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Nov 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Twitter is bad at inference. Where did I come out against “free speech”?

I came out against holding a Twitter poll and hiding behind the “voice of god”. What if the poll had gone the other way? It shouldn’t have made 1 damn bit of difference.

Honestly, Twitter can be moronic.
Honestly, this stuff is pretty consequential. There should be clear process & rules that apply to us all. The ad hoc nature of this appalling.

But whatever. You can misinterpret that too “Dude doesn’t understand marketing genius!” I get it. Nothing matters. Ha. #Edgelordz4evah
And just to remind everyone: I DON’T believe in free speech absolutism. You will notice that one by one the so-called free speech absolutists encounter edge cases they can’t stomach and WILT. I instead disappoint early so I stay the course (with exceptions patterned on case law).
If you want to chase free speech absolutism be my guest. And when you run into child porn, defamation, stolen laptops, libel,
coordinated terror attacks, publication of plans for WMD, etc, etc., you can discover all the exceptions yourself that are ALREADY baked into free speech.
Sad to have to deal with the mesmerizing effect of Trump’s tweets on the platform. Glad that he is no longer banned and I opposed his ban to begin with.

I am sure that will confuse many. I’m sorry. I can’t help. It’s a free speech thing. Be well.
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Nov 21
What’s the proper respectable way to be alarmed about Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, The Great Reset, loss of National/Individual Autonomy, etc?

I get that many don’t like conspiracy theories. So turn the tables. This *is* UNDENIABLY creepy: what’s the NON-conspiratorial explanation? Image
Assume that it is simply normal & rational to worry about unelected individuals of either unimaginable wealth or unimaginable influence as well as what goes into your body, your freedom of movement, etc. Assume that it is rational not to want to be tracked/surveilled. Then? So? Image
I don’t tweet much about Gates/Schwab because I don’t understand what they’re doing. But what they do is SELF-EVIDENTLY creepy as hell. If you hate conspiracy theories, explain the right way to worry about such individuals having a special deal/role in our universe?🙏 in advance. Image
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Nov 16
My understanding of what happened yesterday was clearly not shared by many others.

The universal hypnosis barrier is all fairly complete. And, perhaps, that *is* our ultimate strategy.

So be it. Not for me. Regrouping.
For those of you who simply cannot figure out what I’m talking about: Look at the ordering of headlines. Our strategy is seemingly to ignore the gravity of what apparently happened yesterday.
We can’t remember what the current President said about “sacred obligations”. Or what Article V was intended to mean.

“Sacred Obligation of Article V”. He repeats it. We don’t remember this. We intuit that it means nothing. Media does not now reflect it:
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Nov 10
One of the questions about UFOs that needs to be asked, and that I don’t hear much about, is: “Has the US government built fake UFOs?”

UFO people are so focused on whether there are real UFOs that they don’t push hard enough on this question.

Allow me to share a thought or two. Image
When I first realized I was totally wrong about UFO/UAP, I was shocked by how many folks have very similar stories about recovered crashes of very similar advanced vehicles.

It was mind blowing in 2 ways.

A) We have real crashed vehicles.
And/Or
B) We built fake alien vehicles. Image
At this point I’m reasonably sure there are things that look like cool alien vehicle in some hangers. But I also grew up near Hollywood and remember super cool looking fake space cars visible off the Hollywood freeway.

So: does anyone have stories of building fake UFOs for USG? Image
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Nov 9
Too many people have been told too much. There are Four moves:

A) Disclose that it’s something (e.g. recovered craft exist)
B) Disclose that it is Psy-ops.
C) Stall & Obfuscate.
D) Lie & Deceive.

C) and D) are now both “short rides” and *won’t* work long term. This isn’t 1969.
If I had to guess, people are trying to figure out how to make C) happen yet again. Nobody wants to go down as the face of D) if disclosure is inevitable. And I just can’t figure out how a Psy-Op this big could work. Too many sober pilots and military guys/gals. So my guess is:
People are stalling trying to make C) Work to avoid A) or at least avoid B). But there isn’t enough room anymore to just avoid avoid avoid. Change is coming. Even if they manage to avoid disclosure this time, people can’t avoid forever. It’s hopeless for those fighting sunlight.
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Nov 9
Weird but great and devious question.

Assume that the underlying spacetime were topologically rich. Then it would be quite likely that it would carry no Flat metric by some Gauss Bonnet type theorem.

If the Einstein curvature couldn’t vanish it would have to be balanced…
…That balancing would coax a non zero Vacuum expectation value from either the Cosmological Constant or the Stress energy Tensor. That would be stuff.

In short, Einstein Field Equations require ‘Stuff’ to exist in certain topologically rich situations.

So: Stuff may be forced.
P.S. Experts trying to poke holes due to simple Twitter style in the above are expected to supply obvious details before bitching (e.g. “But doesn’t the Weyl tensor in the Kernel of Einstein eqns carry most of topological information?”). The argument works & was careful enough.
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Great question. Inflation is SUPPOSED to be a group valued field. In the case of bilateral trade it’s an element of GL(2,R) although the economists haven’t gotten there yet. But it is mostly not a field on Geography. It’s a field on path, Loop, preference and geographic spaces.
Q1: Why is it a field on Preferences?

A1: Because a true COLA is not an index on baskets (mechanical index) but on welfare derived from baskets (economic index). BLS misrepresents CPI being COLA-driven abusing work of Erwin Diewert on Superlative indices. A COLA prices WELFARE.
Q2: Why is inflation a field on LOOP spaces of preferences?

A2: Tastes are seasonal. In USA “We never spill Egg Nog on our bikinis.” What you both want & price HAS to be made seasonal to avoid the Cycling Problem (Holonomy) in index number thy. So we have LOOPS of tastes/prices.
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