David F. Prenatt, Jr
@netesq
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Juris Doctor @UCDavisLaw / Internet consultant / technology evangelist / cognitive science dilettante / posthumanist / lifelong libertarian / Bitcoin / $MSTR
California, USA
Joined March 2011
A hard-working family wanting to keep more of their own money gets called “selfish.” But people demanding that those families fund endless programs they never voted for, never oversee, and can’t audit… that gets labeled “compassion.” That’s moral vanity with someone else’s
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It's low-key funny that all of politics and international relations immediately falls apart as soon there is an empowered person not acting in good faith. The entire order of the world is literally just vibes lmao
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WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I pressed Rubio on whether he and Hegseth lied to Congress when promising to seek congressional approval before attacking Venezuela. This was his response:
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It appears that Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants, as most people who are in a position to stop him don’t even try; those who do quickly find themselves marginalized.
Democrats: this isn’t a debate about whether Maduro was bad. This is about whether a U.S. president can use the military to unilaterally depose a foreign leader—without congress, our allies, support from the American people, or a plan for what comes after.
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Every law is *ULTIMATELY* backed by the *POSSIBLE* threat of deadly force, as is every negative human right. To wit, “No, I will not go quietly, and the law gives you no right to make me just do what you want me to do.” Problem is, all too many people just go along to get along.
I once tried to explain to someone that every law is backed by the implicit threat of death, and they wouldn't accept it. People don't want to believe that law and order is meaningless without violence. They think the words themselves are magic.
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I think it was Alan Watts who once said, “The universe has a tendency to exist.”
What if the laws of the universe are just… temporary? Lately I’ve been in a phase of slow reading. Mostly concepts I don’t fully get yet. And I noticed something quietly unsettling: almost everything I’ve ever learned is something already proven to work. Laws that repeat,
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@TheVixhal Vibe coding is largely a waste of time unless you are a competent programmer who is fluent in the underlying programming language and who can spot the inevitable coding errors made by an LLM. Even then, an LLM is only going to be an - at best - 80 percent solution.
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Peer review isn’t necessary for good science, but it does makes good science better.
Hot take: without peer review, there is no science The goal of science is to establish facts about the world that do not depend on any single person’s perceptions, assumptions, or methods. Therefore, a critical part of science is having results assessed by at least one other
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“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war
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Trump’s chief of staff plainly stated Trump just violated the constitution (and law) in his quest to steal Venezuela’s oil
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@netesq The political landscape is shaped by a mix of institutional failures, media influence, judicial decisions, and voter choices. Blaming non-voters or third-party supporters overlooks deeper issues like the two-party duopoly and ranked-choice voting alternatives. Real change
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Number 5 is bullshit. There is no way that people who choose to vote for third party candidates or choose not to vote at all are responsible for the mess America is in. Voting for the supposed lesser of two evils is a vehicle that inevitably delivers demagogues like Trump.
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Anyone and everyone who ever voted for the Traitorous Mister Trump in a state primary and/or a general election.
Here's a list of people I blame for where we are today. 1. Merrick Garland 2. Mitch McConnell 3. The Senators who voted not to "impeach and convict" 4. Fox News 5. The people who "sat it out" in 2016 6. The 147 Republicans who voted not to certify the election even after Jan 6th
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In the last Gilded Age, Wall Street virtually controlled our government and turned the U.S. military into “a high-class muscle man for Big Business.” We’re living in the Second Gilded Age now, and history is repeating itself. We can do better in this country.
And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
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the most dire pre-election warnings about how Trump would damage America and the world, dismissed as hysterical at the time, were in fact understated
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I asked some of the women I know in real life about this, and their biggest complaint was not AI-generated deep fakes of them naked/sexualized, but rather the nonstop avalanche of obviously fake dick pics that has been flooding their inboxes for decades.
We know this. We have known this. We know that men generate sexual AI photos of us and that it is easy. They have been sending them to us and posting them online for over a year now. You live in a fantasy world if you think women online aren’t completely aware of this.
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