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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
SpaceX founded in 2002, 700 rockets launched. Tesla in 2003, now 1.5 million self driving cars. …K-12 public schools spent more than $10+ TRILLION since 2001 and test scores are at / below 2001 levels.
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
What is the statistical probability of 213 cities voting for Bolsonaro, and then, as if in unison, spontaneously flipping to support Luna a mere three weeks later? 🤔
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
Imagine believing that what’s happening in Europe has to do with young people wanting a better education. I’m sure this guy would rather be at home reading Homer. Many of the greatest minds in history (Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln) had almost no formal schooling whatsoever. Ben Franklin literally figured out how many calories he needed to live on in order to spend the rest of his money on books. Abraham Lincoln walked miles to beg to borrow books. He committed to memory unbelievable amounts of Scripture and Shakespeare. Frederick Douglass got a copy of one book, the Colombian Orator, and read it over and over and over. These clowns are not interested in education.
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What you've described there is not some "alternate" explanation to suicidal empathy, it is part and parcel of the framework of suicidal empathy (stroking my luxuriant hair in the Mirror of Moral Preening). Perhaps read my book before you pontificate. @friedberg Rather than having on your podcast someone to talk about what is not suicidal empathy, how about having the author of suicidal empathy on? @Jason @chamath @DavidSacks
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The key factor with him is he appears to have that MJ-level nitroglycerin mix of spite and drive, fueled by the haters
Caleb Williams dodges pressure and makes a couple of throws every game that almost no one else in the NFL can make.
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Unfortunately, the stakes of elections in the US are extremely high these days. Like, Jail high. Which makes the tools and platforms and tech used to win elections inordinately important.
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him." Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file: "If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him." "So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list." "He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard." They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
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Battle of Trafalgar anniversary. ~”when in doubt, go straight for the enemy” - Nelson. 🫡
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
Absolutely incredible… "Wedgewood Polls" just admitted they are a fake polling firm and made up their polls. Their fake polls have been posted in both the NYT and Nate Silver’s averages.
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Do both! Protect water/power concerns and get local cities paid. Not binary
Great example of a local elected official making smart calls on data center investment -- ensuring local communities benefit from the buildout while welcoming and encouraging development: "Memphis no longer has to imagine what those benefits might look like. The city has already earmarked roughly $3.3 million in xAI property-tax revenue for neighborhoods near its Memphis facilities, including home repairs, public safety and other improvements. The numbers could soon get much bigger. The Shelby County assessor projects that xAI could pay nearly $28 million a year in county property taxes as its second Memphis campus comes onto the tax rolls." dailymemphian.com/section/op…
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
I asked Grok if the NYT or WP have shown any pictures of the rioters in France holding Palestinian flags. The answer is no. Why are these papers hiding the truth? Why are they sanitizing the news to protect Islamists? It’s not Islamophobic to show pictures. It’s the truth.
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
Rooting out fraud starts with accurate records. Under @POTUS leadership, SSA has corrected nearly 15% of active SSNs, the most comprehensive SSN record clean-up in agency history: ✅ 17M missing dates of death added ✅ 25M records with missing citizenship info updated 🔄 8.5M inaccurate citizenship records being corrected Find more results here: ssa.gov/news/en/press/releas…
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
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Imagine growing up seeing the demopublican government uniparty be utterly incompetent for your entire life, unable to build new energy, exporting factories, failing over and over at its ambitions in space, becoming bigger and more bloated and slower year after year until it threatens to eat the entirety of the U.S. economy, with the same geriatric 90 year olds piddling away the future year after year Then suddenly you have an administration which accepts a flood of young people in government at every level, from the lowest bureaucrats to the halls of the White House There is fierce debate and plenty of conflict, but there are also motions in policy which we've only dreamed of for decades. Five nuclear reactors turn on under the DOE after decades of stagnation. America returns to orbit the moon Imagine seeing that and the reaction of a sitting senator is “haha yeah let’s put those fuckin kids in jail to make an example!!”
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics. @ElissaSlotkin
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
Their priority for a decade has been to ostracize anyone who questions their dogma—to make them unemployable, unplatformable, unpublishable. We must do whatever it takes to defeat this.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics. @ElissaSlotkin
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Gerrit Lansing retweeted
Your nation is calling upon the most cracked engineers. It’s time to work on hard problems that your parents and grandparents will finally understand. Link to apply below 🇺🇸
Introducing American Forge: a six-month residency for exceptional engineers ready to take on the toughest problems in American government. Run by National Design Studio in partnership with @cognition forge.ndstudio.gov/?s=x
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