Thank you for building a private, uncensored AI platform, @ErikVoorhees. youtu.be/dnP5W3gNYeA

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When something happens in your life that feels like the worst thing that could ever happen, remember that you have the power in the days, weeks, and months that follow to put yourself in a position one year later: to perceive it as the best thing that ever happened because it spurred you to make great changes and improvements in your life. 

We hear it as consumption. But it's almost all for allocation. This is a huge issue we need to get past. Name anyone you would rather see allocate 1T . Well done.

John thinks Elon has a trillion one-dollar bills in his house, and if only he'd spend it on philanthropy, we'd solve lots of problems. In fact, what Elon has is lots of capital, which is used to improve the general standard of living. Liquidating that capital so everyone can get a one-time check for $50 would be destructive and idiotic. John has also managed to think, despite all the evidence everywhere he looks, that social problems are a matter of not enough money spent, that homelessness (for example) is a simple matter of people not having physical houses, and all we have to do is hand them some houses. The more you like mankind, the more capital accumulation you should want, because that is the only way real incomes are increased for everyone, as opposed to the loot-and-redistribute model that eats the seed corn. ("Why do we have all this seed corn! I could feed so many people with it," poor John would be saying.)

The evidence Tulsi released today proves that Mitt Romney is a neocon shill who should not be trusted in the GOP. Isn’t it interesting the entire Democrat party (and uniparty shills like Romney) and the media and intel community tried to paint @DNIGabbard as a Russian asset? Meanwhile they were the ones trying to destroy US foreign policy using Russia as a scapegoat. All in the name of power… gross.

What Elon Musk being a trillionaire means: 1. That is his net worth, not how much money he has. The reason it just went up so much is that SpaceX--a company he started that would not exist without him--went public, which means the number of shares he holds times the going rate for each share was added to his net worth. He could not get that much actual money from if he wanted to b/c selling all of his shares would tank the stock price. 2. The reason it is possible to be a trillionaire is because we have a central bank that creates money. There is more money in the system than ever before, and as the money supply increases, people who hold assets gain wealth while life gets more expensive for everyone else. If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at the Federal Reserve and advocate its abolition. 3. Net worth is closer to an approximation of how much you've contributed to society than how much you've extracted from it. You can't eat money. You can't build anything with it. The primary purpose of money is trading it to move resources around the economy. If you earn more money than you take in, you are contributing more to the economy than you are taking from it. Elon didn't take that money from you. Even if you believe Marxist exploitation nonsense, if you don't work for one of Elon's companies, there is no way he took that money from you (see caveats). 4. Even if Elon had that much money, it would not negatively affect you. If he was sitting on that much money, then that would mean he wasn't using that money to take resources, good, and services from the economy that you could be using. The rest of the economy would keep churning without him, and he would be abstaining from taking those resources for himself. If he were to spend all of his money, that means stuff you want would be more difficult to get. 5. No, Elon cannot solve world hunger with that money. Again, you can't eat money. The issue isn't money, it's food and distribution. Spending that money on food for poor Africans would just spread the available food around more thinly, and it would feed them for a day. It would do nothing in the long run. Governments around the world have cumulatively spent far more than $1T trying to solve world hunger, and it hasn't worked. 6. No, Elon is not why you're poor. If Elon actually had $1T and spread it out evenly among the American adult population, that would be about $3,000 for each of us. Not per day or per year. One time. Did the Covid checks change your life? Did they fix society's problems? No? Again, if you want someone to blame for how hard it is to get by these days, blame the Federal Reserve. Google "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". CAVEATS: 1. Subsidies: Yes, Elon's companies take subsidies, and that is in effect extracting wealth from you via government taxation. Elon has repeatedly advocated for abolishing all subsidies, but he takes them while they exist. Is this philosophically inconsistent? Maybe. Understandable? I think so. Money made through voluntary exchange is valid; money taken by force is not. Corporate welfare is theft. 2. We do not have a free market. The way I described how net worth is an approximation of how much you've contributed to society is how it works in a free market. We don't have one, and there are plenty of people who've used government coercion to accumulate wealth. Elon is far from the worst offender in this regard. 3. I personally think SpaceX is a silly use of resources. I feel the same way about NASA. We have plenty of room on this planet. Keep the resources here and build things that improve our lives more than just "ooh, cool, rocket ship".

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Rethinking Education with Ian Underwood Ian Underwood challenges some of the core assumptions behind modern public education, arguing that debates over funding often distract from whether students are actually learning. Drawing on ideas from his books, he makes the case for measuring fairness by outcomes, paying for educational results rather than promises, and focusing schools on the essential skills every student needs. He argues that the system's structure, rather than simply the amount of money spent, is what undermines accountability and meaningful reform. At a time of growing financial and political strain, Underwood suggests this moment of disruption could create an opportunity to rethink what education should accomplish and how society can better ensure that no one is left uneducated.

This is excellent.

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…

“A stoic never gets angry, except on purpose.” I don’t remember who said this or if it’s something I made up myself, but it is a line I often go back to when I start to lose my temper. There is a modern misunderstanding of stoicism that believes it requires suppressing our emotions. I think this is wrong. The master stoic feels emotions fully and then is able to choose deliberately to let go or harness these emotions before he takes action. He is the master of his emotions because he does experience them, listen to them, and let them inform him - without being enslaved to them. Anger is a dangerous emotion because it can lead us to react in ways that are counterproductive to the pursuit of virtue. By exercising the virtue of temperance and “tempering our emotions,” we give ourselves space to practice wisdom in determining whether these emotions serve us well or not. Sometimes, a righteous anger can fuel us to be courageous in the pursuit of justice. Other times, anger leads to recklessness, bitterness, and the continuance of a cycle of pain. So if you find yourself angry, my advice to myself is to pause, take a breath, and exercise wisdom to determine if this anger serves a productive or detrimental purpose.

Fool me 38 times, shame on you. Fool me for a 39th time, shame on me.

As a reminder, before this war was launched, Iran was already not pursuing nuclear weapons.

Everyone's is a free-stater to them if they *actually like* NH. If you DON'T think NH is a "dystopian nightmare", that means you're a free-stater. Idea for Buckley and other dems: If you hate NH so much, why not get out of here?

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If you are a libertarian, what is your personality type? Just curious.

One thing that would make me more likely to support federal GOP candidates in New Hampshire this November would be a pardon to @FreeIanNow. CC: @SununuSenator @SenScottBrown

If Democrats win the NH House in November, NH could go the way of Maine: A blue legislature taxing people to no end while supporting a bona fide Nazi in the Federal races. We all need to work together to avoid that! Can you help keep NH Red?❤️🐘🇺🇸