is there a future auto-update to that too (assuming it's not completely destructive)? I know it says that it removes installed apps and packages but when I hit the update button, it looked exactly the same. Wine was still there.

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@CIA But do you have the sequel?