Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
58m ago
That was my first thought too, but I think now that it means “person observing the legality (or lack thereof) of the officers.”
Quantumfreakonomics
6hr ago
Props to Tenobrus on Twitter for admitting the crux.
”idk man. still just kinda feel sick. i think for whatever reason this is my final lib out moment. i don't really care if there was an agent kind of in front of her car. they shouldn't have fucking been there. they shouldn't fucking exist. deport every goddamn ice agent”
A lot of people don’t consider ICE a legitimate law-enforcement agency. They don’t consider arresting and deporting illegal immigrants who are not otherwise criminal to be a legitimate government policy. They think that random citizens should be able to block public roadways in order to obstruct federal agents, then run away and go “NA NA NA I’M NOT TOUCHING YOU” the moment the agents try to do anything about it. That it is actually ICE who is breaching the social contract here. If anything, citizens should be able to shoot ICE agents who get in their way.
Quantumfreakonomics
6hr ago
NO! People will actually turn out to LOVE Somalians because of this. They will be taking money from the socialized commons (which includes substantial federal funds by the way) and bringing it to the specific places where Somali fraudsters live. I would bet that the local Cadillac dealerships in Minneapolis can’t get enough of the Somalis.
Quantumfreakonomics
17hr ago
[NormanRockwellFreedomOfSpeech.jpg] I think it is okay for law enforcement officers to shoot people who are willing to run them over.
Quantumfreakonomics
20hr ago
When you turn the wheel and press the accelerator at the same time, the car doesn't go in a straight line.
Quantumfreakonomics
20hr ago
She backs-up with the wheels turned to the left, stops, turns the wheels to the right, and then accelerates forward. The officer is in front of the car, so via the intermediate value theorem, there is indeed a point where the wheels are pointed directly at the cop.
This doesn't really mean much, because she keeps turning the wheels, and this is also exactly the technique one would use to execute a two-point turn.
If Tim Walz uses the Minnesota National Guard to remove federal agents then Trump will have full legal and ethical justification to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in literal tanks.
EDIT: I am watching the clips where people say that Tim Walz is threatening to use the National Guard against federal agents. He does not seem to be actually saying that.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
30 years is a bit much. Are there any websites from 30 years ago still active? I think there's a good chance we're still here in 10 though.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
What percentage of federal workers with a clearance are actually underpaid these days?
The people responsible for the successful execution of the Maduro capture added at least $100 billion in value to the US Equity market. There is no way they are being fairly compensated.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Why isn't everyone doing this, if they aren't already?
The reason, which becomes clear if one looks at the fine print, is that these markets have absolutely pathetic volume. One and a half million dollars on whether Trump will take Greenland. This is probably for the best. If I had a Polymarket account, I would have bet against Maduro being removed from power, and I would have lost my money.
Despite the hype, the smart money on Wall Street is not getting involved.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Have you ever heard the song, “You Belong With Me”?
You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset
She's going off about something that you said
'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do
I'm in the room, it's a typical Tuesday night
I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like
And she'll never know your story like I do
But she wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts
She's Cheer Captain, and I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time
If you could see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along, so why can't you see?
You belong with me, you belong with me
Walk in the streets with you in your worn-out jeans
I can't help thinking this is how it ought to be
Laughing on a park bench, thinking to myself
"Hey, isn't this easy?"
It’s hardly even subtext. It’s just text.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Everyone remembers Metternich. Nobody remembers Ferdinand.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
I've seen speculation that the polygamous habits of Somalians are why this particular grift is so lucrative for them. One man with four wives worth of children could be raking in a middle-class lifestyle just watching the kids.
I don't know about the in-actuality familial habits of American Somalis to evaluate whether this is a good explaination or just made-up.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
It’s almost scarier if it turns out these are all technically legit businesses and the government was just this bad at not getting Dutch Booked.
Sure, you could take care of your own baby like a chump, or you could let your buddy take care of your baby and do him a $3000/month solid.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
I did a lot of digging in Washington State daycares the other week. Washington has better public-facing financial tools. There is a big database of all government payouts for the last 6 months. You can go down the list of DYCF payments, stop at every company with “Home Daycare” or “Family Child Care” in their name that gets a 5-figure payout each month, cross-reference the name with the Washington State Daycare registry, and see that every single one has a Somali name as the primary contact. I must have found at least a dozen places run out of a medium-sized suburban home licensed for 12 kids that were each raking in $40,000 a month. Even assuming these were legitimate businesses running at full capacity, that would be over $3000 per child per month, for daycare, run out of someone’s basement.
He is Earth's greatest living philosopher.
Edit: I challenge any of the downboaters to name a better one.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
America will never truly be free until one can drive from Barrow to San Juan. We need Cuba in order to build the Caribbean Super Bridge.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
We cut aid to Ukraine in exchange for a Russian blessing of an invasion of Cuba. Who says no?
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
This is the most Elba possible option. He speaks the language, has more in common with his captors than his exilers, and would be subject to local political volitility. He would become a hero.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Getting Maduro personally is the easy part. All of the interests that he represented and championed are still there. How is an American puppet government supposed to have popular legitimacy given that we executed a smash-and-grab over the skies of Caracas in plain sight?
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Oil. Venezuela has lots of oil, so they got a big dose of freedom. With a US-friendly government in charge, excraction costs will fall, enabling the high-tech petroleum refineries on the US Gulf Coast (which are helpfully in red states) to reap the producer surplus from the increased supply. AI demand for energy will keep the price up. GPT-7 will be powered by Venezuelan oil, brought to you by Exxon, I'm Lovin' It.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
We can send him to Midway like Napoleon on Saint Helena.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
AI-generated nudes of minors meet the legal definition of child pornography.
“child pornography” means any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where— [...] such visual depiction has been created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
If the Supreme Court ruled that sharing AI-generated deepfakes of actually existing 14-year-olds is protected speech, there would be a constitutional amendment. The general public will not stand for this, regardless of what weird tech-libertarians think.
I have read that her wife was outside the car when this all happened. Presumably the wife was there for the protests.
I suppose it’s possible that Renee was coming to pick her wife up, which would explain why she might stop in a weird spot in the middle of the action.
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