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A military intervention is a surprise party for countries who have regimes. And you get in their face, and you explode at them and you make them feel really upset about all the people you killed. And then they stop.
More like 40 years
Reflecting on this, I am reminded of Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Where an aberration is marked by disconnection from normal society, an Eichmann so fears disconnection that they will not face reality.
Arendt wanted to highlight how his path of turpitude, as a microcosm of the German public, was largely a path of least resistance built on distraction and self-congratulation. A thousand little bromides and "winged words" to keep the evils of his accomplishments from crystallizing in the mind.
While it's now common to call anyone we judge morally repugnant a monster, it historically describes an aberration of form or substance, something apart from humanity that is, in some sense, unaccountable. See early monster movies. Eichmann was no aberration, but a subject of usual mental vices.
The Constitution even calls it "petition the government for redress of grievances"
This is also the Cruz of the wonderment and awe provoked by the event of catastrophic failure. It is not only horrific, it is mesmerizing, and because it is, the accident is also a critical source of solidarity, a binding exception that is the real condition of acceptance. The carnival of accidents is revealed as technology's own exceptional bacchanalia, staged at our expense and on our behalf.
Speed and Politics by Paul Virilio, introduction to the 2006 edition
as a lead-in to show the motivation for lifetime annotations. I think it still requires a level of intellectual maturity to ask good questions and follow up with your own points of confusion during the process, but this is something that I'd wager most people can't get out of a book on their own.
Why did the use of LLMs appear to diminish learning? One of the most fundamental principles of skill development is that people learn best when they are actively engaged with the material they are trying to learn. When we learn about a topic through Google search, we face much more “friction”: We must navigate different web links, read informational sources, and interpret and synthesize them ourselves. While more challenging, this friction leads to the development of a deeper, more original mental representation of the topic at hand.
This seems to be the key, active engagement and friction. I had a good experience of that when using Gemini's "guided learning" mode to understand Rust's paradigms and borrow checker as a C++ developer. It gave me an example code snippet and asked *me* to explain the dangling reference problem,
Steven Crowder meme where he's sitting at a table with a banner that says "I'm not wasting your time—change my mind"
The way he unflinchingly brings this energy throughout
You're in the danger zone
1) it's a side mirror
2) where things *are closer than* they appear
For Ohio I find up to 8 inches irrigation cited, so at ~1630 gallons per acre foot per bushel it would be just over a thousand gallons
share.google/1xFprupdLKcX...
Colorado, Idaho, most of the Southeastern US, to name a few. Parts of Nebraska are in the 1500-2000 gallon range
They still use about 2500 gallons of irrigation per bushel
Yeah, the largest data centers use close to 2 billion gallons per year, while California ag uses 8 *trillion* gallons per year
The vast majority of the water goes to feed for livestock
Musk trying to tear away the tragically thin blue layer between us and fascism AGC
Same, wrestled a 20ft ladder into place, very poor leverage, then climbed to the top and got scared
Let's remind the voters that Im running against a freaking astronaut and that I have resting Patrick Bateman face!!!
*actual campaign media*
The smiling man is a recurring character from X Files signalling something ominous
The waxing gibbous moon over my head. A thought bubble, it shines blankly.
This is a more characteristic thumbnail
Could be your duct not letting enough air out. If it's a bit humid in the laundry room that's a sign. I'd imagine there's an internal timer as a failsafe, regardless of sensor
He has, just not in a quality of life way share.google/nxOhm7qROeiI...
With the way society has gone these days, half the HTTP requests aren't even for transferring hypertext
It's so brutal that this is one of the scam ads
