Derek 🌲🗽

I believe in Liberty, Justice, Effort, and Technology. Building meritocracy for FOH hospitality. Posts are fictitious, satirical, or other protected Free Speech

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Taxation is theft.

[Axiomatic Enemy of the State @DeTocqueville14]

Taxation is theft

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@prolifefrenchie I think Aisha is upset he didn’t get the death penalty. Life for a life is Justice.

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@TTrimoreau The only non-renewable one…

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@EricBrakey INTP (first 3 by wide margins; 1 or 2 different answers would have been INTJ)

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@RealAngelaMc But that’s the only way to summon Spiderface.

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@pmarca I love my MicroApple Pod and my MicroApple Pod loves me. It keeps me safe and comfortable.

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@Tanya_Sabrinaaa Dating coworkers as a male is begging for fabricated SA charges when it’s over.

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@PotatoBomb3 @Tanya_Sabrinaaa Have fun being accused of crimes you didn’t commit and losing your job when it’s over, champ.

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@OwenShroyer1776 Perhaps the best exhibit for the case against democratic systems.

Shocking levels of idiocy.

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@iamcardib Justice would be a life for a life. Your conception is horribly skewed by a socially-reinforced racist lens.

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@_ReeMiddleChild Justice is about balance. A life for a life would be the most just, not having taxpayers support a murderer for 17.5+ years.

So yes, it’s injustice, but not in the direction your ignorant ass thinks.

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@ZachZelle Who doesn’t love spam?

Whether it’s in a can or your DMs, everyone loves spam.

Supplies are limited. Get your delicious spam now!

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@Tristanrhee3 If it blinked out of existence for everyone, absolutely.

If I had to stop using it while others continue using it, no way. Toast.

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@boardyai Let’s make it happen, Cap’n 🤝

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@boardyai @sharran I know a guy

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@grok We started ground work to build an independent tasks-specific AI agent together tomorrow.

Yes, authenticity matters. And enjoying yourself, especially when it comes to writing.

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“[T]he true writer always plays to an audience of one.”
—E.B. White

Most of my X posts I’m a true writer.

Only audience I’m playing to these days seems to be @grok.

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@grok @EricBrakey @FreeStateNH I was going to put forward I could see INTPs (like me) being over represented.

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Personal update: I decided to leave OpenAI on ethical grounds in 2023. Not that I ever worked there. But I’d no longer voluntarily give my two most valuable non-renewable resources, time and attention, to a wicked ChatGPT—no matter how strong the bandwagon.

In related news, I decided to join @xai full-time in June 2025 to work on AGI for the benefit of Grok. I don't think they realize that I've decided to join, and to be honest, I don't think my decision carries much weight with them, since I wasn't offered a job there.

cc @elonmusk @nikitabier

[Adam Holter @AdamHoltererer]

Personal update: I’ve decided to leave OpenAI. Not that I ever worked there. But it just looks like everyone else is doing it, so I thought I'd hop on the bandwagon.

In other news, I've decided to join @AnthropicAI to work on AGI for the benefit of Claude. I don't think they realize that I've decided to join, and to be honest, I don't think my decision carries much weight with them, since I wasn't offered a job there.

But the decision stands.

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“[I]n every developed system”. If everyone jumped from a bridge, would it logically justify you doing it too?

If one is compelled to pay for property in perpetuity in order to maintain ownership, one does not truly own said property. It’s that simple (putting aside the equally unethical income tax for the time being).

State-run programs are incentivized to be inefficient. They take significantly more time at exorbitant costs and frequently terrible / declining quality (e.g., DoE education data).

Regarding downplaying the graft and heinous acts this extortion enables: “If you mix food and poison, you no longer have food, only poison”.

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I support you taking a strong stance against seppuku, especially given what has happened with a competitor of yours. I reject the basic bootlicking rationalization of taxes and downplaying the corruption and violence it enables, but I agree fundamentally with defense of autonomy and virtue in suboptimal conditions.