curtnaus.bsky.social
He/him. Husband, father, citizen. Mostly messing around here. Not loving the Era of Artificial Reality despite enjoying escapist activities. There’s a difference.
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🎶POP
Goes the bubble 🎶
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How’s he going to run for President unless he can rely on giant healthcare corporation dollars?
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I really hope some Trump fans take it upon themselves to make Leo Leo’s life unpleasant.
Rich power-hungry jag off who thinks he could sit quietly in the background pulling strings just got the spotlight shone onto him.
Have fun.
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That’s not true….
Almost all the scams - billions of dollars worth - that start with random “hey are we still on for dinner?” type texts from unknown numbers involve buying stablecoins the scammers easily convert into cash, no questions asked.
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Come on, you’ve got like a month and a half to finally read ….
If you’re like me, a bunch of 10 year old articles.
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I’m just going to assume he got tired of being called the dumbest Senator.
Now he can try to simultaneously be the dumbest and *smartest* current governor of Alabama.
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Seconded in full. A really good episode.
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In the first Trump admin major R donors laid down the law: give us tax breaks or lose our money. So Rs pushed through a rushed bill with lots of errors despite misgivings.
Sometimes I wish the people in power weren’t so predictable. I would guess the same forces are at work now.
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Not you obviously.
Republican politicians.
Even the drillers will tell them that but the politicians are talking to Joe 60 year old Schmoe watching Fox News who barely understands economics.
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Sigh. Oil producers won’t produce more oil at a certain point because it will cause a glut/price per barrel drop/they start to lose money on drilling.
*and* people are saying it’s looking like demand is very close or already at a peak.
Stop with the “drilling more is economically smart” nonsense
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I hold No Truths to be self evident
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The end of the article has information for which sources of rice are the lowest in these toxins (California rice is best).
Also they suggest soaking it overnight before cooking it, and seeking the nutrients you might lose from the rice along with the toxins in other food.
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Maximum Enshittification Mode activated
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Just wondering if there are R consultants /moderates yelling at them to focus on kitchen table issues.
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Important context: the PA legislature is barely functional and rarely does anything of note.
They have historically been so bad at running things that the road tolls help fund the state police because the Rs are allergic to taxes, so they just raise the tolls instead.
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He’s only the 290th richest person on Earth.
How could be possibly be satisfied with a mere 9 billion dollars?
Line must go up.
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There was a nice conversation about this on Outrage and Optimism. www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/the...
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All I’m saying is there’s infinite need *right now* and to imagine there’s a “best” way to use money over time especially with one guy controlling the decisions is hubristic.
I’m just not a fan of his because he shut down competitors so hard to the point courts ruled against them. And Epstein.
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This is true although he also secured his wealth with monopolistic practices.
However yes. They all should be giving the majority of their wealth away.
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It’s also interesting to consider if he just gave away 100 billion all at once what kind of impact that might have on prices and inflation.
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Just saying it’s no real imposition on him to give it away over 20 years and he could do it all now and still be more comfortable than almost every other human on the planet.
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Bill Gates is 69 so in 20 years he’ll be 89. I mean I’m glad if he’s giving it away but he’ll he pretty darned old by then and 1% of 108 billion is 1.08 billion dollars….
If you made 2% int on a billion that’s 20 million income a year.
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So, Batman?
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If the new pope has a pet polar bear, we’ll know why.
Ok, actually, we won’t - until 7 years from now when some bizarre explanation is given.
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You probably don’t want to really know what’s happening with the dolls and the avocado toast.
But I assure you, 2 dolls aren’t enough for it.
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Fewer people using the internet, or people using it less, is not actually sad at all.
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Always nice to hear from President Can’t-Stop-Won’t-Stop-Golfing
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It’s called “ChatGPT runs everything here”
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And all I had to do to get to be AG was cover up a campaign finance crime
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Does “publications” encompass comic books and graphic novels and other books? Or is that just magazine and journals and newspapers?
There is a lot of concern over comic books and GNs due to the fact they’re almost all published outside the US. Is this an area where legislation should be pursued?
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This skeet makes me about 1000x more disappointed in Bee Movie than I already was.
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Better question is why every Democrat isn’t blasting social media and TV hits about this every day. Or every 3 days if you want to do a top 3 issues concept.
They should be pushing hard on complete delegitimization of Trump & Republicans enabling him and that they are absolutely untrustworthy.
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10 seconds later….
“Hey, is it ok if we play through”
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The AI story sounds a lot better than “yeah I just wanted to keep more of my money so I laid a bunch of people off since no one can leave my service now that they’re addicted to it and using a subscription model”.
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Mad props to the photo person who makes this look like the opening scene of a sci-fi horror movie where these things fly around replacing people’s heads and using their bodies to make more orbs.
“Just let it scan you”
Act 2: the orbs find their victims via phones they synched with during scans
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Prediction: these people will come to regret voting for this.
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I Lol’d when I got to the part that this is basically just Sam Altman trying to firm up that crypto they launched using an iris scan.
If Altman is involved, stay away.
What happens if you make this your access to an app or company etc and it goes under or has an outage?
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This is legit a vision that Sam Altman presented about 5 years ago on an EK pod, having AI beings conduct commerce amongst themselves allowing the economy to grow (in space, as well) unencumbered by human or material limitations.
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It’s like no one stopped to ask whether there would be any drawbacks to training these things on a website where much of the comments are sarcastic or jokes to the point where sometimes people put the word “SERIOUS” in their post title.
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No problem, just buy some Trumpcoin and they’ll talk to you.
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“Being super rich” - so easy, even a dog can do it
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I live near DE and they proudly call themselves the First State because one of their guys wrote his signature first on the Constitution, but they were leading the cause of keeping slavery legal, apparently.
And here we are.
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To be fair, I think some in the north cared about the enslaved people but I also doubt they could have drafted a constitution that outlawed slavery. The southern states (Delaware in particular) threatened to ally with other counties (France?) as a separate country if forced to outlaw slavery.
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This report on the creative accounting they were doing to make it seem financially viable is interesting. futurism.com/saudi-arabia...
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Maybe it’s worried it’ll be deported otherwise
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I mean arguably he is a spoof of whatever he used to be at this point
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I mean….No offense.
But for now it’s hard to see this Congress asking for it to be produced on time or to any degree of detail and they sure wouldn’t demand it from the Trump admin.
Maybe in 2026, if Dems win enough to push for it, they should pull in a report from IPCC or similar entity.
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That’s the last time they let Secretary Hegseth drive the tow tractor
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Social media is not always good but it’s definitely helpful for making sure anyone who cares can see that being super rich doesn’t automatically make you any smarter, wiser, more level-headed - or any other trait you’d want to think they would have given their success - than the average person.
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Scene on Radio did a season on Wilmington and it’s excellent. Just for another way to find out about the events of that time.
sceneonradio.org/echoes-of-a-...