Dennis

Technology geek, aviation fan.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@TOW1968 @BowTiedRanger The declaration to never add or subtract from the word of God was made hundreds of years before the Bible even existed. The word of God is the whole gospel truth, not just the pages that were selected to go into the King James Bible.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@FloraLuzz_ In some countries leaving is NOT an option. Hmmm.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@lowstakesdre Gambling is just a way of taking money away from people who are bad at math.

[Laurent @scion_x_]

Ça fait un moment que je me pose des questions sur le bilan (provisoire) de Milei en Argentine. On lit tout et son contraire. Alors j'ai arrêté de lire les commentaires et j'ai regardé les chiffres bruts.

L'Argentine, c'est l'expérience grandeur nature que les économistes attendaient depuis 50 ans. Même pays. Même peuple. Même culture. On change UNE variable : la méthode économique.

Avant : des décennies de gestion étatiste et péroniste, "redistributive". Le résultat concret ? 211% d'inflation, 42% de pauvreté, un État en déficit permanent qui finance son train de vie en faisant tourner la planche à billets.

Puis arrive Milei. Méthode inverse, brutale, assumée : on coupe, on déréglemente, on arrête d'imprimer.

Deux ans plus tard (photo à son arrivée (fin 2023) vs aujourd'hui) :

Inflation annuelle : 211% → 31%
Inflation mensuelle : 25% → ~2%
Déficit public : −5% du PIB → +1,8% (excédent)
Croissance : −1,6% → +4,4%
Pauvreté : 42% → 28%

Sans débat. Jugez par vous-mêmes.

Et le point essentiel : ces gains ne vont pas "aux riches" ou "aux marchés". Ils vont d'abord aux plus pauvres.

L'inflation est l'impôt le plus injuste qui existe — elle frappe ceux qui n'ont aucun actif pour se protéger. La diviser par 7, c'est rendre du pouvoir d'achat à ceux d'en bas. Et 14 points de pauvreté en moins, ce sont des millions de gens, pas une ligne Excel.

Pendant un siècle, on a expliqué aux Argentins que l'État les protégerait en dépensant toujours plus. Résultat : un des pays les plus riches du monde en 1910, ruiné. On vient d'inverser la méthode. Regardez le résultat.

À un moment, il faut accepter ce que les faits racontent : sur le terrain économique, la méthode libérale a livré en deux ans ce que des décennies de socialisme avaient promis sans jamais tenir. Et ça profite d'abord aux plus modestes.

On peut détester le style de Milei — la tronçonneuse, l'outrance, les sorties improbables, il n'a rien d'un homme d'État classique. Mais on ne juge pas une politique économique au style de celui qui la mène. On la juge à ce qu'elle fait à la vie des gens.

Et les chiffres ont parlé.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@caalf01 A satellite image from 1877? Wow, thats really amazing. Next will you show me a digital camera from 1850? Or maybe you have a rocket launch from 1845?

[Dennis @macphyter]

@stalar_ @brivael What? "No one forced anyone to work"? Do you realize that for most of recorded history humans have enslaved other humans, and that came to an end about the time that capitalism started thriving.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

When a scientist or an engineer earns a Ph.D., it is usually based on reproducible, verifiable outcomes drawn from the laws of the natural world.

When a social "scientist" earns a Ph.D. in a "social science," it is based on collating the written opinions of other "social scientists" into a heavily footnoted thesis, and those people who were footnoted earned THEIR Ph.D. based on collating the written opinions of other "social scientists" into a heavily footnoted thesis, and those people who were footnoted earned THEIR Ph.D. based on collating the written opinions of other "social scientists" into a heavily footnoted thesis, and so on, and so on.

A Ph.D. in science or engineering is based on the laws of the natural world.

A Ph.D. in any "social science" is based on regurgitating the writings of other people who never had to prove anything. A "social science" Ph.D. is an intellectual Ponzi scheme--one based largely on restating the (often mistaken) opinions of those who came before you as if their opinions were fact, but arranging those opinions in such a way as to create your own novel and equally untrustworthy opinion.

We are at a point in society where anyone with a Ph.D. in a non-scientific or non-engineering field is more untrustworthy than random people on the street.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@seanmdav This is the way.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@total3z @ImMeme0 Guess what the first amendment ALSO protects: the right to criticize any religion.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@FiredUpCoug Dogs love the taste of antifreeze, the ethylene glycol tastes sweet. Its also highly poisonous. If you "accidentally" left out a bowl of it overnight, the problem might just take care of itself.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@HowToAI_ Wikipedia?! Anyone who relies on this is DOOMED!

[Dennis @macphyter]

@brawnvivant @RafHM @elonmusk Perhaps you missed the contests where people were seeing how quickly they could get banned from Bluesky for posting TRUE facts. It was quite hilarious.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@Namensen @esrtweet Backup army!? PLEASE say you are joking. The US doesn't need a backup army, we just needed Europe to step aside. Instead we're not allowed to use our airbases, and forbidden from flying over France. No matter, we can get the job done anyway.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@ankoromochuu American here, I have a lifelong dream of visiting Japan one day. It looks like such a beautiful country. I really admire Japanese culture, with so much courtesy and respect for elders. I will come see it myself one day.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@DesireeAmerica4 I, for one welcome our robot overlords.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗣𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥: "𝗜𝗙 𝗪𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔, 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗕𝗘 𝟮𝟰/𝟳 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦"

He's right. And he knows they know he's right.

Stephen Miller just read the scorecard out loud. In one year under President Trump:

𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.

And the headline number: the lowest national murder rate in 125 years. Not five years. Not ten. Not a generation. 𝟭𝟮𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.

Now ask yourself: if a Democrat president had delivered those numbers, what would the front page of every newspaper in America look like right now? What would the lead story on every network be? What would the tone of every late-night monologue be?

You know the answer. You've seen it before.

Instead the media spent today covering whether Tom Homan had a well-thought-out plan to guard airport exits. They spent last week debating whether ICE agents would brutalize travelers. They spent the week before that explaining why Iran was probably telling the truth and Trump wasn't.

Miller's point isn't partisan. It's mathematical. These are the largest improvements in public safety in the history of this country — achieved in a single year — and the people whose job it is to inform the American public have buried them.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@lukOlejnik I always wondered what would happen if pasta came into contact with antipasta. Explosion of flavor?

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

I used to view Donald Trump simply as a solid, effective president... someone who delivered results on the economy, borders, and foreign policy without all the usual political polish.

But over time, I've come to see something much bigger: the entire American political system has been rotten and corrupt for decades. It's not just isolated scandals or bad actors; it's a deeply entrenched network of career politicians, unelected bureaucrats, lobbyists, intelligence agencies, and media gatekeepers who operate as a self-protecting "uniparty" or "swamp."

They prioritize their own power, insider deals, endless wars, and special interests over the actual needs of everyday Americans. Elections often feel like theater, with the same outcomes no matter who wins—more debt, more control, more erosion of freedoms.

What sets Trump apart is that he's the only major figure in modern politics who's truly taken on that machine head-on and actually shaken it. Previous leaders talked tough about reform but ultimately played along with the system, got rich from it, or were too tied into it to challenge it meaningfully.

Donald Trump, as a DC outsider who didn't need their approval or their money, has exposed the corruption, fought back against weaponized institutions, and forced the hidden power structures into the open... even when it meant relentless attacks, impeachments, indictments, and lawfare aimed directly at him and his children.

He's far from perfect, and the battle is far from over, but for the first time in my lifetime, someone has genuinely threatened the status quo and refused to back down. That's why the pushback against him has been so ferocious: he represents the real possibility of dismantling the corrupt system rather than just managing it.

To me, supporting him now isn't just about one good presidency... it's about finally having a fighter who's willing to take on the whole rigged game for the sake of the country, and God help us if he fails.

[Dennis @macphyter]

@heynavtoor Very cool, but Wikipedia? The future is doomed!

[Dennis @macphyter]

@RepMGS Real ID would have made a great method for voting... until blue states started giving it out to anyone with a pulse, making it useless.