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Andrew Rettek retweeted
I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible.
Everyone would have access to cheap spaceflight, satellite coms, solar energy, electric cars, AI.
I just don’t get it.
Jun 12
I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible.
Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness.
I just don’t get it.
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Jun 10
OK, this is a good one
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Andrew Rettek retweeted
I may not agree with right-libertarians on much, but it is hard to find better criminal justice reporters than right-libertarians.
Just throwin’ that out there.
Jun 9
Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows, wrecked her fence and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind.
Then the city left her with the bill.
Six years later, her saga is finally over. A thread.
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Jun 5
I have literally never had a drunken fight with a girlfriend.
Jun 5
Every man out there (if they’re being honest) is reading this Graham Platner story and thinking: “gee, what would happen if the biggest newspaper in the country interviewed all of my exes and asked them about our drunken fights?”
That’s why this story ultimately won’t land. It won’t end Platner’s campaign
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Jun 5
Nick Decker got a paid sub from me over this post. Nominating/electing lower quality Senator/Presidents because he's on our side is a bad thing and we should be working to avoid it.
Jun 5
The debate over whether the new scandals are just enough to disqualify Platner strike me as a bit bizarre. *Any* of the scandals already were enough! Why do we have such low standards for politicians, especially when worse candidates cause worse outcomes? Read more below:
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Jun 5
This is a a lot harder than it sounds.
Jun 5
“That guy was worshiped by his troops and commanded incredible loyalty”
“What did he do?”
“He paid them”
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Jun 5
This is new behavior, BTW. It's only in the last 20 years that the parties have gone after moderates this hard and it's made congress a much harder place to broker deals.
Jun 4
Biggest takeaway from this Graham Platner disaster: Even if you're the most liberal Republican in the world-- somebody who votes with Democrats as much, if not more than Republicans while having an 'R' next to your name-- the Democrat Party will still do whatever it takes to replace you with a degenerate buffoon who will vote with them 100% of the time.
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Jun 4
Make babies
Help, my wife is too cool and hot and smart and I already married her, what do I do
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This isn't true
Jun 3
If you don't have at least mild oppositional defiant disorder you're not gonna make it over the next few years I fear
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Jun 3
This is very useful advice for women.
Jun 3
they're learning that asking a man for help = S-tier flirting, we may make it out of this yet
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Jun 3
Books that were originally published like this have a lot of bloat, even the great ones.
What people aren’t ready to hear is Dostoyevsky is litslop too. Brothers Karamazov, like Count of Monte Cristo, was published in serials for people to read like we watch tv shows weekly now.
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Jun 3
One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens
It's interesting to me how many liberals recognize that the lack of other democracies adopting the Madisonian Presidential system is a sign of its problems but are generally not capable of applying the same logic to American free speech doctrine.
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Jun 2
20 years ago he made the hardest push to make native 3D a serious artistic medium. He failed, which is why movies aren't in 3D very much these days, but I always respected the effort.
Martin Scorsese has joined a generative AI startup as a partner and advisor.
He adds that he has used AI during pre-production to help with storyboarding — “with this tool, I can share what I’m visualizing more clearly & efficiently to my creative team — the production designer, art designer and cinematographer.”
(Source: nytimes.com/2026/06/02/busin…)
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Jun 2
A hot take I used to have is "whey protein is freegan" but I guess it's no longer true.
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Jun 2
This is true but the effect is infinitesimal
Jun 2
Asked my high school math teacher this. He claimed the wall had a large gravitational pull compared to the bug.
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Jun 1
Can confirm. Very good hack.
Jun 1
Life hack:
Marry someone that, if you had no friends at all, you’d gladly spend every waking moment with.
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Andrew Rettek retweeted
Jun 1
"Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings."
— Chesterfield
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I've been giving this advice for almost 20 years and may have coined this phrasing (the truth is lost to history). Sometimes I'm asked "what about if the girl is pretty and smart?" You give her the compliment she gets less often.
May 31
so do kids these days not know “you tell the smart girl she’s pretty and the pretty girl she’s smart” has this ancestral knowledge been lost
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Survivorship bias
May 31
Health gurus will tell you alcohol is poison and you should never touch it. Meanwhile, there are old British guys having a couple pints every weekend with their lifelong friends, laughing for 4 hours straight, while outliving people who optimize every biomarker imaginable.
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