Jon Ide

Grateful optimist. Learn like you’ll live forever. Read David Deutsch. There will always be problems. Problems can be solved.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Astonishing fact.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

So much political discourse is wasted on addressing problems that don’t even exist.

“What’s causing our awful educational outcomes?” Our outcomes are great when you adjust for race, our schools are frankly overfunded, and there aren’t significant racial funding gaps.

“What’s causing the autism epidemic? Is it vaccines, or microplastics?” There is no autism epidemic. It’s just definition creep.

“How do we save the bees?” The bee population actually bounced back, you just didn’t hear about it.

“How do we get the poison out of our food?” It’s not poisonous, it’s just cheap and tasty so we get fat.

There are so many real, difficult, important problems we need to solve but we waste our time fighting phantoms.

[Jon Ide @pastpeak]

@ArtemisConsort @RokoMijic @ArtemisConsort Explain?

[Jon Ide @pastpeak]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Just bought the bundle for a gift. I’ve been listening to the audiobook. So good. Biggest surprise: how funny it is. I read the ebook a while ago, but the audiobook lands differently. Funnier than I remembered. Bravo!

[Jon Ide @pastpeak]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Just got mine and started listening. I read the e-book a while back, but I can already tell I’m *really* going to enjoy the audiobook. Loving it already!

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

The very term 'self-conscious', as used when discussing phenomena like stage-fright is evidence that thinking about one's thought is not only rare but disruptive in creative thinking.

[Official Jon Lajoie @jonlajoiecomedy]

Look who’s podcasting

[Thibault @thib_boi]

Don't concede that "wealth inequality" is an issue.

Inequality is an issue only if you think that envy is a correct moral stance.

The actual issue is poverty. Technology and capitalism help reduce poverty by making goods and services cheaper.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Psst. Quick question.

Israeli has a pretty decent air force, don’t ya think?

Its navy ain’t too shabby either.

Since ya think Israel is trying to flatten Gaza and commit genocide, is there any reason it doesn’t just do exactly that?

Why send in foot soldiers and risk their lives?

Why warn Gaza about an upcoming attack?

Why use precision bombs and not just 500 ton bombs to flatten Gaza?

Asking for a friend.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy."

@naval

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

Emily Damari tonight in the Maccabi Tel Aviv game.

She is simply special.💛

[The Wolf Man @iTheWolfman]

The coach encouraged the girl who failed and helped her try again

[Aaron Stupple @astupple]

It’s not the Internet’s fault for revealing the prison walls.

[Jon Ide @pastpeak]

@johnnyxbrown @NavalismHQ Blueprint

[Jon Ide @pastpeak]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @AnEriksenWife Yes, do!! Your posts on this topic have completely rearranged my brain. I really enjoy your fiction, and I get that it pays the bills, but your non-fiction writing is without peer.

[Jon Ide @pastpeak]

@probnstat We need more information. We know he lies 1 time out of 4, but we don’t know how he lies. Maybe when he lies his answer is chosen randomly. Or maybe when he sees a number other than six he always says it’s a six. Or maybe when it’s not a six he never says it’s a six.

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

This Jew is asking ALL THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.

Antisemites are terrified by it.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

What a hero!

[Naval @naval]

The people who start the wars don’t fight them, the people who spend the taxes don’t pay them, and the people who forgive the criminals don’t live next to them.

Of course we’re going to have too many wars, too much spending, and too much crime.

[Einav Avizemer | עינב אביזמר @EinavAvizemer]

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