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being optimistic is way more fun

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“the culture war is largely two armies of NPCs being ventriloquised by a handful of actual thinkers.” — gurwinder bhogal

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Devon_Eriksen_ I have wised up

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God Bless America 🇺🇸

greatest country to ever exist - and very grateful it does exist.

happy 250!

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@mikepat711 @fixurcough 😂

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@mikepat711 @fixurcough what’s the name of the guy that blocked u? his name started with “O” and ended with “mar”, right?

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

🇺🇸 is not perfect, but it provides the best RL environment in the world.

The best does not mean it is pleasant. RL has always been a highly dynamic arena to push oneself to the limit, as there is no shelter in the frontier.

Yet, as a result, it has gone through multiple crises, and each time the trajectory has outmaneuvered them because it dares.

Happy birthday, USA—for being the frontier for 250 years and for the next one.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

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@mikepat711 underrated

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@mikepat711 check whatever map u use - looks like it

[Libertarian Party NH 🦔 @LPNH]

Well, if we can't end birthright citizenship, we'll just have to end democracy instead.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

No kidding. Building those things is illegal now.

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@ZacksJerryRig @chrishacken hahaha, the trolling is actually hilarious

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@mikepat711 damn. i had this same dream. are we living in a simulation?

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@KonstantinKisin 😂😂

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@mikepat711 😂

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europe is not a real place

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

A Paris official has said she holds the US partially responsible for the record-breaking heatwave in France.

The comments were made as part of a scathing rebuke to American tourists, immigrants and expats who have been criticising France for its lack of air conditioning across the country.

🔗 https://t.co/cQlhBPVCbE

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this is absolute parody. how is this a conversation or debate?

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

Is it selfish to get air con in the heat wave?

Air conditioner units are selling out as Brits struggle with the soaring temperatures, but with around 4% of total global greenhouse gas emissions attributed to air con, should we be using them when we know they're heating the planet?

[yammi @sighyam]

I’ve lived in Europe almost my entire life and I swear every summer is somehow “the hottest one so far.” Yet every year people still say “we don’t need AC because this type of heat is rare” Europeans just love to suffer for no reason

[unheard @itsunheard]

@mikepat711 they're trolling us

[unheard @itsunheard]

@mikepat711 haha, that’s gold