DanDrokz

recovering AA (Atheist Anonymous) Be better today than you were yesterday. Be kind and true, at your best but mostly at your worst.

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

All problems are downstream from human imperfections & assumed rationality! Truth: humans are imperfect and irrational in the core. life cannot be explained rationally. Rationality is a tool; a front to hide our own irrationality from ourselves & others. So, what do you believe?

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@DerorCurrency Interesting point! Within the context of the society Jesus lived his lessons may have made sense. Turning the cheek wasn’t within that context necessarily weakness (as many label Jesus’ teachings as weak) but the only way out of the mess.

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

Real and tru human interpersonal connection only occurs if ego is left aside.

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

Sobering paper on aging

Argues that basically every intervention known to extend lifespan only does so by preventing obesity.

In other words, being lean and fit is not just 90% of slowing aging, but 100%.

https://t.co/wpdZmpm4nt

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

It's never what you own, it's what owns you.

It's never what you have, it's what has you.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[MAVERICK X @MAVERIC68078049]

There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the prize for the best corn grown. One year, a reporter interviewed him and discovered something interesting about the way he grew corn. The reporter discovered that the farmer shares his seeds with his neighbors. "Why does he share his best seeds with his neighbors if every year they compete with his own?" the reporter asked him.
"Why, sir?" the farmer replied, "didn't you know? The wind picks up the pollen from the ripe corn and swirls it from one field to another. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will constantly degrade the quality of my corn. If I want to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."
The same is true of our lives. Those who want to live good and meaningful lives must help enrich the lives of others, because the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches, and those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, because the well-being of each is linked to the well-being of all.

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@JoeKlein42069 @AlBuffalo2nite „I AM“

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@MichaelAArouet People living above their means or indeed relying on dept to cover basic needs?

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@galaxyvaporwave @0ccultbot Actually this includes both the golden and the silver rule. The golden rule is active: do onto others…“. The silver rule is passive: „don’t do onto others…“. Not all aphorisms are the golden rule, some are silver.

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@balajis One may day, capitalism helps, but needs to be kept on a leash for the common good, which demands a watchful state. In the westernized modern modern it’s capitalism having all states on a leash.

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@zauberberg188 @nofmgeopolitics Was ist jetzt plötzlich mit all diesen Institutionen die, die Impfung für sicher sprachen? RKI, STIKO, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, bzw. die Leute die dahinter stecken? Hauptsache der andere ist dran Schuld.
Zusätzlich, Auch die Patienten tragen Verantwortung über ihre Gesundheit.

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@argonerd Wir sind nicht böse, nur psichologisch gestört. Wir sind alle nur Opfer, keine Täter. Hätte, hätte Fahrradkette. Wären wir alle bloß behandelt, betreut von mehreren Fachkräften. Hätte, hätte Fahrradkette. Mehr Fachkräfte als Bürger, mehr Bürokraten als Bürger. großer Kindergarten

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@Samson1176 @kzshabazz @shelzestudios @DVanLangenhove One crime doesn’t justify another one

[DanDrokz @DanDrokz]

@Samson1176 @kzshabazz @shelzestudios @DVanLangenhove So stabbing a guy to death for defending his sister is acceptable because he was white and they were black? Come on!