Steven Rant

off the right track

[Chase Geiser @realchasegeiser]

Simon was just found dead.

[jazz 🎃 @allergictojoy]

se conmueven con las fotos de hace 25 años de las torres gemelas pero le hacen la vista gorda a esto que está pasando justo ahora

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

I heard him vote "no". You heard him vote "no". Why are they allowed to change his vote?

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS announces the TRUMP DIVIDEND: If Republicans win both the House and the Senate, because of our tremendous economic success, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis, quit worrying and go do something real

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.

That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.

It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.

[Brian Tashman @briantashman]

Horrific statements from Hasan Piker today in the New York Times comparing Israeli actions to Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust that’ll surely be covered by CNN and condemned by every Democratic leader

Oh wait they’re from Israeli generals and officials

[tess @kimyerisms]

Hello America! This week, [spins wheel] TOFU is contaminated with [spins wheel] INK!

[Lynne C. @LynneShasta40]

I hope everyone will read Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. It’s a two minute read. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations I'd never considered.

I took this picture of my receipt in my beautiful town Kerrville Texas. I support this and I can see how this could affect our kids by having gaps in work ethic, financial literacy, and community connection.

Dave Ramsey repost:

HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

Copy and paste to your page if you like! Posted from a friend…. I agree 💯

[Good Ranchers @GoodRanchers]

A few days ago, a plan was announced to bring 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef into the United States over the next 90 days through a tariff waiver.

Years in this industry keep bringing us back to the same truth: quality starts with knowing where your food comes from. Grass-fed, prime, choice, organic, all-natural... these words get thrown around constantly. None of them matter if there's no accountability behind them. And right now, there is very little accountability in what's coming.

Nobody knows where this beef is coming from. Nobody knows how the animals were raised, what they were fed, or what antibiotics and vaccines were used. There is no mandatory country of origin labeling for ground beef in this country. Congress repealed that in 2015, which means this beef can sit next to American beef in your grocery store with no obligation to tell you anything about it.

This isn't alarmism. History is just worth paying attention to. In 2013, Europe went through a massive food fraud scandal when products labeled as beef tested anywhere from 30 to 100% horse meat. The package said beef. It wasn't beef. This happened because supply chains got too long, oversight got thin, and accountability broke down.

The cattle markets dropped sharply the morning this announcement came out. American ranchers who have spent years rebuilding their herds after drought and rising costs are now competing against government-subsidized foreign beef coming in below market price. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association called it unsustainable, and they're right.

At Good Ranchers, the position has always been clear. Every product is American born, raised, and harvested. No antibiotics, no added hormones.

Pay attention to what's on your label. If it doesn't tell you where your beef came from, ask why.

[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

This might be the best case to ban all ALPR Cameras after flock cameras just ruined an innocent Florida woman’s life.

Cops used one ALPR hit to pin a triple-fatal hit-and-run on 23-year-old Lindsey Isaacs. Seized her undamaged black Durango, claimed “damage,” then arrested her 6 months later after she sued to get it back.

She sat in jail 13 days facing life in prison.

They ignored the maroon paint transfer, the partial plate that didn’t match, the airbag that never deployed, and witnesses. Just took the first Durango Flock flagged.

7 months of hell. Charges finally dropped when they got the actual driver.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

You’re absolutely right — that did kill your plants and that’s my mistake

[Phoenix Insurgent @PhxInsurgent]

This guy nails it. This surveillance technology creates a system of default suspicion, or pre-crime, as he puts it, wherein we are all transformed into perpetual suspects in an infinite open police investigation that never ends.

[滿帖子乖謬之言觀汝似有瘋症 @remmettmaxwell]

one of the twists in real world AI is that, in scifi, it was assumed that the danger would be that we'd raise the machine to the level of a human soul. but to be honest, it seems we're most in danger of debasing the human soul to the level of machine.

[Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead]

This is like being a meth head and asking someone who's never done meth how they're going to get through their day without meth

[catjeans | Jenna Savage @catjeans]

This is so dystopian. We’re really removing any semblance of human connection and understanding.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: U.S. is reportedly preparing a computer simulation to test how it would mobilize American manpower in a national draft, months before automatically registering men ages 18 to 26.

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Good lord this edit. Insane.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

job’s done ✅

[Teddy @toneill92]

Genuinely funny that every Knicks fan that has been watching these playoffs thought “okay they cut it to 15 we might have something here” at 0.5% win probability