jross

Biden would win in a landslide if he took the same stance.

Trump cards sold out in 12 hours. Insanity.

California is so Florida https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-advances-goal-reparations-black-residents-activist-calls-350000-per-person

It's fantastic.

Hello jross!

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I love the regular tweets and sharing good news from Biden. Honest. But he posted losses today. Griner deal - Grade: F Gas - Grade: F Inflation - Grade: F It reminds me of incentives at work to find software bugs. I guess I will write myself a new car. (Create bugs, find bugs) Marriage - Grade: B Arizona jobs - ? Via chips act Chips Act. New jobs is good. Corporate welfare without corporate accountability is terrible. Spending money we don’t have. Fail. Decrease foreign dependence. A for intention, D for execution as it still depends on foreign countries.

I'm in!

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I love the intention behind this.

What a stupid, moronic money grab with those cards. They will sell out, and he'll make a ton of money. The only recovery is to give the profit away to charity. #embarrasing

You are probably right. Those companies see each other as competitors for advertisement dollars, and they steal features. Generally speaking, Twitter is unique because anyone can freely (& anonymous) discuss with or follow 300M global users without permission. That is not Facebook. It's not silly videos like TikTok and disappearing chats/images/vids like Snapchat. When I was trying alternatives... I explored Counter Social, Gab, and Truth Social.

Monopolies often warrant regulation. Agreed. I use Twitter for news, entertainment, education, and banter because it is where the monopoly of social media discussion occurs. I do not go there for politics but politics is included in what the community discusses, and it's amplified. I want regulations because Twitter has a monopoly on anonymous social discussion, and they used their mass power of influence to discreetly influence society in an underhanded manner. This is harmful and dangerous. Had the right behaved the way the left did, I'd be just as frustrated with them. I'm frustrated because of how the left behaved, not because of their views, many of which I share.

I may not have read a single political email or postal mail from politics; that stuff goes straight to the trash. I don't see many commercials anymore, so it's mostly televised debates that I choose to consume or Twitter, where I go for entertainment, news, education, etc., but unfortunately, politics is amplified.

Jack has words. If only he delivered what he wanted. https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jackjack/issues/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-1503112

Jack could be in legal trouble if he knowingly lied to congress about censorship, shadow banning, etc. Jack's supporters could be correct about Elon, but why post their losses by attributing the Jack-blessed narrative?

Suicide sucks. I went to a smaller school with around 90 graduates per grade level. Two of my classmates qualified for the state wrestling tournament with me during our junior year of high school. They both committed suicide (one jumped off a building, the other is unknown to me) in their early 20s (one was a friend and a two-time apartment roommate, and the other I didn't much care for). The two wrestlers came from divorced families and were depressed their whole life. Two other childhood friends committed suicide (one by shotgun, one by hanging). At 21 years old, one found out he got a girl pregnant and never showed up to meet us on a Friday night. The other was in his 30s and had a young family. An outright gun ban might reduce suicides or lead to another effective approach of jumping off a building. It can go either way. There is a Malcolm Gladwell book that talks about the coupling of intention and means/access. Would gun regulation reduce suicide? How?

I respect the take. All life is important, and there is an expectation of personal responsibility for oneself and responsibility for their children. The zero percentages here across society are great. A long while back, my toddler ingested a house cleaning agent. The system was working. The government regulated that the manufacturer had warning labels. The manufacturer had warning labels. I knew the risks. I had those cabinet locks... but left one cabinet open. I needed to be a better parent.

We are in this weird situation where big tech has monopoly power on information, and the danger to democracy has been realized. Twitter has a 25% USA population penetration. This is different than CNN and Fox News with their 1%. I don't like it but don't fear when (Fox News or) CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester says The bias from moderators in the presidential elections is a problem because 70M people watch. Left or Right bias is a problem. Giving the topics/questions before the debate is also a problem. Not okay with that...

The latest insight says that Twitter couldn't find a reason to ban Trump, but they did anyways because employees demanded it. Fire! Fire! Wake up! You were asleep! Wake up! Twitter Files Free speech used to matter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1533972260062736385.html The Twitter files: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598822959866683394.html The Twitter files supp: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600243405841666048.html Secret exclusion lists: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601007575633305600.html Removing Trump Jan6: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601352083617505281.html Removing Trump Jan7: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680.html Removing Trump Jan8: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602364197194432515.html

My wife's view on Griner is that the trade was good. If it was her daughter, she would rather have her daughter back even if that meant 1000 other people died. I don't agree with her but I understand her. My view is that if it was my daughter, it is soul-crushing to say, but the greater good outweighs the few. No trade. Find another way like Ross Perot did, pay a bunch of money, etc. My wife doesn't agree with me, but she understands the view.

Sure! Some tools are more effective at killing than others. A gun is not alive and deciding to kill people. It isn't very sensible to say otherwise. The tattoo on my right arm honors a friend who took his life with a shotgun at 21. His choice is no reason to regulate shotguns. The data shows that guns are a near-zero cause of death in the USA. This is superbly impressive data, considering the massive amount of available guns. It is nonsense to further regulate legal gun ownership nationwide across 80M legal gun owners in a manner that doesn't address the rare isolated bad case incidents. The data shows we could reduce felony murder by policing targeted city blocks better... be tough on minor infractions, enforce curfews, etc.

Acknowledged. If you say your daughter died from guns, and you feel that one death is worth stripping the rights of a nation... then that's an informed view. I may not agree with it, but I'll respect it. Selling guns to 80M civilians that have repeatedly demonstrated their use for law-abiding purposes cannot be compared to the Russian guy selling guns to enable mass killing. If you want to argue this, I'm going to throw rubber chickens into the mix.

Elahichouran looked so young when introduced. The announcer says he is only 17 years old! Wow!

Yes @nhs67 to the black screen.