Former science educator, now healthcare professional. Constitutional Libertarian.

Joined February 2019
7,561 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Javier Vinos provided his summary of a climate change mechanism which is PART of a larger puzzle. This may be a step in the right direction:
4
1
22
3,916
Random Rationality retweeted
For years I have put forward plans to fix Social Security to save it from bankruptcy. Now I am proposing a bipartisan, bicameral committee with equal numbers Democrat and Republican to avoid this looming default. Social Security insolvency is here washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
3,071
965
6,333
289,588
Random Rationality retweeted
Elon Musk breaks down the exact playbook legacy media uses for propaganda and how they intentionally shape false narratives: “Unfortunately, what I’ve learned is that legacy media propaganda is very effective at making people believe things that aren’t true An example is people calling me a Nazi over a random hand gesture at a rally, when all I was saying was, ‘My heart goes out to you,’ while talking about space travel” They do it on repetition all at once; essentially, that will end up outweighing the reality Repeat a narrative enough times, amplify it across headlines, television, and social media, and millions will believe it without ever examining the full context or even the actual reality
135
999
3,710
69,534
Random Rationality retweeted
If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
457
2,645
15,910
343,564
Random Rationality retweeted
Some people suggest that while green is expensive, the benefits are much greater Well, no: The benefit of net-zero is $4.5 trillion/year, but the cost $27 trillion (much larger costs and benefits, because we're currently only doing a bit of net-zero currently) x.com/BjornLomborg/status/17… You can see all the references in my Twitter thread: x.com/BjornLomborg/status/19…
Climate campaigners tell you green is cheap It isn't Global green transition cost is now $14 trillion, rising with over $2 trillion/year (2% of global GDP) 105x our spending to avoid hunger Still, CO₂ emissions set another record last year assets.bbhub.io/professional…
48
470
1,238
65,466
Random Rationality retweeted
If Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were each taxed at 15%, 7000 starving toddlers could eat and would not die. Why do Elizabeth and Bernie hate those children?
73
861
6,249
47,970
Random Rationality retweeted
The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀
4,378
28,763
111,846
2,376,694
Random Rationality retweeted
It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species. It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence. Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance. These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above. If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does. This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it. @brownstoneinst
Replying to @RandPaul
@RandPaul DOCS: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/… "SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)."
928
9,378
27,383
820,852
Random Rationality retweeted
Bernie on how he had the money to buy 3 homes: I sold anti-capitalist books Not satire
1,130
4,824
35,972
843,083
Random Rationality retweeted
Replying to @buggirl
Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.
861
2,977
24,923
384,234
Random Rationality retweeted
If you're very concerned about extroardinary wealth leading to concentration of power in government, may I suggest a system of horizontal and vertical checks and balances, restricted to limited and enumerated powers?
364
396
6,025
328,849
Random Rationality retweeted
𝐓𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐎’𝐒 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄 — 𝐒𝐎 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐎 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 Tucker Carlson went on a livestream claiming he had proof — private texts from Dan Bongino — that President Trump 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 into the Butler ass∗ssination attempt. So Bongino did the one thing Tucker didn't plan for: he 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐢𝐫. Nowhere in them does Bongino say Trump shut down the probe. He says the opposite — that Trump is a victim who was briefed and satisfied, and that the case stays open but inactive only because no new leads have panned out. Then came the receipts. A November 21 Fox News report — published 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 Tucker claims the two even spoke — quotes the FBI calling the Crooks case “𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦,” not closed. Trump himself told the Daily Caller he is satisfied with the Butler findings. One man brought screenshots and dates. The other brought a story. 𝐓𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐜. 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬.
181
1,086
6,832
401,841
Random Rationality retweeted
🚨 WOW! Sen. Eric Schmitt looks Sen. Mazie Hirono (D) in the EYES and GOES BALLISTIC after she defended fraudsters and r*pists "YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WE'RE DEPORTING YOU! 🔥 "No, no, no, it's MY TIME now. BIZARRE is the idea you'd be here in this committee DEFENDING VIOLENT MURDERERS from being deported. That you would be defending violent r*pists from being deported!" "To the American taxpayer that's been RIPPED OFF by people who came to this country. That's HORRIFIC—" "That you would defend people who took advantage of the good people of this country, their taxpayer dollars. That is bizarre. A terrorist who kills American citizens!" "You know what's bizarre is YOUR defense of THAT!" "So FORGIVE ME if you're 24 million Americans should be, our naturalized citizens should be afraid. That's ridiculous." "You have nothing but fearmongering here! What I'm saying in this bill is if you do those things to the American people, if you take advantage of taxpayers, you're not recognized." "If you commit a terrorist act, if you commit wholesale welfare fraud, within 10 years, you're damn right we're deporting you." "If you're convicted, it's not being accused of anything. If you are convicted in a court of law of these crimes, absolutely we should not only convict you, but we should deport you. Gone." "And if you think that's some sort of negative assertion towards me, I'll take it. I love it!" "That's what we should be doing more of in this country, because people are coming here in the ripping off taxpayers." "And I, for one, don't want to see it anymore." @Eric_Schmitt 🔥🔥🔥
222
4,168
15,744
327,726
Random Rationality retweeted
All these non-Black kids were recently convicted in incredibly high profile cases for causing someone’s death indirectly (by texting, by reckless driving, by neglect, murder for hire) Meaning they didn’t even stab anyone in the heart and still were punished
Black kids are the only kids who kids who can’t afford to make mistakes without dire consequences
102
1,592
16,650
625,301
Random Rationality retweeted
If you took $1 Trillion from Elon (assuming it was cash), it would run the U.S. government for 49 days. Not even 2 months. The U.S. doesn't have a billionaire/trillionaire problem, it has a spending problem.
253
1,353
11,256
240,673
Random Rationality retweeted
I don’t care that someone is wealthier than I am. I do care that my wealth is being stolen through taxation and inflation.
239
2,548
19,878
176,836
Random Rationality retweeted
Elon has created thousands of millionaires. The only millionaire you’ve created is yourself. Elon is a wealth creator. You are a looter. While your title is POLITICIAN, your real profession should be called THIEF.
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.
532
4,089
21,810
302,747
Random Rationality retweeted
Hezbollah official: “We are currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students. We already have Muslim students agitating, but it’s the Western students themselves who will destroy their own countries.” This is the decade-old plan by Hezbollah and the Iranian regime to destroy America and Europe.
362
8,422
14,697
269,780
Random Rationality retweeted
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 En Inglaterra, una periodista fue a un barrio de musulmanes a decir que ellos son PACIFICOS y al rato apareció una banda de musulmanes a decirles que se vayan porque los iban a matar☠️ País destruido por la agenda 2030.
2,778
47,536
206,099
6,517,354
Random Rationality retweeted
Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk
1,099
6,785
59,352
2,853,222
Random Rationality retweeted
The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.
The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would have to earn a dollar a year for a trillion years straight to have that much money.
353
2,223
28,329
876,324