#  @CulturalBystand Cultural Bystander Cultural Bystander posts on X about maga, money, newton, tariffs the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1521523470588293121/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] -76% - [--] Month [------] +1,293% - [--] Months [------] +67% - [--] Year [------] +754% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1521523470588293121/posts_active)  - [--] Months [--] -54% - [--] Year [---] +0.51% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1521523470588293121/followers)  - [--] Week [---] +1.70% - [--] Month [---] no change - [--] Months [---] -2.20% - [--] Year [---] +32% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1521523470588293121/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [stocks](/list/stocks) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [us election](/list/us-election) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) **Social topic influence** [maga](/topic/maga), [money](/topic/money), [newton](/topic/newton), [tariffs](/topic/tariffs), [has been](/topic/has-been), [countries](/topic/countries), [inflation](/topic/inflation), [murder](/topic/murder), [israel](/topic/israel), [iran](/topic/iran) **Top assets mentioned** [Hertz Global Holdings, Inc Common Stock (HTZ)](/topic/hertz) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Fluid (FLUID)](/topic/fluid) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Despite what the Right say there arent many people let alone influential ones preaching Communism today. But what person business or Party doesnt endorse ideas like social license Its still collectivism just in small-town tribal form" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1680064870291767297) 2023-07-15T04:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Many Conservatives & Libertarians cite the need for factual truth in tandem w/ conspiracy theories. Really their starting point is a feeling of everything modern is wrong but the emotionalism is evaded & they fake objectivity via rationalizations" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1705245477476999668) 2023-09-22T15:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@DavidDeutschOxf Thomas Sowell points out the persecuted minorities around the world all having in common that they are successful cultures of business often middlemen traders and have no connection to politics. I suspect whats underlying this phenomenon is the same for antisemitism today" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1728087628291940414) 2023-11-24T16:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Kamots_A @GardenNomi_ @ChumTheWater @JoshEakle @ProjectLiberal You realize that scenario isnt impossible in the way you explained it which is correct. It just requires a ton of work intellectually physically & socially which is why guys like Bill Gates are known to work 80+ hrs a week" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1730622714392523245) 2023-12-01T16:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Kamots_A @GardenNomi_ @ChumTheWater @JoshEakle @ProjectLiberal Not impossible in the same way that only a very few of us have the insane degree of combined intelligence mental & physical strength endurance & willpower to be a Ronaldo or Isaac Newton. Whats important is that were left free to pursue & achieve our goals regardless" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1730669692254032309) 2023-12-01T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@Kamots_A @GardenNomi_ @ChumTheWater @JoshEakle @ProjectLiberal Bill Gates got rich by building something totally new in his garage that was valuable to every person on Earth. He was even hit by an anti-competitive anti-trust suit for it too. If you think innovation like that is bad (like the FTC does) then we disagree there as well" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1730677114268188931) 2023-12-01T19:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The OP is also admitting that they value imperial monuments over a healthy middle class which honestly seems consistent" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1736213276986429577) 2023-12-17T02:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@JoshEakle Not saying LPMC is right obv but even the Fed admits theres disparities in the GDP wrt income:" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1738308326394356195) 2023-12-22T21:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@JoshEakle Theyre also puzzled by the inflation rate - unemployment rate disparity. Their claim about a strong economy have [--] assumptions: GDP requires no context & that a low unemployment rate always means rising employment the numerator of the calculation. But heres the denominator:" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1738311358632861930) 2023-12-22T21:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@abcampbell Its important to realize that this is a result of the changes brought about to the original Bitcoin code due to various ideological differences between the crypto community and the Bitcoin creator. This is exactly what youd expect to happen if you cap the block size" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1740391459243917385) 2023-12-28T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Why dont we start calling it for what it really is: anti-Western. Clearly these LGTBQ environmentalist hippies dont share the positive views of Putin or Hamas. They just dont have the luxury of having rationalizations that make much sense in this context. The pro-Palestine movement's complete lack of sympathy for Ukraine has been a giant red flag from day [--] The pro-Palestine movement's complete lack of sympathy for Ukraine has been a giant red flag from day 1" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1740593249704952092) 2023-12-29T04:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@TPostMillennial "At least you know where Donald Trump stands on issues and we have lived through a Donald Trump presidency." Yeahthats thats why hes dangerous" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1741370932097094051) 2023-12-31T08:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@caitoz It wouldnt be worded like that if the Iranian connection wasnt so taboo. Theres nothing uncomfortable about the US affiliation w/ Israel but acknowledging that the horrors of the Middle East are not only unified but by religion is a can of worms no politician wants to open" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745621524999028956) 2024-01-12T01:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Heres an example of how actual misinformation spreads. [--]. Political group rehash mealy mouthed pseudoscience in a report [--]. Newspaper hack construes it as good-standing science of likely truthfulness [--]. Political pundits on social media cite it as confirming the accepted wisdom Prices are still high. Why A big reason is that even as costs have come down corporations are price gouging to boost profits. Take diapers for example. Costs like wool are down 25%. But [--] companies control 70% of the market & their executives brag about fatter profit margins. Prices are still high. Why A big reason is" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1749545092329644127) 2024-01-22T21:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "From the source they cite. We just need to be more like those beacons of prosperity: Albania Bhutan and Nepal. Eleven US states now get over half their electricity from renewables (and [--] of them have below-average electricity prices) https://t.co/osubBa4mSZ Eleven US states now get over half their electricity from renewables (and [--] of them have below-average electricity prices) https://t.co/osubBa4mSZ" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1752687379763413299) 2024-01-31T13:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Whether this is a success or not its good to see businessmen still building society out of conservative policy. Itll be exciting having athletics opened up to the frontier of biomedical science. No telling what kind of wider spread innovation will come from it. Billionaire PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has invested in a drug-friendly sports contest styled as a modern reinvention of the Olympic Games." https://t.co/t4t7kMtVcd Billionaire PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has invested in a drug-friendly sports contest styled as a modern reinvention of the Olympic Games." https://t.co/t4t7kMtVcd" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1753216542156681720) 2024-02-02T00:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@jasoncrawford It also creates an ontology gap. Academics are free to conjure up whatever fantasy they want as long as they use some real aspects in their theory which can be marginally useful in practice. If you ask industry personnel if something is true they say idk does it work" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1753344176173769053) 2024-02-02T09:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "In [----] and again in [----] surveys of American historians rated Wilson fourth among American presidents lagging behind only Abraham Lincoln George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt. I feel like theres something important here were missing. Woodrow Wilson is despised as a racist by todays left and a tyrant by todays right. Yet for all his faults he left the modern world an important legacy: a set of values that our politics sorely need today @davidfrum argues. https://t.co/Sd5ImskE2M Woodrow Wilson is despised as a racist by todays left and a tyrant by todays right. Yet for all his faults he" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1754025240685113739) 2024-02-04T06:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@CBradleyThomps1 Why dont the anti-phonics people just create their own language where each word is its own unique symbol instead of complaining about the phonetic aspect of English" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1754170034883047709) 2024-02-04T15:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Todays American Right folks. Im sure supporting the great virtuous leader Vladimir Putin & his civilized Capitalist Republic is exactly what Ayn Rand would do if she were alive. @yaronbrook @Knedo2 Ayn Rand was very skilled at identifying and describing the enemy Im sure she would quickly identify the looters in our government and all the ways America has trended toward a soviet style cleptocratic institution and how Russia has trended toward a free market society. While @yaronbrook @Knedo2 Ayn Rand was very skilled at identifying and describing the enemy Im sure she would quickly identify" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1755023622866133316) 2024-02-07T00:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Tucker Carlson tomorrow: You know Mr. President the Jewish funded Liberal media establishment in the West has been upset at the idea of this interview calling your nation a dictatorship. But here I am expressing free speech with you while theyre trying to criminalize me. JUST IN: The European Union is considering imposing a travel ban against Tucker Carlson for interviewing Putin. EU lawmakers are now furious that a journalist flew to Russia to do journalism. They now want to slap Tucker with sanctions for assisting Putin. Putin is a war https://t.co/jUjEody4vp JUST IN: The European Union is" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1755271829252354272) 2024-02-07T16:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Europeans like to make fun of football as being brutish but its lowkey the sport most similar to chess. Theres a reason why coaching trees is so important to its history: coaches are defined by their philosophy & ideas can be traced throughout the evolution of the sport" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1756905416041091303) 2024-02-12T04:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@myoung512 @SRCHicks @ConceptualJames Thats clearly just trying to read all the negatives out of the doctrine. JPs explanation for Abraham about to murder his son out of faithful duty is absurd" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1757795907834347835) 2024-02-14T15:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "It may not look like it but this is an act of science on par with Newtons Principia. VIDEO THREAD: Drivers were irate this morning on the GW Parkway as climate activists blocked northbound traffic into DC. One who said her son is in the hospital poured water on them. Another pushed them and tore their signs away. Footage by @T_Jones_Media for @N2Sreports https://t.co/E1UVfpOJ23 VIDEO THREAD: Drivers were irate this morning on the GW Parkway as climate activists blocked northbound traffic into DC. One who said her son is in the hospital poured water on them. Another pushed them and tore their" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1757916031023235548) 2024-02-14T23:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Draymonds a bit of a violent bully on the court but also one of the most intelligent players in the league. Good to see the latter be dominant in his worldview & activism. On a trip to Israel Draymond Green visited a counterterrorism unit shot hoops with soldiers and took part in target practice with an Israeli police unit. Where are the brave political stances by NBA players when it comes to Palestinian rights https://t.co/AeIdUPhPIG On a trip to Israel Draymond Green visited a counterterrorism unit shot hoops with soldiers and took part in target practice with an Israeli police unit. Where" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1759453267459736059) 2024-02-19T05:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@mattwridley Mann is a destructive hack but this case wasnt really about the validity of science or the discussion of science. He was publicly compared to the serial child molester from the school he worked and if the judge thinks this warrants defamation then so be it" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1759943861135180093) 2024-02-20T14:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "In [----] Michelson & Morley developed the first precise way to measure the wavelength of light waves of heated gases by splitting the rays & measuring the interfering diffraction patterns of distance & refraction controlled arms. This is what German nihilism mutilated into QM" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1760401097775292735) 2024-02-21T20:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ColemanMulkerin Pretty much every AI-gone-bad plot even outside of Star Trek just jumped straight to robots physically taking over or becoming some low-grade deity" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1760702587903385775) 2024-02-22T16:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar What Id like to know is if money originated as a unit volume of a specific commodity. For instance as dealers of things like grain realized that their exchange ratios could be simplified by accounting in units of only one of their goods. Medium of exchange coming later on" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1763311347532525998) 2024-02-29T21:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar I think the divide b/w the Austrians & Monetarists is really a failure to integrate the truth of both sides. As produce dealers began offering physical representations of their unit of account (currency) markets of these currencies mustve arisen & monetary economics begun" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1763312796865810558) 2024-02-29T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Today leading intellectuals like David Lindley cry that culture played no role that the debates werent philosophical. Hes right about the latter. As shown the New Scientists were arguing philosophically while classical scientists only offered scientific defenses" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1764120486030541222) 2024-03-03T02:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Like all other fields these sciences were changed in the early 20th c. by young Germans who formed intellectual groups to discuss philosophy namely that of Kant Hume & their disciples. For example here of Einstein (by Stachel) & of Heisenberg (in his own words)" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1764120496491089945) 2024-03-03T02:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Regardless of how you evaluate the situation this is the only way to understand it: Philosophically trained intellectuals brought guns to a sword fight. Some old-heads like Boltzmann saw this & made late attempts to learn philosophy but these were captains of a sinking ship" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1764120500152709537) 2024-03-03T02:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its kinda crazy how little attention the French school of analysis gets. In one lifespan existed Fourier dAlembert Poisson Cauchy de Chatlier Fermat Euler (in a sense) Laplace Lagrange Carnot Regnault Navier & many more" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1764367869721104682) 2024-03-03T19:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Also who knew that the Eiffel Tower was constructed as a symbol of scientific achievement Its like the World Trade Center of science" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1764368900563558541) 2024-03-03T19:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A fact left out of Modern Physics is that Length Contraction & Time Dilation are not *perceived* effects but *conceived* effects. The perceived phenomena are constant. But it was like dropping a juicy steak in front of the dogmatic anti-conceptual intellectuals of the 20th c" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1765193632947073179) 2024-03-06T01:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This is like an even more stupid version of the protectionist logic for tariffs. Lets just out-authoritarian China for the sake of protecting our citizens. Smart. This is possibly the strongest evidence yet that the TikTok bill is the right choice. https://t.co/ceOt1F3pae This is possibly the strongest evidence yet that the TikTok bill is the right choice. https://t.co/ceOt1F3pae" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1768655232282616252) 2024-03-15T15:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "An important link in philosophy can be learned from Modern Physics. Unlike the PopSci headlines theorists like Einstein didnt prove unreality. He merely denied reason & showed an emotion-based alternative; the unrealistic metaphysics follows naturally. Lets consult Einstein. In his lecture On The Methods of Theoretical Physics he claims that it was believed in the 18th & 19th c. that science was inductive & logical but his generation has come to uphold the (Kants) rejection of that notion. Science is purely fictitious. https://t.co/VmiFO1YtE3 Lets consult Einstein. In his lecture On The" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770091064428310609) 2024-03-19T14:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "When Joe Biden says hes a Capitalist whats he doing Hes following the strategy discovered by Kant in which you exploit unclaritity by pretending to be your victims champion in order to misrepresent them. The attack on Newton was a particularly insidious example" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770231825127907402) 2024-03-19T23:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This is the kind of nonsense you get when monetary & economic causes get packaged together. (inflation & deflation are monetary concepts *shakes fist*) Is blowing up JP Morgan really going to improve our lives CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing Soham Patil A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual the journalistic experts got it backwards. https://t.co/Ry9jL2Cwxi CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing Soham Patil A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770536474242351178) 2024-03-20T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Ironically these are usually the same people screaming about the Fed about to cause inflation during decades of constant deflation and then causing actual inflation during obvious supply shocks. And Libertarians are supposed to be the economically literate ones" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770536478000529798) 2024-03-20T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Feel like theres an important piece of context thats being left out when referring to the Confederates here. @ProjectLiberal The Union was Nationalism and Economic Protectionism the Confederacy was Liberalism and Free Trade. [--] of the Rebels battle cries was "Free Trade". They didn't want to pay tariffs and wanted to trade freely cotton with the British Empire. @ProjectLiberal The Union was Nationalism and Economic Protectionism the Confederacy was Liberalism and Free Trade. [--] of the Rebels battle cries was "Free Trade". They didn't want to pay tariffs and wanted to trade freely cotton with" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770832656055353681) 2024-03-21T15:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Clifford a forefather of this Subjective Idealism approach even pre-empted Einstein writing I hold that in the physical world nothing else takes place but this variation of the curvature of space." In this next paper he makes it clear: reality is an experienced geometry" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770906754894705044) 2024-03-21T20:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Clifford would later be mentioned by Mach as one of the handful thinkers in his growing Kantian epistemological camp along w/ Kirchoff Helmholtz Hertz & Planck. Everyone he mentions is now seen as *the* figures of that era despite him acknowledging they were a tiny minority" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1770912074304024662) 2024-03-21T20:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@scottlincicome How is someone proposing Paraguay be mentioned in our law book not laughed out of the building" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1771025447494537646) 2024-03-22T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Remember when Republicans used to ridicule Hillary Clinton for saying it takes a village to raise a kid Florida will ban anyone under [--] owning a social media account from January [----] deleting existing accounts The bill was signed today by Governor DeSantis https://t.co/5xnJtDR26i Florida will ban anyone under [--] owning a social media account from January [----] deleting existing accounts The bill was signed today by Governor DeSantis https://t.co/5xnJtDR26i" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1772459509203489177) 2024-03-26T03:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "5 women who thought they were in private relationships w/ him compared texts & realized in a span of hours hed leave one girl at his house meet another at a coffee shop fly another in to his cabin etc Whats w/ these guys claiming theres nothing revealing or to take down @ggreenwald They get their kicks from takedown stories even when there is nothing to take down. A craven lot of cretins they are. @ggreenwald They get their kicks from takedown stories even when there is nothing to take down. A craven lot of cretins they are" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1772627214808363325) 2024-03-26T14:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "To be clear: part of the context of why it probably ought to be exposed is that its directly related to his subject thus credibility as a major public intellectual. Its not like the mainstream needs to update everyone when some hedge fund manager has a crazy set of affairs" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1772643556026351647) 2024-03-26T15:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Stokes is hands down the most underrated scientist in history. He solved the mystifying problem of diffraction while proving the transverse wave theory of light. This was the work Maxwell used to integrate electricity & magnetism & he credited Stokes with making the connection" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1772971157316149725) 2024-03-27T12:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "That passage is from Maxwells first of three papers developing his theory written in [----]. This is from his second published [--] years later watering that conceptual seed which he develops into the Electromagnetic Wave Theory of Light in his final paper on the subject" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1772972464257040506) 2024-03-27T13:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@TomBilyeu @lexfridman I look at the last century and see moral theories all basically similar being preached & practiced by Mid East terrorists Soviet Communists the Khmer Rouge eco activists the Pope Sam Bankman-Freid the Nazis DEI leaders etc. Maybe our basic views of morality are wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1773432192099553370) 2024-03-28T19:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@HistoryBoomer Ayn Rand pointed out in the 60s that Leftists had given up the Marxist pretense of reason economy & civilization for the sake of keeping collectivism & altruism which took the form of ethnic Egalitarianism. This is just another one of those collective stands for barbarians" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1773444796016672778) 2024-03-28T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The author quoted here did make an acute observation of a cultural change one far wider than a small commune in Kyrgyzstan: the ideal of Western intellectuals turned into disaster & instead of questioning their basic assumptions they gave up the intellect. Between [----] and [----] a thousand Central European communists sold all their possessions invested their earnings in a co-operative and traveled to the southern border of the Soviet Union to build it. https://t.co/thX7AJm7Nf Between [----] and [----] a thousand Central European communists sold all their possessions invested their earnings in a" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1773722254771093872) 2024-03-29T14:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Green movement is like the portrayal of evil in The Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged combined into one. Like if Toohey took aim at civilization itself attacking Galts motor by corrupting scientific institutions & scaring people into self-destructionno Shrug necessary. New Yorker (Bill McKibben): October [--] [----] Howarth however is careful to point out that though his paper has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal the review process has not yet been completed. 😬 It is always possible I have made a mistake or two he told me. https://t.co/8m7iWn7VuO New Yorker (Bill McKibben): October 31" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1774804825185624128) 2024-04-01T14:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "True. At this rate the future will be filled with dictators submitting their subjects to poverty in the name of Climate Change. Want a glimpse into the future The city of Bogot (population [--] million) has been divided into nine sectors which will each go [--] hours without water on an assigned day before the cycle repeats itself https://t.co/8CRtLEDcbF https://t.co/wI1UxkF6tl Want a glimpse into the future The city of Bogot (population [--] million) has been divided into nine sectors which will each go [--] hours without water on an assigned day before the cycle repeats itself https://t.co/8CRtLEDcbF" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1777878659186962921) 2024-04-10T01:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RebelACole Their lending facilities and balance sheet are nickels and dimes compared to the long end on the books of the major market participants" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1778002953128771766) 2024-04-10T10:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@Steinernomics What makes a depression is a lowering of a peoples expectations after an economic shock often aided by policies which reenforce it. The attack on Pearl Harbor really woke people up spiritually & led to accelerating productivity which could withstand the taxation" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1779512677116645518) 2024-04-14T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "These idiots are trying to turn America into the Middle East. Not the Islamists the Conservatives. Who else agrees 👇🏻especially if they hate America and are shouting Death to America. https://t.co/wc6cX23m9a Who else agrees 👇🏻especially if they hate America and are shouting Death to America. https://t.co/wc6cX23m9a" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1780458822156390804) 2024-04-17T04:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@didnt_earn_it @RichardHanania Europe was too tradition-bound & collectivistic even during the Enlightenment. Only in the New World could a true sanctuary of freedom arise. The Europeans like Newton & Locke provided the ideas but the Americans were the ones who built it in spite of Europes antagonism" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1780966274639548793) 2024-04-18T14:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The whole Fed-centric perspective blinds economists of basic facts. Instead of looking at the data & asking what are banks doing & why they ask what is the Fed doing& to maintain the illusion the Fed does *literally anything* to have something to point to as their action" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781078188442984589) 2024-04-18T21:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its mental gymnastics: we go from Fed controls the money supply to Fed controls inflation by setting IRs to Fed controls IRs via OMO to choosing b/w these as the crow flies. We dont just switch realities like that so we shouldnt adhere to beliefs which imply we do" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781078191353856189) 2024-04-18T21:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Proper scientific reasoning regarding this subject should begin by recognizing that central bank actions have mostly negligible effects & thus we should ignore them when abstractiny. That simple logical step leaves us with an entirely new field of view to begin inquiry" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781078195720032764) 2024-04-18T21:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Production companies have really figured out a killer model w/ these adaptations: the video game supplies the world & concept; the show writers supply the story & (usually) characters. #Fallout has been officially renewed for S2 at Amazon ☢ https://t.co/LubNYZT4zU #Fallout has been officially renewed for S2 at Amazon ☢ https://t.co/LubNYZT4zU" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781163602109468679) 2024-04-19T03:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The 19th c. saw the development of key mechanical concepts like stress & failure into this ingenious time-omitted dynamical representation called Mohrs Circle. Notice how unlike Modern Physics theres no confusion b/w physical & transformation space" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781357816525038082) 2024-04-19T16:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "These requirements were proposed to curb risk-taking by big banks but the post-GFC era has been defined by *no* risk-taking. So it gets revived anyways for no other reason than to punish bank execs for existing turning banking into a nonprofit industry. US financial watchdogs plan to take another crack at regulating Wall Street executives pay an outstanding requirement of the [----] Dodd-Frank Act that has repeatedly failed to materialize https://t.co/EAuk8PUEDG US financial watchdogs plan to take another crack at regulating Wall Street executives pay an outstanding requirement of the 2010" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781453284353397182) 2024-04-19T22:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "These kinds of responses to Ukraine & Israel are basically verbatim the responses that Europeans had to Hitler & if Churchill hadnt inspired Parliament otherwise the Nazis would have literally been given all of Europe in the name of peace. Its sickening. A trifecta of nonsense. Sacks - So you're saying we should have given them more We would have if it wasn't for people like you kvetching Musk - The exit strategy is when Russia gives up on its invasion WL - It will buy shells and missiles which are necessary in war https://t.co/nUGY9w46nx A trifecta of nonsense. Sacks - So you're saying we" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1781909587358019799) 2024-04-21T04:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The West is sending free aid so the money is demanded by those who want to control the suffering At some point were gonna need to learn this. Foreign aid welfare state socialized industries like educationall exhibit the exact same phenomenon. 🧵1/ Im back from a short trip on a social network with photographs and videos from Gaza with some brief personal conclusions. First it is quite clear that there are those in Gaza who know how to make extensive use of the networks and social media for the purposes of https://t.co/xbgQDRQf75 🧵1/ Im back from a short trip on a social network with" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1782028018371776861) 2024-04-21T12:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MichaelEMcNeil @PhysInHistory Thats b/c Newtons physics was derived from causes. His thought experiments on the subject show what was getting at & any misstep in reasoning was after the fact & somewhat understandable. Einstein rejected physical causality & thus had no qualms w/ rejecting Newtons ideas" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1782032008799031572) 2024-04-21T13:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MichaelEMcNeil @PhysInHistory He rejected it in the abstract (eg the ether). Its the fundamental difference between him & James Clerk Maxwell/Newton. Compare his various papers on Relativity to Maxwells papers on EM. Following Helmholtz Hertz & Lorentz he rejected the very essence of Maxwells theory" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1782042784746152125) 2024-04-21T13:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its interesting that the dangerously stupid clowns like Scott Adams & Tucker Carlson who constantly propagate utter nonsense are usually politically homeless whove come to vote for Trump. Theyre usually Leftists turned Right or vis versa & align with Rothbardian Libertarians. Well @ScottAdamsSays blocked me so I'll respond to his ignorant claims using a screenshot. Scott made several absurd claims about evolution and natural selection and then changed his argument when called out on it. But then he tried to claim that what proved him wrong https://t.co/oRmmYN8xmI Well @ScottAdamsSays blocked" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1782989399694717216) 2024-04-24T04:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar If you ask yourself how youre doing towards your goal (lets say starting a company) is your immediate reaction to turn your attention towards your product line balance sheet research etc or is it to turn to inspect some nagging emotion self-judgement urge etc" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783176146948915460) 2024-04-24T16:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Unfortunately this will probably be a losing battle as he is fighting for the free speech of the consumers. The First Amendment doesnt apply to TikTok users in this context it applies to TikToks private owners. I guess TikTok isnt selling https://t.co/1ksv0NYDCW I guess TikTok isnt selling https://t.co/1ksv0NYDCW" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783209865563025539) 2024-04-24T19:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Well this is horrifying but already known. The policies supported by most Americans are: [--]. Expanding the welfare state [--]. Price controls (largely on medicine) [--]. Taxing the rich [--]. Restricting immigration One important reason that Trump is ahead in polls is that voters support a lot of his policy ideas. Building the wall deputizing the national guard to round up illegal immigrants even the 10% tariffall double-digit net support. https://t.co/KkHXU4hE5o https://t.co/fZcN8ndQTT One important reason that Trump is ahead in polls is that voters support a lot of his policy ideas. Building the wall" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783271687359983680) 2024-04-24T23:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The antisemitic wing of the Democratic Party is ruining Bidens chances of being re-elected so unfortunately for us hes going to be funneling tons of effort into anti-business stuff since that somehow polls well rn. You shouldnt have to jump through hoops just to get your money back if your flight was cancelled or the airline lost your bag. Thanks to the Biden admin airlines must disclose up-front any extra fees and issue automatic cash refunds for cancelled flights no travel vouchers You shouldnt have to jump through hoops just to get your money back if your flight was cancelled or the" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783336605102616897) 2024-04-25T03:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its kind of insane to compare this chart to government spending. [--] years of wanting our cake and to eat it too. Unfortunately illogical behavior always blows up in your face eventually. A short primer on capital taxation the most progressive type of taxation we have: https://t.co/P47RDkxhu9 A short primer on capital taxation the most progressive type of taxation we have: https://t.co/P47RDkxhu9" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783721745838678028) 2024-04-26T04:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Todays university students are literally just Progressive equivalents of hillbilly derelicts whos only knowledge of the things theyre so aggressively emotional about comes from Fox News & Facebook This is amazing https://t.co/mTVvRmWykF This is amazing https://t.co/mTVvRmWykF" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783815186861768799) 2024-04-26T11:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "If you went on Reddit between [----] & [----] while the repeal of Net Neutrality was in the works youd have seen the top posts of all time being pictures of Ajit Pai labeled fascist & claims internet doomsday. @TheCalvinCooli1 This was the result of getting rid of Net neutrality. Cheaper prices and higher speeds. It's so joever https://t.co/wMKNi6zppT @TheCalvinCooli1 This was the result of getting rid of Net neutrality. Cheaper prices and higher speeds. It's so joever https://t.co/wMKNi6zppT" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783886346957840595) 2024-04-26T15:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@CColose I agree w/ you in part but the main issue raised by the skeptics (the rare few who arent quacks) which never gets addressed is that its dubious to blend the various data types & then stitch them together w/ thermometry data from sites primarily affected by urban heat effect" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783963546398699531) 2024-04-26T20:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@CColose In essence the focus of the skeptic argument isnt on climate science per se but solely at the epistemological validity of Michael Manns paper which has since then seemingly become the backbone of the climate change argument" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1783963969444524400) 2024-04-26T20:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Is there any evidence that they are or are we just inferring it from these results Because the MSM gave no coverage to the girls revolution in Iran the annexation of Hong Kong etc so why would it require censorship for it to also be missing from discussion on TikTok China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok. https://t.co/DtBb6t75cQ China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok. https://t.co/DtBb6t75cQ" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1784014323402289432) 2024-04-27T00:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@BrianGitt This is the Central African Copper Belt a trend of major mineral deposits that was discovered across Zambia and D.R.C. As youll notice its one of the few civilized areas in the this vast region. Mining brings human flourishing. Youre making an anti-human Green argument" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1784823633363235131) 2024-04-29T05:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A subtle way weve regressed back to medieval views is wrt the concept of money: gold vs bank notes vs government currency. The first [--] are stores of value the third a rulers arbitrary dictate. All are divorced from the exchange of goods from which money actually arises" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1784963921687805965) 2024-04-29T15:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its also interesting that in the 20th c when money was detached from its objective existence *as a medium* you get the same Relativistic notions like Money is relative. Its just a convention determined by price difference of two items seen by an observer as in physics" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1784967421041799421) 2024-04-29T15:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Thisll be literally the first legitimate victory any Western nation has had in war since the UN was created if he actually goes through with this. Never thought Id hear a Western leader stand up to that evil organization with such moral clarity. BREAKING: Netanyahu: "We will enter Rafah and we don't care about the court in The Hague the court is anti-Semitic" "We will enter Rafah because we have no other choice. We will destroy the Hamas battalions there we will complete all the objectives of the war including https://t.co/2dg0xADADl BREAKING: Netanyahu: "We will enter Rafah and we don't care" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1785478366532952341) 2024-05-01T01:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "She calls it basic humanitarian aid which is ironically accurate and is why humanitarian aid is totally immoral. Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying 'we want to be revolutionaries we want to take over this building now would you please bring us some food'." https://t.co/vNczSAM4T1 Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying 'we want to be revolutionaries we want to take over this building now" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1785520232053764217) 2024-05-01T04:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Frats have been the focal point of so much hate on college campuses but have simply ignored it. Now this week theyve nobly stepped up to defend campus life Jews & America. Maybe theyve really just been a sanctuary from all the nihilistic crap elsewhere in the universities. The mob at UNC pelts a student holding an Israeli flag with trash while other students protect the American flag: 🎥 @BryanRAnderson https://t.co/kyB3kIMGGt The mob at UNC pelts a student holding an Israeli flag with trash while other students protect the American flag: 🎥 @BryanRAnderson https://t.co/kyB3kIMGGt" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1785527406251372596) 2024-05-01T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@probsnotspam @DrewPavlou I think its a combination of the fact that [--]. the theocratic Islamists influenced by Iran & the Muslim Brotherhood have explicitly singled out the West due to its material spiritual & intellectual values as *the* enemy & [--]. Palestinians live like barbarians & have no state" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1785655069393736101) 2024-05-01T12:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "A proper treatment of the economics would also have volumetric consumption data which Im sure like most other industries would be flat. But our bias towards price inflation (obviously not real inflation) causes us to ignore supply shocks. If you think Americans are getting priced out of basic consumer opportunities like eating at restaurants you should be able to explain why Americans are eating out at restaurants more than ever before https://t.co/GXJkXSCwMK If you think Americans are getting priced out of basic consumer opportunities like eating at restaurants you should be able to explain" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1786270092415598636) 2024-05-03T05:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Feds tools are. what Well they only have one & its publishing these damn forecasts. Theyre *literally* always going to be wrong since theyre supposed to signal the market to change direction. Greenspan admitted that much over [--] decades ago. Whims & prayers. The Fed believes its tools do work as advertised and they forecast accordingly. And any forecaster who got it right was assuming the Fed's tools would not work as advertised. And market participants tend to believe the Fed's forecasts regardless of the track record: https://t.co/AtN1pison3 The Fed believes its tools do work as" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1788193800684294331) 2024-05-08T13:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This *is* the classic argument in Econ101 today but it leaves out the major assumption(s) that the Fed is printing money or that increasing bank reserves increases the money supply. Regardless proper teaching ought to connect things causally not hypothetically (& deductively). Economics [---]. Increasing the money supply IS inflation. This inflation will increase consumer prices. A low or zero budget deficit will end inflation. And most importantly inflation disproportionately hurts the poor and working class. Economics [---]. Increasing the money supply IS inflation. This inflation will increase" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1788210600838832472) 2024-05-08T14:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@BuenoForMiami Youre kinda forgetting the whole conspiracy to fund the murder of multiple people" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1788389097360552197) 2024-05-09T02:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Apple makes an ad showing the iPads productive potential & Twitter loses its mind seeing it as a reminder of how far weve come from our traditional forms of society. Maybe not the best ad but still these are reactions which glorify the old & revile the new. Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product weve ever created the most advanced display weve ever produced with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things itll be used to create. https://t.co/6PeGXNoKgG Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product weve ever created the most advanced display weve ever produced with the" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1788553341594632257) 2024-05-09T12:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Going back to the time of Wolf & Rousseau Western intellectuals have thus far simped for medieval European states primitive tribes of the Americas Africa & Australia savage feudal villages of the Far East & now finally barbarians of the Mid East. Whats left Honestly" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1789417895136530792) 2024-05-11T22:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Obviously this isnt scientific but religious. Bill like environmentalists Marxists & Christians is just projecting his own inability to think & survive as an independent adult onto the world & demanding we abide by his delusions hoping we too give up & become parasites" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1789790650411503838) 2024-05-12T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "As tempting as it is treating him as a wannabe murder is missing the point. Hes exploiting our cultures general negative view of economic growthor at least the fact that we take it for granted. People dont realize they want their cake & to eat it too so he offers both. No I don't. You tell me how emissions can fall by the [--] percent needed within [--] months if not due a major socio-economic shock such as a major pandemic nuclear war or global geophysical catastrophe. I am talking about reduced economic activity NOT reduced population. No I don't. You tell me how emissions can fall by the 50" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1789792301046186376) 2024-05-12T22:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The inherent variability in & lack of classification of barrel flavor combined w/ the long brew time requires brewers to amass many foeders (these massive barrels once only used for making wine) & constantly be perusing & tasting the ones that enter market" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790034932170969552) 2024-05-13T15:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "New Belgiums sours w/ [---] more foeders than the next competitor is led by this lady Lauren who experimenting since day [--] has developed a kind of intuition like pre-science seamen predicting weather accurately by picking up on various common subtle environmental changes" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790034937900417433) 2024-05-13T15:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@malcolm_reavell @username_is_unq MMT ideas I see: - monetarism - QE/QT - tax/spend Critics get hung up on the mechanics but we already do these How does it really differ 1) explicit economic collectivization 2) explicit political statism Its just a sly call to complete our long slide into totalitarianism. @richyphillips @malcolm_reavell @username_is_unq The check(s) on government action (enforcement) is its restriction to policy (prescriptions determined by Congress) which can be judged accordingly by the Court. By removing the policy requirement youre leaving enforcement up to the dictates" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790046618655261108) 2024-05-13T15:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "In a [----] AIG talk responding to a decision to regulate exploration as if its mining the presenter moans that its like public handholding is the same as sleeping with a whole football team. Such pragmatic moral concession is what led to that policy in the first place. smh" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790185010257092792) 2024-05-14T00:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The [----] Lisbon earthquake was the largest in Europe in millennia. But this was the Enlightenment the age of science & freedom. Men didnt cower into caves & propagate doomsday myths. It literally inspired the creation of seismology & EQ engineering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake This methodology cannot actually do what it claims to do - quantify the economic impact of greenhouse gas-induced climate change. It essentially estimates the economic impact of an El Nio which grows to an El Nio [--] times larger than a typical El Nio by the end of the" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790783598754234846) 2024-05-15T16:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "We have the total inversion of such a philosophy at work today. Our cultural elites have seemingly convinced us like an expansion of ancient Church doctrine that those very things science & engineering are Mans Original Sin which is driving us to annihilation" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790783602336170258) 2024-05-15T16:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@paologerbaudo Its usually just terrible managers and/or terrible corporate/personnel structure. A good example of the contrary is in oil and gas where onsite managers are like classic ship captains & upper management like admirals. A well organized hierarchy of knowledge & skill" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790788300287950940) 2024-05-15T16:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ThibaultDiP Many actors athletes & ladder climbers are able to succeed despite having superficial secondhanded goals. But I think its telling that entrepreneurs rarely do. Their success seems to require self-determination & a deeper love of learning & building on the economic frontier" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790791784463016300) 2024-05-15T17:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Politicization of science isnt mainly Woke pandering. Most science papers & talks today begin with motivations where the practical (social) value of the subject matter is mentioned. Thats politicization & likely a result of incentives inherent in government funding" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790856074083385700) 2024-05-15T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "We shouldnt need a social license to pursue the truth. If someone thinks theyll profit monetarily good for them but in the frontier of science its rarely known what practical value will stem from new understandings so the love of discovery must often be motivation alone" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790856076327272858) 2024-05-15T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@PhysInHistory At some point were going to have to consider if reformulation is the correct word to use for this & Hertzs work. If we think that using some of Copernicuss math for the Ptolemaic model is deserving of such wording then sure but if not then lets stop for Maxwell" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790940446589370801) 2024-05-16T03:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Condensed & translated: the tariffs have the single benefit of destroying the American industrial markets so as to allow politicians to centrally plan & enforce the Green counterproductive transition. Ok for the great tariff debate I'm going to toss some heaters into the discussion: [--]. China has done more than any country to REDUCE nickel and cobalt use in the EV transition by leading the LFP revolution: https://t.co/DlNvPZ2nsy Ok for the great tariff debate I'm going to toss some heaters into the discussion: [--]. China has done more than any country to REDUCE nickel and cobalt use in the EV" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1790952796046450803) 2024-05-16T03:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Just look at the times this occurs. This mainstream view was stupid in [----] its braindead now. China selling US debt only ever occurs during periods of regional or global liquidity issues. Yet we conclude political attacks or diversification https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-16/china-sells-record-sum-of-us-debt-amid-signs-of-diversificationutm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter&embedded-checkout=true" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1791329839057699326) 2024-05-17T04:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "In classical physics the vacuum is considered empty Again heres an example of how classical physics is being used as a frozen concept to refer to Continental Electrodynamics (which is really just Modern Physics) so as to hide the objective science of the Cambridge school. @skdh The Casimir effect is a fascinating phenomenon rooted in quantum field theory. It arises from the interaction of vacuum fluctuations leading to observable forces between objects. Here's how frequency wave theory could expand on the Casimir effect and its implications for https://t.co/dyD1Z1FVwT @skdh The Casimir effect" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1792165819155157139) 2024-05-19T12:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Cambridge school of Newton Green Kelvin Stokes & Maxwell held that the universe was a physically real material plenum which had no empty space. It was the Cont. schools who denied this just as Modern Physics does at least implicitly. This is basic history" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1792165822066033036) 2024-05-19T12:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Todays philosophy of science stems from academics who studied very little science. Physics was the posterchild but by the mid 19th c when todays views began to form there were huge leaps made in biology chemistry geology & meteorology which involved little to no math" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1792179184338399362) 2024-05-19T13:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@martinmbauer @rmathematicus Proposition I. Theorem I. Calculus can be done geometrically since its really just the science of infinitesimal measurements as Newton explains at the start of the Principia. And he doesnt use F=ma for that reason he grounds his induction in the calculus of momentum" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1792350960129654996) 2024-05-20T00:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@martinmbauer @rmathematicus Recent literature has pointed out that the concepts of nascent and evanescent quantities are actually critical to his first Book for this very reason yet they were never really touched upon by his immediate followers who ended up shifting his theory into a Leibnizian form" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1792352353347326220) 2024-05-20T00:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Popular on Reddit today: someone complains about their landlord raising their rent doesnt censor the guys info & the Reddit army goes wild ruining his life. https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/EMff3ItLik https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/EMff3ItLik" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1792393413737980402) 2024-05-20T03:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Newtons Absolute Motion is motion relative to the causal medium & relative motion is merely descriptive. In geology too: faults anastomose & origins can vary by side; like the fixed stars Euler Points serve as good stand-ins; geodynamics depends on inferred mantle mechanics" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1793667417769754758) 2024-05-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "With sailboats too one has to consider the wind & water currents. This is a case where its easy to see that the relative motion of the ship water & wind isnt Relativistic (ie arbitrary). Its true causal motion with entities all in their real positions wrt each other" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1793667434525975007) 2024-05-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The difference The second according to early Modern Physics is Relativistic (in essence) the first dogmatic. The real problem they had w/ Newton is that he infers the nature of (unseen) things. They got away w/ it by equivocating b/w regular visual coincidence & causality" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1793667526230225275) 2024-05-23T15:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Basic errors left Electrodynamicists floundering by [----]. FitzGerald rationalized stellar aberration via electron contraction during motion in material space Lorentz the stellar kinematics skew via time dilation. Einstein represents a white flag a collapse into phenomenalism. According to Einstein's theory of relativity time passes slower for an object in motion compared to one at rest which is a concept known as time dilation. https://t.co/8IbuQqJZUl According to Einstein's theory of relativity time passes slower for an object in motion compared to one at rest which is a concept known as" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1795469787897929744) 2024-05-28T14:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "In Einsteins Method of Theoretical Physics he puts bluntly: Newton & his followers erred by trying to conceptualize reality; knowledge cant be logically derived from facts. Relativity succeeds by arbitrarily describing phenomena; makes no claim about the nature of reality" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1795469796408004839) 2024-05-28T14:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This is basically a real life reductio ad absurdum. Its like the idiot on a mockumentary saying The best way to get around is grand theft auto. It harms no one gets you to your destination costs nothing is safe & can be done anywhere. Shutting down speeches is the single-best tactic in the activist handbook. It doesnt harm the public reaches millions is affordable is safe & can be done anywhere. Weve done it to dozens of CEOs and Senators. We applaud @StrikeDebt for doing it too. https://t.co/r09DqwbQkh Shutting down speeches is the single-best tactic in the activist handbook. It doesnt harm" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1795821986054304184) 2024-05-29T14:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@SullyCNBC This happens during the contraction end of the business cycle (see [----] & 2019) and thats not just typical of the oil and gas industry. Credit tightens up due to poor market outlook & businesses who didnt plan correctly are forced to liquidate or merge. Not some boogeyman" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1795824478251082106) 2024-05-29T14:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Who actually believes this What is the utopian/dystopian vision thats guiding us The Left is just trying to destroy civilization & the Right is sticking it to them by buying herbal remedies & also rooting against civilization. Theres no sophistication behind it. Civilization is careening towards dystopia/utopia Civilization is careening towards dystopia/utopia" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1797454353135223124) 2024-06-03T02:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Still looking for a good answer for this. One can only speculate about the real motivations behind it. Most of what they do is symbolic not having a real market and all until Caitlin Clark came along. So it gives off a gross smell but hopefully its just a huge blunder. Why leaving Caitlin Clark off the [----] US Olympic womens basketball team matters a lot. Ive reported on the team at every Olympics since [----]. Ive watched the stunning lack of coverage & lack of interest every time. Here are four sections of my Feb column on this exact topic: https://t.co/MjwqeVQdR8 Why leaving Caitlin Clark" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1799775141125378150) 2024-06-09T12:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its always nice to see everyone freak out when a rare giant comes along and cant be simply bought out of his current project. Dan Hurley is the man. BREAKING: Connecticuts Dan Hurley has turned down the Los Angeles Lakers six-year $70 million offer and will return to chase a third straight national title sources tell ESPN. LA wouldve made him one of NBAs six highest paid coaches. https://t.co/hEXo3o00SR BREAKING: Connecticuts Dan Hurley has turned down the Los Angeles Lakers six-year $70 million offer and will return to chase a third straight national title sources tell ESPN. LA wouldve made" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1800905040913469537) 2024-06-12T14:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "One reason why I remain confidently in the oil and gas pulpit is because it doesnt have an armada of propagandists contriving delusional figures like this. The oil age is ending faster than people realize: The oil age is ending faster than people realize:" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1801956939909255652) 2024-06-15T12:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Europeans live like third-worlders in this regard. Americans have unitized mobile housing for oil and gas rigs and remote mine camps which even have central AC & heat. For Americans who think this is not bad imagine if homes were old poorly ventilated and almost never had any kind of AC and also the humidity was 90% For Americans who think this is not bad imagine if homes were old poorly ventilated and almost never had any kind of AC and also the humidity was 90%" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1802338726254625273) 2024-06-16T13:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The history in a nutshell. Christians misrepresented Aristotles Platonist astronomy Galileo & Newton integrated the field with physical mechanics Einstein alternatively integrated it with Kantian disintegrative philosophy Modern Physicists became satisfied with the mess. A brief history of physics Zach Weinersmith Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness https://t.co/NbOO4HCt7O A brief history of physics Zach Weinersmith Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness https://t.co/NbOO4HCt7O" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1802574112369291594) 2024-06-17T05:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Both Newton & Maxwell developed methods of integral calculus from conic sections as young teens as tools for understanding physical dynamics. Newton never published but Maxwell gained early fame from it w/ the Royal Society. No oracles. No dreams. No mysticism. Science. The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. .The conic sections invented in an attempt to solve the problem of doubling the altar of an oracle ended by becoming the orbits followed by the https://t.co/YyIjncxTAe The mathematician may be" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1803127697226473763) 2024-06-18T18:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ProfBillMcGuire Bill what would a legit civilization look like in your opinion then" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1803772545973231762) 2024-06-20T12:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar If Im an I/E firm & order 5k ozAu worth of lumber Im expecting to pay it w/ 5k ozAu from local orders. A misread may force me to pay money I dont have. I must get it on credit quickly sell assets or face insolvency. Relative to all product the value of [--] ozAu rose for me" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1804174376163569910) 2024-06-21T15:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar This is mainly seen when seasonal orders align. And when key (negative) information is obscured globally (*cough* the Fed) therell be a point where the momentary value of money will skyrocket market wide & induce asset fire-sales" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1804174406580617461) 2024-06-21T15:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar Im referring to the point of sale of that situation when money exchanges hands. Its only slightly different than paying on the spot and is actually how global trade is done. Thats one reason its relevant. The other is that it shows monetary value is dynamic due to economics" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1804514740930048368) 2024-06-22T14:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@NatanGalulazar I cant keep repeating it man money is being sourced at the point of settlement so no its not different cuz of time. Im only using a deflationary shock example. Inflationary shocks can also occur. Also interest rates arent setthats subjectivism. Theyre prices" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1804551629368131970) 2024-06-22T16:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Malthusian Elitism Nihilism violent insecurity and Hatred I love Star Wars but lets not delude ourselves into believing that Vader as a character makes any sense. George Lucas was far too Platonic in the 80s to translate his moral beliefs into concrete form. People are saying this is the mount rushmore for supervillains. yall agree🤔 https://t.co/YN7jq8tNEK People are saying this is the mount rushmore for supervillains. yall agree🤔 https://t.co/YN7jq8tNEK" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1805008344928686590) 2024-06-23T22:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A 50yr economic degradation in mining was recently accentuated by huge resource downgrades leading to a kind of self-imposed intervention called the Parker Challenge where world expert resource modelers demonstrated universal failure to evaluate ore bodies (their job)" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1806413002176143603) 2024-06-27T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This outcome was inevitable once modern epistemology took hold: the economics of mining is based on perceptual ignorance & ore body complexity prevents brute-force methods; only a geologists inference based on his conceptual understanding can allow accurate domaining" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1806413011948589204) 2024-06-27T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Theres an important point here: natural processes are only *apparently* complex; theyre still just an accumulation of interacting things thus can be *conceptually* simplified via observation & abstractionsomething unknown or seen as mystical in modern times" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1806413013802463591) 2024-06-27T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "We already knew we were at the dead-end of the Republican Party but last nights debate has made it fully clear that were also simultaneously at the dead-end of the Democratic Party. Were about to see Post-Modernist Trump vs some Post-Modernist Lefty. BREAKING: Following the debate the betting market shows Trump is now at a HISTORIC 67% while Joe Biden has lost 12%. No one believes Joe Biden has a shot which will make rigging the election IMPOSSIBLE https://t.co/I9UiFvDwZC BREAKING: Following the debate the betting market shows Trump is now at a HISTORIC 67% while Joe Biden has lost 12%. No" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1806694478586978712) 2024-06-28T14:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Cambridge School scientists admitted influence of the same key authors: Newton Bacon Franklin & von Humboldt. Similarly for the Moderns: Kant Hume Hertz & Mach. Yet instead of a comparative analysis weve received tantrums at any question of ideological connections" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1807473238513258635) 2024-06-30T17:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "It wouldnt be a true shitty rehash of the 1960s without a presidential assassination/attempt" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1812389811149517205) 2024-07-14T07:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Our fascist market czar evading centuries of economic literature explaining the resiliency of market economies due to their decentralized aspect. [--]. All too often these days a single glitch results in a system-wide outage affecting industries from healthcare and airlines to banks and auto-dealers. Millions of people and businesses pay the price. These incidents reveal how concentration can create fragile systems. [--]. All too often these days a single glitch results in a system-wide outage affecting industries from healthcare and airlines to banks and auto-dealers. Millions of people and" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1814524798858400118) 2024-07-20T04:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Besides its fuller significance its unprecedented for a president to basically age out of the White House. My fellow Democrats I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in [----] was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And its been the best https://t.co/x8DnvuImJV My fellow Democrats I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1815128480935260461) 2024-07-21T20:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "How can anyone expect to be taken seriously after using the phrase woke mind virus JUST IN: Elon Musk says his son is "dead" thanks to the woke mind virus after he was put on puberty blockers says he vowed to "destroy the woke mind virus after that." 🔥🔥 "I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys. This was before I had https://t.co/wfWztIziTs JUST IN: Elon Musk says his son is "dead" thanks to the woke mind virus after he was put on puberty blockers says he vowed to "destroy the woke mind virus after that." 🔥🔥 "I was essentially tricked into signing" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1815549040496693390) 2024-07-23T00:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The Trump mob hides behind the American flag but the flag they should be holding is that of the Second Reich. Their ideas of national duty native blood & divine right & their policies of welfare regulation & protectionism have their origin w/ Bismarcks German Empire" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1816843259064570021) 2024-07-26T14:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@DQuilici1 @Aella_Girl One of the foundational stories/lessons of the Old Testament is God showing Abraham what absolute obedience & submission to faith means by commanding him to murder his son" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1817180454191067615) 2024-07-27T12:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Franklins response shows the careful attention to cause & effect required in observation. The logic demanded inference of an electric material that permeates unseen in space that charges werent just empty forces but real physical imbalances" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1817671891395707205) 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "As explained here by Einstein Newtonians like Franklin assumed a reality knowledge of which is derivable from experience. To Einstein tho experience is akin to sitting drunk & high soaking in a flux of sensations. Obviously theres no scientific observation from that premise" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1817671900476420389) 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Herere excerpts from shortly after Maxwells death of the scientist (Hertz) & philosopher (Duhem) maybe most responsible for misrepresenting his work to the first Modern generation. Note that what they take issue w/ is the conceptual aspect & inductive method of his work" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1817671929488412727) 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its been almost 100yrs again so maybe another genius will show up & rediscover the nature of electricity & magnetism but thatd require someone developing thoughtful observational skills & judging by the edu slides seen in a quick Google search the prospect of that is grim" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1817671940683051423) 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The unabashed gall of academics to compare what they do today to the talent of Simone Biles. Insane The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today. https://t.co/1aR2BkZbU3 The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today. https://t.co/1aR2BkZbU3" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1819705020910330278) 2024-08-03T12:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Americans have higher standards than Europeans. The entire US squad said screw this boondogglethe cardboard beds hot rooms rats water shortage inedible foodand checked into hotels. Meanwhile this European gold medalist is content w/ sleeping on the streets like a hobo. Italy's Swimmer Thomas Ceccon sleeping outside because he was fed up with no A/C in the Olympic village. Bro got his rest and locked🥇 https://t.co/YIjjG3lwFo Italy's Swimmer Thomas Ceccon sleeping outside because he was fed up with no A/C in the Olympic village. Bro got his rest and locked🥇 https://t.co/YIjjG3lwFo" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1820802894708473932) 2024-08-06T12:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I see even Objectivists fall prey to this pseudo-rationale which is wild since its literally Kants inverted epistemology. Prices are an effect evidence from which inferences must be drawn. They arent objects. A rise in prices isnt real nor is it apt to describe reality. The rise in prices (inflation) is caused by government overspending which increases the amount of money faster than the increase in goods & services output. That is the vast majority of the problem. Inflation was particularly bad during the Covid years as there was massive The rise in prices (inflation) is caused by government" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1822267209688944707) 2024-08-10T13:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@WKCosmo Maxwells original theory was in the form of Newtonian fluid dynamics but Hertz had a problem with the inductive conceptual nature of it so he removed the key elements & turned it into a phenomenalistic electrodynamics to which the Lorentz factor was later added" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1822628921499611272) 2024-08-11T13:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@PicoPaco17 @Noahpinion I often point this phenomenon out & I think its explained by the osmosis from Germany into France & then England of radical ideas regarding knowledge & reality. By [----] the assumptions underlying the previous era of science were effectively gone. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1772422066605592830s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog An example of victory by default: Maxwells theory of electromagnetism was forever revised by Hertz in the 1880s. Yet Hertz never actually treated the phenomena which was the basis of the theory. It got a short paragraph & was marked as" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1825173719775658361) 2024-08-18T14:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Like philosophy from Hume to Heidegger science from 1870-1932 followed a path of Skeptical reconstruction to disintegration into sophistry & primitive mysticism centered on the fulcrum arguments & (anti-)concepts of Kant & Einstein. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1772422083663831537s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog It's pretty astonishing how much Germany dominated the world of science and engineering from the 1870s through [----]. Six decades of incredible outperformance. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1772422083663831537s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog It's pretty astonishing how much" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1825181842074734730) 2024-08-18T14:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Doesnt this just create incentivizes thatll lead to government ownership/control of housing and a housing bubble of unused property Harris' housing plan is basically: [--]. supply increases using a variety of policy tools and [--]. grants to first-time homebuyers. This is basically what Singapore does. And their housing system is arguably the best in the world. https://t.co/lWNHzoukxA Harris' housing plan is basically: [--]. supply increases using a variety of policy tools and [--]. grants to first-time homebuyers. This is basically what Singapore does. And their housing system is arguably the best in" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1825666637577826359) 2024-08-19T22:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The core feature of economic depressions is a shortage of available work which is whycontrary to the accepted dogmathe only solution has ever been to deregulate business & finance lower taxes & remove subsidiesto allow job creation via enterprise & capital markets" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1825751556446175520) 2024-08-20T04:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@annasofialesiv Despite the deluge of taxpayer money & the precursory technology developed in the free market the industrynot just the critical mineral bubblehas seen lower grades high costs resource downgrades fraud & mine closures with basically no legit discoveries to show for it" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1825970342923555132) 2024-08-20T18:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "@annasofialesiv Majors planned on forgoing exploring by *increasing* grade the opposite of which has happened. You didnt mention that this & the downgrades are due to failures in modeling & estimation. My point is that theres also clearly an industry wide problem in the guiding science" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1825977824118976877) 2024-08-20T19:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Ive made the point before but the consequences pointed out by Einstein are unavoidable given the changes to Maxwells theory made by Hertz & co. Were still stuck there b/c those changes & the outcomes are rooted in philosophical ideas that continue to be accepted by academics. Nice article by @DrBrianKeating on the consequences of tests of Lorentz invariance violation The fact that the speed of light is constant and it's consequences have survived every check (AGN here) and even theories predicting slight variations can be ruled out (e.g. LQG) Nice article by @DrBrianKeating on the" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1826256878978175359) 2024-08-21T13:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its a cool innovation but as Gundy also pointed out the likelihood of college football programs becoming their own companies with salaried players is even greater now which would make the relationship b/w university education & sports even more convoluted. Oklahoma State football will have NIL-linked QR codes on their helmets. Coach Mike Gundy hopes the QR codes can help players earn more NIL money during the season and allow them to focus on football. https://t.co/e4SjLIttDL Oklahoma State football will have NIL-linked QR codes on their helmets. Coach Mike Gundy hopes the QR codes can help" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1826650100204175414) 2024-08-22T15:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@StefanFSchubert Japan is a bit of a special case but its not like its due to free markets. It has an almost socialized capital market & heavy handed BOJ which has pushed investments & entrepreneurs overseas. Theyd be more like Poland if they embraced freer markets" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1827697549668712769) 2024-08-25T13:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Itd be nice to see Marc apologize to Bill Gates if hes going to post things like this since it was he who spearheaded the anti-trust suit against him using these non-objective tactics. "If politicians think your prices are too low you are predatory pricing; if your prices are too high you're price gouging; and if your prices are the same as your competitors you're price fixing." https://t.co/I59y6d3HO1. "If politicians think your prices are too low you are predatory pricing; if your prices are too high you're price gouging; and if your prices are the same as your competitors you're price" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1828075130016378932) 2024-08-26T14:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The probability theory of electrons was a reaction to issues arising from the fact that QM treats abstractions eg waveforms as concretes eg flying balls. Imagine if geologists did this with earthquake seismograms. Theyd make as little sense as Modern Physicists. @martinmbauer except that probability distribution for lottery winners is different from that of electrons. electrons can tunnel electrons are identical can lottery winners tunnel are all lottery winners perfectly identical . @martinmbauer except that probability distribution for lottery winners is different from that of electrons." [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1828132913592050023) 2024-08-26T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@omni_american Universities are intellectual institution. Their prestige wrt this has dictated their price. Intellectuals have rejected the intellect in favor of brute power. So the most prestigious thus expensive schools have created the most mindless & ardent activists" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1828254832807027039) 2024-08-27T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "A tale of two worlds & two emotions. These American youngsters bring the trophy home in an epic walk-off win over kids forced to play under the name Chinese Taipei. Props to the broadcasters for having the courage to break protocol & refer to them as Taiwan. They deserve it. FLORIDA WINS THE LLBWS CHAOS ON THE FINAL PLAY TO WIN IT 🤯 https://t.co/HoqU8mlqRr FLORIDA WINS THE LLBWS CHAOS ON THE FINAL PLAY TO WIN IT 🤯 https://t.co/HoqU8mlqRr" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1828451942802333866) 2024-08-27T15:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "The reason why the 90s mark the inflection point is b/c thats when offshore bankers began to realize the incompetence of Central Bankers capped by the crowning performance of Asian & South American regulators in destroying their nations in response to capital finance flight" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1830580030847795547) 2024-09-02T12:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "During the Great Moderation offshore bankers lent freely all over the world assuming a Central Bank backstop. Once that was broken their agenda changed to self-preservation marking the onset of an era of major liquidity buffers & low risk tolerance" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1830581297812750384) 2024-09-02T12:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its this last part that explains the situationif only approached from a view that doesnt assume Central Bank control. Interest rates today are a product of offshore monetary market liquidity-risk balance distorted at the front end by the Fed leading to labor market changes" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1830582506124685808) 2024-09-02T12:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "One of his best episodes so far. You can tell how much of an influence Alex Epstein has had on him. Stopping the Socialist Trainwreck in British Columbia John Rustad https://t.co/bxzDkPYMsj Stopping the Socialist Trainwreck in British Columbia John Rustad https://t.co/bxzDkPYMsj" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1831594200296780212) 2024-09-05T07:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@GSalmieri An online wing of the trad movement apparently came from incel forums and combined with cottagecorea Germanic to Scandinavian pastoralist heritage movement. The meme was paired with the trad wife meme at some point & quickly given a beard to fit the aesthetics" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1832632605705171358) 2024-09-08T04:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Should anyone really take seriously a group that claims the US has a less functioning government than freakin Botswana US-Americans like to brag about how great their democracy is alas according to the Economist Democracy Index (2023) the USA is not even ranked a full democracy any more but a "flawed democracy" well behind most European countries (and Canada). https://t.co/y7pmOB5Dtn US-Americans like to brag about how great their democracy is alas according to the Economist Democracy Index (2023) the USA is not even ranked a full democracy any more but a "flawed democracy" well behind most" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1833477222679908576) 2024-09-10T12:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "If price controls are bad then why arent regulations on safety insurance banking etc Are concrete goods & services the only things that can have a value No. Its like we beat totalitarianism but our lack of respect for abstraction allowed it to survive in those areas" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1837147778478403809) 2024-09-20T15:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Theyre way better at sifting out concrete garbage that avg Facebook users pass around but they rely on philosophers to form their most basic beliefs and this is whats gotten them into trouble. Recently its imbued university science with a fad of tribalism and subjectivism. In my thousandfold experience scientists are more prone to intellectual fads than typical people are. The reason is obvious and the purported reason for the opposite is bad epistemology. In my thousandfold experience scientists are more prone to intellectual fads than typical people are. The reason is obvious and the" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1837512003922886698) 2024-09-21T15:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Blame terrorism then launch a self-sacrificial window-dressing war on it somewhere inconsequential like Afghanistan. What would America actually do if Iran assasinated Trump What would America actually do if Iran assasinated Trump" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1838928576873476393) 2024-09-25T13:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@MattModine @heirsjournal @wise_chimp Shes one of the best selling authors of all time. She died a millionaire lolcouldve been much more if she found a trustworthy financial advisor. She advised everyone to exploit gov handouts b/c its the only way youll even get a fraction back from the wealth stolen from you" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1840855972832821260) 2024-09-30T20:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Rent control makes these glorified closets (which have a legit place in an urban housing market) more expensive than old luxury apartments that are mansions in comparison and require political pull or luck to acquire. All for the sake of turning property owners into bloodbags. IMO we should build more units like this and some even smaller so that people who can't afford to pay $2k/ month for rent can still get shelter. There should be more diversity in housing so everyone can have a home regardless of income level. IMO we should build more units like this and some even smaller so that people" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1842895161132765570) 2024-10-06T11:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The scientific revolution inaugurated by Newton was a result of not only connecting ideas to reality but deriving them from it. In the modern era represented by Einstein our scientific devolution has been a result of reversing that order and severing the connection. "Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind." - A. Einstein https://t.co/W2PFxXnOhM "Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind." - A. Einstein https://t.co/W2PFxXnOhM" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1847263941325471835) 2024-10-18T13:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Another example of how modern Empiricism has been failing Capitalism. Pointing to particular examples and results is fine but without a conceptual explanation the facts are just happenstance and the audience is left without reason. @PatriciaNPino This just kindergarten stuff. History shows that socialism fails. And most importantly it fails the poorest. If you want the best for people capitalism is empirically the system to chose. @PatriciaNPino This just kindergarten stuff. History shows that socialism fails. And most importantly it fails the poorest. If you want the best for people" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1847679934489383372) 2024-10-19T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "For the champaign socialists whove never been broke a simple solution for this when living dollar to dollar is to just turn off the overdraft feature. Every bank makes it an option. Another is to pull out your phone and check your account. Why are the feds getting involved Banking overdraft and bounced check fees are examples of surprise junk fees that hit families hard. Since taking office the Biden-Harris Administration has cracked down on these fees and reduced them by half compared to before the pandemic saving the typical family that pays Banking overdraft and bounced check fees are" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1847700823247147088) 2024-10-19T18:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This is like banning credit cards cuz a handful of neurotics rang up thousands in debt while pretending that they had no idea what they were really doing. Were outlawing useful financial services out of unjust sympathy for outlier freaks. Its absurd" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1847701983634870691) 2024-10-19T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The GFC stands as a societal fulcrum not only b/c the declining economy has made life difficult financially for Americans but it also served as a beacon for all the professorial cretins to crawl out of the ivory towers and spew their newly reworked nihilism into the mainstream. American fertility rates https://t.co/pGHFAskiNR American fertility rates https://t.co/pGHFAskiNR" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1849695011488624705) 2024-10-25T06:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The main reason MMT has been able to hang around as a theory despite its absurdity is because it bases itself on the fundamental error of the Hayekians and Monetarists: that production is a random social phenomenon & labor market is controlled by centralized monetary accounting" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1850203906921705677) 2024-10-26T15:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "The real question here is: Have the American people given up on the founding principles on the project of America as did the Soviets on Communism The MAGA crowd certainly has & the academic Leftists never bought in in the first place. But how much do those groups represent On my recent trip to Australia I gave a series of talks and interviews. Here I make the contrarian case that in some respects the United States is exhibiting late-Soviet characteristics particularly with respect to public health and morale. https://t.co/ffrBwQIc5A On my recent trip to Australia I gave a series of talks and" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1851629048146915446) 2024-10-30T14:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "An important point. Tariffs arent just industrial welfare redistributing citizen wealth to domestic producers but erode all domestic wealth & production. Anyone whos worked in production knows that parts & components are built & imported from all over the world. I love Econ [---]. But it isnt perfect. For example its wrong about tariffs. Theyre actually much worse than the model suggests. https://t.co/tQjzkqzn2u I love Econ [---]. But it isnt perfect. For example its wrong about tariffs. Theyre actually much worse than the model suggests. https://t.co/tQjzkqzn2u" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1852333787675304287) 2024-11-01T12:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Economic growth requires the free flow of money as fuel & lubricant of trade & looking at bond yields over the last couple decades it appears that the plumbing is clogged. Derelict government facilities & crazy banking regulations are a large part of the pressure on the spring. America is an economic coiled spring. We should be growing at least 4% annually and ideally 6-8%+. Growth has been brutally suppressed since before I was born. But there is so much to build. And the payoff for all Americans will be incredible. America is an economic coiled spring. We should be growing at least 4%" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1854866526970827089) 2024-11-08T12:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Do Americans support mass deportations The scary thing about this election is that Trump especially with a clever guy like Vance beside him seems to have taken it as a blank check to do whatever he wants. JD Vance explains what comes next. The following interview was filmed before the election. [--]. Trump will fire all the people within the federal government who will work to obstruct him. [--]. Media will then work to manipulate the public and political leaders into not doing things https://t.co/DnfeLVNqxq JD Vance explains what comes next. The following interview was filmed before the election." [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1854870034084250063) 2024-11-08T12:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Isnt it at least a little worrying that the first intellectual Republican in the White House probably since Lincoln is a nationalistic socialist A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here. https://t.co/V0NBrW581Z A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here. https://t.co/V0NBrW581Z" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1855173221185962446) 2024-11-09T08:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Hong Kong like most Western allies is fighting a two front battle: a physical political one against an invading dictatorial regime and a moral political one against us. Hong Kong despite being built in the 20th c. was one of the last glimpses of the 19th c. Hong Kong is about to make the same mistake many American cities did decades ago: Banning cheap/small apartments because they dont meet some arbitrary minimum standards. The regulation is intended to help the citys poorest residents but will actually make their lives worse. https://t.co/8aqOJEmMyV Hong Kong is about to make the same" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1855959702674563127) 2024-11-11T13:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "George Stokess memoir that discovered fluorescence likewise only involved a few measurements of relative lengths. The rest was accumulating relevant facts and reasoning from them then working out the causal relationships via three experiments that isolated the key factor" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1856314036612452671) 2024-11-12T12:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Or Newtons Principia. It established the geometry of a phenomenon used rational principles to abstract a necessary physical cause and then showed its validity by applying measurements of concrete situations usually only abstraction (his geometric calculus) not statistics" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1856314039724585289) 2024-11-12T12:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "How did American universities come to be the nodes of a web of activist groups promoting antisemitic terrorists Well how did they come to be the birthplace and hubs of Activism in general Todays situation requires further investigation into the history of our schools. Students for Justice in Palestine's (SJP's) leadership membership and bed fellows have enjoyed hiding behind relative anonymity---masking their faces organizational structure and allied groups---as they've caused chaos on college campuses these last several months. That ends https://t.co/85P7wSibSl Students for Justice in" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1856669174845854082) 2024-11-13T12:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Are Conservatives really for meritocracy as they often claim Well Yaron details just how dangerously unqualified Trumps new Defense Secretary is. What quality led to his appointment He kissed the ring and has been a devout loyalist for Trumps cult. So merit or tribalism Live at 2pm ET Trump's Appointments Yaron Brook Show https://t.co/vwi3OqxAAh via @YouTube Live at 2pm ET Trump's Appointments Yaron Brook Show https://t.co/vwi3OqxAAh via @YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1860358271447761324) 2024-11-23T16:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Yaron also notes the scary fact that Pete Hegseth has a Deus Vult tattoo on his chest a symbol of the modern ideological strand of the medieval crusades which that I keep pointing out also became rampant in Nazi Germany and the American South. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1858355128035881050s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog As AJ notes the medieval obsessions of the far-right being misrepresented by Vance as simple Christian conservatism is really focused on the same primitive religious military cults that the Germans did during first and Third Reich." [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1860360811946082655) 2024-11-23T16:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Its like Hitler bombing London after cowardly pragmatic politicians straight up handed most of Europe over to him then the Allies rally around the US and launch Operation Overlord D-Day arrives and Conservatives/Libertarians start fussing that the Allies are starting WW2. Joe Rogan argues Ukraine is trying to start WW3 tells Zelensky fuck you Russia has been bombing Ukraine for [----] days in a row. Where was this energy @joerogan when Putin bombed Kyivs main childrens cancer hospital Just massacre after massacre of Ukrainian innocents but https://t.co/6Lz7KroFJO Joe Rogan argues Ukraine is" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1860676705603723467) 2024-11-24T13:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@AlecStapp We havent accepted central planning as a political ideal leaving us with more freedom but a mess of a political system. Obv Hong Kong and the Industrial Revolution showed that central planning is nothing compared to a free market but unfortunately nobody wants that anymore" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1861068089909227861) 2024-11-25T15:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@RealKeithWeiner Or what is generally accepted as the quantity of money (ie the Fed balance sheet) is way off and/or what is generally accepted as money (bank reserves) is either not money at all or only an inconsequential kind of money in a vast pool of monetary forms" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1861106211644649668) 2024-11-25T17:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "This (anti-)philosophy has dominated academia at least in Germany in many forms for the last [---] yrs. And in this form for at least [--] yrs. So why now Why did intellectuals choose [----] to launch a cultural revolution on this iteration of the ideas Its a genuine question. Its not just a divorce from reality. It doesnt enforce rejection of reality for the sake of an unreal world like Christianity nor for an abstract ideology like Communism. It enforces rejection of the reality of perceivable things for the sake of the rejectionbrute nihilism. Its not just a divorce from reality. It doesnt" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1861443550367621393) 2024-11-26T16:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "@ScubaMySteve I like how after the success of the OT his take away was that what made Star Wars great was the political commentary" [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1862049348789616734) 2024-11-28T08:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "I cant help but point out that the error here is the same one made by Karl Marx. Its the thoughtful aspect of businessinnovationthat drives economics while the routine hammer swinging aspect of production has been around since prehistoric times. 1/11 If you want to understand the effects of trade intervention its ok to ask economic historians but never ask economists. That's because their answer will almost certainly reflect little more than their ideological position. 1/11 If you want to understand the effects of trade intervention its ok to ask economic historians but never ask economists." [X Link](https://x.com/CulturalBystand/status/1862821964496490691) 2024-11-30T11:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@CulturalBystand Cultural Bystander
Cultural Bystander posts on X about maga, money, newton, tariffs the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Engagements: [---------] #
- [--] Week [-----] -76%
- [--] Month [------] +1,293%
- [--] Months [------] +67%
- [--] Year [------] +754%
Mentions: [--] #
- [--] Months [--] -54%
- [--] Year [---] +0.51%
Followers: [---------] #
- [--] Week [---] +1.70%
- [--] Month [---] no change
- [--] Months [---] -2.20%
- [--] Year [---] +32%
CreatorRank: [---------] #
Social Influence
Social category influence countries finance celebrities stocks technology brands social networks us election cryptocurrencies automotive brands travel destinations
Social topic influence maga, money, newton, tariffs, has been, countries, inflation, murder, israel, iran
Top assets mentioned Hertz Global Holdings, Inc Common Stock (HTZ) Bitcoin (BTC) Fluid (FLUID) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Despite what the Right say there arent many people let alone influential ones preaching Communism today. But what person business or Party doesnt endorse ideas like social license Its still collectivism just in small-town tribal form"
X Link 2023-07-15T04:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Many Conservatives & Libertarians cite the need for factual truth in tandem w/ conspiracy theories. Really their starting point is a feeling of everything modern is wrong but the emotionalism is evaded & they fake objectivity via rationalizations"
X Link 2023-09-22T15:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DavidDeutschOxf Thomas Sowell points out the persecuted minorities around the world all having in common that they are successful cultures of business often middlemen traders and have no connection to politics. I suspect whats underlying this phenomenon is the same for antisemitism today"
X Link 2023-11-24T16:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Kamots_A @GardenNomi_ @ChumTheWater @JoshEakle @ProjectLiberal You realize that scenario isnt impossible in the way you explained it which is correct. It just requires a ton of work intellectually physically & socially which is why guys like Bill Gates are known to work 80+ hrs a week"
X Link 2023-12-01T16:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Kamots_A @GardenNomi_ @ChumTheWater @JoshEakle @ProjectLiberal Not impossible in the same way that only a very few of us have the insane degree of combined intelligence mental & physical strength endurance & willpower to be a Ronaldo or Isaac Newton. Whats important is that were left free to pursue & achieve our goals regardless"
X Link 2023-12-01T19:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@Kamots_A @GardenNomi_ @ChumTheWater @JoshEakle @ProjectLiberal Bill Gates got rich by building something totally new in his garage that was valuable to every person on Earth. He was even hit by an anti-competitive anti-trust suit for it too. If you think innovation like that is bad (like the FTC does) then we disagree there as well"
X Link 2023-12-01T19:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The OP is also admitting that they value imperial monuments over a healthy middle class which honestly seems consistent"
X Link 2023-12-17T02:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@JoshEakle Not saying LPMC is right obv but even the Fed admits theres disparities in the GDP wrt income:"
X Link 2023-12-22T21:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@JoshEakle Theyre also puzzled by the inflation rate - unemployment rate disparity. Their claim about a strong economy have [--] assumptions: GDP requires no context & that a low unemployment rate always means rising employment the numerator of the calculation. But heres the denominator:"
X Link 2023-12-22T21:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@abcampbell Its important to realize that this is a result of the changes brought about to the original Bitcoin code due to various ideological differences between the crypto community and the Bitcoin creator. This is exactly what youd expect to happen if you cap the block size"
X Link 2023-12-28T15:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Why dont we start calling it for what it really is: anti-Western. Clearly these LGTBQ environmentalist hippies dont share the positive views of Putin or Hamas. They just dont have the luxury of having rationalizations that make much sense in this context. The pro-Palestine movement's complete lack of sympathy for Ukraine has been a giant red flag from day [--] The pro-Palestine movement's complete lack of sympathy for Ukraine has been a giant red flag from day 1"
X Link 2023-12-29T04:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@TPostMillennial "At least you know where Donald Trump stands on issues and we have lived through a Donald Trump presidency." Yeahthats thats why hes dangerous"
X Link 2023-12-31T08:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@caitoz It wouldnt be worded like that if the Iranian connection wasnt so taboo. Theres nothing uncomfortable about the US affiliation w/ Israel but acknowledging that the horrors of the Middle East are not only unified but by religion is a can of worms no politician wants to open"
X Link 2024-01-12T01:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Heres an example of how actual misinformation spreads. [--]. Political group rehash mealy mouthed pseudoscience in a report [--]. Newspaper hack construes it as good-standing science of likely truthfulness [--]. Political pundits on social media cite it as confirming the accepted wisdom Prices are still high. Why A big reason is that even as costs have come down corporations are price gouging to boost profits. Take diapers for example. Costs like wool are down 25%. But [--] companies control 70% of the market & their executives brag about fatter profit margins. Prices are still high. Why A big reason is"
X Link 2024-01-22T21:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"From the source they cite. We just need to be more like those beacons of prosperity: Albania Bhutan and Nepal. Eleven US states now get over half their electricity from renewables (and [--] of them have below-average electricity prices) https://t.co/osubBa4mSZ Eleven US states now get over half their electricity from renewables (and [--] of them have below-average electricity prices) https://t.co/osubBa4mSZ"
X Link 2024-01-31T13:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Whether this is a success or not its good to see businessmen still building society out of conservative policy. Itll be exciting having athletics opened up to the frontier of biomedical science. No telling what kind of wider spread innovation will come from it. Billionaire PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has invested in a drug-friendly sports contest styled as a modern reinvention of the Olympic Games." https://t.co/t4t7kMtVcd Billionaire PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has invested in a drug-friendly sports contest styled as a modern reinvention of the Olympic Games." https://t.co/t4t7kMtVcd"
X Link 2024-02-02T00:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@jasoncrawford It also creates an ontology gap. Academics are free to conjure up whatever fantasy they want as long as they use some real aspects in their theory which can be marginally useful in practice. If you ask industry personnel if something is true they say idk does it work"
X Link 2024-02-02T09:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] and again in [----] surveys of American historians rated Wilson fourth among American presidents lagging behind only Abraham Lincoln George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt. I feel like theres something important here were missing. Woodrow Wilson is despised as a racist by todays left and a tyrant by todays right. Yet for all his faults he left the modern world an important legacy: a set of values that our politics sorely need today @davidfrum argues. https://t.co/Sd5ImskE2M Woodrow Wilson is despised as a racist by todays left and a tyrant by todays right. Yet for all his faults he"
X Link 2024-02-04T06:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CBradleyThomps1 Why dont the anti-phonics people just create their own language where each word is its own unique symbol instead of complaining about the phonetic aspect of English"
X Link 2024-02-04T15:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Todays American Right folks. Im sure supporting the great virtuous leader Vladimir Putin & his civilized Capitalist Republic is exactly what Ayn Rand would do if she were alive. @yaronbrook @Knedo2 Ayn Rand was very skilled at identifying and describing the enemy Im sure she would quickly identify the looters in our government and all the ways America has trended toward a soviet style cleptocratic institution and how Russia has trended toward a free market society. While @yaronbrook @Knedo2 Ayn Rand was very skilled at identifying and describing the enemy Im sure she would quickly identify"
X Link 2024-02-07T00:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Tucker Carlson tomorrow: You know Mr. President the Jewish funded Liberal media establishment in the West has been upset at the idea of this interview calling your nation a dictatorship. But here I am expressing free speech with you while theyre trying to criminalize me. JUST IN: The European Union is considering imposing a travel ban against Tucker Carlson for interviewing Putin. EU lawmakers are now furious that a journalist flew to Russia to do journalism. They now want to slap Tucker with sanctions for assisting Putin. Putin is a war https://t.co/jUjEody4vp JUST IN: The European Union is"
X Link 2024-02-07T16:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Europeans like to make fun of football as being brutish but its lowkey the sport most similar to chess. Theres a reason why coaching trees is so important to its history: coaches are defined by their philosophy & ideas can be traced throughout the evolution of the sport"
X Link 2024-02-12T04:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@myoung512 @SRCHicks @ConceptualJames Thats clearly just trying to read all the negatives out of the doctrine. JPs explanation for Abraham about to murder his son out of faithful duty is absurd"
X Link 2024-02-14T15:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"It may not look like it but this is an act of science on par with Newtons Principia. VIDEO THREAD: Drivers were irate this morning on the GW Parkway as climate activists blocked northbound traffic into DC. One who said her son is in the hospital poured water on them. Another pushed them and tore their signs away. Footage by @T_Jones_Media for @N2Sreports https://t.co/E1UVfpOJ23 VIDEO THREAD: Drivers were irate this morning on the GW Parkway as climate activists blocked northbound traffic into DC. One who said her son is in the hospital poured water on them. Another pushed them and tore their"
X Link 2024-02-14T23:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Draymonds a bit of a violent bully on the court but also one of the most intelligent players in the league. Good to see the latter be dominant in his worldview & activism. On a trip to Israel Draymond Green visited a counterterrorism unit shot hoops with soldiers and took part in target practice with an Israeli police unit. Where are the brave political stances by NBA players when it comes to Palestinian rights https://t.co/AeIdUPhPIG On a trip to Israel Draymond Green visited a counterterrorism unit shot hoops with soldiers and took part in target practice with an Israeli police unit. Where"
X Link 2024-02-19T05:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mattwridley Mann is a destructive hack but this case wasnt really about the validity of science or the discussion of science. He was publicly compared to the serial child molester from the school he worked and if the judge thinks this warrants defamation then so be it"
X Link 2024-02-20T14:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In [----] Michelson & Morley developed the first precise way to measure the wavelength of light waves of heated gases by splitting the rays & measuring the interfering diffraction patterns of distance & refraction controlled arms. This is what German nihilism mutilated into QM"
X Link 2024-02-21T20:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ColemanMulkerin Pretty much every AI-gone-bad plot even outside of Star Trek just jumped straight to robots physically taking over or becoming some low-grade deity"
X Link 2024-02-22T16:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar What Id like to know is if money originated as a unit volume of a specific commodity. For instance as dealers of things like grain realized that their exchange ratios could be simplified by accounting in units of only one of their goods. Medium of exchange coming later on"
X Link 2024-02-29T21:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar I think the divide b/w the Austrians & Monetarists is really a failure to integrate the truth of both sides. As produce dealers began offering physical representations of their unit of account (currency) markets of these currencies mustve arisen & monetary economics begun"
X Link 2024-02-29T21:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Today leading intellectuals like David Lindley cry that culture played no role that the debates werent philosophical. Hes right about the latter. As shown the New Scientists were arguing philosophically while classical scientists only offered scientific defenses"
X Link 2024-03-03T02:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Like all other fields these sciences were changed in the early 20th c. by young Germans who formed intellectual groups to discuss philosophy namely that of Kant Hume & their disciples. For example here of Einstein (by Stachel) & of Heisenberg (in his own words)"
X Link 2024-03-03T02:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Regardless of how you evaluate the situation this is the only way to understand it: Philosophically trained intellectuals brought guns to a sword fight. Some old-heads like Boltzmann saw this & made late attempts to learn philosophy but these were captains of a sinking ship"
X Link 2024-03-03T02:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its kinda crazy how little attention the French school of analysis gets. In one lifespan existed Fourier dAlembert Poisson Cauchy de Chatlier Fermat Euler (in a sense) Laplace Lagrange Carnot Regnault Navier & many more"
X Link 2024-03-03T19:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Also who knew that the Eiffel Tower was constructed as a symbol of scientific achievement Its like the World Trade Center of science"
X Link 2024-03-03T19:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A fact left out of Modern Physics is that Length Contraction & Time Dilation are not perceived effects but conceived effects. The perceived phenomena are constant. But it was like dropping a juicy steak in front of the dogmatic anti-conceptual intellectuals of the 20th c"
X Link 2024-03-06T01:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is like an even more stupid version of the protectionist logic for tariffs. Lets just out-authoritarian China for the sake of protecting our citizens. Smart. This is possibly the strongest evidence yet that the TikTok bill is the right choice. https://t.co/ceOt1F3pae This is possibly the strongest evidence yet that the TikTok bill is the right choice. https://t.co/ceOt1F3pae"
X Link 2024-03-15T15:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"An important link in philosophy can be learned from Modern Physics. Unlike the PopSci headlines theorists like Einstein didnt prove unreality. He merely denied reason & showed an emotion-based alternative; the unrealistic metaphysics follows naturally. Lets consult Einstein. In his lecture On The Methods of Theoretical Physics he claims that it was believed in the 18th & 19th c. that science was inductive & logical but his generation has come to uphold the (Kants) rejection of that notion. Science is purely fictitious. https://t.co/VmiFO1YtE3 Lets consult Einstein. In his lecture On The"
X Link 2024-03-19T14:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"When Joe Biden says hes a Capitalist whats he doing Hes following the strategy discovered by Kant in which you exploit unclaritity by pretending to be your victims champion in order to misrepresent them. The attack on Newton was a particularly insidious example"
X Link 2024-03-19T23:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is the kind of nonsense you get when monetary & economic causes get packaged together. (inflation & deflation are monetary concepts shakes fist) Is blowing up JP Morgan really going to improve our lives CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing Soham Patil A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual the journalistic experts got it backwards. https://t.co/Ry9jL2Cwxi CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing Soham Patil A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to"
X Link 2024-03-20T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Ironically these are usually the same people screaming about the Fed about to cause inflation during decades of constant deflation and then causing actual inflation during obvious supply shocks. And Libertarians are supposed to be the economically literate ones"
X Link 2024-03-20T19:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Feel like theres an important piece of context thats being left out when referring to the Confederates here. @ProjectLiberal The Union was Nationalism and Economic Protectionism the Confederacy was Liberalism and Free Trade. [--] of the Rebels battle cries was "Free Trade". They didn't want to pay tariffs and wanted to trade freely cotton with the British Empire. @ProjectLiberal The Union was Nationalism and Economic Protectionism the Confederacy was Liberalism and Free Trade. [--] of the Rebels battle cries was "Free Trade". They didn't want to pay tariffs and wanted to trade freely cotton with"
X Link 2024-03-21T15:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Clifford a forefather of this Subjective Idealism approach even pre-empted Einstein writing I hold that in the physical world nothing else takes place but this variation of the curvature of space." In this next paper he makes it clear: reality is an experienced geometry"
X Link 2024-03-21T20:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Clifford would later be mentioned by Mach as one of the handful thinkers in his growing Kantian epistemological camp along w/ Kirchoff Helmholtz Hertz & Planck. Everyone he mentions is now seen as the figures of that era despite him acknowledging they were a tiny minority"
X Link 2024-03-21T20:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@scottlincicome How is someone proposing Paraguay be mentioned in our law book not laughed out of the building"
X Link 2024-03-22T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Remember when Republicans used to ridicule Hillary Clinton for saying it takes a village to raise a kid Florida will ban anyone under [--] owning a social media account from January [----] deleting existing accounts The bill was signed today by Governor DeSantis https://t.co/5xnJtDR26i Florida will ban anyone under [--] owning a social media account from January [----] deleting existing accounts The bill was signed today by Governor DeSantis https://t.co/5xnJtDR26i"
X Link 2024-03-26T03:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"5 women who thought they were in private relationships w/ him compared texts & realized in a span of hours hed leave one girl at his house meet another at a coffee shop fly another in to his cabin etc Whats w/ these guys claiming theres nothing revealing or to take down @ggreenwald They get their kicks from takedown stories even when there is nothing to take down. A craven lot of cretins they are. @ggreenwald They get their kicks from takedown stories even when there is nothing to take down. A craven lot of cretins they are"
X Link 2024-03-26T14:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"To be clear: part of the context of why it probably ought to be exposed is that its directly related to his subject thus credibility as a major public intellectual. Its not like the mainstream needs to update everyone when some hedge fund manager has a crazy set of affairs"
X Link 2024-03-26T15:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Stokes is hands down the most underrated scientist in history. He solved the mystifying problem of diffraction while proving the transverse wave theory of light. This was the work Maxwell used to integrate electricity & magnetism & he credited Stokes with making the connection"
X Link 2024-03-27T12:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"That passage is from Maxwells first of three papers developing his theory written in [----]. This is from his second published [--] years later watering that conceptual seed which he develops into the Electromagnetic Wave Theory of Light in his final paper on the subject"
X Link 2024-03-27T13:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@TomBilyeu @lexfridman I look at the last century and see moral theories all basically similar being preached & practiced by Mid East terrorists Soviet Communists the Khmer Rouge eco activists the Pope Sam Bankman-Freid the Nazis DEI leaders etc. Maybe our basic views of morality are wrong"
X Link 2024-03-28T19:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@HistoryBoomer Ayn Rand pointed out in the 60s that Leftists had given up the Marxist pretense of reason economy & civilization for the sake of keeping collectivism & altruism which took the form of ethnic Egalitarianism. This is just another one of those collective stands for barbarians"
X Link 2024-03-28T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The author quoted here did make an acute observation of a cultural change one far wider than a small commune in Kyrgyzstan: the ideal of Western intellectuals turned into disaster & instead of questioning their basic assumptions they gave up the intellect. Between [----] and [----] a thousand Central European communists sold all their possessions invested their earnings in a co-operative and traveled to the southern border of the Soviet Union to build it. https://t.co/thX7AJm7Nf Between [----] and [----] a thousand Central European communists sold all their possessions invested their earnings in a"
X Link 2024-03-29T14:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Green movement is like the portrayal of evil in The Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged combined into one. Like if Toohey took aim at civilization itself attacking Galts motor by corrupting scientific institutions & scaring people into self-destructionno Shrug necessary. New Yorker (Bill McKibben): October [--] [----] Howarth however is careful to point out that though his paper has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal the review process has not yet been completed. 😬 It is always possible I have made a mistake or two he told me. https://t.co/8m7iWn7VuO New Yorker (Bill McKibben): October 31"
X Link 2024-04-01T14:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"True. At this rate the future will be filled with dictators submitting their subjects to poverty in the name of Climate Change. Want a glimpse into the future The city of Bogot (population [--] million) has been divided into nine sectors which will each go [--] hours without water on an assigned day before the cycle repeats itself https://t.co/8CRtLEDcbF https://t.co/wI1UxkF6tl Want a glimpse into the future The city of Bogot (population [--] million) has been divided into nine sectors which will each go [--] hours without water on an assigned day before the cycle repeats itself https://t.co/8CRtLEDcbF"
X Link 2024-04-10T01:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RebelACole Their lending facilities and balance sheet are nickels and dimes compared to the long end on the books of the major market participants"
X Link 2024-04-10T10:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Steinernomics What makes a depression is a lowering of a peoples expectations after an economic shock often aided by policies which reenforce it. The attack on Pearl Harbor really woke people up spiritually & led to accelerating productivity which could withstand the taxation"
X Link 2024-04-14T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"These idiots are trying to turn America into the Middle East. Not the Islamists the Conservatives. Who else agrees 👇🏻especially if they hate America and are shouting Death to America. https://t.co/wc6cX23m9a Who else agrees 👇🏻especially if they hate America and are shouting Death to America. https://t.co/wc6cX23m9a"
X Link 2024-04-17T04:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@didnt_earn_it @RichardHanania Europe was too tradition-bound & collectivistic even during the Enlightenment. Only in the New World could a true sanctuary of freedom arise. The Europeans like Newton & Locke provided the ideas but the Americans were the ones who built it in spite of Europes antagonism"
X Link 2024-04-18T14:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The whole Fed-centric perspective blinds economists of basic facts. Instead of looking at the data & asking what are banks doing & why they ask what is the Fed doing& to maintain the illusion the Fed does literally anything to have something to point to as their action"
X Link 2024-04-18T21:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its mental gymnastics: we go from Fed controls the money supply to Fed controls inflation by setting IRs to Fed controls IRs via OMO to choosing b/w these as the crow flies. We dont just switch realities like that so we shouldnt adhere to beliefs which imply we do"
X Link 2024-04-18T21:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Proper scientific reasoning regarding this subject should begin by recognizing that central bank actions have mostly negligible effects & thus we should ignore them when abstractiny. That simple logical step leaves us with an entirely new field of view to begin inquiry"
X Link 2024-04-18T21:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Production companies have really figured out a killer model w/ these adaptations: the video game supplies the world & concept; the show writers supply the story & (usually) characters. #Fallout has been officially renewed for S2 at Amazon ☢ https://t.co/LubNYZT4zU #Fallout has been officially renewed for S2 at Amazon ☢ https://t.co/LubNYZT4zU"
X Link 2024-04-19T03:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The 19th c. saw the development of key mechanical concepts like stress & failure into this ingenious time-omitted dynamical representation called Mohrs Circle. Notice how unlike Modern Physics theres no confusion b/w physical & transformation space"
X Link 2024-04-19T16:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"These requirements were proposed to curb risk-taking by big banks but the post-GFC era has been defined by no risk-taking. So it gets revived anyways for no other reason than to punish bank execs for existing turning banking into a nonprofit industry. US financial watchdogs plan to take another crack at regulating Wall Street executives pay an outstanding requirement of the [----] Dodd-Frank Act that has repeatedly failed to materialize https://t.co/EAuk8PUEDG US financial watchdogs plan to take another crack at regulating Wall Street executives pay an outstanding requirement of the 2010"
X Link 2024-04-19T22:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"These kinds of responses to Ukraine & Israel are basically verbatim the responses that Europeans had to Hitler & if Churchill hadnt inspired Parliament otherwise the Nazis would have literally been given all of Europe in the name of peace. Its sickening. A trifecta of nonsense. Sacks - So you're saying we should have given them more We would have if it wasn't for people like you kvetching Musk - The exit strategy is when Russia gives up on its invasion WL - It will buy shells and missiles which are necessary in war https://t.co/nUGY9w46nx A trifecta of nonsense. Sacks - So you're saying we"
X Link 2024-04-21T04:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The West is sending free aid so the money is demanded by those who want to control the suffering At some point were gonna need to learn this. Foreign aid welfare state socialized industries like educationall exhibit the exact same phenomenon. 🧵1/ Im back from a short trip on a social network with photographs and videos from Gaza with some brief personal conclusions. First it is quite clear that there are those in Gaza who know how to make extensive use of the networks and social media for the purposes of https://t.co/xbgQDRQf75 🧵1/ Im back from a short trip on a social network with"
X Link 2024-04-21T12:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MichaelEMcNeil @PhysInHistory Thats b/c Newtons physics was derived from causes. His thought experiments on the subject show what was getting at & any misstep in reasoning was after the fact & somewhat understandable. Einstein rejected physical causality & thus had no qualms w/ rejecting Newtons ideas"
X Link 2024-04-21T13:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MichaelEMcNeil @PhysInHistory He rejected it in the abstract (eg the ether). Its the fundamental difference between him & James Clerk Maxwell/Newton. Compare his various papers on Relativity to Maxwells papers on EM. Following Helmholtz Hertz & Lorentz he rejected the very essence of Maxwells theory"
X Link 2024-04-21T13:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its interesting that the dangerously stupid clowns like Scott Adams & Tucker Carlson who constantly propagate utter nonsense are usually politically homeless whove come to vote for Trump. Theyre usually Leftists turned Right or vis versa & align with Rothbardian Libertarians. Well @ScottAdamsSays blocked me so I'll respond to his ignorant claims using a screenshot. Scott made several absurd claims about evolution and natural selection and then changed his argument when called out on it. But then he tried to claim that what proved him wrong https://t.co/oRmmYN8xmI Well @ScottAdamsSays blocked"
X Link 2024-04-24T04:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar If you ask yourself how youre doing towards your goal (lets say starting a company) is your immediate reaction to turn your attention towards your product line balance sheet research etc or is it to turn to inspect some nagging emotion self-judgement urge etc"
X Link 2024-04-24T16:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Unfortunately this will probably be a losing battle as he is fighting for the free speech of the consumers. The First Amendment doesnt apply to TikTok users in this context it applies to TikToks private owners. I guess TikTok isnt selling https://t.co/1ksv0NYDCW I guess TikTok isnt selling https://t.co/1ksv0NYDCW"
X Link 2024-04-24T19:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Well this is horrifying but already known. The policies supported by most Americans are: [--]. Expanding the welfare state [--]. Price controls (largely on medicine) [--]. Taxing the rich [--]. Restricting immigration One important reason that Trump is ahead in polls is that voters support a lot of his policy ideas. Building the wall deputizing the national guard to round up illegal immigrants even the 10% tariffall double-digit net support. https://t.co/KkHXU4hE5o https://t.co/fZcN8ndQTT One important reason that Trump is ahead in polls is that voters support a lot of his policy ideas. Building the wall"
X Link 2024-04-24T23:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The antisemitic wing of the Democratic Party is ruining Bidens chances of being re-elected so unfortunately for us hes going to be funneling tons of effort into anti-business stuff since that somehow polls well rn. You shouldnt have to jump through hoops just to get your money back if your flight was cancelled or the airline lost your bag. Thanks to the Biden admin airlines must disclose up-front any extra fees and issue automatic cash refunds for cancelled flights no travel vouchers You shouldnt have to jump through hoops just to get your money back if your flight was cancelled or the"
X Link 2024-04-25T03:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its kind of insane to compare this chart to government spending. [--] years of wanting our cake and to eat it too. Unfortunately illogical behavior always blows up in your face eventually. A short primer on capital taxation the most progressive type of taxation we have: https://t.co/P47RDkxhu9 A short primer on capital taxation the most progressive type of taxation we have: https://t.co/P47RDkxhu9"
X Link 2024-04-26T04:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Todays university students are literally just Progressive equivalents of hillbilly derelicts whos only knowledge of the things theyre so aggressively emotional about comes from Fox News & Facebook This is amazing https://t.co/mTVvRmWykF This is amazing https://t.co/mTVvRmWykF"
X Link 2024-04-26T11:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If you went on Reddit between [----] & [----] while the repeal of Net Neutrality was in the works youd have seen the top posts of all time being pictures of Ajit Pai labeled fascist & claims internet doomsday. @TheCalvinCooli1 This was the result of getting rid of Net neutrality. Cheaper prices and higher speeds. It's so joever https://t.co/wMKNi6zppT @TheCalvinCooli1 This was the result of getting rid of Net neutrality. Cheaper prices and higher speeds. It's so joever https://t.co/wMKNi6zppT"
X Link 2024-04-26T15:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CColose I agree w/ you in part but the main issue raised by the skeptics (the rare few who arent quacks) which never gets addressed is that its dubious to blend the various data types & then stitch them together w/ thermometry data from sites primarily affected by urban heat effect"
X Link 2024-04-26T20:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@CColose In essence the focus of the skeptic argument isnt on climate science per se but solely at the epistemological validity of Michael Manns paper which has since then seemingly become the backbone of the climate change argument"
X Link 2024-04-26T20:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Is there any evidence that they are or are we just inferring it from these results Because the MSM gave no coverage to the girls revolution in Iran the annexation of Hong Kong etc so why would it require censorship for it to also be missing from discussion on TikTok China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok. https://t.co/DtBb6t75cQ China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok. https://t.co/DtBb6t75cQ"
X Link 2024-04-27T00:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BrianGitt This is the Central African Copper Belt a trend of major mineral deposits that was discovered across Zambia and D.R.C. As youll notice its one of the few civilized areas in the this vast region. Mining brings human flourishing. Youre making an anti-human Green argument"
X Link 2024-04-29T05:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A subtle way weve regressed back to medieval views is wrt the concept of money: gold vs bank notes vs government currency. The first [--] are stores of value the third a rulers arbitrary dictate. All are divorced from the exchange of goods from which money actually arises"
X Link 2024-04-29T15:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its also interesting that in the 20th c when money was detached from its objective existence as a medium you get the same Relativistic notions like Money is relative. Its just a convention determined by price difference of two items seen by an observer as in physics"
X Link 2024-04-29T15:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Thisll be literally the first legitimate victory any Western nation has had in war since the UN was created if he actually goes through with this. Never thought Id hear a Western leader stand up to that evil organization with such moral clarity. BREAKING: Netanyahu: "We will enter Rafah and we don't care about the court in The Hague the court is anti-Semitic" "We will enter Rafah because we have no other choice. We will destroy the Hamas battalions there we will complete all the objectives of the war including https://t.co/2dg0xADADl BREAKING: Netanyahu: "We will enter Rafah and we don't care"
X Link 2024-05-01T01:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"She calls it basic humanitarian aid which is ironically accurate and is why humanitarian aid is totally immoral. Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying 'we want to be revolutionaries we want to take over this building now would you please bring us some food'." https://t.co/vNczSAM4T1 Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying 'we want to be revolutionaries we want to take over this building now"
X Link 2024-05-01T04:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Frats have been the focal point of so much hate on college campuses but have simply ignored it. Now this week theyve nobly stepped up to defend campus life Jews & America. Maybe theyve really just been a sanctuary from all the nihilistic crap elsewhere in the universities. The mob at UNC pelts a student holding an Israeli flag with trash while other students protect the American flag: 🎥 @BryanRAnderson https://t.co/kyB3kIMGGt The mob at UNC pelts a student holding an Israeli flag with trash while other students protect the American flag: 🎥 @BryanRAnderson https://t.co/kyB3kIMGGt"
X Link 2024-05-01T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@probsnotspam @DrewPavlou I think its a combination of the fact that [--]. the theocratic Islamists influenced by Iran & the Muslim Brotherhood have explicitly singled out the West due to its material spiritual & intellectual values as the enemy & [--]. Palestinians live like barbarians & have no state"
X Link 2024-05-01T12:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"A proper treatment of the economics would also have volumetric consumption data which Im sure like most other industries would be flat. But our bias towards price inflation (obviously not real inflation) causes us to ignore supply shocks. If you think Americans are getting priced out of basic consumer opportunities like eating at restaurants you should be able to explain why Americans are eating out at restaurants more than ever before https://t.co/GXJkXSCwMK If you think Americans are getting priced out of basic consumer opportunities like eating at restaurants you should be able to explain"
X Link 2024-05-03T05:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Feds tools are. what Well they only have one & its publishing these damn forecasts. Theyre literally always going to be wrong since theyre supposed to signal the market to change direction. Greenspan admitted that much over [--] decades ago. Whims & prayers. The Fed believes its tools do work as advertised and they forecast accordingly. And any forecaster who got it right was assuming the Fed's tools would not work as advertised. And market participants tend to believe the Fed's forecasts regardless of the track record: https://t.co/AtN1pison3 The Fed believes its tools do work as"
X Link 2024-05-08T13:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is the classic argument in Econ101 today but it leaves out the major assumption(s) that the Fed is printing money or that increasing bank reserves increases the money supply. Regardless proper teaching ought to connect things causally not hypothetically (& deductively). Economics [---]. Increasing the money supply IS inflation. This inflation will increase consumer prices. A low or zero budget deficit will end inflation. And most importantly inflation disproportionately hurts the poor and working class. Economics [---]. Increasing the money supply IS inflation. This inflation will increase"
X Link 2024-05-08T14:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BuenoForMiami Youre kinda forgetting the whole conspiracy to fund the murder of multiple people"
X Link 2024-05-09T02:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Apple makes an ad showing the iPads productive potential & Twitter loses its mind seeing it as a reminder of how far weve come from our traditional forms of society. Maybe not the best ad but still these are reactions which glorify the old & revile the new. Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product weve ever created the most advanced display weve ever produced with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things itll be used to create. https://t.co/6PeGXNoKgG Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product weve ever created the most advanced display weve ever produced with the"
X Link 2024-05-09T12:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Going back to the time of Wolf & Rousseau Western intellectuals have thus far simped for medieval European states primitive tribes of the Americas Africa & Australia savage feudal villages of the Far East & now finally barbarians of the Mid East. Whats left Honestly"
X Link 2024-05-11T22:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Obviously this isnt scientific but religious. Bill like environmentalists Marxists & Christians is just projecting his own inability to think & survive as an independent adult onto the world & demanding we abide by his delusions hoping we too give up & become parasites"
X Link 2024-05-12T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"As tempting as it is treating him as a wannabe murder is missing the point. Hes exploiting our cultures general negative view of economic growthor at least the fact that we take it for granted. People dont realize they want their cake & to eat it too so he offers both. No I don't. You tell me how emissions can fall by the [--] percent needed within [--] months if not due a major socio-economic shock such as a major pandemic nuclear war or global geophysical catastrophe. I am talking about reduced economic activity NOT reduced population. No I don't. You tell me how emissions can fall by the 50"
X Link 2024-05-12T22:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The inherent variability in & lack of classification of barrel flavor combined w/ the long brew time requires brewers to amass many foeders (these massive barrels once only used for making wine) & constantly be perusing & tasting the ones that enter market"
X Link 2024-05-13T15:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"New Belgiums sours w/ [---] more foeders than the next competitor is led by this lady Lauren who experimenting since day [--] has developed a kind of intuition like pre-science seamen predicting weather accurately by picking up on various common subtle environmental changes"
X Link 2024-05-13T15:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@malcolm_reavell @username_is_unq MMT ideas I see: - monetarism - QE/QT - tax/spend Critics get hung up on the mechanics but we already do these How does it really differ 1) explicit economic collectivization 2) explicit political statism Its just a sly call to complete our long slide into totalitarianism. @richyphillips @malcolm_reavell @username_is_unq The check(s) on government action (enforcement) is its restriction to policy (prescriptions determined by Congress) which can be judged accordingly by the Court. By removing the policy requirement youre leaving enforcement up to the dictates"
X Link 2024-05-13T15:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In a [----] AIG talk responding to a decision to regulate exploration as if its mining the presenter moans that its like public handholding is the same as sleeping with a whole football team. Such pragmatic moral concession is what led to that policy in the first place. smh"
X Link 2024-05-14T00:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The [----] Lisbon earthquake was the largest in Europe in millennia. But this was the Enlightenment the age of science & freedom. Men didnt cower into caves & propagate doomsday myths. It literally inspired the creation of seismology & EQ engineering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake This methodology cannot actually do what it claims to do - quantify the economic impact of greenhouse gas-induced climate change. It essentially estimates the economic impact of an El Nio which grows to an El Nio [--] times larger than a typical El Nio by the end of the"
X Link 2024-05-15T16:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"We have the total inversion of such a philosophy at work today. Our cultural elites have seemingly convinced us like an expansion of ancient Church doctrine that those very things science & engineering are Mans Original Sin which is driving us to annihilation"
X Link 2024-05-15T16:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@paologerbaudo Its usually just terrible managers and/or terrible corporate/personnel structure. A good example of the contrary is in oil and gas where onsite managers are like classic ship captains & upper management like admirals. A well organized hierarchy of knowledge & skill"
X Link 2024-05-15T16:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ThibaultDiP Many actors athletes & ladder climbers are able to succeed despite having superficial secondhanded goals. But I think its telling that entrepreneurs rarely do. Their success seems to require self-determination & a deeper love of learning & building on the economic frontier"
X Link 2024-05-15T17:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Politicization of science isnt mainly Woke pandering. Most science papers & talks today begin with motivations where the practical (social) value of the subject matter is mentioned. Thats politicization & likely a result of incentives inherent in government funding"
X Link 2024-05-15T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"We shouldnt need a social license to pursue the truth. If someone thinks theyll profit monetarily good for them but in the frontier of science its rarely known what practical value will stem from new understandings so the love of discovery must often be motivation alone"
X Link 2024-05-15T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PhysInHistory At some point were going to have to consider if reformulation is the correct word to use for this & Hertzs work. If we think that using some of Copernicuss math for the Ptolemaic model is deserving of such wording then sure but if not then lets stop for Maxwell"
X Link 2024-05-16T03:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Condensed & translated: the tariffs have the single benefit of destroying the American industrial markets so as to allow politicians to centrally plan & enforce the Green counterproductive transition. Ok for the great tariff debate I'm going to toss some heaters into the discussion: [--]. China has done more than any country to REDUCE nickel and cobalt use in the EV transition by leading the LFP revolution: https://t.co/DlNvPZ2nsy Ok for the great tariff debate I'm going to toss some heaters into the discussion: [--]. China has done more than any country to REDUCE nickel and cobalt use in the EV"
X Link 2024-05-16T03:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Just look at the times this occurs. This mainstream view was stupid in [----] its braindead now. China selling US debt only ever occurs during periods of regional or global liquidity issues. Yet we conclude political attacks or diversification https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-16/china-sells-record-sum-of-us-debt-amid-signs-of-diversificationutm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter&embedded-checkout=true"
X Link 2024-05-17T04:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In classical physics the vacuum is considered empty Again heres an example of how classical physics is being used as a frozen concept to refer to Continental Electrodynamics (which is really just Modern Physics) so as to hide the objective science of the Cambridge school. @skdh The Casimir effect is a fascinating phenomenon rooted in quantum field theory. It arises from the interaction of vacuum fluctuations leading to observable forces between objects. Here's how frequency wave theory could expand on the Casimir effect and its implications for https://t.co/dyD1Z1FVwT @skdh The Casimir effect"
X Link 2024-05-19T12:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Cambridge school of Newton Green Kelvin Stokes & Maxwell held that the universe was a physically real material plenum which had no empty space. It was the Cont. schools who denied this just as Modern Physics does at least implicitly. This is basic history"
X Link 2024-05-19T12:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Todays philosophy of science stems from academics who studied very little science. Physics was the posterchild but by the mid 19th c when todays views began to form there were huge leaps made in biology chemistry geology & meteorology which involved little to no math"
X Link 2024-05-19T13:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@martinmbauer @rmathematicus Proposition I. Theorem I. Calculus can be done geometrically since its really just the science of infinitesimal measurements as Newton explains at the start of the Principia. And he doesnt use F=ma for that reason he grounds his induction in the calculus of momentum"
X Link 2024-05-20T00:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@martinmbauer @rmathematicus Recent literature has pointed out that the concepts of nascent and evanescent quantities are actually critical to his first Book for this very reason yet they were never really touched upon by his immediate followers who ended up shifting his theory into a Leibnizian form"
X Link 2024-05-20T00:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Popular on Reddit today: someone complains about their landlord raising their rent doesnt censor the guys info & the Reddit army goes wild ruining his life. https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/EMff3ItLik https://www.reddit.com/r/Renters/s/EMff3ItLik"
X Link 2024-05-20T03:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Newtons Absolute Motion is motion relative to the causal medium & relative motion is merely descriptive. In geology too: faults anastomose & origins can vary by side; like the fixed stars Euler Points serve as good stand-ins; geodynamics depends on inferred mantle mechanics"
X Link 2024-05-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"With sailboats too one has to consider the wind & water currents. This is a case where its easy to see that the relative motion of the ship water & wind isnt Relativistic (ie arbitrary). Its true causal motion with entities all in their real positions wrt each other"
X Link 2024-05-23T15:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The difference The second according to early Modern Physics is Relativistic (in essence) the first dogmatic. The real problem they had w/ Newton is that he infers the nature of (unseen) things. They got away w/ it by equivocating b/w regular visual coincidence & causality"
X Link 2024-05-23T15:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Basic errors left Electrodynamicists floundering by [----]. FitzGerald rationalized stellar aberration via electron contraction during motion in material space Lorentz the stellar kinematics skew via time dilation. Einstein represents a white flag a collapse into phenomenalism. According to Einstein's theory of relativity time passes slower for an object in motion compared to one at rest which is a concept known as time dilation. https://t.co/8IbuQqJZUl According to Einstein's theory of relativity time passes slower for an object in motion compared to one at rest which is a concept known as"
X Link 2024-05-28T14:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In Einsteins Method of Theoretical Physics he puts bluntly: Newton & his followers erred by trying to conceptualize reality; knowledge cant be logically derived from facts. Relativity succeeds by arbitrarily describing phenomena; makes no claim about the nature of reality"
X Link 2024-05-28T14:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is basically a real life reductio ad absurdum. Its like the idiot on a mockumentary saying The best way to get around is grand theft auto. It harms no one gets you to your destination costs nothing is safe & can be done anywhere. Shutting down speeches is the single-best tactic in the activist handbook. It doesnt harm the public reaches millions is affordable is safe & can be done anywhere. Weve done it to dozens of CEOs and Senators. We applaud @StrikeDebt for doing it too. https://t.co/r09DqwbQkh Shutting down speeches is the single-best tactic in the activist handbook. It doesnt harm"
X Link 2024-05-29T14:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@SullyCNBC This happens during the contraction end of the business cycle (see [----] & 2019) and thats not just typical of the oil and gas industry. Credit tightens up due to poor market outlook & businesses who didnt plan correctly are forced to liquidate or merge. Not some boogeyman"
X Link 2024-05-29T14:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Who actually believes this What is the utopian/dystopian vision thats guiding us The Left is just trying to destroy civilization & the Right is sticking it to them by buying herbal remedies & also rooting against civilization. Theres no sophistication behind it. Civilization is careening towards dystopia/utopia Civilization is careening towards dystopia/utopia"
X Link 2024-06-03T02:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Still looking for a good answer for this. One can only speculate about the real motivations behind it. Most of what they do is symbolic not having a real market and all until Caitlin Clark came along. So it gives off a gross smell but hopefully its just a huge blunder. Why leaving Caitlin Clark off the [----] US Olympic womens basketball team matters a lot. Ive reported on the team at every Olympics since [----]. Ive watched the stunning lack of coverage & lack of interest every time. Here are four sections of my Feb column on this exact topic: https://t.co/MjwqeVQdR8 Why leaving Caitlin Clark"
X Link 2024-06-09T12:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its always nice to see everyone freak out when a rare giant comes along and cant be simply bought out of his current project. Dan Hurley is the man. BREAKING: Connecticuts Dan Hurley has turned down the Los Angeles Lakers six-year $70 million offer and will return to chase a third straight national title sources tell ESPN. LA wouldve made him one of NBAs six highest paid coaches. https://t.co/hEXo3o00SR BREAKING: Connecticuts Dan Hurley has turned down the Los Angeles Lakers six-year $70 million offer and will return to chase a third straight national title sources tell ESPN. LA wouldve made"
X Link 2024-06-12T14:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"One reason why I remain confidently in the oil and gas pulpit is because it doesnt have an armada of propagandists contriving delusional figures like this. The oil age is ending faster than people realize: The oil age is ending faster than people realize:"
X Link 2024-06-15T12:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Europeans live like third-worlders in this regard. Americans have unitized mobile housing for oil and gas rigs and remote mine camps which even have central AC & heat. For Americans who think this is not bad imagine if homes were old poorly ventilated and almost never had any kind of AC and also the humidity was 90% For Americans who think this is not bad imagine if homes were old poorly ventilated and almost never had any kind of AC and also the humidity was 90%"
X Link 2024-06-16T13:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The history in a nutshell. Christians misrepresented Aristotles Platonist astronomy Galileo & Newton integrated the field with physical mechanics Einstein alternatively integrated it with Kantian disintegrative philosophy Modern Physicists became satisfied with the mess. A brief history of physics Zach Weinersmith Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness https://t.co/NbOO4HCt7O A brief history of physics Zach Weinersmith Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness https://t.co/NbOO4HCt7O"
X Link 2024-06-17T05:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Both Newton & Maxwell developed methods of integral calculus from conic sections as young teens as tools for understanding physical dynamics. Newton never published but Maxwell gained early fame from it w/ the Royal Society. No oracles. No dreams. No mysticism. Science. The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. .The conic sections invented in an attempt to solve the problem of doubling the altar of an oracle ended by becoming the orbits followed by the https://t.co/YyIjncxTAe The mathematician may be"
X Link 2024-06-18T18:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProfBillMcGuire Bill what would a legit civilization look like in your opinion then"
X Link 2024-06-20T12:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar If Im an I/E firm & order 5k ozAu worth of lumber Im expecting to pay it w/ 5k ozAu from local orders. A misread may force me to pay money I dont have. I must get it on credit quickly sell assets or face insolvency. Relative to all product the value of [--] ozAu rose for me"
X Link 2024-06-21T15:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar This is mainly seen when seasonal orders align. And when key (negative) information is obscured globally (cough the Fed) therell be a point where the momentary value of money will skyrocket market wide & induce asset fire-sales"
X Link 2024-06-21T15:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar Im referring to the point of sale of that situation when money exchanges hands. Its only slightly different than paying on the spot and is actually how global trade is done. Thats one reason its relevant. The other is that it shows monetary value is dynamic due to economics"
X Link 2024-06-22T14:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@NatanGalulazar I cant keep repeating it man money is being sourced at the point of settlement so no its not different cuz of time. Im only using a deflationary shock example. Inflationary shocks can also occur. Also interest rates arent setthats subjectivism. Theyre prices"
X Link 2024-06-22T16:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Malthusian Elitism Nihilism violent insecurity and Hatred I love Star Wars but lets not delude ourselves into believing that Vader as a character makes any sense. George Lucas was far too Platonic in the 80s to translate his moral beliefs into concrete form. People are saying this is the mount rushmore for supervillains. yall agree🤔 https://t.co/YN7jq8tNEK People are saying this is the mount rushmore for supervillains. yall agree🤔 https://t.co/YN7jq8tNEK"
X Link 2024-06-23T22:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A 50yr economic degradation in mining was recently accentuated by huge resource downgrades leading to a kind of self-imposed intervention called the Parker Challenge where world expert resource modelers demonstrated universal failure to evaluate ore bodies (their job)"
X Link 2024-06-27T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This outcome was inevitable once modern epistemology took hold: the economics of mining is based on perceptual ignorance & ore body complexity prevents brute-force methods; only a geologists inference based on his conceptual understanding can allow accurate domaining"
X Link 2024-06-27T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Theres an important point here: natural processes are only apparently complex; theyre still just an accumulation of interacting things thus can be conceptually simplified via observation & abstractionsomething unknown or seen as mystical in modern times"
X Link 2024-06-27T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"We already knew we were at the dead-end of the Republican Party but last nights debate has made it fully clear that were also simultaneously at the dead-end of the Democratic Party. Were about to see Post-Modernist Trump vs some Post-Modernist Lefty. BREAKING: Following the debate the betting market shows Trump is now at a HISTORIC 67% while Joe Biden has lost 12%. No one believes Joe Biden has a shot which will make rigging the election IMPOSSIBLE https://t.co/I9UiFvDwZC BREAKING: Following the debate the betting market shows Trump is now at a HISTORIC 67% while Joe Biden has lost 12%. No"
X Link 2024-06-28T14:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Cambridge School scientists admitted influence of the same key authors: Newton Bacon Franklin & von Humboldt. Similarly for the Moderns: Kant Hume Hertz & Mach. Yet instead of a comparative analysis weve received tantrums at any question of ideological connections"
X Link 2024-06-30T17:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"It wouldnt be a true shitty rehash of the 1960s without a presidential assassination/attempt"
X Link 2024-07-14T07:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Our fascist market czar evading centuries of economic literature explaining the resiliency of market economies due to their decentralized aspect. [--]. All too often these days a single glitch results in a system-wide outage affecting industries from healthcare and airlines to banks and auto-dealers. Millions of people and businesses pay the price. These incidents reveal how concentration can create fragile systems. [--]. All too often these days a single glitch results in a system-wide outage affecting industries from healthcare and airlines to banks and auto-dealers. Millions of people and"
X Link 2024-07-20T04:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Besides its fuller significance its unprecedented for a president to basically age out of the White House. My fellow Democrats I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in [----] was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And its been the best https://t.co/x8DnvuImJV My fellow Democrats I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in"
X Link 2024-07-21T20:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"How can anyone expect to be taken seriously after using the phrase woke mind virus JUST IN: Elon Musk says his son is "dead" thanks to the woke mind virus after he was put on puberty blockers says he vowed to "destroy the woke mind virus after that." 🔥🔥 "I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys. This was before I had https://t.co/wfWztIziTs JUST IN: Elon Musk says his son is "dead" thanks to the woke mind virus after he was put on puberty blockers says he vowed to "destroy the woke mind virus after that." 🔥🔥 "I was essentially tricked into signing"
X Link 2024-07-23T00:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The Trump mob hides behind the American flag but the flag they should be holding is that of the Second Reich. Their ideas of national duty native blood & divine right & their policies of welfare regulation & protectionism have their origin w/ Bismarcks German Empire"
X Link 2024-07-26T14:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DQuilici1 @Aella_Girl One of the foundational stories/lessons of the Old Testament is God showing Abraham what absolute obedience & submission to faith means by commanding him to murder his son"
X Link 2024-07-27T12:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Franklins response shows the careful attention to cause & effect required in observation. The logic demanded inference of an electric material that permeates unseen in space that charges werent just empty forces but real physical imbalances"
X Link 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"As explained here by Einstein Newtonians like Franklin assumed a reality knowledge of which is derivable from experience. To Einstein tho experience is akin to sitting drunk & high soaking in a flux of sensations. Obviously theres no scientific observation from that premise"
X Link 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Herere excerpts from shortly after Maxwells death of the scientist (Hertz) & philosopher (Duhem) maybe most responsible for misrepresenting his work to the first Modern generation. Note that what they take issue w/ is the conceptual aspect & inductive method of his work"
X Link 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its been almost 100yrs again so maybe another genius will show up & rediscover the nature of electricity & magnetism but thatd require someone developing thoughtful observational skills & judging by the edu slides seen in a quick Google search the prospect of that is grim"
X Link 2024-07-28T21:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The unabashed gall of academics to compare what they do today to the talent of Simone Biles. Insane The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today. https://t.co/1aR2BkZbU3 The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today. https://t.co/1aR2BkZbU3"
X Link 2024-08-03T12:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Americans have higher standards than Europeans. The entire US squad said screw this boondogglethe cardboard beds hot rooms rats water shortage inedible foodand checked into hotels. Meanwhile this European gold medalist is content w/ sleeping on the streets like a hobo. Italy's Swimmer Thomas Ceccon sleeping outside because he was fed up with no A/C in the Olympic village. Bro got his rest and locked🥇 https://t.co/YIjjG3lwFo Italy's Swimmer Thomas Ceccon sleeping outside because he was fed up with no A/C in the Olympic village. Bro got his rest and locked🥇 https://t.co/YIjjG3lwFo"
X Link 2024-08-06T12:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I see even Objectivists fall prey to this pseudo-rationale which is wild since its literally Kants inverted epistemology. Prices are an effect evidence from which inferences must be drawn. They arent objects. A rise in prices isnt real nor is it apt to describe reality. The rise in prices (inflation) is caused by government overspending which increases the amount of money faster than the increase in goods & services output. That is the vast majority of the problem. Inflation was particularly bad during the Covid years as there was massive The rise in prices (inflation) is caused by government"
X Link 2024-08-10T13:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@WKCosmo Maxwells original theory was in the form of Newtonian fluid dynamics but Hertz had a problem with the inductive conceptual nature of it so he removed the key elements & turned it into a phenomenalistic electrodynamics to which the Lorentz factor was later added"
X Link 2024-08-11T13:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@PicoPaco17 @Noahpinion I often point this phenomenon out & I think its explained by the osmosis from Germany into France & then England of radical ideas regarding knowledge & reality. By [----] the assumptions underlying the previous era of science were effectively gone. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1772422066605592830s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog An example of victory by default: Maxwells theory of electromagnetism was forever revised by Hertz in the 1880s. Yet Hertz never actually treated the phenomena which was the basis of the theory. It got a short paragraph & was marked as"
X Link 2024-08-18T14:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Like philosophy from Hume to Heidegger science from 1870-1932 followed a path of Skeptical reconstruction to disintegration into sophistry & primitive mysticism centered on the fulcrum arguments & (anti-)concepts of Kant & Einstein. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1772422083663831537s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog It's pretty astonishing how much Germany dominated the world of science and engineering from the 1870s through [----]. Six decades of incredible outperformance. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1772422083663831537s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog It's pretty astonishing how much"
X Link 2024-08-18T14:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Doesnt this just create incentivizes thatll lead to government ownership/control of housing and a housing bubble of unused property Harris' housing plan is basically: [--]. supply increases using a variety of policy tools and [--]. grants to first-time homebuyers. This is basically what Singapore does. And their housing system is arguably the best in the world. https://t.co/lWNHzoukxA Harris' housing plan is basically: [--]. supply increases using a variety of policy tools and [--]. grants to first-time homebuyers. This is basically what Singapore does. And their housing system is arguably the best in"
X Link 2024-08-19T22:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The core feature of economic depressions is a shortage of available work which is whycontrary to the accepted dogmathe only solution has ever been to deregulate business & finance lower taxes & remove subsidiesto allow job creation via enterprise & capital markets"
X Link 2024-08-20T04:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@annasofialesiv Despite the deluge of taxpayer money & the precursory technology developed in the free market the industrynot just the critical mineral bubblehas seen lower grades high costs resource downgrades fraud & mine closures with basically no legit discoveries to show for it"
X Link 2024-08-20T18:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@annasofialesiv Majors planned on forgoing exploring by increasing grade the opposite of which has happened. You didnt mention that this & the downgrades are due to failures in modeling & estimation. My point is that theres also clearly an industry wide problem in the guiding science"
X Link 2024-08-20T19:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Ive made the point before but the consequences pointed out by Einstein are unavoidable given the changes to Maxwells theory made by Hertz & co. Were still stuck there b/c those changes & the outcomes are rooted in philosophical ideas that continue to be accepted by academics. Nice article by @DrBrianKeating on the consequences of tests of Lorentz invariance violation The fact that the speed of light is constant and it's consequences have survived every check (AGN here) and even theories predicting slight variations can be ruled out (e.g. LQG) Nice article by @DrBrianKeating on the"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its a cool innovation but as Gundy also pointed out the likelihood of college football programs becoming their own companies with salaried players is even greater now which would make the relationship b/w university education & sports even more convoluted. Oklahoma State football will have NIL-linked QR codes on their helmets. Coach Mike Gundy hopes the QR codes can help players earn more NIL money during the season and allow them to focus on football. https://t.co/e4SjLIttDL Oklahoma State football will have NIL-linked QR codes on their helmets. Coach Mike Gundy hopes the QR codes can help"
X Link 2024-08-22T15:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@StefanFSchubert Japan is a bit of a special case but its not like its due to free markets. It has an almost socialized capital market & heavy handed BOJ which has pushed investments & entrepreneurs overseas. Theyd be more like Poland if they embraced freer markets"
X Link 2024-08-25T13:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Itd be nice to see Marc apologize to Bill Gates if hes going to post things like this since it was he who spearheaded the anti-trust suit against him using these non-objective tactics. "If politicians think your prices are too low you are predatory pricing; if your prices are too high you're price gouging; and if your prices are the same as your competitors you're price fixing." https://t.co/I59y6d3HO1. "If politicians think your prices are too low you are predatory pricing; if your prices are too high you're price gouging; and if your prices are the same as your competitors you're price"
X Link 2024-08-26T14:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The probability theory of electrons was a reaction to issues arising from the fact that QM treats abstractions eg waveforms as concretes eg flying balls. Imagine if geologists did this with earthquake seismograms. Theyd make as little sense as Modern Physicists. @martinmbauer except that probability distribution for lottery winners is different from that of electrons. electrons can tunnel electrons are identical can lottery winners tunnel are all lottery winners perfectly identical . @martinmbauer except that probability distribution for lottery winners is different from that of electrons."
X Link 2024-08-26T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@omni_american Universities are intellectual institution. Their prestige wrt this has dictated their price. Intellectuals have rejected the intellect in favor of brute power. So the most prestigious thus expensive schools have created the most mindless & ardent activists"
X Link 2024-08-27T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"A tale of two worlds & two emotions. These American youngsters bring the trophy home in an epic walk-off win over kids forced to play under the name Chinese Taipei. Props to the broadcasters for having the courage to break protocol & refer to them as Taiwan. They deserve it. FLORIDA WINS THE LLBWS CHAOS ON THE FINAL PLAY TO WIN IT 🤯 https://t.co/HoqU8mlqRr FLORIDA WINS THE LLBWS CHAOS ON THE FINAL PLAY TO WIN IT 🤯 https://t.co/HoqU8mlqRr"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"The reason why the 90s mark the inflection point is b/c thats when offshore bankers began to realize the incompetence of Central Bankers capped by the crowning performance of Asian & South American regulators in destroying their nations in response to capital finance flight"
X Link 2024-09-02T12:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"During the Great Moderation offshore bankers lent freely all over the world assuming a Central Bank backstop. Once that was broken their agenda changed to self-preservation marking the onset of an era of major liquidity buffers & low risk tolerance"
X Link 2024-09-02T12:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its this last part that explains the situationif only approached from a view that doesnt assume Central Bank control. Interest rates today are a product of offshore monetary market liquidity-risk balance distorted at the front end by the Fed leading to labor market changes"
X Link 2024-09-02T12:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"One of his best episodes so far. You can tell how much of an influence Alex Epstein has had on him. Stopping the Socialist Trainwreck in British Columbia John Rustad https://t.co/bxzDkPYMsj Stopping the Socialist Trainwreck in British Columbia John Rustad https://t.co/bxzDkPYMsj"
X Link 2024-09-05T07:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@GSalmieri An online wing of the trad movement apparently came from incel forums and combined with cottagecorea Germanic to Scandinavian pastoralist heritage movement. The meme was paired with the trad wife meme at some point & quickly given a beard to fit the aesthetics"
X Link 2024-09-08T04:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Should anyone really take seriously a group that claims the US has a less functioning government than freakin Botswana US-Americans like to brag about how great their democracy is alas according to the Economist Democracy Index (2023) the USA is not even ranked a full democracy any more but a "flawed democracy" well behind most European countries (and Canada). https://t.co/y7pmOB5Dtn US-Americans like to brag about how great their democracy is alas according to the Economist Democracy Index (2023) the USA is not even ranked a full democracy any more but a "flawed democracy" well behind most"
X Link 2024-09-10T12:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If price controls are bad then why arent regulations on safety insurance banking etc Are concrete goods & services the only things that can have a value No. Its like we beat totalitarianism but our lack of respect for abstraction allowed it to survive in those areas"
X Link 2024-09-20T15:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Theyre way better at sifting out concrete garbage that avg Facebook users pass around but they rely on philosophers to form their most basic beliefs and this is whats gotten them into trouble. Recently its imbued university science with a fad of tribalism and subjectivism. In my thousandfold experience scientists are more prone to intellectual fads than typical people are. The reason is obvious and the purported reason for the opposite is bad epistemology. In my thousandfold experience scientists are more prone to intellectual fads than typical people are. The reason is obvious and the"
X Link 2024-09-21T15:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Blame terrorism then launch a self-sacrificial window-dressing war on it somewhere inconsequential like Afghanistan. What would America actually do if Iran assasinated Trump What would America actually do if Iran assasinated Trump"
X Link 2024-09-25T13:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MattModine @heirsjournal @wise_chimp Shes one of the best selling authors of all time. She died a millionaire lolcouldve been much more if she found a trustworthy financial advisor. She advised everyone to exploit gov handouts b/c its the only way youll even get a fraction back from the wealth stolen from you"
X Link 2024-09-30T20:47Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Rent control makes these glorified closets (which have a legit place in an urban housing market) more expensive than old luxury apartments that are mansions in comparison and require political pull or luck to acquire. All for the sake of turning property owners into bloodbags. IMO we should build more units like this and some even smaller so that people who can't afford to pay $2k/ month for rent can still get shelter. There should be more diversity in housing so everyone can have a home regardless of income level. IMO we should build more units like this and some even smaller so that people"
X Link 2024-10-06T11:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The scientific revolution inaugurated by Newton was a result of not only connecting ideas to reality but deriving them from it. In the modern era represented by Einstein our scientific devolution has been a result of reversing that order and severing the connection. "Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind." - A. Einstein https://t.co/W2PFxXnOhM "Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind." - A. Einstein https://t.co/W2PFxXnOhM"
X Link 2024-10-18T13:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Another example of how modern Empiricism has been failing Capitalism. Pointing to particular examples and results is fine but without a conceptual explanation the facts are just happenstance and the audience is left without reason. @PatriciaNPino This just kindergarten stuff. History shows that socialism fails. And most importantly it fails the poorest. If you want the best for people capitalism is empirically the system to chose. @PatriciaNPino This just kindergarten stuff. History shows that socialism fails. And most importantly it fails the poorest. If you want the best for people"
X Link 2024-10-19T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"For the champaign socialists whove never been broke a simple solution for this when living dollar to dollar is to just turn off the overdraft feature. Every bank makes it an option. Another is to pull out your phone and check your account. Why are the feds getting involved Banking overdraft and bounced check fees are examples of surprise junk fees that hit families hard. Since taking office the Biden-Harris Administration has cracked down on these fees and reduced them by half compared to before the pandemic saving the typical family that pays Banking overdraft and bounced check fees are"
X Link 2024-10-19T18:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is like banning credit cards cuz a handful of neurotics rang up thousands in debt while pretending that they had no idea what they were really doing. Were outlawing useful financial services out of unjust sympathy for outlier freaks. Its absurd"
X Link 2024-10-19T18:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The GFC stands as a societal fulcrum not only b/c the declining economy has made life difficult financially for Americans but it also served as a beacon for all the professorial cretins to crawl out of the ivory towers and spew their newly reworked nihilism into the mainstream. American fertility rates https://t.co/pGHFAskiNR American fertility rates https://t.co/pGHFAskiNR"
X Link 2024-10-25T06:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The main reason MMT has been able to hang around as a theory despite its absurdity is because it bases itself on the fundamental error of the Hayekians and Monetarists: that production is a random social phenomenon & labor market is controlled by centralized monetary accounting"
X Link 2024-10-26T15:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The real question here is: Have the American people given up on the founding principles on the project of America as did the Soviets on Communism The MAGA crowd certainly has & the academic Leftists never bought in in the first place. But how much do those groups represent On my recent trip to Australia I gave a series of talks and interviews. Here I make the contrarian case that in some respects the United States is exhibiting late-Soviet characteristics particularly with respect to public health and morale. https://t.co/ffrBwQIc5A On my recent trip to Australia I gave a series of talks and"
X Link 2024-10-30T14:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"An important point. Tariffs arent just industrial welfare redistributing citizen wealth to domestic producers but erode all domestic wealth & production. Anyone whos worked in production knows that parts & components are built & imported from all over the world. I love Econ [---]. But it isnt perfect. For example its wrong about tariffs. Theyre actually much worse than the model suggests. https://t.co/tQjzkqzn2u I love Econ [---]. But it isnt perfect. For example its wrong about tariffs. Theyre actually much worse than the model suggests. https://t.co/tQjzkqzn2u"
X Link 2024-11-01T12:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Economic growth requires the free flow of money as fuel & lubricant of trade & looking at bond yields over the last couple decades it appears that the plumbing is clogged. Derelict government facilities & crazy banking regulations are a large part of the pressure on the spring. America is an economic coiled spring. We should be growing at least 4% annually and ideally 6-8%+. Growth has been brutally suppressed since before I was born. But there is so much to build. And the payoff for all Americans will be incredible. America is an economic coiled spring. We should be growing at least 4%"
X Link 2024-11-08T12:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Do Americans support mass deportations The scary thing about this election is that Trump especially with a clever guy like Vance beside him seems to have taken it as a blank check to do whatever he wants. JD Vance explains what comes next. The following interview was filmed before the election. [--]. Trump will fire all the people within the federal government who will work to obstruct him. [--]. Media will then work to manipulate the public and political leaders into not doing things https://t.co/DnfeLVNqxq JD Vance explains what comes next. The following interview was filmed before the election."
X Link 2024-11-08T12:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Isnt it at least a little worrying that the first intellectual Republican in the White House probably since Lincoln is a nationalistic socialist A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here. https://t.co/V0NBrW581Z A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here. https://t.co/V0NBrW581Z"
X Link 2024-11-09T08:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Hong Kong like most Western allies is fighting a two front battle: a physical political one against an invading dictatorial regime and a moral political one against us. Hong Kong despite being built in the 20th c. was one of the last glimpses of the 19th c. Hong Kong is about to make the same mistake many American cities did decades ago: Banning cheap/small apartments because they dont meet some arbitrary minimum standards. The regulation is intended to help the citys poorest residents but will actually make their lives worse. https://t.co/8aqOJEmMyV Hong Kong is about to make the same"
X Link 2024-11-11T13:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"George Stokess memoir that discovered fluorescence likewise only involved a few measurements of relative lengths. The rest was accumulating relevant facts and reasoning from them then working out the causal relationships via three experiments that isolated the key factor"
X Link 2024-11-12T12:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Or Newtons Principia. It established the geometry of a phenomenon used rational principles to abstract a necessary physical cause and then showed its validity by applying measurements of concrete situations usually only abstraction (his geometric calculus) not statistics"
X Link 2024-11-12T12:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"How did American universities come to be the nodes of a web of activist groups promoting antisemitic terrorists Well how did they come to be the birthplace and hubs of Activism in general Todays situation requires further investigation into the history of our schools. Students for Justice in Palestine's (SJP's) leadership membership and bed fellows have enjoyed hiding behind relative anonymity---masking their faces organizational structure and allied groups---as they've caused chaos on college campuses these last several months. That ends https://t.co/85P7wSibSl Students for Justice in"
X Link 2024-11-13T12:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Are Conservatives really for meritocracy as they often claim Well Yaron details just how dangerously unqualified Trumps new Defense Secretary is. What quality led to his appointment He kissed the ring and has been a devout loyalist for Trumps cult. So merit or tribalism Live at 2pm ET Trump's Appointments Yaron Brook Show https://t.co/vwi3OqxAAh via @YouTube Live at 2pm ET Trump's Appointments Yaron Brook Show https://t.co/vwi3OqxAAh via @YouTube"
X Link 2024-11-23T16:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Yaron also notes the scary fact that Pete Hegseth has a Deus Vult tattoo on his chest a symbol of the modern ideological strand of the medieval crusades which that I keep pointing out also became rampant in Nazi Germany and the American South. https://x.com/culturalbystand/status/1858355128035881050s=46&t=NRmQdJZ-8civr4L3WZmHog As AJ notes the medieval obsessions of the far-right being misrepresented by Vance as simple Christian conservatism is really focused on the same primitive religious military cults that the Germans did during first and Third Reich."
X Link 2024-11-23T16:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Its like Hitler bombing London after cowardly pragmatic politicians straight up handed most of Europe over to him then the Allies rally around the US and launch Operation Overlord D-Day arrives and Conservatives/Libertarians start fussing that the Allies are starting WW2. Joe Rogan argues Ukraine is trying to start WW3 tells Zelensky fuck you Russia has been bombing Ukraine for [----] days in a row. Where was this energy @joerogan when Putin bombed Kyivs main childrens cancer hospital Just massacre after massacre of Ukrainian innocents but https://t.co/6Lz7KroFJO Joe Rogan argues Ukraine is"
X Link 2024-11-24T13:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@AlecStapp We havent accepted central planning as a political ideal leaving us with more freedom but a mess of a political system. Obv Hong Kong and the Industrial Revolution showed that central planning is nothing compared to a free market but unfortunately nobody wants that anymore"
X Link 2024-11-25T15:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@RealKeithWeiner Or what is generally accepted as the quantity of money (ie the Fed balance sheet) is way off and/or what is generally accepted as money (bank reserves) is either not money at all or only an inconsequential kind of money in a vast pool of monetary forms"
X Link 2024-11-25T17:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This (anti-)philosophy has dominated academia at least in Germany in many forms for the last [---] yrs. And in this form for at least [--] yrs. So why now Why did intellectuals choose [----] to launch a cultural revolution on this iteration of the ideas Its a genuine question. Its not just a divorce from reality. It doesnt enforce rejection of reality for the sake of an unreal world like Christianity nor for an abstract ideology like Communism. It enforces rejection of the reality of perceivable things for the sake of the rejectionbrute nihilism. Its not just a divorce from reality. It doesnt"
X Link 2024-11-26T16:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ScubaMySteve I like how after the success of the OT his take away was that what made Star Wars great was the political commentary"
X Link 2024-11-28T08:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"I cant help but point out that the error here is the same one made by Karl Marx. Its the thoughtful aspect of businessinnovationthat drives economics while the routine hammer swinging aspect of production has been around since prehistoric times. 1/11 If you want to understand the effects of trade intervention its ok to ask economic historians but never ask economists. That's because their answer will almost certainly reflect little more than their ideological position. 1/11 If you want to understand the effects of trade intervention its ok to ask economic historians but never ask economists."
X Link 2024-11-30T11:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing