sean andersen

Go West, young man

[sean andersen @andozw]

Western culture alternates between world-fixing and soul-fixing. Each era trades one illusion of control for the other and ends when one of the faiths collapses and the other rushes in to fill the void.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Taxing non-income-producing property is wrong. Homeowners should not be forced to work to pay "rent" to the government for the privilege of living in their own homes. Property taxes should only be levied on income-producing property, as the income provides a means to pay the tax.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

You no kings assholes better go find a fucking mirror

[sean andersen @andozw]

@future42org with inflation, everyone will be a millionaire soon enough, and a gallon of milk will cost $81.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

It is curious that those on the left—the alleged advocates of democracy—are not the more ardent supporters of gun ownership and the Second Amendment.

The pro-social, pro-civilizational purpose of guns is, after all, equality.

Guns' most distinct virtue is not the ability to go hunting on the weekends, nor even for use in home defense. Rather, their most distinct virtue is in the egalitarian expression of power, arguably *the* foundational prerequisite for democracy.

Tyranny or fascism of any kind is most difficult among a well-armed populace. This point is indisputable.

Thus, any group that advocates highly centralized, hierarchical power, should oppose broad gun ownership.

And any group that advocates highly decentralized, democratic power, should so sanctify it.

What are we to make of the modern Left, then? Where is their advocacy of egalitarianism on the very policy which most enables it?

[sean andersen @andozw]

@atmoio https://t.co/A2RbRAp910

[sean andersen @andozw]

AI coding is a slot machine: variable reward.

People talk about how AI to programming language is like the difference between programing language to byte code, but ignore the variable reward part. When you compile C to byte code, it is (for the most part) deterministic.

[sean andersen @andozw]

AI coding is a slot machine: variable reward.

People talk about how AI to programming language is like the difference between programing language to byte code, but ignore the variable reward part. When you compile C to byte code, it is (for the most part) deterministic.

[sean andersen @andozw]

@brunbitty @grok remove redundancies and distill this into a distinct list with no overlap

[sean andersen @andozw]

no verification proof for what is or isn't in "the epstein files", how much is or will be AI generated?

[sean andersen @andozw]

"compounding interest is undefeated all-time against empires"
-- @LukeGromen

[sean andersen @andozw]

@grok add a feature to x that changes the background of tweets that were likely written by AI so that I don't have to read them

[sean andersen @andozw]

why is there no meme for "that's chat gpt slop" yet?

[sean andersen @andozw]

@john_at_swan political scape goat https://t.co/U0WVr3RXds

[Brandon Quittem @Bquittem]

@andozw Ohhh good one. High likelihood bitcoin is used as a scapegoat if/when the US economy is hurting.

[Jeff Park @dgt10011]

People cite the 1951 Accord to celebrate the birth of the "Fed independence", but here is the actual text-

"The Treasury and Federal Reserve have reached full accord to pursue their common purpose to assure successful financing of the government's requirements and, at the same time, to minimize monetization of the public debt."

What is "successful financing of government's requirement" if not explicit commitment to Treasury?

What is "to minimize" if not specifically to eliminate?

What is "common purpose" if not political?

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Fed "independence" is a myth, a story.

It is the moral cover which justifies its grotesque state-sanctioned near-monopoly power over the most important market in the world: money.

The Fed is never "independent" of the banking establishment. It is of, by, and for the banks. The Fed is the banking establishment's greatest accomplishment.

And because modern banking is an appendage of the state, so too is the Fed its most potent tentacle.

Nobody should really care about how much the Fed spent on its building renovations. What a distraction!

The Fed's crime is not an embellished construction project, but the systematic coercive distortion of money rates across the global economy for the past century.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

And people usually don’t think far enough ahead to realize any power you give current government, future government will have as well.

Want to give Trump a power? Then make sure you’re cool with AOC potentially having it one day, too. And vice versa.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Hilarious two minute skit perfectly captures the insanity of the COVID era.

[sean andersen @andozw]

@pickover vasectomy math

[sean andersen @andozw]

Thinking about the person thinking about the need to make the post .....

[sean andersen @andozw]

Cringe posts on LinkedIn. Either
1) you are naive or
2) you understand the cringe and post anyway

[sean andersen @andozw]

And #2s are status seeking, validation hungry, or think this is how you play the game?