It is a sad day when a president from a country that was attacked by a authoritarian regime has to remind Congress why the US needs to keep supporting their country and people.
the way Musk uses user surveys to test product ideas for Twitter, is like him surveying Tesla owners if they want seatbelts or not.
The most conservative Supreme Court is politicizing the constitution with their right wing interpretation. This has zero to do with originalism it is solely pushing their views on the majority of Americans. Also, by overturning recent precedent the Court pretty much makes itself irrelevant.
Is this how a safe haven currency looks like?
Where have all your crypto bros gone?
Fuck Pro Life … as long as that movement stays quiet and at most offers thoughts and prayers after mass killings like yesterday, that movement is dead, with no moral authority whatsoever.
we endlessly debate abortion rights, but are unwilling to protect life once it is born. it is sickening that shootings like today’s keep happening. unless one assumes Americans are just more violent by nature (which I don’t think is true) then all the data from around the world, clearly shows this is a solvable problem. no need for thoughts and prayers, solutions exist. these events are a manifestation of our (specifically of Republicans) unwillingness to act.
You are entitled to free speech … but people don’t realize that they are not entitled to a platform for their speech, nor to an audience.
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via U.S. Has The Worst Rate Of Maternal Deaths In The Developed World
This is what Musk tweeted recently. The problem with this though is that it provides a highly inaccurate view of the world … in a way one should say that Musk is rather blind on this right eye.
But that shouldn’t be a surprise, because I would say he already gets the starting point wrong. Musk thinks he is left of center at the start (2008), though I would say that he, like his PayPal pals are not liberal, but rather libertarians … and libertarians I would say are anything but liberal (at least, liberal in the US view), libertarians are conservative, highly egocentric, and I would argue they call themselves libertarians because they don’t want to be seen for what they are … conservatives. They think libertarians are more hip. So the starting point should already be:
But, the main problem with this graphic is that it completely ignores what happened to the right. All the “action” here is about the left moving further to the left … the only example for that is wokeism (in case that is a word). But the graphic forgets:
There are many other examples of conservatives moving further and further to the right and toward embracing white supremacy. All of these further moves to the right would position Musk (who with his silence on them seems to embrace them) much farther to the right compared to where the conservative stickman is in that graphic.
Oh and note, that graphic is not by Musk but by a guy called Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) … who I guess, like Musk is a right wing apologist.
Obviously the war in Ukraine is not about NATO and the West, if it was, there wasn’t a need to massacre innocent Ukrainian civilians.
Why are American conservatives/Republicans so stupid? Watching the Supreme Court nomination hearings, one really just wants to bang one’s head against a wall.
As there are more signs for a peace treaty in the Ukrain war, I hope that won’t mean going back to a pre war state for Western Democracies. Sanctions need to stay in place until there has been a regime change in Russia. Also, Europe needs to fast track cutting itself off from dependency on Russian gas and oil. Russia needs to be treated as what it is, and that is a anti western, anti democracy, anti human pariah. If the West can’t stand firm on that, if money and greed trump our ideals again, well then we might as well give up those ideals and join Russia and China in their autocratic models.
“If you had played it long and put $10,000 into Russia a decade ago, you’d have $1.6k worth of equities. Had you backed the Nasdaq’s key tech stocks (via the QQQ ETF) your investment would have grown to $52k, despite the sector rotation we’ve seen at the start of the year.”
From ExonentialView
If this is how Russia treats its brothers … I don’t want to know how it treats its enemies.
I think it is important to recognize how well Biden has handled the whole Putin agressions. The West (and beyond) is unified, and acted swiftly. Biden’s actions are at the heart of it. With Trump in power this would have been a disaster. Let’s hope the American people recognize how well Biden and his administration navigated this situation.
Sanctions are all good and nice, but the West has to be unified and make it clear that Russia is going to be excluded from everything. No travel, no trade, no communication, no sport events, nothing. They choose this war. They have to live with the consequences.
The Khashoggi murder already showed it, but the Russian “sanction” make it even clearer, the problem is that the West has no values. We like to claim we have values but when we have to choose between those values and money we always choose money. Putin, MBS, China … they all are fully aware of that and that means that at the end of the day they can and do get away with murder. Until the West actually puts values ahead of money events like Ukraine will repeat themselves.
Didn’t they say bitcoin is an inflation and a global risk hedge? Well, so we have high inflation, a war starting, a likely increased energy bottlenecks due to said war further negatively impacting inflation. And gold reacts pretty much how you would an inflation and risk hedge to react (by going up). Bitcoin on the other hand seems to at most move sideways.
Legitimate, political discourse my ass. I think we should all visit GOP snowflakes like Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell a visit for some legitimate, political discourse.
In his “apology” Joe Rogan stated that he will keep bringing “both sides” on his shows, that he will do a better job at that going forward. The issue here is that not everything has two sides. Having two people debate that the earth is flat is stupid, since it is a fact that the earth is not flat. That’s like debating 1+1=2 … there is no other side.
The dilemma western countries are facing is that democracy is a values based system, but capitalism, the economic system of choice of those democracies, has no values.
after Bitcoin, crypto, and NFTs, Web 3.0 has become the new new thing to talk about. It’s what 2022 will be all about. No more centralization, here comes decentralization (again) … or does it?
Two great pieces, both sharing same ideas, one a bit longer, and the shorter also referencing the longer article. But both ultimately providing a much needed skeptical look at Web 3.
Nobody Cares About Decentralization - They Just Want To Get Rich
my two main takeaways are:
I think one could make an argument that too much money drives poor decisions … just look at the world economy, look at the venture capital space, look at Softbank’s “vision” fund. Too much money, chasing too few good investments, turns even the smartest money into dumb money.
And I think the same is true for news and podcasts. The more there is, the more time needs to be filled, the more stupidity will ensue. Look at Josh Rogan. Yes, it’s good to spend a lot of time on a topic and go deep, but only if you have done the research, and once you need to fill and hour or two each day research will be cut, and rather than insightful conversations the result is stupid click bait. Same is true for CNN and Fox News and most other 24/7 news channels … there is just not enough that needs to be said to justify 24;7 programming.