Karmelo Anthony deserves the death penalty.
He was clearly motivated by nothing other than pure racial hatred for White men, just like the Sikh killer in the UK.
The courts need to make an example out of these pieces of shit to send a message that this evil won’t be tolerated.
This is bizarre. My reply to this post has been top reply for days, with 18k likes.
But now it is hidden. When you search either by most relevant or most liked, far less liked replies show up top. And it's hidden in search.
Is X shadowbanning commenters? @nikitabier@elonmusk
My top five bad arguments from this anti-robotaxi piece in @TheAtlantic:
🚫 Sure, 1.2 million die in car crashes each year, but "90% are in low- and middle-income countries, which are not in Waymo's expansion plans."
By that logic, why bother inventing vaccines? Most child deaths happen in the developing world anyway — except vaccines got rolled out everywhere, because adoption drives down cost. Smartphones weren't designed for poor Africans either, yet there are 700 millions of them in Africa now, with penetration rates around 70%.
🚫 Robotaxis could "displace millions of people employed as drivers."
So did the mechanical cotton picker, which replaced millions of stoop laborers. Does anyone wish that brutal work back? Before the industrial revolution, the vast majority of people worked in agriculture. Self-driving cars will actually help poor people by making private transportation affordable for everyone. Protecting low-wage jobs by forbidding the safer, cheaper alternative just traps people in poverty.
🚫 "When companies talk about safety… they just want to sell their product."
Sure, and so do the makers of seatbelts, fire extinguishers, and antibiotics. I guess you should never buy those? Companies profit from safety precisely because people value safety and will pay for it. That's not a gotcha; it's free markets working as advertised.
🚫 "The taxi is one of the few places we brush against other ways of living."
Nobody is banning human contact, not even in transportation. By all means, take a human Uber if you feel so inclined. Or chat with your barista, or strike up a conversation with a stranger on the street. Or pay for a human guide. Keeping people in dangerous, low-wage driving jobs is just using humans as set decoration.
🚫 "Studies show automated vehicles are less able to detect people of color."
This was a preprint. In the peer-reviewed version, the racial gap disappeared — a 29.71% vs 30.15% miss rate. And it tested generic open-source camera models, not Waymo, which navigates with lidar and radar, where skin tone is physically irrelevant. (See @KelseyTuoc's debunk: https://t.co/6dWXbnfM0I) Even if it were real, it would be a simple, solvable engineering problem. You're really clutching at straws.
✅ What the piece leaves out entirely: @Waymo reports ~92% fewer serious car crashes and ~92% fewer injury-causing pedestrian crashes than human drivers.
It's a shame that this was published in my favorite magazine @TheAtlantic, which is generally pro-progress and pro-abundance.
https://t.co/lnh6hDQXF8
If the Democrats can steal any election they want, it means they stood down in 2024 and let Trump win.
“The Jewish lobby wanted him to win and so I think the left just stood down. How many high powered Jewish oligarchs defected from the Democrat side to the Republican side?”
Beloved EO (and RC) Saint, Maximus the Confessor teaches that the See of Rome is the GREATEST of ALL churches since it is NEVER overcome by the gates of hell. (Maximus Confessor, Opuscula 11 [PG 91, 137C–140B])
Below the quote is Phil Booth's (a leading academic historian of late antiquity and early Byzantium) asessment of the beliefs and teachings of the Saint. Crisis of Empire (2014), p. 272.
Years ago, I read the following anecdote somewhere: Once, in Spain, a Protestant "missionary" attempted to "convert" a socialist: "Do you know Jesus?" The response: "My good man, stop right there; I do not even believe in the true faith, so how could I believe in yours?"
I have a lot of respect for Basil’s laser focus on Bostock. Every day, drilling it into our skulls bc no one else is ever talking about it, not caring whether anyone gets tired of hearing about it.
Nothing can stop a charismatic man’s monomania when it’s in concordance with God. This is how change begins.
The only reason we didn’t make peace with Iran 20 years ago is because the nuclear-armed pariah state of Israel will not tolerate the existence of any rivals that limit its expansion & influence.
Our “forever wars” have been one systematic campaign to make Israel a superpower.