A Very Serious Place

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[A Very Serious Place @SeriousPIace]

I am not asking the boomers to understand the current world, I just want them to acknowledge that today is completely different than 1980 in every imaginable way.

[RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS @SaladBarFan]

“I think a presidential ball room to safely and comfortably host state dinners and other events is a good idea, actually.”

[🇺🇸Hank 🇺🇸 @HankShedwrecker]

We’re gonna have a very big problem to to our north soon

[Future Moldovan Citizen @MainstreamViews]

Libs and black people believe that there are 500 towns in America where black people can be legally murdered if they go out after 7PM while simultaneously it's a national scandal when a white woman makes monkey noises in Mississippi

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Did the white girl who was savagely beaten by a black mob get any teary eyed profiles by national media? Was there any outrage over this at all? Were any of the racist black violent thugs doxxed or made to suffer any penalties of any kind? Of course not.

[Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 @ScottMGreer]

No reason to represent an anti-white state on the world stage

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

No, I’m sorry. Some homeless woman who pulls hair off peoples bodies for not even a living and got scared by Facebook memes should not be the person shaping our land use policies.

[Joey Salads @JoeySalads]

BTW, Karmelo Anthony was able to stay in school and graduate with his class after stabbing Austin Metcalf to death.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

A twice deported illegal alien can get on an airplane but a tube of toothpaste can’t

[Free Northerner @FreeNortherner]

Because 60 years ago, conservatives decided to make institutions they controlled neutral and leftists decided to make institutions they controlled leftist.

And this led to every institution becoming leftist.

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

This whole situation -- aside from being retarded liberal bullshit -- is really funny because the subtext is that “they do actually sound like that” which is why it’s such a big deal 😹

[2eviltwerp @2eviltwerp]

Schizophrenia is really sad to experience in real time

[A Very Serious Place @SeriousPIace]

Incredible. It’s the same conversation over and over since the 60s

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Amazing dialogue on CNN.

"The Black fatherlessness rate is the worst out of all the demographics in this country, unfortunately"

"Excuse me, that's a false steroetype Black fathers are in the household more than any other race."

"What are your facts on that?"

"I had a father in my home."

"That's called anecdotal, but that's ok"

[America's Most Vaunted @stillvaunted]

If you want an idea how rare any type of white-on-black malevolence is, and how desperate the media is to find it, consider that girls making noises in an apartment hallway is being covered by World News Tonight.

[Sam Szuchan @szuchans]

In 1940, Ida May Fuller, a legal secretary from Vermont, received the first monthly Social Security payment in the United States. It was for $22.54, which was about the total amount she had paid into the system over three years of work.

In all, she paid in $24.75. But she lived to be 100, and eventually collected a total of $22,888.92 from the system, a return of nearly 925 times her contribution.

None of that money was saved up for her. Her payments came directly from the paychecks of workers currently employed. That's how a pay-as-you-go pension system works: the current working generation pays for the generation that has already retired.

I asked Donald Low about this. He's a Singaporean economist who worked for the Singapore civil service, including the Finance Ministry, for nearly a decade and a half. He now teaches at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The first people to retire, he said, get something that no future retiring generation will have.

Donald Low: "That generation that was already retired then, they had a free lunch. They didn't have to pay taxes for the previous generation's pensions, but they got that working generation to pay for their retirement income."

Every country that has a pension system like the American one has already eaten the free lunch, and so Low thinks it is close to useless for people to give them the usual advice to copy Singapore. Singapore does not have a state pension. Workers put as much as 20% of their salary into their own account in the Central Provident Fund, and their employer puts in up to 17% more.

A country that has already made pension promises can't just switch to this kind of system. The workers alive at the time of the switch would have to keep paying taxes to fund the retirement of current retirees, and yet they would also have to start saving for their own retirement, because future workers would not do it for them. They would have to pay twice.

Donald Low: "It's not just politically impossible, it's financially impossible. Right? Imagine having to pay twice, right, for the retired generation and then for yourself because you can't rely on the next generation to pay."

Singapore set up its fund in 1955, and so no one there ever retired on other people's taxes. Everywhere else, the first generation of retirees already got their free lunch, and every generation of workers since has passed the bill to the next. The only way to stop the process is for one generation to pay up twice.

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

Your account is from France. True Americans lack that surrender gene pervasive among your elites. We are Americans. This we will defend.

[KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 @brim006]

But an American who got a DUI 27 years ago can’t cross the border into Canada to watch his kid play hockey.

[A Very Serious Place @SeriousPIace]

Why are all you freaks putting cameras all over the inside of your house

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Ring unveils new patrol drone and robot to surveil homes and businesses by flying room to room.

The drone is able to fly back to its charging station on its own after patrolling around the home.

Here are some more details on the drone and robot:

- Patrol drone costs $250.

- Patrol rover costs $1000.

- The drone can fly for up to 8 minutes at a time.

- The drone has 148-degree peripheral vision and can quickly rotate 360 degrees to identify threats.

- Both require a subscription fee of $5 per month.

"For years, customers told us they wanted eyes in the places a fixed camera couldn’t reach, and peace of mind in the spots they’d never want one," said Ring founder Jamie Siminoff.

"The honest answer wasn’t more cameras; it meant reimagining what a security device could be. That kind of invention is hard, and it takes time."

"But we kept at it until we got it right and that’s Ring Robotics. It’s not just a new category of security; it’s the beginning of a future where proactive, autonomous protection is something every home and every business can have."

[Pax @1776pax]

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[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:

> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past

> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead

we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

[Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 @ScottMGreer]

When Democrats realize this cuts off their constituents' consumer spending, expect a follow-up bill requiring financial institutions to give infinite free money to minorities