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Bayesian Filter retweeted
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, once went through the major U.S. government departments and said which ones should stay and which should go:
• Department of Agriculture: Abolish
• Department of Commerce: Abolish
• Department of Defense: Keep
• Department of Education: Abolish
• Department of Energy: Abolish (move the nuclear/military piece under Defense)
• Department of Health and Human Services: Cut in half (limited public health role only)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development: Abolish
• Department of the Interior: Sell off most government land, and abolish
• Department of Justice: Keep
• Department of Labor: Abolish
• Department of State: Keep
• Department of Transportation: Abolish
• Department of Treasury: Keep (to collect taxes)
• Department of Veterans Affairs: Pay veterans off, and abolish
Result: roughly 14 departments down to about 4–5.
Government’s real jobs, he said: defend the country, keep the peace, and protect people from being coerced by others. Everything else is outside its proper role.
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ohno what if retiring root certs bencomes necessary or even—@eigenrobot, do you see what im seeing?
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Rich Young Man: "Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
Jesus: "Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me."
Sola Scriptura Guy: "Don't listen to him! He may be God, but He's preaching works-based salvation! You must not listen to this man!"
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Info for Canadians Under 30
Combined ranking: median income after taxes:
1 Massachusetts $104,828
2 New Jersey $104,294
3 Maryland $102,905
4 Hawaii $100,745
5 California $100,149
6 New Hampshire $99,782
7 Washington $99,389
8 Colorado $97,113
9 Utah $96,658
10 Connecticut $96,049
11 Alaska $95,665
12 Virginia $92,090
13 Delaware $87,534
14 Minnesota $87,117
15 New York $85,820
16 Oregon $85,220
17 Rhode Island $83,504
18 Illinois $83,211
19 Vermont $82,730
20 Arizona $81,486
21 Idaho $81,166
22 Nevada $81,134
23 Georgia $79,991
24 Texas $79,721
25 North Dakota $77,871
26 Florida $77,735
27 Pennsylvania $77,545
28 Wisconsin $77,488
29 South Dakota $76,881
30 Maine $76,442
31 Nebraska $76,376
32 Wyoming $75,532
33 Kansas $75,514
34 Iowa $75,501
35 Montana $75,340
36 North Carolina $73,958
37 Michigan $72,389
38 South Carolina $72,350
39 Ohio $72,212
40 Tennessee $71,997
41 Indiana $71,959
42 Missouri $71,589
43 New Mexico $67,816
44 Alabama $66,659
45 Oklahoma $66,148
46 Kentucky $64,526
47 Arkansas $62,106
48 🇨🇦 Alberta $62,269
49 Louisiana $60,986
50 West Virginia $60,798
51 Mississippi $59,127
52 🇨🇦 Ontario $58,035
53 🇨🇦 British Columbia $55,334
54 🇨🇦 Saskatchewan $55,115
55 🇨🇦 Manitoba $52,560
56 🇨🇦 Quebec $50,224
57 🇨🇦 Newfoundland and Labrador $49,640
58 🇨🇦 Prince Edward Island $48,107
59 🇨🇦 New Brunswick $47,523
60 🇨🇦 Nova Scotia $46,866
Bayesian Filter retweeted
£4.30 for lamb kofte and chips at Wrexham.
Can't fault the price. The presentation, on the other hand, needs a serious rethink.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Image is AI
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Transgenderism arose when it did because it requires a sufficient detachment from reality to be endemic in the population.
Men who have their ideas of women formed by porn and women who have their ideas of men formed by feminism are sufficiently detached from the reality of what sex is and what the sexes are, for the idea that sex was merely a contingent thing in humans, rather than one of our essential determinations.
Weirdly, and incoherently, the people who did this also generally acknowledge that sexuality is central to human existence and the human condition.
Think about that. They think SEXUALITY is essential, but that SEX is merely an imaginary social construct. They have become so detached from reality that they no longer grasp sex as act or sex as desire as HAVING ANYTHING TO DO with the two sexes.
This is simply the logical consequence of accepting that homosexuality is just the same as and not worse or different than the natural human thing that produces children. And the logical consequence of feminism, that decided men and women were identical and interchangeable in all respects.
Yes, the terfs have been indispensable in beating back the scourge of Transgenderism, but feminism birthed it, and the terfs are not your friends in trying to undo the damage of feminism to men and women.
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India's top IT guy trying to come up with a new password for the entire internet
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Stereotype accuracy is perhaps the single most enduring and replicable effect in the entire field of social science. A commonly-held stereotype is ~2x more likely to replicate than a peer-reviewed study. If your study suggests a stereotype is wrong, that's an extraordinary claim!
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Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish?
Expert: No, software is constantly evolving.
Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years?
Expert: No, different projects.
Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another?
Expert: That's not how software development works.
Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic.
Expert: Right.
Philomena: Is PHP like that?
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Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X.
When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5:
You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app.
However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening:
It was strengthening X.
If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet.
But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app.
Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet.
And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.
