Nate

e/acc for local gov

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Douglass Mackey @douglassmackey]

It’s time for the president to end federally-backed student loans entirely. Watch the price shrink by 80 percent as all the DEI administrators are fired.

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

The more GPUs physically reside within your taxable jurisdiction the better hedged your community is against mass job loss.

It’s astounding how many local politicians are too retarded to understand this.

[hoe_math = PsychoMath @ItIsHoeMath]

Hello, smart miserable person here

The misery comes from lacking the power to solve the problems I can see.

I cannot see the world in this condition and then, like, go play guitar and be thrilled about it. We call this "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." I know the ship is sinking. Not everybody understands that the ship is sinking yet. I am trying to get everyone to understand the ship is sinking so we can do something about it. People tell me "go move the deck chairs around, maybe that will make you feel better."

I am currently using my intelligence to get other people to understand the mess we are in. I'm having a significant effect. It's not joyous though, it's super stressful. I have made myself ill with stress.

I hope that helps you understand. Intelligence is not a superpower. It does not make you a wizard that can conjure favorable conditions. An intelligent cow knows its friends will be slaughtered, but it cannot stop this just by knowing.

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

As @MayaMacGuineas explains, right now we spend $6 on seniors for every $1 on kids under 18. When Social Security began, seniors were the poorest — today children are.

To add insult to injury, we have mortgaged their future with $39 trillion in debt and growing. It is immoral what we are doing to our children and grandchildren.

[Adam Rossi @rossiadam]

The growth of the administrative class in every regulated industry has been breathtaking.

If these markets operated efficiently, we should see all of these administrative curves turn down sharply with AI….

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

While we waste time arguing about datacenter water and shit-brained populist policies and safety, China builds.

And they are about to go full bore into agents while we're still entertaining fools and lunatics as if they're serious people.

"China’s path to 50% AI agent adoption probably looks like 2-3 years, while the US and Europe are still arguing about enterprise security policies and SSO integration. And by the time Western companies figure out distribution, the Chinese ecosystem will have generated millions of real-world agent task trajectories that make their models better at actually doing things."

We need to wake up because this is not a path to another American century.

It's a path to a Chinese one.

We are on the most dangerous road, the one of every also-ran empire of the past, where we lose our reserve currency status and ability to print our way out of problems.

What does that look like? See every other former empire in history.

See England, Greece, Portugal, the Dutch and everyone else who once held pole position, including China in the Song dynasty that got devastated by the Mongols.

TLDR: A shallow shade of our former selves, picking through the scraps and trash in the long shadow of a new empire.

[Charles Haywood @TheWorthyHouse]

I know a 92-year-old man, who is senile and already had a bypass, who is having an elective aortic arch replacement. This will cost young, productive Americans trying to lead their lives and start families at least $500,000, and him nothing. Atrocious. All extraordinary medical care for anyone over 85 should have to be paid for in full by that person, or not be received. No more parasitical welfare for the old; no more stealing from the young so that old people can eke out a few more months of life. (Boomers who are offended, please unfollow me.)

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

"The President can't make private companies work with the military, it would be unprecedented!"

May 10, 1948

I HAVE today by Executive order taken over the country's railroads and directed the Secretary of the Army to operate them in the name of the United States Government.

[Notre Dame College Republicans @NDRepublicans]

Totally agree. And unlike the post-war era, because of the way Social Security payments are indexed to inflation, the federal government has almost no chance of inflating its way out of the coming sovereign debt crisis. We must find the courage to end the boomer entitlements gravy train and do it before it's too late.

[Notre Dame College Republicans @NDRepublicans]

One of the few things establishment Republicans sort-of got right. We must make massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

I have a 1960s mindset.

1. Defeat the communists

2. Build more houses

3. Build more nuclear powerplants

[White Papers Policy Institute @WhitePapersPol]

If you doubt the replacement of Americans is deliberate you should read this 2021 New York Times article.

Authors gloat very bluntly that immigrants were brought in, and Northern Virginia paved over to house them, in order to turn the state Blue.

Replacement migration is real.

https://t.co/AXOvXLZNI3

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

I don't blame Sen. Lee for being vague on this - everything that needs to happen will involve shifting costs to the old & benefits to the young

It's gonna hurt 401ks & house prices

No politician could survive solving this problem

[Zy @ZyMazza]

We are constantly held at gunpoint by the state to do whatever elderly people say because they are the single largest voting bloc. That’s why they get tax exemptions, socialized medicine, and untouchable drivers licenses while the rest of us get unbridled capitalism and the law

[Edward Badgette @acrimonyand]

There comes a point in the political sphere where “how do you poll with military aged males” is literally the only question that matters.

[Zy @ZyMazza]

This is the future I’m building

[Nate @throughnathan]

@macjshiggins This would make a great east coast hub for @internetarchive digital depository libraries should occupy the imagination the same way physical archives do with architecture like this...

[Gabe Guidarini @GabeGuidarini]

Old guard “conservative” market fundamentalism remains the most serious obstacle to Gen Z obtaining financial independence.

Republicans folding on immigration in the name of “market performance” are throwing us under the bus.

My piece in @ReadJunto: https://t.co/lZoJbIyU7W

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

The nexus of affordability, populism, and distrust in government is going to lead to a piling on tax gimmicks (no tax on tips, property tax rates for old people, 199A) such that the only taxpayers left in this country are w-2 workers earning between $80,000 and $250,000