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Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
Elias Canetti on the morally corrosive aspect of great inflations.
"Thus in an inflation something happens which was certainly never intended and which is so dangerous that anyone with any measure of public responsibility who is capable of foreseeing it must fear it."
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
The year 536 was wild. It's tempting to think that with our modern knowledge and technology we'd fair better, but I suspect our interconnected dependencies would more than offset these advantages.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
To fire your tweets off without proof reading for spelling or grammar is the highest nobility.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
the breakthroughs in CF have been absolutely astonishing
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
In times past cigarettes acted as an important currency in underground black markets. Given that they are less popular today in the US, do you believe they would serve the same roll (revert to a valuable medium of exchange) or would something else fill the void? Comment below.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
US median household income 1984-now:
In USD, up 290%
In gold, down 43% (peaked right before Iraq War 2)
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia!'"
"Where the army is, the people are poor." -Sun Tzu
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
Transcript of Letterman’s 9/11 monologue that always brings me to tears.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
He threw himself into a corner of the stairwell of the 22nd floor, after coming down from the 64th floor, when the building started to collapse around him.
He said he prayed to God to protect his pregnant wife, and to make his death quick.
He woke up on a ledge 40 feet above the ground. His perch in the corner had sheered off and somehow stayed above the cloud of rubble as it "surfed" down the wave of debris to it's resting place.
He and his wife had a daughter.
An engineer named Pasquale Buzzeli, who was on the 22nd floor of the North Tower at the time of its collapse 90 minutes ago, awakens from an unconsciousness and wanders out of the wreckage and into the arms of rescuers.
Miraculously, he was not seriously harmed despite the tower collapsing on top of him.
He tells reporters afterward that as he staggered out of the wreckage, he heard “people screaming,” but could only see smoke and rubble.
It is believed that many more people may be alive in the rubble.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
The World Trade Center towers stood for 56 and 102 minutes after being struck on September 11 2001 - long enough for approximately 17,400 people to evacuate - because their tube-frame structural design distributed load effectively even after severe damage to the core.
The buildings were not designed to survive this scenario, but the engineers who designed them built in enough structural redundancy that the towers gave thousands of people time to escape.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
Everyone alive and above a certain age remembers where they were, and what they were doing. If you weren't alive, or are too young to remember this should be enough to tell you about the enormity of what happened.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
Two of my friends became anxious during lockdowns and purchased Xanax laced with fentanyl and died. Multiple friends businesses closed forever. Multiple friends became alcoholics and drug addicts. Multiple friends romantic relationships dissolved (mine included.) multiple people caught a glimpse into the nature of what lengths their friend groups were willing to go to to comply with the state by sacrificing their close friendships.
That's not even beginning to get into the effect lockdowns had on children. This was a major cataclysmic event and any reports otherwise are revisionist and condescending to the extreme hardship and devastation that they caused.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
TR on character and moral rectitude
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
This was the first thing I ever read by Wendell Berry, and it remains among my favorite poems.
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If I try to replace all my American engineers with foreign engineers who scored a few points better, I should be stopped by the law or worse.
Josh, Mountain Respector retweeted
Jackson hole should be held in Gary Indiana.
All govt functions / conferences etc should be forced to be in the most impoverished places.
No more opting out of the consequences of things for elites.
