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The welfare state itself is a fraud. Legalized looting. Few people (including economists) realize that the “poverty rate” is a relative, not absolute measure, calculated arbitrarily as 50% of median income, so when the latter rises, so does the poverty threshold. That’s why no amount of government spending on poverty alleviation can sustainably reduce the poverty rate (aside from the fact that subsidizing a thing causes more of the thing). Most poverty pimps know this math and prefer the relativist measure precisely cuz it’s used to justify perpetual increases in government welfare looting/spending (from which the pimps extract their share). Conservatives aid and abet the fraud.

Forget sleepwalking and sleeptalking. People sleeptext: youtube.com/watch?v=tBUF8zYs…

Congrats Elon Musk for becoming the first ever trillionaire. How cool

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

If Elon Musk’s one trillion could do so much good, then why haven’t all our multiple trillions in tax solved all the world’s problems before now?

How do flocks of birds not collide? They follow a simple algorithm programmed by evolution. *All* animals are algorithmic like that. Which is why they’re not conscious/sentient/whatever you want to call it. Stitching @FryRsquared

Penguin: heartbroken or just restarted? Contrary to popular belief, animals are not conscious/sentient/whatever you want to call it. They mindlessly enact their evolutionary programming. This is why they fall for cheap cutouts. Stitching @zackdfilms1

Cats try to get milk even when it makes no sense. They’re not conscious/sentient

Cette vidéo est un véritable cauchemar éveillé pour l'écologiste décroissant. Un robot qui traque la nuit les pathogènes et les nuisibles à la lumière ultraviolette, sans un gramme de produit chimique, ce n'est pas un gadget... De quoi faire s'effondrer toute la théologie écologiste. Ici, c'est bien l'entrepreneur et le marché qui offrent une solution réellement efficace aux défis environnementaux. Pas de contrainte, pas de retour en arrière et pas de renoncement. L'entrepreneur résout le problème en créant de l'abondance là où l'on nous promettait la pénurie. Le rôle du progrès a toujours été celui-là : produire de l'abondance à partir de la rareté naturelle avec comme moyen ultime l'ingéniosité humaine. Reste alors une question : si la technologie résout réellement les problèmes que l'écologisme prétend combattre, pourquoi l'écologisme la déteste-t-il à ce point ? Tout simplement parce que ce qu'il veut, ce n'est pas une nature préservée, c'est une société administrée, dont il serait aux manettes. Comme toutes les autres idéologies constructivistes, socialistes et collectivistes, ce qui importe vraiment à l'écologiste ce n'est pas de résoudre les défis de son temps, c'est de régner sur les hommes de son temps. Le héros sera toujours l'entrepreneur, jamais celui qui le déteste.

Sleepwalkers aren’t conscious and neither are animals. Both uncritically enact knowledge that was created previously:

Fun fact: @GavinNewsom has budgeted >300% more tax dollars for a nonexistent California rail system than SpaceX raised in private capital in its entire history as a private company.

Making a profit is good and taking a loss is bad—from Isabel Paterson:

These dogs may be frisky but they’re not conscious/sentient. Never touching a dog owner’s couch again btw.

David Deutsch: the multiverse is the ONLY working explanation of reality. Throwback clip from my 2021 interview with Deutsch about my translation of his NYT bestseller, The Beginning of Infinity.

IG community note saving the day. Cats don’t tear up because they’re sad. Cats can’t get sad. They tear up because something is wrong with their eyes. For example, feline herpes. It presents differently than in humans. Treating pets as little humans can be detrimental to their wellbeing because such issues go undiagnosed.

Crack the Sky. 851pm on Thursday in Chicago during a massive storm.

Chicago tornado 😱 x.com/i/broadcasts/1nxeLLYol…