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Hates taxes. Loves pizza. Loves monster trucks. Literacy is a curse. No intellectual consistency offered or implied. DMs welcome. Respond on weekends only.
Nov 3 • 31 tweets • 12 min read
Where Are Our Boys?
They're not in Boy Scouts. [0]
They're not playing football or sports in general. [1][2]
They're leaving Greek life in college. [3]
This applies to both genders but boys dropout rate surpasses girls.
But, what if we found an org with increasing membership? Image It would be an anomaly in this post-Bowling Alone world. Enter the National FFA Organization (formerly the Future Farmers of America). It boasts 1,027,273 members in 2024, an 8.6% from 2023.

It is also primarily an rural youth, with 60% of members living in rural areas. [4]
Oct 5 • 38 tweets • 13 min read
How bad is stuff in Appalachia, actually? How bad is the FEMA response? How much is inaccurate reporting from infrastructure being down and games of telephone? Is information being censored?

What information do we have to help judge the situation without bipartisanship? 🧵 This thread is an attempt to objectively compare the response to Helene by using Katrina as a benchmark. It has been two decades with increases in tech and lessons learned. If you find an inaccuracy in this thread please let me know with a source cited and I will append to end.
Jul 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
x.com/i/article/1816… This article format looks like trash. What a waste of my effort post.
Feb 17 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
While it is fun, funny, and perhaps even morally good to dunk on Charlotte Cowles, finance columnist, for losing 50k to a phone scam I would like to steelman what happened to her and give it a name:

The Popup Shop Protection Racket Her article was bad. She was too close to the events, someone else should have written it. Her article was a confession in a diary, not investigative journalism.

They had her address. They had people in close physical proximity to her, creating a credible threat of violence.
Jan 6 • 33 tweets • 8 min read
Violence against black men is at an all time high and the basic stats of per capita homicide don't begin to tell the whole picture. In the thread that follows I will demonstrate that this is the most deadly time to be a black man since post-reconstruction.

Sources at end. The number of homicides in Philly in 2021 was 561 total. 80% of these victims were black, giving us a total of 448 black homicide victims for 2021. [0] The population of black people in Philadelphia in 2021 was 633k. [1] This gives us a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000.
Oct 15, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Delphi Murders happened in 2017 in Delphi Indiana.

Two girls got killed in the middle of the day while on a hike. The first twist was that they were on snapchat and managed to get their killer briefly in the shot and his voice commanding them to go "down the trail". There might have been more but that was all that was released to the public. Supposedly the actual act wasn't recorded or whatever.

The next twist was that they were there to meet a boy that they met off of instagram or something who turned out to be a cat fishing pedophile.
Feb 22, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
AI alignment and X-Risk is too galaxy brained to make sense to most people and is skipping right past the more immediate, easier to grok, dangers that we're a <1yr away from.

I had considered not writing this for fear of meming it into reality, even at my measly 2k followers. After listening to Yud I think it might be a good thing if it happened.

AI alignment is about the AI, sentient or super or general or none of these, doing what the entity commanding it tells it to, whether that entity is a company or an individual.
Jan 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The hero has turned himself in with a lawyer present. The (dead) robber was out on bond.

This was the robber's second armed robbery. He was convicted of armed robbery in 2015, killed a 62 year old man, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He got early release. Then after being released committed some other crime, got arrested, let out on bond, then (tried to) rob this restaurant, finally meeting his long deserved fate.

The 62 year old he murdered previously left behind a fiance and three children.