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“To hold a pen is to be at war.” -Voltaire

[Cal @RunOnCal]

This whole experiment has been awesome. Both sides claiming they are 100% just and accusing the other of being evil. The lesson is not which side is right. The lesson is how we communicated about it.

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

Use rent control to inhibit economic activity and the ability of owners to fix problems

Attack owners for not fixing problems

Seize property

Communism

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I will tell you how we got here.

This app turned American public discourse into a video game, where whoever could get the biggest insult-mob on their side "won".

Then people started realizing that a massive multiplayer insult-based video-game actually has negative consequences.

[Cal @RunOnCal]

@Noahpinion You make it sound like the US can’t compete militarily with anyone ever. If what you say is true, only Ukraine and Russia are ahead. This doesn’t put us behind China or Venezuela or the UK or France or…
Obsolete is a misleading word.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway."

[Cal @RunOnCal]

@Noahpinion Entitlements. We need to end entitlements, and that is a very difficult and complex task.

[Cal @RunOnCal]

Not the biggest Bezos fan but he cooked in this interview.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Jeff Bezos on America's spending and taxes:

"We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The Top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all taxes. The bottom 50% pay just 3%. We have a spending problem."

[All-Father - 🇵🇸 @AllFatherMedia]

Literally every game should have this as a standard feature. Not every Assassin's Creed game. EVERY game.

[Cal @RunOnCal]

@tomselliott @AOC What do people not understand about this?

[Cal @RunOnCal]

He’s not wrong

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."

[Cal @RunOnCal]

You negotiated the price of the material, stitched the garment yourself, and sold it directly to a customer, and chose to keep only 4% for yourself? Impressively loyal.

[Jack @whothehellsjack]

No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I’m making the company. I’ll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It’s more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted

[Cal @RunOnCal]

@esjesjesj @SethDillon Are you suggesting that trans people committing murder is justified until cis white men stop committing murder?

[Cal @RunOnCal]

@SynthPotato If enough people stop paying, prices will drop. Otherwise this price increase signals demand for PS Plus at a premium.

[Cal @RunOnCal]

Tie congressional salaries to budget performance. Not tomorrow. Now.

[Cal @RunOnCal]

Did he really just complain about compensation and then refer to other congresspeople as idiots?

These f***ing people. Out with all of them.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

All the haters can kiss my ass

[Cal @RunOnCal]

@CultureCrave He would be a great Mr. Freeze…

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

There is no such thing as a free meal.

There are no solutions — only tradeoffs.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Read this book and give it to all your friends.

Survival of civilization depends on it!

[Matt Reeves @mattreevesLA]

Out of the shadows... Welcome. 🦇🦇

[Cal @RunOnCal]

The labor freed by AI from obsolete roles will shift to their next most valuable demand. What is that? We often don’t know until we’re there. That has been the case for every industrial transition in history.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Big Tech companies are sprinting forward, building data centers as fast as they can, sometimes using eminent domain to seize the land by force, making their AI more and more powerful, expanding the technology at lightening speed with no guardrails of any kind at all. Yet none of these tech gurus or any of their apologists have even attempted to explain what exactly all of the millions of people who lose their jobs, and the increasing numbers who lose their homes, all sacrificed on the AI altar, are supposed to do. How does society support millions of unemployed and displaced people? What becomes of a society where algorithms and machines do everything, and a few people become trillionaires while millions more lose everything? There is no answer to any of this. They aren’t even attempting to answer it. Instead we’re simply told that China exists and we have to “beat them” in some unspecified way, in order to achieve some unspecified goal. We’re going to obliterate entire industries, entire categories of jobs all at once, and the only justification anyone can give is “China.” It’s madness.