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This is worth expanding and saying out loud: Musk and Trump aren't cutting waste and show no signs of interest in doing so. They're illegally cutting off valuable functions of government.
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Bonkers that left and right Musk is handicapping every agency that might try to regulate his companies or make him pay taxes, never would've expected that
LMAO, it looks like DOGE canceled the Security and Exchange Commission's Westlaw access, because Elon's team saw "Thomson Reuters" and thought it had to do with the news agency.
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"Imagine if government spending was publicly available on, on I dunno, some kind of website"
Great progress @DOGE
Imagine if every government expenditure was done transparently onchain. Would make it much easier to audit.
doge-tracker.com/
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I don't really have a take or opinion about Hogg per se, but I don't really see anything damning in this thread?
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So instead, RFK Jr only wants to fund research that we already know is fraudulent
RFK JR: "20 years ago NIH scientists did a study on amyloid on Alzheimer's in which they said it was caused by amyloid plaque. After that NIH shut down studies of any other hypothesis. Twenty years later we now know that those studies were fraudulent. NIH has funded 800 studies on a fraudulent hypothesis and we've lost 20 years in figuring out how to a cure for Alzheimer's. And that's just one example. I could give you hundreds. We need to end that."
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People, I need you to understand that I learned this in high school, and I grew up on a farm in the middle of fucking nowhere
It's absolutely staggering how many people believe that "discretionary spending" means that the president has discretion over whether to spend it. It doesn't mean that. Discretionary spending is spending that isn't an entitlement, and has to be appropriated every year.
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Can we talk about how Stephen Miller has been all in on Trump and Trumpism from the word go, but still somehow only ranks Deputy Chief of Staff?
When even Trump thinks you're a loser...
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller (@stephenm) says President Trump's executive order that halts federal grants and loans does "not affect any federal programs that Americans rely on, full-stop."
He also takes questions on immigration and trade policy.
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Yes, let's do it!
Let's show up where Dems have been missing.
Fox News. Local conservative radio. And new platforms and podcasts—from Joe Rogan to shows you’ve never heard of. And let’s build progressive media at the same time.
If I’m DNC Chair, we’re going on offense.
axios.com/2024/12/24/democra…
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Who expects men to pay for dates? I'm 46 years old, and I've never been asked to pay - and I've frequently had to fight people who make half as much as I do *let* me pay for their dinner or a couple drinks.
I’ll say this.. Im 27 with a salary job, yet I struggle to pay rent, car note, insurance & all my other expenses. Now imagine someone expecting me to pay theirs as well & dates, buy gifts & if I don’t then I get blasted for “not being a man.” I wouldn’t wanna date as a man either
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The purple line is expected to carry 150,000 people a day once the expansion is complete. That works out to ~$27 per person per day in a single year, or ~$14 per ride
1- I had no idea there were so many vtubers who love trains?
2- self driving cars are real and here.
3- you could wish for a perfect world of mass transit, but it just wont happen. The cost is too high, the public isnt on board, and the build times are too long.
4- the LA purple line expansion is going to cost 10 billion dollars (if we are lucky), for 9 miles of track, that MIGHT carry 100,000 people a day.
We have been waiting for the expansion for 6 years at this point.
5- you could buy 50,000 waymos for that, so each waymo only needs to do 2 trips a day.
6- "But operating costs!"
The trains will have operating costs as well.
7- "but traffic!"
Waymo data shows they are 70% better at driving then people. They are never drunk, they never text.
A fully autonomous roadway is a safer, cleaner, less busy roadway.
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100% agreed - Yglesias has lost a lot of cred with me over the last several years as he's drifted further away from data-driven dives into interesting questions and further towards the right, but this transparency gets some of it back
I think admitting you were wrong about something is admirable and should be encouraged. The vast vast vast majority of people never admit their mistakes, particularly those in the public eye
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Anyways, asking a bunch of stupid questions with obvious answers doesn't make you controversial, it's just waving a giant "I'M WITH STUPID" flag for the world to see
this is what I said at the end of my roast set on CNN tonight that I zoomed through beacause I was running out of time (and scared) : Since I only have a minute left and I’m live on an establishment media, I figured I’d list some of things mainstream media will never cover:
The first trump shooter didn’t have any silverware in his house,The Crown prince of Saudi Arabia put money into Disney, why is fluoride still in our water? Monsanto paid Google to skew search results, why are so many presidents chefs dead?
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Who cares about silverware?
The house of Saud is the wealthiest family in the world - $1.4T - including Trump's son in law, who was a top advisor during his previous admin. The potential quid pro quo with Trump is obvious, what is Disney's?
this is what I said at the end of my roast set on CNN tonight that I zoomed through beacause I was running out of time (and scared) : Since I only have a minute left and I’m live on an establishment media, I figured I’d list some of things mainstream media will never cover:
The first trump shooter didn’t have any silverware in his house,The Crown prince of Saudi Arabia put money into Disney, why is fluoride still in our water? Monsanto paid Google to skew search results, why are so many presidents chefs dead?
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This is a clear signal that we should in fact make it easier for foreign born nurses to immigrate to the US and fill nursing roles in American hospitals
The unemployment rate for nurses is 1.6 percent. If you understand how unemployment statistics work you understand that means it's effectively zero. We have a massive nursing shortage. We couldn't replace American nurses if we wanted to and no one wants to.
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Maybe the fact that Harris immensely outperformed fundamentals, particularly in the states where she campaigned hardest, suggests she was actually a good candidate?
At some point, we need to deal with the fact that CEOs have no ability to distinguish between "good" and "terrible"
Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra says that ‘KRAVEN THE HUNTER’ is the worst launch they’ve had for a film since he became CEO in 2017.
“I still don’t understand, because the film is not a bad film.”
(Source: latimes.com/entertainment-ar…)
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Lots of folks have more substantive takes, but ftr I grew up with no screen time limits, spent most of my free time watching terrible sitcoms, reading comics, and playing video games, and today I have a PhD in neuroscience and work as a senior researcher at Microsoft.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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