It's that French guy again.
It's that French guy again.
There are plenty of different ways to do elections. The important thing is that power be legitimately at risk in them.
Dangit I was hoping for nonfiction. I do not read novels, I know how that statement comes across but I just can't bring myself to care about fiction, I barely watch movies at this point.
Even if it were, the dictator is not immortal and will have to be replaced eventually. Without democracy, that job tends to go to the most ruthless psycho in the general vicinity. You can either be ruled by imbeciles or ruled by gangsters. I'll take the democracy please.
Like, we're taught from a young age that democracy is good but at no point is it ever actually explained.
What's the best book you've read recently?
Democracy is good but NOT because it tends to elect good leaders.
Bluesky has the juice and Twitter doesn't and it kiiiiillls them.
I hadn't read a book all the way through for years, then I picked up David Epstein's Range and housed it in one afternoon.
Engineers do not only not have theory of mind, you can't even explain it to them.
Price/sales is suuuch a bs ratio
Everything is good in Britain except the pizza
What they mean is "he's black". They did the same to Obama and Kamala.
Somewhere a postdoc just got a splitting headache and doesn't yet know why
Actually read the paper and attempt to follow the argument, when you give feedback make sure they didn't already do it, and try not to shoehorn your unrelated hobbyhorses into it.
Correct on all counts, no appetite for the truth these days unfortunately.
After the GOP threw Bloody Bill and his neocon buddies out, he went looking for new friends apparently.
There seems to be a pattern emerging, and quite a useful one: force Putin to choose between protecting his oil refineries or protecting his security service. The flamingo strike on FSB locations in Crimea was not about the hovercraft, it was about sending a message.
Also, racism is a part of a lot of cultures, so if you're highly multicultural, you're gonna be getting a lot of different forms of racism. The trick is getting them all pointed in different directions so they mostly cancel out.
They gave up christianity but kept all the theology. You can see the sticker labeled "capitalism" pasted onto the jar marked "original sin".
A big reason I moved to a foreign country is that here I can not fit in and have that be perfectly normal. People give immigrants way more slack to be strange than they do natives.
That's my home city!
Quadrupled in five years.
Two things can both be true: car dependency is a plague on civilization and the EV transition is an urgent practical and moral necessity.
Let the record show it was smartphones that necessitated autonomy, to protect society from the mental invalids created by them. Historians might otherwise get the causality backwards.
IIRC it's a seafaring map that preserves relative angles for the purposes of navigation? If you're not on a boat it probably isn't as useful but at sea you can't wayfind with landmarks.
Prison.
I don't think they're going to disappear, the most likely outcome is that they're going to stay exactly where they are.
I fully endorse a plan that would take every last ICE agent and stick them right on the border in the middle of the Arizona desert for six months in the summer.
Not sure how they're going to get to the EU, the political appetite for that sort of thing is nil anywhere.
Better than nothing innit
Nobody in Berlin thought this would reduce congestion. The A100 is a shitshow in the best of times, with recent vacation traffic and rail closures I'm sure it was a nightmare.
American pickups were not previously banned. They have been imported in very small numbers for a long time. They are indeed massively impractical and ruinously expensive to operate, they're about as common as Ferraris.
Are any Republicans offended at his dig at religion here?
Maybe he got covid again? Or just wants to feel that rush.
This is also the logic by which patriarchal cultures justify and excuse sexual violence: the perpetrator is blameless, it was the victim who was negligent in their efforts to prevent the crime.
This marginal analysis is one of my pet peeves and I never miss an opportunity to be annoying about it. ICE powertrains require all fossil infrastructure to be maintained in perpetuity, therefore the fossil footprint of an ICE car is infinite.
Wowwww
I still have no idea who theo von is or why he got popular and I refuse to find out.
Way fewer neonazis here.
Decades-old misapprehensions about clean energy have proven stubbornly ineradicable but, happily, have not done the slightest bit to stop us.
And there's basically only one "debate" they have in mind, which is "is racism correct?"
Reading the chart, Trump voters are just as far from the average as Harris voters. Yet your takeaway is "Harris voters are weird".
I cannot emphasize how much I have never heard of most of these people.
De minimis deserves it.
YESSS a wonderful case study for my students on the role of a grand jury to check government power.
Unit costs falling and absolute investment volumes rising = 🚀
If AI could suffer I would think its poetry would be better.
It's binary in the way the poles of a magnet are binary.
I have gotten into very big trouble with Brits when I point out their constitution does not exist.
The judiciary can actually put up a fight here if it cares to. We shall see if it cares to.
You can ignore the results of a non-binding referendum? Someone should tell David Cameron.
Mamdani is also authentically a very charismatic, likeable person. Charisma is the dark matter of politics, we can't say exactly what it is but it matters more than everything else put together.
As important as America is, Europeans do not seem to have very many actual Americans to consult about US political dynamics.
What's their ROIC?
Harsh but fair.
The conclusion of the trolley problem supports your point of view. You are tilting against an ignorant caricature.
Yes. You blew the proper presentation of the trolley problem. The twist is not to change the one person to kill, the twist is to change your mode of interaction with the system. People will throw a switch but they won't shove a person. Ergo, utilitarianism is untrue.
It is NOT about "who should you run over with a trolley".
I am once again begging everyone to take an intro to philosophy class and actually learn what the trolley problem is about. Short version: the trolley problem serves to demonstrate that human ethical judgments are not reduceable to any mathematical expression.
Good hunting.
GOP has no clue how amped 100% of dems are to throw bill clinton under the bus. Does anyone like him literally at all?
Turned on The Sum of All Fears from 2002 last night, fully expecting it to fall flat, and actually the degree to which it still holds up is frightening.
What about on a planet with low gravity and no atmosphere?
Epistemology is the most important class nobody ever takes.
Twitter is great fun as long as you're a card-carrying member of the Kool Kalipers Klub.
Dred Scott is alive and well.
I don't know how you get good faith engagement there, my feed was a nonstop flood of neonazis that multiplied faster than I could block them.
This looks more like an attempted burglary but they're dressed like cops so nobody will ever investigate.
The question I can never get a straight answer to is this: wasn't Brexit supposed to fix all this? "Take back control" etc? Now you're brexited and broke as fuck and nobody seems any happier about the immigration thing either.
Dear traffic police, this person is making a false humorous joke.
Nobody ever respected translation but couldn't do without it. Now they can get good-enough slop they can't read for free. Dead as English weaving in the 19th century.
Seeing random groups of people stood on street corners staring at their phones might have been the first time I got a sense of just how much the smartphone was going to wreck society.
They used to call the democratic party "herding cats". Very little has changed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(...
The major US cleantech champion has also basically disavowed its core mission for some reason.
One of the most shocking things about the catholic abuse scandal is you start to pull the thread and it looks like many adult abusers were themselves child victims, and so on back into the mists of time, and then you get back to the Medicis and you're like wait, did that shit ever actually stop?
The thing about horrific acts is they tend to spark more horrific acts in response. That is, in fact, one of the many reasons not to do them in the first place: the long tail of human suffering that can echo for generations.
Can't wait for this dynamic to land on radio rwanda and to wake up with my neighbors trying to cut down my door with a machete.
When they do talk about it, it's to blame liberals.
There seems to be a widespread inability to differentiate between asylum and immigration, which are two totally separate legal structures for very good reasons.
Guess Ukraine knows what to keep hitting.
The paper that helped start the Iraq War lacks journalistic values?
Was wondering when they'd start doing this. Those boys can make life very unpleasant indeed.
Isn't that what the cisco guy said on his earnings call right before the bubble burst?
Yes. Yes you may.
Was waiting for your call.
The major function of the European militaries would be as tripwires to broader hostilities between Russia and the rest of Europe...human shields, in a sense.
I think you are massively overestimating the number of people outside of Germany who even know that show existed much less watched any of it.
"They were given stone..." Ok "...seed..." Excuse me what
I feel my curiosity has been fully sated, given that the answer seemed pretty much to be "more batteries" and we're doing that anyway.
Which German TV series in particular? Having a whole lot of trouble thinking of any that I have ever seen referenced outside of DACH, and frankly even within DACH the cultural stuff is pretty parochial, Swiss TV is practically unknown in Germany for example.
What postwar German cultural products do you find to be in high demand in northern and eastern europe? Please note that cars and athletic brands do not count.
Kraftwerk's impact on music is not on par with the Beatles unless you're trying to give them credit for the concept of using synthesizers or something, which, hate to say it but the Beatles did first.
Can't believe it took this long for you to mention you get into Berghain.
He's not saying that Germany doesn't have vibrant culture, he's saying that it doesn't make it outside the borders of country or language to the degee you'd expect based on the size and wealth of the country.
The size of these projects is just astonishing, and the number of them is nearly as astonishing.
Unlike Japan and Korea there has never been a concerted industrial effort to make German cultural exports competitive so they largely aren't (trust me on this one). Compare to the Swedes: you can't make a living selling detective novels to 10 million people, so you HAVE to compete globally.