Vance has openly sited Yarvin (well, "moldbug") before. See www.vox.com/policy-and-p... among others
Vance has openly sited Yarvin (well, "moldbug") before. See www.vox.com/policy-and-p... among others
Yglesias's whole turn to popularism always strikes me as odd. I liked some of the stuff he used to write for Slate/Vox (stuff like Ivies are bad and should be made public, there should be deliberate effort to fight segregation of public schools, YIMBYism etc), but they were decidedly unpopular!
What I wanna know is how many people he follows have called his mixed-race children "mongrels". I'm sure you could find some!
The fact that almost no Americans know anything about Vance or the positions he very publicly holds is yet another indictment of their utterly useless political news media
And the number of *doctors* (or, at least, people claiming to be) repeating that... fucking kill me now man
Oh my god the number of people literally saying "they either have it or they don't, 50/50 chance, therefore AI is worse than random". Why can't people think for two seconds, you really shouldn't need to have taken multiple stats courses to realize how that makes no sense
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Quebec is only underinvested in because of decades of govts saying "we don't want your kind here". Well, also corruption. Lots of corruption.
Canada would be doing better that's for sure. Although who knows how the election goes...
He is up for re-election next fall but honestly I have 0 hope this city will make a better choice
It was supposed to be replaced by YMX 50 years ago, but for, uh, reasons, that never happened
You completely misread what he said. He's defending Canada's tariffs on the US, not opposing them.
What? I was referring to en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ga.... Yes Israeli forces murder Palestinians with impunity, that's not what was being disputed here
There literally was a ceasefire in place by the end of Biden's administration too
It's only "unhackable" in the sense that it relies majority consensus to determine "truth" instead of a central "trusted" source. If someone (ie a hacker, billionaire, etc) controls a majority (however that's determined, it varies by implementation) then they can decide what the canonical chain is
So I've seen this meaning used (and it was deliberately how the term was used to describe the "Greek Dark Ages", a term that has also largely fallen out of use). This meaning is a later reappropriation of the term, though, as a response to the very criticism by historians seen here
Oh I've encountered it before too. Generally it's the less ideological people, though, more the insane conspiratorial ones who will tell you that everything you know is a lie and really NK is a paradise on earth that we're too wage-slave-brained to understand
You'd think a guy with a last name like Zlotow would be a little less open to supporting Russian imperialism
I have seen people argue with a straight face that genAI doesn't count as procgen because it isn't "procedural". Apparently using statistics in your algorithm makes it not count as a "procedure"
What do they do now? My university in 2019 did sections on lambda calculus, scheme, prolog, and then for some reason XSLT and AspectJ
The Curry-Howard correspondence or "proofs-as-programs" are other terms for this too
London ON does rather suck tho, so I feel him on that. It's still better than Windsor though (which itself manages to feel like an urbanist paradise compared to greater Detroit...)
I was pretty surprised when I found out Calgary's two light rail lines manage to beat almost every American city in terms of ridership, but it's true
Hope Carney makes an appearance too
Becuase it's crass commercialism 😤 (ignore the Timmy's with a drive thru across the street)
Beyond that it just seems like your average American culture war stuff. A Democrat said he was bad, therefore he must have been God's gift to mankind, etc
My understanding is that he was fairly marginal figure in the US until Italian-American groups started promoting him as a way of trying to fight anti-Italian sentiment in the 20th century. Columbus Day was made a holiday there after a bunch of Italians got lynched en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_Ne...
Keep that one official portrait he has taken down, though. That can be the sole remaining physical evidence of his existance
If anything, NYC was competing with Montreal, since the Lachine canal was finished in 1825 and would've allowed larger ships to access lake Ontario, and once the Welland Canal was finished, the rest of the great lakes
You know I would love to see any America isolationist ever recognize that the Barbary Wars were a thing
You say that, but the few times Americans have experienced a smidgen of universal healthcare, they're first response was to elect Republicans who promised to tear it all up. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont..., Massachusetts electing a Republican senator, etc
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
And will be every four months for the next year and half, at the very least
White House casino & hotel, coming soon
And the White House burned, burned, burned And we're the one's that did it! It burned, burned, burned While the president ran and cried
Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September. Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.
Andy Weir managed it! You just need to turn it into a best-selling book first 😉
This time it actually wasn't door dash, it was just NIMBYism - specifically that apartments without full kitchens should be banned and anyone who would live in one is a bad person for not cooking all their meals
Yeah, when I was 20 I spent 4 months interning at a place that provided 3 meals a day, 5 days a week. The place I was renting technically had a kitchen - split between me and my 4 roommates. Would've much preferred an SRO at the time
Meh that guy was just being a pretty typical NIMBY, "dorms should be illegal because I would never want to live in one" is a take worthy of derision imo
The only time I would ever give Ford even a modicum of respect would be if he went through with this. He won't tho
*-rf, oops
Honestly I'm surprised there haven't been more stories of people "vibe-coding" only for the LLM to run rm -rm /
Well he used to be pretty in line with the New Dem/Third Way people. And, like, he has literally been arguing for a carbon tax for years now. He seems to have dived well off the deep end recently, whether from Twitter brainrot or just contrarianism
Honestly surprised Rwanda hasn't proposed re-purposing the camps they were gonna build for the UK
... two weeks?
This would definitely already be a thing if it weren't for Japanese/Chinese censorship laws
Some very pointed satire. Replies are really not beating the "humorless wokescold" allegations though
Yeah none of what they're saying is applicable to Ontario/Quebec, which have suddenly been on fire consistently for the last three years. I never had to worry about forest fire ash effecting air quality, now it's an annual expectation
That describes basically the entire VC class tbh. At least the early ones, before the MBAs started taking over
Definitely gonna be a big gender divide there I think. I'd wager a lot of zoomer men have at least heard of Apocalypse Now, even if they've never seen it
I can't believe I have to fucking timestamp my charts now. Every time Trump changes the tariffs Oren Cass should be required to Venmo me $200 for his crimes against economics.
Nah the digital services tax was a new one, Carney announced we were dropping it a few weeks ago. The stuff about border security & fighting fentanyl trafficking was old tho
If I were forced out of Canada, would I go back to New York where my loyalist ancestors lived before the revolution, or would I get chopped into pieces and scattered across northwestern Europe 🤔
When the AI included passages about Kill the Boer and White Genocide in South Africa, it was just exposing hidden truths from the ancient Hebrew
The ESA also includes the UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Canada's an associate member - so that budget could probably go by another third.
1997 Albania comes for us all eventually
I don't think they're including Canada/Mexico in this round, but who knows. It's not like they've been logical or consistent before
Yeah. At least Iceland joined NATO and let's them operate a air force base there. Ireland doesn't even pretend
Really thought it was gonna say "We should try white." Maybe that seemed too on the nose even for him
Does wapo just not have editors anymore? Or did someone seriously read this and just nod along
Huxley remains the most prescient sci-fi author. Proof LSD really does let you see the future
I think the Moldovans are still hoping for a negotiated settlement over the region. I don't doubt that the Ukrainians would get involved if Moldova okay'd it
Well, what else if there to do out there besides fish?
Fwiw my mom does this regularly here in Canada. Pretty sure she orders straight from the supermarket tho, not instacart or whatever (I think some of them just contract out to instacart though)
Seems to be about $66k. It's a bit higher in NY state as a whole. That would suggest a minimum wage of about $20/hr
Next thing you know they'll be tearing it up and cementing the tunnel built for it 🙃
Or the Carney cabinet
I've got both sway and nixOS configs up on my github, it's my greatest sign to potential employers that I am unemployable
Given how many of them praised Orban going in and shutting down university departments (including some entire universities) over them not conforming to his ideology, yes, it's clear academic freedom is not what they actually care about
So a brief look at Wikipedia suggests NYC is about 36% foreign-born with London about 40%. Not sure how accurate that is, or how many are citizens, but I doubt it makes much difference.
bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ad sorry #smbc
Yeah, there's no way he was sober long enough for that
Does instant ramen count as processed garbage?
He's so awful, yet he's probably gonna get 60% again next year 😭
They are, yes - the Leamington area in particular. During COVID this became a major issue, as the bunkhouses they lived in were (1) very much not up to code and (2) COVID tore through them early on
I think a lot of Americans still view the settler-indigenous relations as though it was all Thanksgiving myths, and not like centuries of war raging across the continent
God what I wouldn't give to have Carney expel Hoekstra until Trump fires Hegseth
I know people who fought and have friends who died in Kandahar, because after 9/11, when the U.S. called, Canada answered.
My god, does he really think doubling down on Trumpiness *now* is gonna help him?
Yes, they poll a panel online. It's not a twitter poll or whatever
The most utterly banal ludditism and yet it has become some form of edgy gospel for far too much of the online left
Take aways from the Cdn defence announcement: Carney govt is seizing opportunities that should have been seized years ago, such as salary increases and topping up projects that were under funded (yay trucks!)
Looking up stuff from CK2 is how I found about the Khazar conspiracies to begin with personally
... do they not realize the Kurds are overwhelmingly Muslim?
It's one of many examples where what could've been a great game ended up on the cutting room floor
PEACE. ORDER. GOOD GOVERNMENT. HOPEFULLY THE STANLEY CUP ONCE IN A WHILE
Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs on nearly all steel & aluminum have been raised to 50%. That includes an increase in the tariffs on steel & aluminum content in derivatives, plus a new tariff on derivatives' non-metal content based on country-level tariffs
Does your definition of minority rights include, say, being able to marry those in out-groups? Because Israel doesn't allow that. Hell, even non-Halachic Jews can't marry Halachic ones
So if Fetterman ends up resigning, who's Shapiro going to appoint? Lamb?
ICE goons roleplaying Call of Duty while in front of a Mexican restaurant with a sign that says “Make Tacos not Walls”, as if the symbolism could get more on the nose
"Appalachian Naxals" would be a great punk band name
Yeah, IRV isn't a Condorcet system, so strategic voting is still necessary. Really I wish ranked-pairs would be used instead, but that's even more complex than IRV, and boy I wouldn't want to be the one explaining it to people
this is not a sensible way to run a country
high levels of supercommuting is a symptom of broken housing markets, AI can't fix bad zoning
Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada
In 2023 I was a weak linzite (presidential regimes are generally better than parliamentary regimes) By the end of 2024 I was a strong linzite (presidential systems are dangerously unstable) Now I’m a giga-linzite (presidential systems are autogolpe ticking timebombs. They are guaranteed to explode)