Geoff Graham
@geoffreydgraham
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Atlanta, GA, USA
Joined June 2008
If maintaining global supremacy meant human sacrifice by the powerful elite, why would we want to live in that country?
@Empty_America I feel like the steel man is also a very compelling argument to do it: We are operating on the basis of an illusion, but it's an effective one. The files will implicate an insane number of very powerful people and institutions, which will cause a catastrophic implosion of what
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I wouldn't go this far, but it's good to see Libertarians going to extremes about The Right Things.
It's about time we stop eating the youth. End Social Security
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A huge reason school is generally terrible and tends to get worse is that it's overwhelmingly the kids who loved school who become teachers and administrators. Rather than reforming the institution, they optimize for the (unusual) kids who want to be there. The cycle repeats.
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Humans are naturally motivated to learn, and if a majority of kids hate being in school, are disengaged, etc—with or without smartphones—it's worth questioning whether or not there is something fundamentally wrong with institutionalized education.
In the following settings, phones are not banned and yet they are very rarely used: - Family meals - Dinners with friends - Professional meetings - Church services Why is that?
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Regulation and Corporatism CORRELATE. This is ironic, because America’s biggest advocates FOR regulation are ostensibly America’s biggest advocates AGAINST corporatism.
There is a big irony with deregulation: Small, local, nimble operators outperform their large competitors in low regulation environments, BUT abrupt change in regulation tends to advantage those with the fastest access to the most capital. eg Russian oligarchs vs Russian
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@geoffreydgraham Norms are shifting to see pulling out your phone as a faux pas. That and a sign of lack of self-control, embarrassing. Nature is healing?
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And in the rare instances when smartphones are used in those settings, it’s nearly always for constructive, group-related purposes. I don’t think my experience is atypical. What is different about gatherings for church, business, family, and friends?
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In the following settings, phones are not banned and yet they are very rarely used: - Family meals - Dinners with friends - Professional meetings - Church services Why is that?
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My dad used to use the phrase “you build a horse by committee, you get a camel” whenever a project was beset by lack of clarity about who was in charge. Is that a common phrase? I thought so but then I used it at work the other day and apparently I was the only one????
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There is a big irony with deregulation: Small, local, nimble operators outperform their large competitors in low regulation environments, BUT abrupt change in regulation tends to advantage those with the fastest access to the most capital. eg Russian oligarchs vs Russian
@musharbash_b @VelshiMSNBC Thanks for highlighting this important little-known/remembered history. The irony is that small/nimble/local/independent operators have more advantages in less regulated environments, but those with the fastest access to the most capital have enormous advantage during periods of
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Owning & operating a personal car is expensive, let alone a family fleet. Sprawl as we know it would never have happened if the costs of infrastructure were passed on to users. Since car-centric lifestyles are subsidized, people have no idea what the true costs are.
@AndyM1928 @Boenau Let’s start charging bikes as Motorists pay to much as is!!!!
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My view is “Intellectual Property” is a silly construct, but putting that aside, IP squatting, patent trolling, and lawfare by Amazon, BigPharma, etc are rampant and keep would-be competitors from entering markets because BigCo leverages the IP protections afforded them by the
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Why is “Intellectual Property” not taxed similarly to tangible property?
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How to lie with statistics: A mayor is asked, "Is crime up or down?" He responds: "The simple answer is..." and he lists categories of crime that are down—without acknowledging that total crime and total violent crime are both up (26% and 35% respectively).
This is a good example of how Democratic mayors should be talking about crime — just abandoning “defund” rhetoric is not enough.
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It had never occurred to me until now that "restaurants" were so-named because they helped to restore.
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In ye olden days, programmers wrote out their code in longhand. https://t.co/MQP2LrSswS
just read this in an investor update "older engineers who graduated from college pre-GPT are actually the best-suited for our purposes. They have fundamental programming ability that's lost amongst most of the current-gen." the AI-induced thinking/skills decay has begun wild
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I am just assuming it was engineered and is functioning as designed. Occam’s razor.
In ten, fifteen years we're going to learn that this was genetically engineered in a bioweapon lab by a cabal of radical vegans convinced they were stopping Mother Gaia from catching a fever.
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Related (via @MacSheaHere):
@geoffreydgraham Absolutely nailed it Geoff. Frustrating that most conservatives don’t see the issue with it. As Joel Salatin pointed out, in 1950s avg distance food traveled farm to table was 60 miles. Today, it’s 1500 miles. Urban planning, ag, transit, housing costs, are all linked.
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We can just stop after Step 1. There is no rule that forces us to go past that.
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