Xanthippe

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

--Socrates

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@MTJakeEaton Democrats are the party of envy and resentment.

Elon creates wealth - he doesn’t steal it from others like Elizabeth Warren wants to do through taxes.

Democrats understand neither growth nor wealth creation.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@MarkJenkinsdrat Oh my that little face. What a cutie.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@thesheetztweetz They can shake their fist at the sky

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@KristenWaggoner @ADFLegal How anyone can support men in women's sports is beyond me.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@MarkJenkinsdrat Oh, this is wonderful to see that you have a new friend! What a cutie! Bet it was a fun and tiring trip. Cheers!

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@RanaePape @jimmyjohnny77 Hope it was just to visit someone. If not, best wishes to you and yours.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@RodeoProfessor I'd love to see the research indicating that grizzlies require roadless pristine wilderness to live, as these NGOs claim.

Grizzlies use roads too, and also benefit from forest management with wildfire mitigation.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

This was just done, actually, summer 2024. Two bears relocated from NCDE to GYE, a female to Togwotee Pass WY and a male to a remote part of SE Yellowstone Nat'l Park.

The female emerged from her den with two cubs this year.

The dream to fill in all of Montana with grizzlies needs to die. Too many people live in between the zones. Grizzlies can be transported between zones successfully.

Meanwhile, it's beyond time to delist.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@TimSheehyMT 😂😂😂

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@MontanaFamilies Getting information about candidates and so on is a real challenge in Montana.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@KurtAlme More specifics, less generalities, please.

This is a great platform - please use it!

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@CurtisHouck Ted Baxter come to life.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@44Bridger @lalum_steve @schrieferranch Those days of summer were short! 😁
They'll be back soon.

Meanwhile, we have twin fawns again in our neighborhood. My neighbor told me that twins have been a yearly thing here for more than 20 years.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

@engineers_feed I remember when it launched, but never dreamed that we would still be receiving its signals in my twilight years.

[Why Lie @TheNewBacklash]

You tried to unilaterally redefine the other 99.7% of the population.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

All of Montana is subject to grizzlies now, and they are still on the endangered list. That's absurd.

Grizzlies should be shot when they're in populated areas (but it's illegal to shoot them unless they are attacking). There are too many of them. We are not running out of grizzly bears.

Co-existing with predator species only works when the predators avoid human activities. Grizzlies enjoy feasting off of human activities, like raising chickens and cows.

Even when people follow all of the guidelines, grizzlies still predate. It's not a guarantee. It's akin to people locking their doors to keep burglars out. It works, sort of - a burglar trying doors will move on, but a determined burglar will still find a way in.

Look at the prairie north along the Rocky Mountain Front. People living there still have grizzly problems, even when they've done everything asked of them.

[Xanthippe @Xanthipppe]

Grizzlies don't belong in populated areas. This is a town, not wilderness.

There are too many grizzlies in Montana. The targets have been met times 2 (and they were met 20 years ago) for removal from the endangered list.

Grizzlies were never endangered in North America; they have been extirpated from most of their range, so that people can live there peacefully.

People and grizzlies living together results in tragedy, not peaceful co-existence.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right.

The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations.

Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book.

Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.

Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax.

There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.

We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).

That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.

America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.

Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.