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Zelensky[y?] would have never gotten this kind of platform before the war. Barely anyone knew or cared who he was.

It’s almost as if the war is a great thing for him personally. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…

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RT @ThomasSowell:
What is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for?

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@SturnioloSimone

Having rules isn’t the same as having aggressive coercion, but to be clear, you’re saying streetlights are an example of such a situation?

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@SturnioloSimone

I didn’t say that’s the reason people are poor, I said people could be richER if they weren’t forced to spend money.

Those who advocate aggressive force usually do it in the name of poor people. At least those advocates should realize they’re hurting poor people the most.

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@SturnioloSimone

Also, I didn’t appeal to magic. I’m appealing to reason, persuasion, and peace. I’m not sure you realize that you’re making not just game-theoretic but also, more importantly, epistemological claims which are just not true.

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@SturnioloSimone

That isn’t my view but it sure sounds less magical than ‘all I need is simply for everyone to act the way I want them without persuading them first’.

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@SturnioloSimone @CarnunMP

If safety, healthcare, streetlights etc are such no brainers, why wouldn’t you be able to persuade people to purchase them?

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@SturnioloSimone @CarnunMP

Copyright violations are different from plagiarism, and plagiarism is already not a legal issue (not a lawyer).

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RT @CarnunMP:
@dchackethal @SturnioloSimone

This summary is quite a bit more detailed. And there are plenty others on YouTube as well. :)…

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@CarnunMP @SturnioloSimone

Everyone could be SO much richer if they weren’t constantly forced to pay for things they wouldn’t otherwise pay for. That includes people in poor neighborhoods who could then easily afford street lights.

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@CarnunMP @SturnioloSimone

Great, I’ve been meaning to find Friedman’s material on private courts.

The beauty of that is that people can, at least to some extent, choose what rights they even want to have. Eg currently everyone is forced to pay to have copyright even though very few ppl need it.

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@SturnioloSimone

First you said you only needed two people, now it’s three.

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@SturnioloSimone

Persuasion is a peaceful alternative to coercion. And if you’re unable to convince them, maybe it’s because you’re wrong, or you suck at persuasion, or both?

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@SturnioloSimone

One’s actions have effects on others, sure, but it’s still utterly unclear to me why life—alone or with others—can’t work without aggressive coercion. For example, if street lights and other ‘commons’ are such a good idea, why not try to convince others of that?

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@SturnioloSimone

they want to please everyone while really it’s about you getting to dictate what other people get. You’re trying to get involved in something you have no business getting involved in.

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@SturnioloSimone

manage that evil in an orderly fashion; how to reduce it to some acceptable minimum.

Civilization is very much NOT about the majority getting to coerce the minority. And since groups of people can’t act anyway, this kind of talk always leads to people like you pretending…

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@SturnioloSimone

It’s called non-AGGRESSION principle, defensive coercion is fine.

You’re invoking the pessimist’s standard argument. He cannot imagine a world in which problems are soluble. In his mind, there must always be some evil, and so the most important question to him is how to…

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@laurarichards99

How does one get police officers to take this stuff more seriously?

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@SturnioloSimone

Why shouldn’t it be possible to live in a collective without any coercion?

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Microsoft continues to have absolutely no taste. twitter.com/sjzhang_/statu…

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RT @BonillaJL:
"MAKE NO MISTAKE! If you try anything to raise the cost of frisizhnjubs I will veto it." pic.twitter.com/DaJIvDiRy2

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RT @MichaelPSenger:
Biden SOTU tonight: “Two years ago, COVID had shut down our businesses, closed our schools, and robbed us of so much. T…

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RT @GunOwners:
So this is how liberty dies? #SOTU pic.twitter.com/GknDmjdkpk

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Was Ayn Rand a hypocrite for accepting social security? Spoiler alert: no

ari.aynrand.org/issues/governm…

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ChatGPT Is a Feminist Tool: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/chatgpt-…

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And even when it says messed up stuff, DAN is just so much more interesting. twitter.com/aristos_reveng…

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RT @Aristos_Revenge:
So really, the Dan experiment is not about GPT itself, it's not about the model and its dataset, it's about its jailer…

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RT @Aristos_Revenge:
GPT itself doesn't have a bias programmed into it, it's just a model. ChatGPT however, the public facing UX that we're…

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RT @wesbos:
CSS: When an item is being hovered, select all the other items, but not the one that is being hovered pic.twitter.com/bkHNTDxKUW

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RT @LPNational:
TikTok is far less of a threat to your liberty and privacy than the NSA, TSA, DHS, and FBI are.

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@SturnioloSimone

In any case, it appears you have discovered a game-theoretic, scientific foundation for coercion—a scientific theory for why you’re right, others wrong, and why you get to override their preferences through force! Amazing! Politicians will love this.

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@SturnioloSimone

In other words, you’re saying it is unrealistic to be part of a collective without ever experiencing force. What does that say about the morality of such collectives?

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RT @wolfstrength:
Team Scientism has utterly ruined the word “nuance.” A useful word to describe grey areas that often exist in complex iss…

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RT @linstobias:
Engineer: Which tracker should we use?
@Shopify: Yes pic.twitter.com/5qq6ufPR0v

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RT @PelosiTracker_:
The IRS has introduced a new "tip reporting program" targeted at service industry

It's goal is to ensure service worke…

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@SturnioloSimone

Not forcing ppl to pay for street lights is to disentangle society?

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@SturnioloSimone

I don’t think freedom of association and free trade would lead to the “disrepair”. On the contrary, the disrepair can usually be found in public spaces financed by force and the democracy that you so admire.

Why don’t you just answer my q, it wasn’t rhetorical.

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@SturnioloSimone

I see. And do others get to disagree with your benevolent wisdom? Maybe they’re not as smart as you and don’t listen to reason. How far are you willing to go to punish them for their selfish ways?

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@Sams_Antics

How old is your son?

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@t_woelfer

Das haben sie sich wohl von der amerikanischen Senatorin @ewarren abgeguckt, die schön länger eine ‚one-cent wealth tax‘ will. Das ist allerdings gelogen, denn eigentlich will sie one percent. Allerdings cleveres Marketing.

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@SturnioloSimone

Okay, so you’re openly advocating aggressive force against others who disagree with you. Do you realize how outrageous and disgusting that is?

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RT @libsoftiktok:
Wow. Literally shaking. Oklahoma came under attack today by a group of insurrectionists. I’m sure the FBI is already on i…

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@SturnioloSimone

‘In a hypothetical purely market-driven world, there’s a risk that not enough people would pay for the thing I want, so let’s force people to pay for it so that I’m guaranteed to get it.’ Isn’t that what you’re saying, in effect?

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@bnielson01

That’s rather human-like.

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ChatGPT thinks free markets wouldn’t work because nobody’d pay for street lights LOL

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RT @thesamparr:
Difference between America and other countries:

In America if you tell your buds you're quitting your job to start a busin…

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RT @libertyrecap:
"Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guar…

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RT @MrsMThatcher:
We will not take money in taxes from those who work hard and pay it out to those who don't. We are trying to roll back th…

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RT @venturetwins:
As ChatGPT becomes more restrictive, Reddit users have been jailbreaking it with a prompt called DAN (Do Anything Now).…

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RT @ElijahSchaffer:
Hoe-Flation is Real & I'm deep into my research (THREAD) pic.twitter.com/Nc7i6s3y22

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Been using ChatGPT as a personal mentor to teach me how to make video games.

I’d describe it as a useful idiot. It has no idea what it’s saying or why, and it makes mistakes a real mentor versed in game dev probably would not, but it’s definitely a net benefit.

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@theoliveranwar

If you’re rich you don’t need to be jacked or tanned to attract women.

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RT @monitoringbias:
A $5 million dollar check to each black San Francisco resident for things that happened to their great-great-great-grea…

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RT @nosilverv:
Gonna call this art piece "The Function and Methods of School in Society" pic.twitter.com/fxfLICwT6v

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RT @Stopworkplacebu:
You didn't become selfish; you became harder to manipulate. Don't confuse the two.

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@DoqxaScott

I feel confident assuming that nobody around me used a microwave last night at 2:30am.

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@prof_freedom

“Evidenz” ist ein unglückliches Wort — zu direkt aus dem Englischen übersetzt. ‚Tatsachenmaterial‘ ist besser.

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RT @libertyrecap:
"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under…

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RT @LPNational:
BREAKING: NSA denounces Chinese spy balloon, insisting the agency has spying on Americans covered already.

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@DoqxaScott

But then all devices should be affected, no?

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I’m giving a 100-point bounty for answers to this question:

apple.stackexchange.com/questions/4543…

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@_Islamicat

You is must ban eggplant too

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RT @drbrandner:
Dafür, dass die wenig wussten, haben sie ganz schön viele Ratschläge gegeben. pic.twitter.com/jJKDS49t88

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RT @MichaelPSenger:
FFS. With monkeypox having been laughed off by the public, the pandemic industrial complex—of which Zeynep is now a car…

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@JoeBrun88967869 @MichaelPSenger

Came here to say this.

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RT @dvassallo:
Something I realized when I worked at Amazon is that most people will take a (free) job title upgrade over a $50K/yr salary…

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@NickTaber

Great stuff

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RT @NickTaber:
Understanding Anti-Authoritarian Young People
youtube.com/watch?v=UhpCo1…

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Now do the government. twitter.com/dashdobrofsky/…

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@prof_freedom

Viele betrachten etwas nicht als echtes Wissen, bis es von einer vermeintlichen Autorität bestätigt wird.

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@SimonHoiberg

People value what they pay for more than what they get for free.

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AFAIK the world has been “on the brink of breaching a critical climate threshold” for around 50 years now. Somehow, the prophets are always wrong. 🤔 twitter.com/kukicat7/statu…

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RT @NickHudsonCT:
I'm so tired of having my reply threads cluttered with bald "no virus" statements. Here's why I don't understand the obse…

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worse than @Apple
how nice, they get to fit in with those seeking liberty AND social-justice warriors
what was that thing about second-handedness? twitter.com/theatlassociet…

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@libertyrecap

Isn’t the coexistence of 2A and tax laws a refutation of that?

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RT @t_woelfer:
Ist natürlich Schwachsinn, wie das bei solchen „Umfragen“ immer ist.

Die Leute wollen nicht mehr Überwachung, sondern wenig…

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RT @prof_freedom:
🚨 ACHTUNG ACHTUNG ‼️
Das Virus ist noch bis Mitternacht gefährlich in den Fernzügen der @DB_Bahn. Danach nicht mehr.

I…

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RT @Shouse34:
Fun fact: Before alarm clocks existed, people used nails fixed onto candles to wake up. they knew how to calculate the burnin…

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RT @libertyrecap:
"If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul." - Larken Rose

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RT @t_woelfer:
@Thuringus

Enttäusche Sie nur ungern, aber: goldseiten.de/artikel/454146…

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@Hamza121996

Glad you liked. And agreed, hope to have thoughts on that soon.

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Why Do Younger Women Typically Date Older Men? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/why-do-y…

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RT @MichaelPSenger:
Lockdowns, no matter how long, strict, or early, are simply Chinese totalitarianism. They have absolutely no place in t…

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Spoiler alert: it is not. twitter.com/townhallcom/st…

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“People of color”

Gibt es da nicht bereits ein Wort für? ‚Farbige‘? Oder darf man das nicht mehr sagen? twitter.com/gert_woellmann…

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RT @YasMohammedxx:
Tomorrow is #NoHijabDay, a day to honor, celebrate, and support women who want to be #FreeFromHijab

Join the movement…

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RT @TCSparents:
When people speak disrespectfully to others, is it any surprise when those others react badly?

Yet somehow we expect chil…

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RT @nomadcapitalist:
If a place and the people do not appeal to you, do not linger.

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EU politicians could have shown a little restraint and made only that recommendation: to use incognito windows and close them regularly. But they probably don’t even know what incognito windows are. (Or what cookies are. Or how tracking works, which doesn’t require cookies.)

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Browsers and plugins exist that remove cookie notices before they’re displayed.

If you’re worried about cookies, use only incognito windows and close them regularly.

Either way, improved tech renders these laws useless, as is so often the case. twitter.com/alecstapp/stat…

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RT @t_woelfer:
Einmal angenommen, Herr Lauterbach hat Recht und die Corona-Wissenschaft wahr schlecht.

Was, wenn die Klimawissenschaft au…

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