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@nickkokonas And now you are the inspiration for many others. Happy Fourth!

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

I OPPOSE the Save Our Bacon Act and any attempt to jam it into the Farm Bill.

This bill would gut state food safety and animal welfare laws, wipe out voter-approved protections, and strip states like NY of the right to set basic standards.

It's a giveaway to Big Ag and meat monopolies, punishing family farmers who followed the rules, while giving the biggest corporations more power to squeeze farmers and families.

Congress should be lowering food costs, not rewarding the monopolies driving them up. The Save Our Bacon Act does not belong in the Farm Bill, and I will fight to keep it out.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

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@dwarkesh_sp Thank you so much for this @dwarkesh_sp . Truly honorable use of your platform

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@thsottiaux Linux codex app + remote control

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@RepAshleyHinson @RepAshleyHinson disgusting and inhumane. You have brought so much suffering into the world through your corruption. Fix the crates.

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@CongressmanGT @HouseAgGOP Disgusting corrupt, inhumane @CongressmanGT
Fix the crate issue

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@Fullcarry the man was a comedian after all

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@jgreco Ah check, sounds like I should’ve neutralized for follower enthusiasm then. I’m sure there’s some benchmark you’re outperforming ha

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@jgreco Yeah, but is it commensurate w/ follower ratio? Or are you outperforming after neutralizing that factor? (Nice wine choice, btw)

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@0xdoug @Bonecondor Will say Breville’s So₂mmelier does a pretty good job ‘hyperdecanting’. Wouldn’t use it on everything, but I was pleasantly surprised by it

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@bmiller22 Had folks get phished for info via calls pretending to be other coworkers, all from a recruiter looking for more phone numbers, names, group info, etc. pretty insane

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@MacroTactical "It's gonna cost you to be great
You will have to sacrifice something to be great"
(outro on Ego Death)

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@bmiller22 first-in-first-out narrative-driven markets

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@volwit Edge was in identifying earlier, but hard to do + risk there of unsubstantiated investment. strategic + tactical positioning tricky!

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@volwit Momentum trading in a nutshell! No, but more seriously definitely plays to a number of human biases and seems pretty ubiquitous as well IME. Much like hype cycle hard to manage--optics are bad if you're missing a big wave, even if real frictions entering.

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@donnelly_brent @EpsilonTheory hyped

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@therobotjames @AgustinLebron3 @margi52078304 @choffstein @SinclairEuan @agurevich23 Ha true enough! I guess amalgam of most books serve as rehash / subset / new eyes on of Expected Returns or some such tome of platonic investment Forms in the limit :)