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If you're here to figure out if I'm 'that type of person you hate': ❤️👋 Vi/Vim

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You must take quiet daily beauty for granted.
You must spurn the people who invite you to enjoy it with them.
Anything that is common is worthless.
The star-sized fusion reactor in the sky is no big deal.

Just say "fuck" a lot.
Just be miserable.
With the rest of us.
Hahaha....

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Louis CK: Ridiculous is now playing on Netflix

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@LizzyStarrrdust Turns out we all want romantic partners who are just out-of-their-mind gaga over you.

Who would have thought?

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@LizzyStarrrdust Incidentally men also fail here a bit. Porn typically depicts men stoically thrusting, completely silent. And many men learn to jerk off silently at home.

But one of the most common things women desire but don't get in bed is sounds of pleasure, etc.

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@webdevMason This idea that you'll date and bang a woman who somehow looks 25 forever is just a weird form of too-online Peter Pan syndrome.

Before you grow old yourself, find someone you want to grow old with. And then don't sell them out after 40 years.

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@webdevMason I really think one of the most poetic things imaginable is looking into the eyes of an old woman who loves you, face wrinkled from thousands of laughs and tears you were there to witness, and realizing she spent her youth loving you.

Modern men really need to rediscover poetry.

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@eigenrobot

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@goblinodds Yeah, I wouldn't have chosen that word. But a woman was shot in the chest and killed while trying to enter a barricaded room defended by police, in addition to dozens of more minor injuries and damage to the Capitol.

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@goblinodds "Let's get back to work."

Walked back into the Senate a few hours after rioters had raided it and certified his own election loss.

Generational courage and integrity tbh.

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@goblinodds Unironically might be the best VP of my lifetime.

I disagreed with him on plenty of policy, but the man had principles and stuck to them even when a mob was calling for his execution.

Such a rarity anywhere today, especially in politics.

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@eigenrobot Feminist scholars will deny that the female nesting instinct exists, but those with eyes can see.

"Hmm... this social media site I joined isn't very comfortable, let's kick out some longstanding members I don't like and buy a few throw pillows to add a splash of color...."

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@eigenrobot There are some people who are down on their luck and need a hand.

There are many more who have simply become comfortable mooching off of friends and the government and decided that life is good enough for them.

None of those people deserve a dime of someone else's money.

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@eigenrobot Had a friend crash on my couch for a few weeks while she was "down and out." She bought steaks with EBT while doing cash jobs under the table (Onlyfans? I didn't pry...) to afford money for bar tabs.

I quickly found out why she didn't have other friends willing to let her crash.

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@eigenrobot If woke hadn't happened this would be a college buddy movie already. https://t.co/jrRCSaJ06d

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This would make a good college buddy movie. Two dudes move to Silicon Valley and impersonate founders to bag spy girlfriends.

Eventually the spies get cut loose by their overlords and are being pursued by other spies and have to come clean. So do the guys: there were no secrets!

[Jaime Griesemer @32nds]

Ideas that sound good but have repeatedly backfired:

- Rent control (reduces supply and raises rents)
- Price controls (leads to rationing)
- Home loan subsidies (increases defaults and causes market crashes)
- Extremely progressive tax brackets (high earners have much higher income variance, sometimes going negative, so a bad year leads to massive budget shortfalls and debt)
- High capital gains taxes (too many investments fall below the zero-risk return rate, stalling the economy)
- Increasing the money supply (compounding inflation decreases purchasing power)

Indisputable economic and historical evidence shows these policies do not work. Yet politicians who know this keep promising them, and voters keep falling for it. I can’t blame educators or the media, as even they tell voters these policies do not work.

What’s the solution? I don’t believe in making people pass an Econ test to vote, but how many times do we let them drive into a wall?

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@politicalmath The biggest change for programming is not that it builds things better than I could, nor even faster. It's mostly that I only have time to focus on understanding and solving like... 20% of the problems I encounter in a day.

With AI I can put an agent on each task as I spot it.

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@politicalmath I think it will do much less than the folks with AI psychosis think, but much more than nothing.

Much human progress is bottlenecked not by intelligence, but by attention.

And AI makes it very cheap and easy to have an AI attend to things which would otherwise languish.

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@politicalmath Also this is not Bret's first time launching a political party.

I would also like to see a new party become successful, but our voting system is mathematically doomed to prevent a three party system.

So the replacing an existing party is the only real option and... good luck.

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@eigenrobot Yeah that's how they pierce them.

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@eigenrobot "But I can't/don't want to do that!" Then you are someone whose vote, if cast, is a net negative.

You should change that before voting so you can positively influence your nation. We don't owe you your vote simply for breathing.

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@eigenrobot Democracy is good, but universal suffrage was a mistake.

Understanding the basic structure of government and contributing to society via paying taxes should be prerequisites.

You have the right to vote. You have the responsibility to understand and help fund the system.