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I didn't mention any moral superiority at all, but if you are right that I am using a shibboleth, it is sorting those who agree with the International Association of Genocide Scholars from those who agree with the author of The Death of Expertise: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Is the Guardian also guilty of cherry picking experts?: bsky.app/profile/theg...
I am aware that Tom is an expert qualified to comment on whether or not they constitute war crimes. I am also aware that a lot of people with milsec backgrounds see only war crimes where people with genocide and ethnic cleansing backgrounds see genocide.
I will be sure to let Omer Bartov know that his accusations of genocide are due to antisemitism just like mine must be
Sure seems like Tom here is disagreeing with... experts:
the classic snl skit about breeding small camels and making giant needles was really just the continuation of a time-honored tradition
they ruled and their drummer was phenomenal
zao forever
if only one individual will ever use it, in what way is it "received by the us government"?
there is, *ahem* no topping this
that is why she prayed for this... this was her only chance at fame
to be fair, a matte finish on a car is actually rather eye-catching these days
i don't know how anyone could be expected to bother telling this story, though, when neither one of them are a skywalker or a palpatine
he was only working off joseph campbell for the re-releases (han shot first!)
pope daft i
applying for jobs again
the most powerful man in the world, with one of two us political parties completely in his thrall, majorities in both houses of congress, and clear dreams of autocracy, has the temerity to tell his opposition "you're not the rebellion--you're the empire"
Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
Only one of these two members of Congress below have been censured by Congress for alleged bigotry. Guess which one?
yeah, machine translation can perform some functions just fine, but overall they are not close to replacing human translators outside of a few very basic rote translation tasks
llms/ai
it is actually dogshit at translation, fyi
One cool thing about America is this person swooping in with an absolutely flawless $355k MSFT option order at 3:57pm Wednesday, right before market close and earnings, earning a nice ≈$1.2m profit overnight. It'll never be investigated. Congrats to them. 🤷♂️ Data from @unusualwhales.bsky.social
many such cases lately
looking forward to the "many of his actions are legal" protest signs
i wonder what ron vara thinks of this
they imagine a pure farm to table age but if they turn back the clock what they will get is perpetual stew
it was also meant to call him out for not understanding the upper class fashion he was trying to emulate (i.e., one feather does not a macaroni wig make)
and the document screenshotted does not appear, imo, to be saying what is claimed, but rather seems to be reiterating that there will be no de minimis exemption for goods from china and hong kong as of 2 may: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
yeah, i saw this after, but still not seeing the return of de minimis exemptions reported anywhere else
big news for my business that makes bumper stickers which say 'the left lane is not a right'
every last one of these people think they are God's specialest boy
it would be, but i haven't seen bringing back de minimis reported elsewhere and the dhl release is *not* about de minimis exemptions (<$800) but about expedited customs clearance (informal entry) for the next tier of shipment values ($800-2,500).
which one, draco guilfoyle?
Hey everyone I found the antisemites
i have always said that it is a fantastic concept executed very poorly
pairs nicely with "dad gummit!"
batfish
fedsoc group chat must be absolutely wild rn
right? freedom in a place like manhattan is the glory of public transit. you do not have to worry about parking your car or traffic, just hop on and go anywhere you like for less than three dollars
oh and also the stuff you can buy will be crappier
they knew that no one else could serve both God and mammon, but they truly thought they were built different
"Conservatives should consider a counterfactual. Should the federal government be able to withhold all federal funding from a private Christian college (including, say, tuition dollars from the G.I. Bill or Pell Grants) unless it hires more Muslim faculty or admits more atheist students?"
an underrated factor in the ai debate is that the people saying ai is unreliable and a problem all seem very smart and the people saying it will revolutionize the world are by and large the people who said the same thing about being able to use more than one slurp juice on a single ape
but also worth noting that that 17% is inclusive of livestock and feed grains, which are hugely domestic. that doesn't mean only 17% of *groceries* will be subject to tariffs. (e.g., the share of fresh produce imported is closer to 40%)
and because so few of the use cases are at all earth-shattering. oh, you spend millions of dollars and devoured the library of alexandria and can now help me polish up an email? neat.
this is an all timer of a line
in the future we will look back fondly on the times when goods were available. then we will have only bads.
the national average teacher salary, according to the nea, is $69,597 (www.nea.org/resource-lib...) the national average wage index from the social security administration is $66,621.80 (www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AW...)
the most charitable read on this that you could possibly make is that the president of the united states is grifting money off of shitposting to trigger the libs rather than actively trying to disregard the constitution to stay in power forever but it is definitely one of those two things
autistic people do not lack a theory of mind but the people who keep talking themselves into believing that a predictive text generator is sentient sure aren't beating those allegations
they think he can just put the mask back on and those meddling kids will forget all about who he really is
The first autism diagnosis was in 1943. ADHD traits were first spotted in 1798. The first medical treatment for ADHD was in 1937. His grandfather lobotomized his aunt, Rosemary, for showing neurodivergent traits in 1941. He was born in 1954. He’s a grifter, a liar, and most importantly a eugenicist
it is so bizarre that it makes me wonder if perhaps it is something that generative ai might miss or overlook
maybe they mean the veneer of discipline they have been trying desperately and repeatedly to apply
everyone is out here making the same tired old jokes today meanwhile here you are playing three dimensional chess
you could write a whole list of these: "i am nominating washington outsiders to run our government" "oh, good, let's shake things up" "now hhs thinks your phone gave you aids and that we have to kill our children with measles because otherwise they think they might end up autistic" "wait--"
just give it time, he'll get there
if you are a freelancer, or even just do not belong to a union, this can be a very good way to dry up your income stream
samuel alito:
today must be "joe rogan under-researched a topic" day
Remember how Musk withheld use of Starlink by US troops in Taiwan, and how he blocked Ukraine from using it in Crimea in a crucial battle defending itself against Russia's invasion? Just saying.
we are already in secret police territory
this is 100% correct. it is not innovation; it is merely wealth extraction.
they are just taking a hammer to everything good about this country
they have made facebook absolutely unusable because it is a firehose spraying sewage at you, but their plan to juice engagement is... making you see less of the stuff/people that you came there to see in the first place?
the only baseball these people have ever watched was the savannah bananas
"law must be moderated by the virtues" says guy advocating that 'innocent until proven guilty' simply does not apply to anyone he wants to ship to a foreign gulag
there might not be any fanbase on earth with less realistic expectations of their baseball stars
the course is already put together meaning the only cost from here is the pennies for hosting but they looked at that and then realized that they could just make disabled people die instead
As a senior festival and event operations volunteer who works on the public safety side, we depend on these free online FEMA ICS courses to teach others how to manage emergent human operations at scale. This deleted course was literally on the syllabus of a safety summit I’m attending next weekend.
among his (many) other sins, marco rubio appears to be misunderstanding the point of easter as compared to the feast of Christ the King.
i would like to personally challenge the nyt headline writers to write a headline that is not absolute dogshit
you could call it the continental/congress
they are just asking, "what if we had to reinvent the wheel every year?"
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
throw literally everything at the wall. dress up in revolutionary war-era garb and decry "mad king donald" from the house floor i do not care. there are no bad ideas
is it just me or does this have real "i did not read the fourth circuit opinion before posting this" vibes?
i shudder to think of what the interior styling will look like after he has gotten his hands on it (side note: what do we call trump's style? loco rococo? mauvais arts?)
telling all my normie friends that the admin was not in fact granted a writ of mandamus
Whew, this conclusion from the Fourth Circuit: "We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
they’re doing that thing where a new coach discovers his NFL team has a ping-pong table in the locker room and orders it removed to build a winning culture focused on football and all the players resent it and he gets fired after 3 sub-.500 seasons, but for The Army
three guys per unit will be absolutely hyper moto about this and everyone else's response will range from mild pique to incandescent rage
he looks like he is about to take a ride on the polar express
I was assured this man was the defender of the Christian faith. 🤷♂️ www.wral.com/story/they-f...
I'm not the most avid Christian, but even I find the use of the cross as a prop when engaging in blatant falsehoods in the name of extraordinary cruelty to be offensive.
they made him punish, i think
the only way nothing matters is if the people keep insisting that nothing matters
they are slaves to a public opinion that exists only in their minds
his name has a pronoun in it
especially not when these demands conflict with like four other allrged aims the admin has articulated for the tariffs
also think it is worth bearing in mind that this is after literal years of a trans panic that has used sports as a focal point because anti-trans activists and their media sympathizers thought it might offer a toehold
they did (aluminum tariffs)
