there’s owo in coworker and meow in homeowner

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

Pacifism is only good for aggressors and cowards

magic happens only once, when you don’t know how it was made to work, it’s your best result and then it’s impossible to repeat it

and then it becomes impossible to get money for periodic maintenance

(literally writing this from lab) i’m not calling him a techbro because i have some kind of disdain for tech workers, i’m calling him a techbro because he’s chasing unviable or harmful ideas or tech from old scifi that his cult (or at least was influenced by ideas typically associated with that cult) adopted as a part of doctrine. things like cryonics, some sketchy supplements that are supposed to give extreme life extension, or AI and quantum computing (because they think simulation = actual thing, and they hope to achieve immortality with AI). you might start to think that i’m batshit crazy just by explaining it, but i assure you it’s them, and these people will be part of american government really soon. start there https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong

in no place i’m saying “technology bad”, i’m saying there’s plenty of harmful tech being pushed for profit and Luigi went full in in that sector. other than healthcare, that is

funnily enough luigi would disagree with this exact take

https://xcancel.com/pepmangione?cursor=DAABCgABGejOMJU__6YKAAIV6ATjUpqAAAgAAwAAAAIAAA

this is because he’s an “effective altruist” which is an ideology cooked specifically to justify current day greed with future charity. also includes bad scifi and cult of AI

i’m saying do your thing, because luigi and his friends won’t help you

zeroth of all, they were figureheads in large organizations. luigi has none of that

besides, there’s no improvement without criticism

if you’re relying on people like luigi, who also had atlas shrugged on goodreads reading list, for healthcare change, don’t get surprised if you get what you’ll get

yeah, luigi is a bootlicker too, he says so in first sentence of his manifesto:

To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Luigi is a rich libertarian techbro bordering on AI cultist. he likes Thiel and Musk, he thinks that human immortality is feasible, that AI will outsmart us all real soon, and bought in in a bunch of other tpot/longtermist/ea horseshit hook line and sinker. he also only started caring about state of healthcare industry when it touched him personally. he’s not leftist in any useful meaning of this word

this is his twitter https://xcancel.com/PepMangione these are his takes: https://xcancel.com/PepMangione/status/1780863519677940189#m https://xcancel.com/PepMangione/status/1750041444239434013#m https://xcancel.com/PepMangione/status/1600875886727016449#m this one is pinned tweet

yeah it’s called abstract, it’s always free to read on publisher’s site

if you want all of article go to scihub (pre-2022 articles) some are in anna’s archive

You have to replace it when it still has some magnesium on it, it stops working otherwise

so what corrodes your heater? i thought it might be acidic

Water softener won’t remove acid (there are types that do, but these come with 2 different ion exchange resins and require regenerating with acid and base. this gives deionised water)

this shouldn’t happen, have you sent a sample to lab to make sure it’s potable?

why do you change it, is there lime scale buildup? you can remove it with citric acid esp if it’s just calcium/magnesium (white limescale) if it’s rusty orange (contains iron or manganese) you might want to check if it’s potable at all

anxiety-inducing notebook (incomprehensible)

Link shortener (not their own at least) is another massive red flag, same with typos (‘number number’ in page)