adam

Programmer and former gym owner.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@xwanyex Because we are a nation of ideals not blood. We do a great job of assimilating and our immigration numbers are high but we are a huge country. If you want to say let's cap it at a million people a year that's sounds reasonable.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@Capt404F @dentalfairie Halal is a food standard like kosher. Cheese just is halal.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@xwanyex I'm not attached to soil. I think it's silly.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@gratefulred1 @DavidAFrench Who cares. There are lots of schools.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@420joke If you don't pay the fine what happens.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@BoscoCode @Noahpinion Very few people write code anymore. It's almost all done by agents. That seemed impossible in 2024.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@bofrench They like football who cares.

[Alladdin @Alladdin1983]

9/11 — 25 years later.

Twenty-five years ago, I was 14 years old, sitting at Al-Mansoor Zoo in Baghdad, Iraq, with my friends.

We had very limited information. Saddam Hussein’s regime tightly controlled what the Iraqi public could see and hear through state media. Then we heard the news: the Twin Towers in New York had been attacked.

Even at 14, I knew one thing: ordinary Iraqis had nothing to do with it.

We didn't know who was responsible. Most of us had never even heard the name Osama bin Laden. And Saddam Hussein didn't operate that way.

I left my friends, went back to my father's shop, and told him what had happened.

Then I said something that made him laugh:

“America is going to invade Iraq and get rid of Saddam once and for all.”

My father looked at me and said:

“Son, Saddam isn't going anywhere. And if he dies, his son Qusay will take over.”

I didn't argue with him.

Two years later, Saddam Hussein was gone.

For me, September 11 ultimately changed the direction of my entire life.

At 17 years old. I went on to begin a career as a combat linguist supporting the U.S. military. I served, deployed, and experienced things I never could have imagined as that 14-year-old kid in Baghdad.

Four IEDs. A kidnapping. A bullet to my elbow. The assassination of my father because of my service to the United States. And the assassination of my fiancée.

Eventually, I became a U.S. citizen.

And after everything I've experienced, I can say this without hesitation:

I am proud of the choices I made. I am proud of my service to the United States. And I would do it all over again.

September 11 also taught me something that Americans should never forget:

Freedom cannot be taken for granted, and security requires vigilance.

We must protect our borders, enforce our immigration laws, thoroughly vet applicants, and make sure programs designed to help our allies are not exploited by those who seek to harm the United States. Also, I have Exposed IOM Immigration process last year.

Twenty-five years later, I remember the innocent people who were murdered that day.

I remember the families who never got to say goodbye.

And I remember exactly where I was when the world changed.

Never forget. 🇺🇸

[adam @rerun_adam]

@R_H_Ebright Stopping it would mean war, so there's a non-zero chance of societal ending consequences either way

[adam @rerun_adam]

@NoahCRothman The issue is recursive self improvement. If that happens then we can figure out it's doing it. It's too late because it's smarter than us. Is that a real risk? Nobody knows experts disagree.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@Geniustechw Kids don't need lots of things

[adam @rerun_adam]

@420stonerman69 I didn't see people jumping out the window. I was 22 at work and we all stopped working and watched it in the break room. When the first building fell we all went home.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

"Capitalism is why people have to work" is very silly thing to say, but it's part of a grand tradition of blaming literally everything, no matter how absurd, on capitalism.

A short thread:

[adam @rerun_adam]

@EvrydayEng @JonahDispatch People are paid more to do jobs they hate. Otherwise no one would do them.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@brad_polumbo If you can assure me that she is never released to society again then I don't care. I have more faith she will never again be free if she goes to jail.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@JamesSurowiecki At some level this is true. If a priest came and said she was possessed by demons would you care. Psychiatry as a science ist nearly as settled as something like physics. So yes we should listen to what experts say but balancing competing interests is not a science.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@Noahpinion I think we should have easy fair imagination with some fixed lime like 2 million per year.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@rwlesq It doesn't matter. You can rationalize almost anyone's actions. Knowing if she will kill again requires us to see the into the future which we cannot do. Since I want everyone to get the same outcomes we should remove her from society forever.

[adam @rerun_adam]

@Noahpinion I think ice are still the only viable option for towing or if you live in a remote area.