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hyperlinerappon Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

I personally call my mommy when I need someone to make me feel better.

“This person” gave $3B. They deserve the name change.

hyperlinerappon Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

It would be dumb not to flee socialists hell holes.

Wouldn’t you leave?

FYI the federal government literally has a website for you to send it gift money. I suspect you hadn’t sent any.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

It’s interesting that the SCOTUS still hasn’t decided why non violent felons who have served their sentence get their 2A rights cancelled.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Yes, we define crimes based on what you say. For example, libel or yelling “fire” at a movie theater.

But you are allowed to say whatever you want. If what you say is reflected as an offense, then you get some consequence (I am not speaking of UK where you can post something about immigrants in Facebook and get arrested; I’m speaking only of USA).

There are gun regulations too. Most are reasonable, but many are not. Liberals think that they can simply restrict the right to guns unconstitutionally because “guns are scary.” That is clearly not a sufficient basis to deny a right.

In the case of LA County, they just settled with the Feds because they had approved 2 concealed carry permits out of thousands of applications. That clearly shows the government was simply curtailing your right.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

I grew up in Rural America too. In my experience, armed people are very polite.

I don’t outsource my thinking to a machine. I was asking you to not outsource your thinking to a stranger, since I am not your private encyclopedia.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Switzerland, Wyoming, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, most Rural America.

Anyway, ChatGPT can answer your questions. Or just visit your local gun range. I highly recommend it.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

It depends on the county. Some Sheriffs think it’s them who gives you your RIGHT to own a gun or a concealed weapon license. They don’t understand they are servants.

LA just settled the Fed lawsuit over their terrible practices:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-13/doj-la-s...

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Nothing that some other person has to give you can be a right.

A right is not something the government gives you. In the US, the Bill of Rights does not actually give you rights. You are born with rights. The Bill of Rights simply clarifies that the government CANNOT RESTRICT YOUR RIGHTS.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Just go to ChatGPT and ask:

List 20 high trust societies

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Unlike food, guns are your right.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

A gun is not a good. It’s a right.

It’s not like we ask to wait for 2 weeks when you have something to say or when you want to pray to your god.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Guns are highly regulated. Try getting a gun in liberal California, where Reagan screwed us.

Now, what I want to regulate are accordions.

hyperlinerappon The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Gun owner enters the conversation. In high trust societies, armed people are very polite people. I don’t want the bad guys out there being the only ones with guns. Besides I like to shoot just like you like (whatever you like to do that is legal).

Replace “gun” with anything and you will see how your comment falls apart.

What’s next? A registry for food purchases? Your beer gut is starting to show.

hyperlinerappon America.gov

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2105271706055029221/video/1...

CNBC commentary:

Andrew Ross Sorkin gushes over Trump's new America. gov website on live TV while Joe Kernen sits there stunned.

Sorkin is not a Trump fan, and he lets that be known. But the moment he said the word "credit," Kernen nearly fell out of his chair.

SORKIN: “I want to be clear. I am actually not critical of the president in this instance at all, because I actually think it was great to bring everybody together.”

“For 29,000 websites, the ability to get a passport, the ability to get your medicare. I mean, the it was like being at a product. It was like being at an Apple product announcement. And when they went through what they did and the president was there in the morning and walked through what they were doing, and Marco Rubio was there, Scott Bessent was there, the whole cabinet was there. It was one of those moments where you actually thought the government was working for you, really? And Gebbia deserves an extraordinary amount of praise for it.”

KERNEN: “Do you feel great? Are you have the warmest fuzziest feeling right now listening.”

SORKIN: “And by the way, the president deserves credit for that."

KERNEN: "Oh my God!"

SORKIN: "Credit for putting you in that role. And Jeb and his team putting it all together.”

KERNEN: “So now I'm getting hot flashes. Wow. So this is just amazing.”

hyperlinerappon America.gov

Me: Trump did …

Liberals: nooooooo!

Me: I haven’t even finished my sentence.

hyperlinerappon The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

Is housing now a human right in liberal-land?

I guess God needs to get going building a house for every baby!

Call me when vanilla ice cream is a human right please!

hyperlinerappon The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

“Drones are racist, just like clear nail polish and white paint (ah and math)”

hyperlinerappon World Labs Is Joining AMD

You didn’t do anything wrong. I was just worried FOR YOU. Sorry if I came across like I was attacking you or blaming you.

hyperlinerappon World Labs is Joining AMD

Came here to say exactly this. The way anon writes could be a hint if there are a couple of emails laying around from him/her.

hyperlinerappon Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

Peaches!

hyperlinerappon Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

Islamist terrorists have been doing similar things, starting with unsent emails in draft.

hyperlinerappon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

Long are the days when if a kid did something wrong, he would get a whooping from the teacher and then at home from a parent.

hyperlinerappon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

All the ones where you can build open source (excluding the ones where you elected governments that send police to your house for Facebook posts or where governments welcome “asylum seekers” that try to blow up your military bases and never “connect the dots”)

[1] https://x.com/TalkTV/status/2104152494636986371/video/1?s=46

hyperlinerappon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

It’s a free country.

hyperlinerappon On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

It’s Open source.

Some people just want to keep looking at the gift horse in the mouth.

hyperlinerappon Does Georgism work? Five years later

One of the problems with many of these tax proposals is that it’s not accompanied by a reduction in taxes. So it’s basically just a tax increase masquerading as innovative tax policy. It would be great if cities were to reduce the spend by a 30% while they are at it.

At the very least, it would be great if politicians implemented it as tax neutral and as originally designed: the ONLY tax, and including renters. Some jurisdictions are doing it that way.

It’s unclear to me what problem it seeks to solve. Market value changes for every asset, not just land, and unearned wealth creation is common. Should all software engineers return the 50% of their salary that market forces caused to increase and give it to typists?

I will probably believe it more when the proponents act on their recommendations, say, if Lars sells his house and sends the 50% appreciation he says in his blog he didn’t earn, as a gift to the Federal Government so that Trump can hire a few more ICE agents.

My concern is also aligned with Orwell in Notes on Nationalism: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

hyperlinerappon Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

Nowhere in No Child Left Behind it says DEI nor it says to promote children who can’t read or pass standardized tests just so certain politicians can be appeased.

hyperlinerappon Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

Remember that in some liberal schools some of these people will graduate to be your doctors or policy makers, especially if DEI or with a degree studying some perceived social grievance.

hyperlinerappon Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

Imagine this but in hardware.

A million autonomous eye-scanning tiny spiders escape their warehouse and decide to look for people who are in the future going to commit a crime.

And the precogs are also AIs.

hyperlinerappon Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

These arrays are IN A SINGLE CELL