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[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@teodorio Claude code is in the app though. Do they actually nerf the same product when using it in the app vs a terminal? It still has access to all of your file systems, I don’t see why it should make a difference.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@mattyglesias I’m sure that a million people on Twitter/X told you, repeatedly and in detail, why it was an absurd scenario and you just ignored them. Glad you’re owning up to it though.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@kevinmcld @BriHReed @Cornell This sounds like a belief.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Buttigieg says data centers should have to prove that they'll benefit a local community before coming in.

This is the kind of thing that sounds good but would basically destroy the economy and American living standards.

Markets should allocate capital, not activists.

[tidux @skibidiblazor]

Thousands of people on this stupid website alternate between asking why we can't build things anymore and throwing toddler tantrums about AI and nuclear power and basically any form of new infrastructure. You are why. Fuck all of you.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@f_daNWO @vasalex93 @johnmoz I’m posing a separate, better question. Why do the communities get any say? If a company wants to buy a plot of land and build a data center, it’s no on else’s business - assuming they don’t violate others property rights (not feelings) in the process.

[Tom Moyer 🇺🇸 @TomMoyerUT]

Please stop demanding that everything be a jobs program.

The purpose of data centers is data. The purpose of electric power generation is power. They create jobs indirectly by delivering the services they deliver. <end rant>

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@f_daNWO @vasalex93 @johnmoz And why does that make you so mad? Why does someone building a company have to do it to please Rev Dev? Why can’t they do it just because they want to build AI and make money so they can build more AI? America was build on capitalism and individualism not collectivistic whining

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. I'll share one from just today as an example.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.

No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.

The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.

Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.

Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.

Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.

The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”

America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.

Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.

Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.

It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"It’s a quirk of American political thought that we revere rich athletes and entertainers, whose talents are on very public display..Yet when it comes to billionaires, whose skills are often exercised in invisible ways, many of us grow beady-eyed and wary" https://t.co/LVBH3QFycO

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The funny thing about applying 1800s robber baron tropes to modern billionaires is that most new billionaires are in tech and tech is famously a nice industry to work in. Yeah the Google PMs with their free buffets and ping pong tables and 300k TC are really being exploited lmao.

I can pretty much guarantee that the average pay of people who work for billionaires/big corporations, and the working conditions, are drastically better than those of mom-and-pop sole proprietorships or local chains. Marxism is just comically out of touch with modernity. They even (often) give you equity! They make you a capitalist too!

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@gfodor Everyone voting blue is going to leave all the red kids without parents in a traumatized world when they all die. Very selfish.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@RokoMijic If everyone just pursues their own rational self interest, they don’t step into the blender and no one dies. There’s zero reason to do it.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@StoneFacedBoy @Dani_Activist It’s not a “belief” that you are conscious. It’s self evident and irrefutable.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@Devon_Eriksen_ …not a house. The problem isn’t the word justice, it’s your understanding of it.

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Justice means getting what you deserve, according to a rational objective standard. By no objective standard do you deserve a private island if you haven’t done the work to earn the means to purchase it. Similarly, a feral drug addict who endangers the public deserves prison, …

[Satoshimoto @Satoshimoto2]

@Fuego_215 @ThrillaRilla369 Then you don’t make any money and starve eventually

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Democracy is not freedom. It is a method of selecting leaders. Without a philosophical foundation in individual rights, it is simply a mechanism by which the majority votes itself into tyranny. The American Founders understood this, which is why they created a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

Gad Saad is right about the hypocrisy. Obama celebrates democracy only when his side wins. But the deeper problem is that both sides worship democracy as an end in itself rather than recognizing it for what it is: a process that is only as good as the principles constraining it.

Hitler came to power through democratic processes. So did Mussolini, Chávez, Mugabe, Erdoğan, Lukashenko, Putin, Fujimori, Marcos, Perón, Duvalier, and Orbán. Every one of them used the mechanisms of democracy to destroy freedom. The majority voted and the minority lost everything.

A constitutional republic that places individual rights beyond the reach of any vote, any majority, any government is the only system that protects the individual from the collective. Democracy without that foundation is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Obama does not understand this. Neither does the side celebrating when their candidate wins. Both treat democracy as sacred. It is not. Rights are sacred. Democracy is just a tool, and history proves it is a tool that tyrants use as comfortably as free men.