RickU

Objectivist skeptic, Agnostic atheist, US Marine, Heinrandian, anti-commie, barbershop bass demigod

[RickU @RickU]

I have never seen the consent question actually answered by collectivists.

It is, in my experience, only dodged.

Are any of you familiar with anyone contending with this question?

[RickU @RickU]

@Gunblaze1969 Absolutely

[RickU @RickU]

@LondonRiverSFW Yick

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

That’s all ya have, squirt box? 🧃

“You are funded by fossil fuel money.”

How original! I bet you use that as your pickup line at the bar. You must be a real social butterfly. Does it get you all the girls? Or the guys (I don’t wanna assume what you are into)?

By your logic, I must be livin’ high on the hog on ExxonMobil’s payroll, right? I bet you sit on your mama’s basement couch every night stuffing your puffy face with Cheetos thinking about me bathing in a fat stack of cash. Ah yeah, those crisp Benjamins, Grants, and Jacksons. It just rains money on my head.

Money, money, cash, yo! ✌️🤑👍

I hate to break it to ya, but I live in a 725 square-foot apartment. It’s very nice and it’s modern, but definitely no mansion. Maybe when ExxonMobil, Shell, or BP finally send me my check, I’ll be able to afford one.

Oddly enough, though, not one person who claims that I receive “fossil fuel money” has been able to actually prove it by bringing some receipts.

They will usually claim that I work for an organization (CFACT) that is funded by ExxonMobil. You were going to say that, I know it. But I’m smarter than you. And I’m one step ahead of you. And I also am aware that the most recent receipt you’ll find is almost two decades old. See, the organization I do contract work for hasn’t received a penny from ExxonMobil since 2007. I was four years old in 2007. And I have only been associated with CFACT since 2024.

So that blows your theory to heII.

Disappointing, I know.

It’s anticlimactic.

Now, if ExxonMobil wants to pay me, by all means send me money.

I like money. I will take it.

And guess what? I’ll gladly take money from solar and wind companies, too.

As I said, I like money.

And if you want to pay me, I even accept donations. I have 𝕏 Money. So, you can go to my profile and click that little dollar sign and give me a few bucks if you wish.

In any case, it is possible that some of our donors receive oil and gas money. I don’t know. I don’t care either because when that oil money changes hands to other organizations / companies, they decide where it goes. Sometimes it’s to us. Sometimes it’s to other NGOs or right- and left-wing think tanks. But I’ve never taken O&G money directly and the organization I work for hasn’t during the time I’ve been associated with them.

As for your claims about crop nutrients and CO₂ concentration, that’s true for some plant varieties, but not all. And even for crops that lose protein, zinc, and iron at higher concentrations, those levels are well over 500–1,000 ppm.

And atmospheric CO₂ does not cause heatwaves, floods, or sea-level rise. Sea levels have been rising for most of the last 20,000 years because we’re in an interglacial cycle (inter = between, so we are between glacial cycles). And for most of the early-to-mid-Holocene, sea level rise rates were much higher than they are today.

Take the L.

[7% NaCl (Salty) @TwoRulesOfWar]

I have a friend who has never served. Wonderful girl, huge heart,
But I think I absolutely shocked the shit out of her when I told her that when I’m in big gatherings in public, one of my concerns is a truck attack or car bomb by an Islamic extremist.
I think she thinks I’m hateful.
I don’t know how to tell her that this isn’t because I hate, but because I have seen and experienced hate.
Hate that most people will never be close to- and a callousness for life that we, as Americans will never understand; and those of us that do get to see that callousness bear the moral and spiritual scars until the end of our days.

I wish I could help her understand where I’m coming from. There is evil in this world; I’ve seen it up close and I simply cannot articulate that eloquently enough for people who haven’t been there to understand.

Anyway, happy Veterans Day to all you idiots who put on the uniform. Take care of each other- and know that I admire and respect you for your service. Stand proud of your service. You earned every badge, decoration, scar and bruise- and all of them tell of your dedication to service above self.
‘This we’ll defend’.

[RickU @RickU]

@shadow_lander 5 year term. Deployed out of HI - didn't see combat but had a real mission and contributed to it.

Extended my contract for orders

Helped stand up a new company in Marsptbn

Got out and went straight into the DIB. Been there ever since

[RickU @RickU]

@iamwesmoore This is gross incompetence

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

Neurodivergence is a made-up term to describe personality disturbance. It is a boutique identity industry which is anti-science & glamorizes personality idiosyncrasies leading to narcissistic self-expression like this on TikTok.

[RickU @RickU]

TOOT TOOT

(That's my own horn - It's friggin delicious)

[RickU @RickU]

Thar she blows - Didn't brown as much as I had hoped in the oven but that might be the nature of the mixed mash

[Billy Beck @_Billy_Beck_]

This woman displays perfectly retarded inability to attend the essence of the proposition. She just cannot achieve the concept.

She can't think.

It is impossible to discuss serious matters with a mind this disintegrated, and they are everywhere.

[Sean @scs_real]

LoLz, like you could affect me in any possible way 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[RickU @RickU]

@niqudrift Honestly that'd be hard. I'd love to contribute to that project but wife can't leave the area

[Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis]

And then Trump can veto it.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Too many people like to throw accusations without actually reading what is written.

Election fraud ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY did happen in the 2026 election, and if you allege that I don't believe that, then you get an insta-block. I'm sick of the lies.

The issue is that the Democrats, over decades and through legislation at state and national levels, have engineered election procedures such that it is impossible to prove the fraud to a reasonable evidentiary standard in a court of law.

IMPOSSIBLE. The lack of accountability built into their laws not only makes fraud easy, it makes it basically impossible to prove the fraud in a way where results can be challenged legally in an effective way.

Make all the charts you want. If you cannot meet a court's evidentiary standard, you are accomplishing nothing productive.

Unfortunately--and this is the hard truth no one seems to want to address--the only way to undo this is the same way it happened, by winning elections and then passing reform legislatively.

(And yes, we CAN win elections, see 2024.)

My article explains.

[RickU @RickU]

@planefag Umm..but you're learning a trade where you'll make a lot more than 18. That's just the apprenticeship wage

[RickU @RickU]

@SevOverSigi @anogy Absolutely yes

[Sean @scs_real]

LMMFAO 😂😂😂😂😂

[RickU @RickU]

@Universalglitsh He didn't

[RickU @RickU]

@ingelramdecoucy Lovely - looks like you got a great rise

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

A lot of people argue like this and they apparently don't get what they're saying. If a firm must buy up all new competitors to stay a monopoly, then they are paying large sums for the "privilege" that at the same time incentivize more to start firms just to get bought up (as is in fact often the case). And how could they possible cover that cost? By raising prices, which means there is even more space for new firms to compete for the profits. This argument is self-defeating if you recognize second-order effects; without them, it's no argument.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

In America, we believe in religious freedom. That includes religions you don't like, and disgusting ones.

Having said that? I think it's perfectly fine to let other people know exactly what they're celebrating.