10% seems like a massive undercount considering how long the israelis have been doing everything they can to kill every single man woman and child in the strip.
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10% seems like a massive undercount considering how long the israelis have been doing everything they can to kill every single man woman and child in the strip.
So the techy people assume the only way to actually solve stuff is conservative jackboots since the apparent left answers to the problems aren't working. Despite the real problem being due to nimby do nothingism.
Unironically the failings of the Californian/bay area governments to get a handle on housing prices and their downstream effects has turned a lot of techy folks into skull crackers because the vibes are bad and the bay area governments prefer virtue signaling to actually doing anything.
Its just the nature of the beast. I trust his number work near entirely though his root causing of those numbers can sometimes be a point of contention. Really, the traits that make his numbers and quant analysis are the ones that give him some blindspots to the historical nature of events were in.
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
Chucky being related to a possible historic coverup would be perhaps the single funniest thing in existence. So it has to be true.
Not a comic book guy, but didn't the whole arc end up with "le based holesum chungus" muntant entity fissling out like every ancap experiment? Like they all ended up back working as wagies at fuddruckers? Seems like a big L to me.
This is why I'm always so pessimistic about security professionals assumptions about what systems work. The entropic mediocrity will hit everything, so security always end up so onerous while only partially working. Just like you guys deal with dumb users that can never secure anything.
It's been a bitter pill to swallow that being a freak in one way just means you are just predilected to turning into a political freak. Like having the thermostat insanely high should not make you 200% more likely to become a nazi but the proof is in the pudding. Go figure.
Dead? Downgrade? No offense? Folks that sounds like the Texas Longhorns
Nah that would be zig or rust.
Kelce's career is a bit wierd because he's a top 10/5 all time tight end, but he's been in partly the shadow of Gronk who was probably the abject peak of Tight End play on a purely transcendent level. Its been only in the past 3 years that Kelce has created a resume to match Gronks.
Good run! Genuinely I think there needs to be more railroading to force the winner of equstria and griffonian to come to blows, its a fun clash of the titans situation. I do hope the zebra guys get a continental unifier that can oppose the major factions of the other continents.
I'm unironically convinced that niche pornography generation whether its textual or imagery is the only genai thing thats actually profitable in the long term.
I'm relatively happy if AI slop goes out of the hand of the consumer and returns to the hobbyists hands. Less social damage that way.
Its the germans fault for consorting with the enemy tbh this is just just desserts.
I remember reading that Schmidt's drones actually work and fill a use case that has a lot of value for "ai" terminal guidance. Though his stuff is the exception that proves the rule that most of this ai drone shit is a grift.
Its even worse because all those greek/roman figures that spent all that time screaming about how the weakness of men was the downfall of their civilizations were actually fucking right. It is really weak men that are the downfall of civilization, go fucking figure.
It's probably always been this bad, its just we never noticed. We never had every dipshits opinion beamed into our heads and the dipshits could never validate each other. Maybe, mass education has never been that effective and it's only papered over the peasant mentality that still runs rampant
Genuinely we need to start hammering those both high and low who engage in the grift economy. We need to send a few millionaires and billionaires to prison. But, we'll also need to expend a lot of diplomatic capital/military might on stopping the international scammers.
It follows the platonic ideal of hoi gameplay which is fight blob consolidate fight blob consolidate. Every victory increasing both the scope of enemies and your own power.
Does Taylor get to do the Tomahawk Chop or is that problematic???
Funny how Corbyn would've been better for the health of labor because he would've just lost and the tories would've just kept on doing nothing. But Starmer won the driver seat of the bus just so he can pull everyone off a cliff at the same time. It's fascinating in fucked up way
It's funny in grim way how much wisdom has flipped on high turnout in elections. In retrospect it makes perfect sense why Australia has had all its conservative governments turn it into an extraction economy.
If we're talking crank gender essentialism theories the easiest one to base a grift off of is the true fact that males tend to express genes a lot more unstably since they only have a single x chromosome so they get more wacky mutants in both good and bad directions.
I just want to get to primary season so I can start see the cowards realize they backed the wrong fucking horse.
They just so desperately need warm bodies and trigger pullers. Like, we are seeing politics lose this war because they need to start snapping up everyone that can pull a trigger and getting them on the line.
He's just right. Todays shlocky mid-level sci-fi is just better for a new reader than the canon. I geniunely think people only recommend canon books because they're doing unironic virtue signaling and they've mind gamed themselves into it being good for a new reader.
100% Agree, I think it's better to let people read contemporary works before really trying to inundated them with canon and classics. You can only really appreciate them when you have enough perspective of what regular works are like.
If we had to make every single senator a billionaire to get good public heathcare options and cost controlling into effect you would take that deal in an instant. Doing the right thing harder isn't an answer to a problem it's just a hope and a prayer.
That's also why we saw the highest volume of good progressive policy when you could also grift off that policy. Its just that now it's harder for progressive leaders to grift and help others grift off of good policy so we just do cohort level grifts which aren't as effective.
I don't think we can just educate our way out of this alone since that requires people to be willing and able to accept the teachings. We need new ways to make people accept mental black boxes that encompass the world. New propoganda, new information control, new societal pressures, new mechanisms.
If we've learned anything its foolishness to expect motivated smart people to hold enough knowledge and have a good enough mental model of the world to deal with all its complexities, so how the fuck do we get apathetic bottom quartile dipshits to do so? Especially when cognitohazards are rampant
Allowing the miasma of dixie to spread and infect the entirity of rural america has to be as the last great victory of the southern aristocracy. Car urbanism of the south allowed the cancer to heal and expand across the highways of America.
9/11 will go down as the single most destructive act since Ferdinand got capped. The sequence of events where Tony Blair is able to control the government for a decade is leagues better than the one where he got tossed due to iraq.
The covid hiring bubble and ai mania is gonna play hell with the job market. The jobs exist at the moment, its just getting new grads into them and making sure the new grads don't suck is hard. Especially with resume based hiring just utterly breaking down.
I do understand why so many thinkers went insane in their attempts to reason with the "weakness" they saw in people. Seeing so many people get easily led astray by the lying linear algebra machine has been like learning what you thought was a robust oak tree was instead an inflatable plastic fake.
Even the push of AI won't get me to pretend Luddites are just marvel movie hero misunderstood wholesome chungus bois. They were assmad rentierists who wanted the gravy train to continue irregardless of anyone else. I doubt anyone will shed a tear when the petro states eventually go belly up.
Is this from that debunked NYT piece that was basically trump admin FUD?
I feel like it'd be eaiser to trust labor as a partner going forward if its leaders didn't always try to sell everyone down the river at nearly every opportunity it would benefit themselves solely.
Until you can break the baseline cultural association that "chemicals" are dangerous pollutants and not marvels/wonders of science. Imo one reason so many people seem just primed to accept anti-vax rhetoric is they've been culturally primed to see chemicals as bad from media and all the dupont shit
If anything bringing up ww2 proves the point more, the wars allowed states to build huge administrative organs to funnel manpower, material, and brainpower into state run militaries and war economies. State capacity was at its very strongest in the post war era. Thats why it was so easy for them!
A geniune shovel to the face as I just got into the office.
Yeah but like I want a real movie not one from the twist master himself. Who wants that shit
We could probably fix a good portion of the internet by just making companies liable for whatever content a personalized algorithm serves. The liability cutouts only really made sense when the serving platform didn't play an active role in curating what's presented.
Which inevitably leads to more humans dieing to each others hands versus the invaders. Just go full 1800s on this shit.
I just want someone to have the balls to do a war of the worlds movie where the ayyliens roll up with Orson Wells Tripods versus modern day forces and just get fucking dumpstered. Turns out the war against the aliens is a fake out and the real conflict is how the great powers of earth divide up mars
More dead civilians as the states would have turned towards a less developed by still dangerous level of strategic bombing. Plus with all the combatants having much more time to stock up artillery and material.. shit would have been grim.
To some extent europe is probably lucky ww1 happened sooner rather than later. Simply due to the fact that if ww1 had broken out in the 20s or 30s, the level of overall devastation would be magnitudes worse than probably ww2. Empires with the ww1 resiliency and capacity plus ww2 makes for a lot 1/?
Nearly all the pre ww1 empires sans AustriaHungary were leagues more resilient than any of the ww2 incarnations besides the US. The level of state capacity needed for the Russians and Germans to slam the million plus armiea into each other at Tanneberg puts Barbarossa to shame.
Nazi germany is so fucking lucky they got to aura farm post ww1 france and post great purge red army. Nearly every other fucking adventure turned into a debacle that they were only able to push through due to greater mass. Its still hard to keep in mind how big a fucking hole ww1 blew in their demos
Iirc when the 50 bajillion mile convoy got stuck it was partly due to elite infantey guys with javelins and some drones doing a bunch of hit and run raid. What turned away the russians was massed artillery, but I do think drones slowed them down to some extent. Idk, this is still drone fuud
Nothing will top my greatest work of getting my PM to start using the Tojo quote "The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly" next I need to see if I can get it into a big presentation.
My highs are very high but my lows are very low. So it all balances out to above average mediocrity. Truly the blessed spot to be. I can geniunely approach every problem as if it'll be a genius moment and sometimes it is.
Its not the stupidest idea, its just one where the specifics matter and this admin makes one skeptical. But, getting nuclear power to work in space is something we should work out eventually and the moon is a place where mistakes won't be too messy.
Its that good its worth it, so give it a pass lol.
Listen I know everyone's having a grand Ole time feeling really smug about how dumb everyone else is and how smart they are, but this is a decent idea. It'll depend on specifics, but testing the first space capable reactor on the moon makes sense.
A "get sued by shareholders in 3 years" stage of capitalism
You have to constantly pour a firehose of "freedom ain't free" propoganda down kids throats. The greatest virtue in life is the ability to choose the worst sin is giving up owns right to choose. Because otherwise the idea of having someone handle hard choices is too seductive.
Drebin is a good choice as always. And fitgirl packs would also make sense to me
Iirc poobix is one of the old "neolibs" before the sub/term has been taken over by the new generation of generic lib
Going to start my Cato the Elder arc by ending every text message "and I think Merrick Garland should never know a day of peace for the rest of his life"
To add on if your answer to this potential problem is for people to be better, then thats a bullshit answer. Being better is a solution to a problem its a hope. Structural solutions are needed to solve it because otherwise bad things will happen.
The russian army is a modern equivalent of what Churchill said the royal navy was, just immense amounts of assfucking occurring. Every russian analogy is about ass fucking, the entire thing is a buggery machine on wheels. So I'm not shocked its turning into a disaster.
This is the single most horrific post you've made in a while good job
Also Exofighters make contesting the ayys in space earlier a lot eaiser, you geniunely should be trying to nuke swarm every single assault carrier with missle monitors and exofighters.
It’s been so long I forget the details but IIRC, the Protectorate (think Vichy but with alien invasion instead of WW2) were actually scarier than the doomsday cult because you can see how each decision seemed logical in a vacuum given the information they had slowly snowballing into a road to hell.
The servants to pop up. Its geniunely hilarious how the super quislings quisling so hard they get a better ending than the reasonable quislings.
The buried lede is that they used to not be able to Pherocyte resistance and had a guy who was very obviously a hydra brought into the org. Considering their UN founding it makes sense they were the inital UN response to the crash that got nerd sniped by the Hydra. Its just the Hydra never expected
You gotta dress it up, call it some shit like parasocial identity grouping heuristic or some shit.
Genuinely something I'm writing except its right before space ww1 and earth is more akin to space japan/ethopia just with more luck and less imperial furvor
Or Bird France, really either of the republican bird countries are fun playthroughs.
Play bird sun yat-sen, equestria is a meme country.
There's no fucking universe where you can take your historical degree and say with a straight fucking face that cooking for oneself is a mirage. The vast majority of all people ever have been smallholding peasants. They didn't eat out they weren't even paid in cash. Get real.
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If there was any justice in the world Merrick Garlands name will be dammed by him abetting a man whose actions will kill literal fucking millions. I hope he spends the rest of his life miserable for his failure.
Quite literally the height of imagining a guy and then getting mad at that guy is a true Bluesky classic.
I have a date with a woman from Hinge tomorrow. We’ve been getting to know each other over text the last few days. I made the grievous mistake of telling her about my account on Bluesky and now she’s on a mission to find me. Pray for me.
Woke 1 would've probably survived as an ideological project if there isn't a pandemic that forces everyone to interact on the internet for a few months minimum. The pandemic dealt the death blow to it because it made everyone a bit less normal and forced everyone to listen to online opinions.
This causes the historian in me to be rather conflicted. On the one hand you can always just do the right thing. And yet we are all victims to the context that came before us. Up until oct 7th all of that context created a situation where just doing the right thing was very hard to do.
Living at that metro stop has to be considered a cognitohazard because it gets you into train watching. Have you seen all the wack MARC livery yet?
I've been looking at voice models for narrating stuff that isn't popular enough to get adoptions. How good are the voice models at making longform stuff listenable.
I've seen the future, this is going to result in Obama winning a third term in 2028. Thus making tan suits and Dijon mustard mandatory nationwide.
Its not great that people will always hate a coverup more than the actual crime just because it triggers the lizard brain part of the emotion center.
Pam Bondi giving dems the "but what about her emails" moment that they'll ride into recapturing the dipshit voting block will go down as the one of the funniest unforced errors of all time.
"You killed my sensei, so I studied and carry the sharpest of blades. And I will not till clan Takeda is destroyed" Bro you work in an offoce building. YOU WORK IN OFFICE BUILDING
Its fucked how big an advantage it is to fall into the "default" categories of human existence. I don't have to justify shit. Otherwise, you need to justify everything for your story. So we end up with people sounding like stock-samurai in a shittu ninja movie from the 80s.
A genuine gag order on the media talking about immigration and banning it from social media would make it vanish as an issue from the mind of the voter.
Unironically just getting to propagandize staffers into making their bosses not be such pansies is as righteous a way to spend money as any. Plus it'll drive the conspiracy nuts absolutely feral
Hyper-efficent financial instruments have mostly effected a massive shedding of wage labor inefficiencies all the while increasing the value of already having capital a ton. Combined with life expectancy increases and care costs means inheritance gets burned fast. Few nest eggs are getting inherited
Probably the small pox vaccine, potatoes, optical telegraphs, 17th century ship construction techniques/design, blast furnaces/principles behind precision machinery, really any of these would have a huge impact though I think the ship building would be the most impactful
It truly is a miracle the ntsb and other safety orgs in this country have been able to maintain a focus on systemic flaws instead of always looking for scapegoats. Just screaming for heads to roll doesn't work when it comes to ensuring safety.
I think we'll only see a meaningful shift if ukr can get an overmatch of organic tactical fires and of rear echelon fires. Being able to constrain these small squad attacks is by choking them at their jumpoff points and increasing local capabilities to shatter them at the squad level so motars/air
Our problem with the internet of now is that we have learned good portion, if not all to some extent, people are incapable of filtering hostile information. And until "true ai" curation services exist, I'm not sure of a way to allow the current low barriers to information transfer that isnt toxic
