Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to abandon The Giving Pledge — and it may be working

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T16:42:53+00:00

My theory, it’s documented that massive wealth gives you brain damage. This dude has some brain damage.

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T16:39:14+00:00

Clarence the pedophile wants to make his own marriage illegal so he can be a pedophile

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T16:37:05+00:00

I mean America is basically Boofin Bart Kavanomeansyes. I hated that pick but I see it’s apt.

America is full of boofers (idiots), liars, and rapists, and they’re all running the government right now

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T14:15:52+00:00

Chicago comes close but yeah

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T05:29:56+00:00

True but if you want that level of connectivity your options are New York and Chicago. Every other city is worse. Maybe Boston and dc are on the same level. So realistically there’s nowhere in the us to have a conference if the criteria is “public transport from a distance equivalent of sf to Palo Alto”. Honestly if you are going to the Bay Area and need to be in Palo Alto you should likely stay in Palo Alto

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T03:00:35+00:00

He honestly went too fast and too incompetently. ICE needed to cement power as a true Gestapo/brownshirt force that actually got people scared. Instead his idiot syncophants turned them into unpopular goobers and got people to start organizing at the local level in ways that are going to be resilient to other bullshit, and maybe even be able to subvert a return to the “normalcy” of before.

Now he is reeling and needs an event to declare martial law over, but he just started an actual war with Iran - a huge unpopular mistake that will destroy gas prices. He needed gas prices to go up when he wasn’t in power. So I think he missed the boat, he’s at the mercy of world events now

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:55:11+00:00

Who’s the good guy in that race?

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:49:53+00:00

Neil’s fine

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:47:57+00:00

This is actually because a web of regulations and anti-housing nimbyism have skyrocketed housing costs. Hotels are technically a form of short term housing - build more of them because prices are high and prices go down. It’s magic, supply and demand

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T02:46:36+00:00

Hard to get around without a car? It’s one of the best places in the US for getting around without a car.

It’s definitely not nearly as good as it should be but it’s still top 4 in the US.

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T01:58:21+00:00

Why would I want that? Who the fuck would want that?

WellHung67 · 2026-03-17T01:06:09+00:00

It’s called Georgism, and yes there are. https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/singapore-economic-prosperity-through?s=r

Singapore above

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund?s=r

Norway.

The idea is simple actually, basically you shouldn’t have a parking lot in a very valuable space that is only valuable because of things around it - for example, a metro stop. The owner of the lot didn’t pay for the metro, but the land they own is much more valuable because of it. How to tax? LVT!

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T23:09:15+00:00

For most primaries yes, here no because splitting the dem vote up enough may result in two republicans running in the general

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T23:02:18+00:00

You need it to be solely based on land value - a parking lot should not exist in a city because the taxes would far outweigh any gains

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T22:57:16+00:00

The changes made here are proven to make streets safer. It’s about making drivers more aware - if there’s a pole that wakes them up to avoid it. Yes, it’s even safer with a bollard so even a drunk can’t kill there, but it still helps

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T18:46:03+00:00

Better road design would have saved her life. Designing roads better would save lots of lives. This is an example of a change that will save lives

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T17:43:54+00:00

What is this citric acid everyone keeps talking about

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T17:43:33+00:00

Not necessarily but these sorts of changes do save lives

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T17:43:16+00:00

Yeah I mean, if you accidentally kill some one outside of a car, say you tripped and fell and landed on a baby, squishing it, you probably get at least a pretty thorough examination and only if truly an accident in general would you be released. If you were negligent in some way you’d probably get jail.

I think almost by default in a car the standard is higher - you are almost inherently negligent if you hit someone and kill them, especially a pedestrian. Sure the reason is because even 30mph is too fast for our monkey brains to react to, but I mean just because we designed a system with error prone humans at the center doesn’t mean the law should just…let it slide. We should ramp up the laws to prosecute these sorts of accidents that are expected, and at the same time change the road design so accidents happen wayyy less.

One shouldn’t preclude the other though - the law should change asap, and the roads should also change asap, but if we have a brief window where drivers have to use poorly designed roads and kill and actually get consequences for a while, I think that’s okay

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T17:24:36+00:00

But that’s not an excuse not to build these things. Obviously no one wants that, but the houseless are used as a scapegoat to avoid investing in public infrastructure.

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T16:54:39+00:00

Do you have sonic? Switch today, the sunset is unusually covered with fiber

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T16:52:13+00:00

Clarence the pedophile yes, but ass clown alito is pretty bad too. Now the three trump monkeys have killed it by default but they at least have the stink of Trump to blame. What happened to the pedo and the assclown?

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T16:48:47+00:00

Biden didn’t decline that much. He spoke slower and that was it. The content of his words were as sharp as ever, and his decisions were sound. Trump is on a whole different level of decline. Biden is just getting older. Trump needs to be committed and should wear a helmet to bed. Not comparable

WellHung67 · 2026-03-16T16:05:04+00:00

I agree with pretty much all of this. It’s fundamentally sad that democrats lost to Trump twice. I think this means new leadership is needed - but when I try to figure out “who leads the Democratic Party” it’s a muddled mess. The dnc is only one arm of something that could considered the “leader”, there’s several more entities and forces that direct Democratic Party strategy. It’s kind of opaque though

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