When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I think this is perhaps a likely result but also one that will likely require either a continued military operation at enormous expense or a pretty humiliating public capitulation to letting the Iranian regime survive and either way the public will be *furious* with $90 a barrel oil.
I think Bentham remains a good guide to this:
The question is not, can they reason? nor can they talk? but can they suffer?
I remember as an OG Harry Potter hater and certified MFA Guy Shithead in the early 2000s hearing "as long as people are reading something it's a good thing" and thinking "hm not sure that's true." Anyway the phone made us all illiterate anyway. Didn't see that coming.
he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something
bluesky is an echo chamber where you learn about alf's dick. twitter is an echo chamber where you learn to say stuff like "actually it's called ephebophilia"
I can't speak to the software world, but from my POV (writer/journo/academic admin), any productivity gains from AI are completely swamped by lost productivity from Google's destroying their core product.
Same phenom is at work with extreme horseshoe tankies.
US = imperialist = bad
Anyone opposing the US = anti-imperialist = good
If you’re wondering why “peptides yes but vaccines no,” it’s partly because a hallmark of conspiracy ideation is rejecting the mainstream and embracing whatever the alternative is.
Vaxx = mainstream = corrupt & bad
Peptides = fringe = secret & good.
I would admittedly take a certain perverse delight in the admin committing so hard to the bit they exhume Reagan & make him stand trial for treason...
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I agree with this. I've seen enough of my coding friends' eyes pop out of their heads when they realize what Claude can do to believe that programmers have an exciting new tool. (con't)
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane
This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
Typical Trumpian refusal to claim agency, or a telling slip that he's not really calling the big shots here? Pretty problematic that there's any lack of clarity in answers to that question!
Those years of nascent fash IDW podcasters decrying the moral rot of post modernism were really jealous and now exhilarating in their chance to be fully horny on main, in the utterly morally nihilist and literal senses.
Q. In the top of our story, we talk about the rally you attended in Managua and a wire report at the time said that there were anti-American chants from the crowd. The United States at that time - I don't know how much you know about this — was actively supporting the Contras to overthrow the government. So that there's anti-American sentiment? I remember that, I remember that event very clearly. You do recall hearing those chants? I think the wire report has them saying, "Here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die." hey were fighting against American -- Huh huh--yes, what is your point? I wanted to —— Are you shocked to learn that there was anti-American sentiment? My point was I wanted to know if you had heard that. I don't remember, no. Of course there was anti-American sentiment there. This was a war being funded by the United States against the people of Nicaragua. People were being killed in that war. Do you think if you had heard that directly, you would have stayed at the rally? I think Sydney, with all due respect, you don't understand a word that I'm saying.
Bernie Sanders interviewed by NYT's Sydney Ember published on May 18 2019
Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.
50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?
Let them check my drapes...
I think if your mood is only "intense and paranoid" AFTER starting a war of choice, you should not be making choices of war.
Re adding a million more satellites: it's a good time to read about Kessler Syndrome. Huge numbers of satellites could trigger a kind of cascade or collapse which creates v expensive problems in the long run.
A good exploration by @jonkelvey.bsky.social - aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/und...
This is a great point. Even on Instagram (and I hear from users, on tiktok as well), there are right wing accounts clearly sharing softened opinions on, say, Palestine and Israel, in attempt to shoehorn some horseshoe messaging into people's algos. It must be SO much worse on vichy twitter.
Fair point about the Platner thing.
Whether he knew who Peters was or not, just being on Twitter makes this kind of thing a lot more likely. You're constantly being exposed to white nationalists there and you might not even realize it. Get out now and avoid the collateral damage.
He likes to be flirted with, just a little.
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re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
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