Shane

What I do: Franchising, Real Estate Development, Software
What I love: God, my wife, my son, and my family
Free time: Art, travlel, lifting, games

[Shane @Shane_L]

New here? I'm a Texan who used to practice law and who now runs a franchise System (Storm Guard), does real estate development, and (thanks to AI) creates software.

I believe that free speech is the most important right in the world, and I'll defend it to my end.

I believe that AI will change the world, and it's up to us to ensure that this change benefits as many people as possible.

I want to live a good life by running ethical companies, building fairly priced multifamily developments, and helping people improve their lives and the lives of those around them.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@nickgillespie It might take so long so there is time to ensure an outcome. Voter ID laws and limited mail in ballots should not be controversial.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We just decided to stop teaching everyone math, in the hopes that this would make society equal because everyone would be equally incompetent

[Shane @Shane_L]

We have the 1st Amendment in the US. Beyond the free speech guarantee are the religious protections:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

So, how would the US reconcile a religion that wants to carry a knife with a general ban on carrying knives? Simple - if the ban is general in application, and not directed towards the faith, practitioners of the faith still have to abide by the law. If there is a secular carveout in the law, there must also, generally, be a religious carveout.

Of course, the actual jurisprudence on this is more complex, but the outcome in this knife hypothetical is that they would not be allowed to carry knives. The UK has extensive laws on carrying knives due to perceived public safety risks. Why should there be an exemption? This is not hard stuff.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@kristophershinn Congrats!

[Shane @Shane_L]

@geoffnegiar @1Password Hate to see it man. Good luck.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@dougboneparth Dude, all you had to say was - girls will like you more.

[Shane @Shane_L]

“Best” can mean a lot of things - the most utilitarian, the prettiest, the most clever, etc.

For me, the best design ever made evokes an emotional response that you are looking at art, but is also highly useful and exceptional at its use. The winner there is clear for me - a design so deeply ingrained in our collective knowledge it has been knocked-off countless times, is housed in many, many design museums, and is short hand for luxury and wealth in movies - the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@GuidoDisalle @maccurated You gotta stop that! Have you ever inquired with @avant_arte? I just bought a Murakami edition there. They’ve done some really nice editions.

Artists deserve to be paid.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@PlayStalgiaX The first few Splinter Cell games.

[Shane @Shane_L]

Very excited about this!

[Shane @Shane_L]

The commoditization of art was the worst thing to ever happen to CryptoArt. “Trading platforms” like Blur that put the financials in front of the actual art fed a speculation bubble that was already outsized. Unfortunately, this will probably mean a bunch of people who got burned by bad “investments” will turn their back on collecting art forever. Buy what you love, with money you have to spend, and you’ll never regret buying art.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@gregmushen Don’t forget about the one with a casino!

[Shane @Shane_L]

“Best” can mean a lot of things - the most utilitarian, the prettiest, the most clever, etc.

For me, the best design ever made evokes an emotional response that you are looking at art, but is also highly useful and exceptional at its use. The winner there is clear for me - a design so deeply ingrained in our collective knowledge it has been knocked-off countless times, is housed in many, many design museums, and is short hand for luxury and wealth in movies - the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@ASvanevik They believe the value they build is in the taking and redistributing (while secretly keeping a bigger portion of the pie for themselves).

[Shane @Shane_L]

@JohnDisc88 @ThrillaRilla369 A bare sales tax without specific, yet broad, carve-outs is about the most regressive tax one could design. A sales tax would be fine - if correctly designed and implemented.

[Shane @Shane_L]

I vehemently disagree with most of what Cenk and Piker believe, but I will defend to my end their right to say and believe it, because the right to believe whatever you wish and to talk about your beliefs is the core of being human; it is the most important right we have.

If the UK wants to be a Western Democracy, it needs to start acting like one, and stop acting like an infinitely surveilled nanny state that believes that it controls the internet across the globe.

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

This is the most important issue facing humanity right now!

The digital control grid — online child safety laws creating permanent identities, Central Bank Digital Currencies giving governments programmable money, surveillance systems requiring permission for every part of life.

Once this infrastructure locks in, freedom ends for the next generation. They will not grow up with the autonomy we took for granted.

I am Glenn Meder. I founded Privacy Academy to expose exactly how these systems work together and to show people how to resist before it is too late.

My mission is to wake people up to this threat. To tell the truth plainly. To show parents what their children will face. To build networks of those willing to act.

Please share. Follow me. Every day I sound the alarm and give you the tools to fight back. Go to https://t.co/6dGhtNcTwz and sign up for my newsletter so you can hear the warnings no matter what platforms try to silence.

This matters for humanity. If we do not stop the control grid, the next generation will never know what freedom was.

Preserve Liberty by Preserving Privacy.

[Shane @Shane_L]

@ChadSteingraber @nikitabier

Current version of the app on iOS, and no reaction option. Plus, now I can’t remove my repost of the OP.

[Chad Steingraber @ChadSteingraber]

My current thought is that Nikita is driving X to a communist platform. There's only "one" acceptable type of posting. Everyone must be equal.

This is a person who must be stopped in X.

[Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt]

Censorship does not strengthen societies, it weakens them.

A civilization that no longer trusts its people to speak freely has lost confidence in itself.

It rules over people instead of being governed by them.