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27 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
When the ports are closed, the shelves thin out -- a great many people now viscerally feel this dynamic, having faced it at their local store. Our dependence on others to make all our stuff is no longer abstract. Nobody in their right mind would feel secure in such a situation.
I understand it's popular on here to dunk on the "empty shelves" thing as fake & driven by politics or clickbait, but my trip to the local HEB last week was freaky & disturbing. Yeah there was a lot of food, but there was space on every aisle. It made me feel weird & unsettled.
I'll confess what I really think: Summers should be watching this situation deteriorate w/ great nervousness re: whether he'll end up in prison, because he's one of the chief architects of the scheme to hand US industry over to our #1 rival.
If things get worse, I'd want to see horizontal stripes on a lot of the policymakers who actively pushed for off-shoring our industrial base to China on the idiotic-even-at-the-time theory that this would liberalize them & they'd never threaten us with war. I doubt I'm alone.
We order online & do curbside, really just for the convenience now, so we don't get the visuals ever. We do get a lot of substitutions & out-of-stock stuff lately tho. So it was weird to physically go in there after a few months & suddenly see it IRL.

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29 Oct
This thread gets at something I've been thinking about for a while: the coming wave of decentralized messaging (= social networks, chat, email alternatives, etc.) will be fundamentally unmoderatable. Or rather, better to say that all moderation will be opt-in & localized.
Bitclout.com is a useful case in point. The only way to moderate Bitclout is to stand up a chokepoint/portal (client app, web, etc.) & do filtering & moderation one layer up. But all the content is still there & public, so if you don't like the moderation you can move.
So in the very near future, then, people will select their own moderation regimes. They'll decide what kind of moderation they want by deciding which portal to use for interacting with the blockchain. Each portal is a "window" on the same chain. Really each is a SELECT query.
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27 Oct
Berny, with respect, this thread is about how self-identified "moderates" are totally, completely screwed in the present moment.

Rufo's central, shocking claim is that CA public schools will invite kids to chant a prayer to Aztec gods of human sacrifice. THIS is your response?
As a parent, I would love to read a debunking that sets my mind at ease that some US public school kids are not, in fact, being asked to pray to Aztec gods of human sacrifice, in seeming violation of Engel v. Vitale & "no prayer in public schools." PLEASE tell me Rufo's lying.
But instead, this niggling about the true meaning of "counter" in "counter-genocide" is your rhetorical intervention that's going to save us all from extremism? I do love you man, but how do you not get how weak this word policing is in the present, insane moment?
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27 Oct
Not gonna say who I'm subtweeting but philosophy twitter continues to deliver an endless stream of unintentional self-owns of an entire discipline. I honestly think their guild should step in & w/ a #NeverTweet policy.
There are many fields that people already had low or mixed opinions of, like economics. But philosophy as a discipline was obscure enough that I think few outside academia had an opinion on it, until the rise of larger philosophy twitter accounts changed that for the worse.
Of course, the current sorry state of things is really just reversion to a very ancient mean. Back when philosophers plied their trade in the agora, their insular cluelessness was roundly mocked by playwrights like Aristophanes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cuc…
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27 Oct
This weekend I'm taking my oldest daughter on her first "hunt." "Hunt" is in scare quotes, b/c we're going to a ranch where we'll be put in a blind that overlooks a timed feeder. The critters will come, & we'll pick some & shoot 'em.

This is cheaper than buying meat from a farm!
A few weeks ago I went down a list of TX farms that sell whole & half hogs, looking to stock the freezer, sending out emails to find anyone w/ an available pig. I got 1 reply, & he quoted me $5/lb.

That's $750 for a 150lb pig. Our hunt w/ unlimited hogs + 1 buck is $400.
Wild hogs & venison are not as fatty as a farm-raised hog, but nonetheless this is now a good, cheap way to stock a freezer if you have the right gear (thermals + a rifle) & know what you're doing (i.e., shoot the smaller sows & ignore the big boars).
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25 Oct
Despite the strong impression given by the tweet & the article, the offer is open to ALL officers from out-of-state, regardless of vaccination status. This story is finely tuned by WaPo for maximum vaccine culture war damage. 😒
That state down there on the bottom right corner of the NYT COVID hotspot map? The one that's now done with COVID? That's the state DeSantis is inviting any out-of-state officers to move to & telling them their vax status doesn't matter for their job. I dunno. Seems not that bad?
I used teh googles & found that it costs about $100K & 18mo to fully train a new police officer, from recruit to cop. So DeSantis's $5K offer ploy sounds pretty savvy. This is info you might learn from the article if the point of it weren't culture war. policefoundation.org/recruiting-sel…
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LOL this is completely wild. This is the head of freaking NASA giving a UFO speech that ~5 years ago you could only have gotten from a dude at a conference w/ panels on topics like "Remote Viewing Your Past Lives" & "Nephilim: Grays or Reptilians?". What a time to be alive, man.
At this point, I really hope it's literal aliens, because if it's not then all the alternatives I can think of are worse -- e.g., ultra-advanced foreign adversaries, mass delusion at NASA & DoD, a rogue black budget program, etc. None of that is really very attractive.
I do understand that the alternatives are more likely than "literal aliens." I'm just saying that everyone one of them (at least that I can think of) is a hair-raising "yikes!" Aliens is the least disturbing, because if it's them then clearly they're mostly just leaving us alone.
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