Tinker Tailor Soldier Gary
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Not my words, Tom. I believe people were given "public health guidance" and made their own damn decisions. Our disconnect is on the cost-benefit analysis of: "I might get sick from this, but it's a cause worth getting sick for."
I think the fundamental disconnect here is the purpose of the Event itself. In case 1 (Sturgis), the Event is to "have fun w/ friends". The public health warning is simply the "cost" of that fun. In case 2 (death by cop), the Event is a protest against a system that is ALREADY causing death.
Might as well make 1984 a verb at this point.
Newsom/Bass have been using the "we got this strategy" of local law enforcement all summer. It's absolutely a "show of force" of a different type.
Honestly, it looks very similar to many tech company reorgs after acquisition, where new leadership talks about creating the previously existing thing they just disassembled.
May I suggest a shorter version: don't use any lingo. Lingo is by definition exclusive and needs to be explained as you go. May I also suggest: "speak plainly" instead of "normal" as normal is relative.
Yes, because they don't focus on semantics, but brute force repetition.
Accepts the framing, which is the first and last mistake made in an any debate with bad faith individuals.
To every empathetic person, "you are not malformed."
"self-justifying" is the perfect term for it. YOU don't want to leave/give something up. (an end) So, YOU create a justification that gives your staying righteousness. (the mean)
We were all too polite at Thanksgiving for too long.
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amazing! thank you for this.
There will soon be a thriving wellness industry built entirely around recovering from maniac episodes instigated by AI obsessions.
The quotes are not random. They're brand signifiers. Always remember the game Trump is playing. It's always branding, always advertisement, always appearance over substance, always spectacle over reality.
Irony, drunk off its ass, screaming "see... it's a penis metaphor..."
One of my favorite adaptions from book to movie is Fellowship, as they condense so much material in an efficient and logical way. Do we need to see Frodo hanging around for a year while Gandalf is off doing shit? Is it just gonna keep cutting back to him on the couch? Then on the can, and so on.
Habitual line stepping.
Blegh... looks like a foundation for multiple sclerosis. Also, late on the "now" branding by almost a decade. If someone wanted to kill this channel through generic branding, this is A+ work.
And his rhetoric is based on always assuming an ulterior motive exists. He'd accuse Leslie Knope of being up to something.
There's a direct casual connection between this and the guy saying "liberals already ruined it." Mass hysteria riding a media vector, and now self perpetuating.
When asked: "Do I have to answer to you?" Answer: "Yes, mother fucker, that's how America works."
"up a cliff face"... they're like 8 feet off the ground.
tbf... "bork" is fun to say and was destined to be used as a verb.
Sometimes it feels like Trump's Rosebud was doing something nice as a kid and no one said 'thank you' and now the rest of his life is an empty void that needs to be filled with a million forced thank yous.
kinda like this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W34...
"data guru" = not an actual mathematician or real scientist of any type, and all information provided is for the sake of entertainment purpose only.
100% with you. Trump is always looking for pretext to do the things he wants to do any way. I.e. he wants to control DC with the military. Big Balls getting beat up provided that pretext. Is it also convenient that it might distract? Sure. But that's just an added benefit.
Correct. Meaning if Trump starts rounding up homeless people— calling this a “distraction” gives permission to ignore the suffering. And giving permission to ignore when the least of us is brutalized opens this up to happen to more of us. Self-induced paralysis.
It's even smaller when you think about it... he's measuring GOOGLE SEARCHES after people saw it on the news. There's no measurement for "I know already, tell me when something new happens." Which, of course, would be the actually intended function of news.
Going further, it's a measurement of "new interest", so the information provided is very limited. BUT the TV Stats Guy needs to make his number SEEM important. The only value here is news that measures itself for how newsy it is.
Jeeezzzuss christ... treating news like a movie's performance at the box office.
I don't want to "use rich people" like you, I want you to pay your f'ing taxes.
Appreciate the league is in on making the Nuggets/Wolves a true rivalry.
"social media is not real life" except when the people in charge have fried social media brains and decide to make it real.
Amazing article featuring a psychopathy that's perhaps on its 3rd generation. Pranks as activism against a "toxic" environment, wherein the toxicity is disproportionate influencer value, and the environment is crypto. They have a sense of self righteousness.
A sort of pro quo for a quid situation.
BREAKING: Convicted perjurer says what lawyer with conflict of interest wants to hear in order to be moved to a better prison.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness
If you don't think the same thing will happen for "educational materials", I don't know what to tell you.
Go look at AI summaries. Here's IMDB's wonderfully useless AI Review Summary of Anora.
"My client stated they could drive themselves, but he didn't say whether they could drive well, or whether you should let them."
Interesting. Have you read Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's work on Flow? Specifically how level of challenge in engagement is necessary for flow? Social media would appear to be both low challenge engagement but also lacking in the ability to create tangible feedback loops.
Heath Ledger's Joker was the most correct Joker. "Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan'... even if the plan is horrifying."
Cool... so... will cost more and provide less.
lol "...after countless exaggeration, the cries of the wolf are actually true." So... what you're saying is multiple boys cried wolf, were eaten; but you didn't believe them, so it was really annoying when they cried again; and now, 'hey everybody, be cool... apparently there ARE wolves. My bad.'
What irks me, and I’m willing to admit to being a nerdy exception, is that all these people doing ‘game theory’ suck at it. Like, the whole point of conditional probability is that it changes with new information. Sigh…
Too soon to tell, but probably yes.
Had to get that tax cut first. Now that the useful idiot has served his purpose, Murdoch and friends can go scorched earth.
One of the continued cost inefficiencies of supposed time-saving technologies is the amount of double work required to see if the job was done right.
Is it considered an accomplishment to violate the constitution?
Instead of hating mushrooms, I think you might want to try some.
Match up question for you: against OKC, who does Cam guard? MPJ squared off with Chet, which made sense for both teams. Do you hope Cam can hold up in that matchup or do you put him on J-Dub?
You forgot to carry the elevendy.
😆😅😂😭😩😔
"Naturally, that didn’t stop the Pentagon from handing xAI a $200 million contract to use Grok, I guess to figure out the most racist possible names for Navy ships." Perfect joke, no notes.
Is there a law that states something akin to: you can't have a foundational breakthrough on an abstraction layer?
Semiotically, it is a "hollow" symbol, like a hermit crab shell. The figure is ubiquitous and exchangeable, but any meaning can be inserted to fulfill a belief.
Yeah, it's almost as if it is impossible to debate the people who say they want to debate, because they don't use or obey the rules of actual structured debate.
So afraid of paying 10 million in taxes that they'll pay 20 million to stop it from happening.
Imagine teaching a parrot to say something, anything, and then releasing it into a flock of parrots. Soon, you'll have a whole pandemonium repeating what you taught that first parrot.
LLMs are recursion machines. Only takes one parrot to spread Nazi (or any other bullshit) through the system.
I really hope this shines a light that this isn't a bug, but a feature. Of course it is going to keep doubling down. It's a mimic reinforcement machine. The more people prompt it, the further it will go down this rabbit hole.
Hahaha, the recursion is going great.
I refuse to use that hell site, has anyone asked grok if it is a milkshake duck yet?
We gotta find Fred's lost contact lens!
ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic. They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6. Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.
I love to change perspective— over here, and then back— with some big dash action.
I don’t know where to share this, but across town Griffith Park is empty. And I mean empty.
Fascism is satire done literally
Propaganda pornography.
Brother, one small note... why are you even accepting the framing of "it's one thing to steal one kid's lunch money"? Is it some cultural infection that you must, in every circumstance, offer some "meet in the middle" platitude? Must you always display your Britta-ness?
IRL “not like that!“ exchange.
Simultaneously a great joke and a worthwhile idea.
History should be a dialogue, not live in the abstract, because when it does, we are already dead.
For fucks sake...
Would definitely want a more mobile big, cause Big Val could be played off in certain lineups. Nance would be great.
How are you defining “necessary”? Seems like a potential loophole to exploit.
True. But let's keep dreaming of a Zeke trade anyway.
They can also still do a S&T since they are already capped at the 1st apron. Make another boys!
Yeah Mike!
Guess we're all gonna need to get some Scanner Darkly protection.
lmao
Small note: Cam is good from the corners at 43% but not quite Mike's 50%.
Brother, you really need to do more research. Specifically around American R&D funding for scientists who are very much NOT motivated by money (hint: Einstein). You might also take a side quest to research how Amazon's no tax advantage devastated brick and mortar businesses.
All I know is that I love him, and hope Superman finds him his forever home.
There's a clear A/B test with Tim Walz too. People were drawn to how authentic he was (A) and then there was whatever the consultants coached him to be in the VP debate (B).
The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported. In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
And I wanted to ask him if dinosaurs existed. Guess I'll never know...
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
This is the "bloodless coup" in the form of administrative change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqE...
Downright dastardly that they put them on different networks
Oh I agree. The Bush admin at least made the effort to create a credible belief in WMDs, and Rumsfeld was considered charming in his regular press briefings. The outward antagonism that Vance/Rubio showed this morning would have actually been shocking in 2003.
There were known knowns and such.
