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NullHypothesis
2m ago
That $2.7billion includes a lot of things like costs spent increasing new security.
This amount reflects, among other things, damage to the Capitol building and grounds, estimated costs borne by the Capitol Police, the District of Columbia, and federal agencies, and estimated costs to address security needs and investigations as described in budget and funding requests, appropriations, agency estimates, and other publicly available information.
Ichor
5m ago
I watched all of the live streams as this unfolded.
I’m so confused because none of the violence referenced in your links was at all observable on any of the livestreams.
The only actual violence, that increased past the point of pushing and shoving - fisty cuffs, if you will - was that of Ashleigh Babbit who was shot as she tried to climb through a barricaded door.
It almost seems to have appeared post-hoc. Do you have any video evidence of any of this? It seems near certain that there would have been given how much was filmed.
Total estimated cost at 2.7billion… god someone did well out of this. From what I saw, I would have guessed several hundred thousand - a few million at most.
Throwaway05
6m ago
Cancel Culture: I said the word faggot on Facebook in 2006.
Not Cancel Culture: I a person in trusted authority (such as a doctor) publicly celebrated the death of someone who represents half of America.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
9m ago
I'm sure the leftists already thought of that and that while their widespread motte may be "ban scary black military-style assault rifles with shoulder thing that goes up", there are many whose bailey does include "ban all civilian gun ownership including grandpa's deer rifle".
Throwaway05
10m ago
So I looked for details instead of just articles that say "qanon" and found -
"An Aug. 24 entry titled “Q,” displayed a scatological collection of memes that included photos of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and made reference to QAnon, the baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory that espouses the belief that the country is run by a deep state cabal of child sex traffickers, satanic pedophiles and baby-eating cannibals."
Isn't that rather close to what the left is claiming right now?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
11m ago
Yes. I phrased that poorly. I meant to state that "Political side means to put a stop to undesirable and radicalizing behavior engaged in by partisans of the other side" is an observation that can me made both ways.
NullHypothesis
25m ago
It should be the job of the person making the claim to prove their position, not for the other side to prove someone didn't say something.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
29m ago
I don't really get the point of this urge to either prove that Charlie, in particular, said x, or to prove that he didn't. Charlie said a lot of things, it's doubtful he meant all of them seriously; and most of his accusers are just ascribing every rotten thing ever said by a xitter Roman statue account to him.
WandererintheWilderness
29m ago
whether it is politically motivated seems to be a scissor statement
I think a more precise way of putting it, which ties in with Freddie's argument, is that the debate is over whether it was politically induced. There can beno serious doubt that there was a political motivation within the killer's own mind - the question is whether his murderousness was induced by the political rhetoric of his tribe, or if his political affiliation simply influenced his choice of target without especially affecting whether he'd ever snap and kill somebody.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
31m ago
His previous attempt does seem barely comprehensible and borderline schizophrenic to me (besides vaguely raising my AIslop hackles), so this one is definitely more coherent and puts his thesis better.
All the parallels with physical phenomena taking up over half the post certainly don't help the impression that Freddie goes to great lengths to quietly bury the "switch" under heaps of barely-related Le Science and authoritative-sounding parallels.
I'm not 100% sure if it's schizophrenia specifically, but Freddie de Boer actually is psychotic. Hence, I'm inclined to read the specious chaos theory as "his meds aren't working as well as we'd like" rather than "he's lying".
FtttG
33m ago
Earlier today, someone told me that Charlie Kirk once made derisive comments about Ryan Carson, a left-wing activist who was stabbed to death in New York two years ago. Googling "Charlie Kirk" "Ryan Carson" produces nothing promising. Can anyone confirm whether he really did say anything to this effect?
FtttG
35m ago
his usual anti-AI take that I think he doesn't even bother to update at this point
Exactly what I said last month:
Freddie deBoer has a new edition of the article he writes about AI. Not, you’ll note, a new article about AI: my use of the definite article was quite intentional. For years, Freddie has been writing exactly one article about AI, repeating the same points he always makes more or less verbatim, repeatedly assuring his readers that nothing ever happens and there’s nothing to see here.
rayon
waifutech enthusiast
37m ago
>Singal chastises a journo for nakedly asserting far-right ties
>deBoer immediately opens with "Jesse it's not at all clear that he was on the left"
:thinking_emoji:
And of course he has a melty from all the reactionaries in the comments. Classic.
I also recently spotted him in Scott's comments, with his usual anti-AI take that I think he doesn't even bother to update at this point. I thought at the time to make a small top post about it (also because I really liked that Scott post) but felt that it was so bad it wasn't worth dunking on and walked past. Still, let no mention go to waste: him responding to a poster annoyed with his unreflective anti-AI posting with
Why do the LLMs you praise universally deride your optimistic take on LLMs?
really tells you all you need to know about the level of discourse you can expect. I like some of his writing and don't want to peg him as a lolcow but god damn does he make it difficult sometimes.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
42m ago
He sounds like certain Chinese people I knew who would claim that Japanese is also a dialect of Chinese, sign up for some Japanese class (in the $abroad country they were staying in) fully expecting to BTFO the stupid weeaboos, instead getting BTFOed themselves (as it turns out Japanese grammar is actually in some ways more accessible to speakers of reasonably-inflected European languages than to Chinese speakers), and angrily concluding that the racist teacher is discriminating against them.
It was impossible to get them to see reason on that topic; patriotic memes are entrenched very deeply.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
58m ago
My gut says he's probably a PRC nationalist
Direct quote:
Yes, the government of the PRC is bad, very bad. I am currently in the US which already proofs it. But there are more colors than just black and white in this world.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1hr ago
speaking as a language nerd I'd rather they adapted something like Korean Hangul instead
Speaking as another self-identified language nerd, hell nah. The survival of the Sinosphere arrangement of one common ideographic writing system functioning, if imperfectly, for multiple distinct languages simultaneously - distributing the translation load between the act of writing and the act of reading in such a way that both can be performed somewhat on the fly - is precious, and I could rant at lengths about how much of a tragedy I see in Vietnam's ditching of Han Nom and Korea's almost-complete ditching of hanja. We have reports of 19th century Japanese who could travel to Vietnam and "talk" to literate elders in writing, without either making a single sound the other could parse!
FtttG
1hr ago
Jesse Singal posted a note on Substack taking another journalist to task for flatly asserting that Kirk's killer was a Republican gun nut who was motivated to kill Kirk because Kirk was too moderate. deBoer showed up in the comments to lash out at Singal, accusing him of falling victim to audience capture, and characterising Singal's podcast host, Katie Herzog, as an "open reactionary".
I know being a new father is very taxing and deBoer probably isn't getting a lot of quality sleep, but the man seems really cranky and confrontational lately. I'm growing increasingly reluctant to listen to what he has to say, as the ratio of "good, insightful points":"childish temper tantrums and juvenile zingers" is just getting too high.
kky
1hr ago
Lol Gaullist propaganda. The British, Americans and Soviets won it and the British and Americans graciously allowed de Gaulle to take some of the credit in order to ensure an anti-communist government in post-war France.
What do you mean? He organized military and paramilitary resistance to German forces and successfully negotiated with key allies to achieve his main war goals. What you’re expressing here is an astonishingly naive view on war: that it only “counts” if it’s all on the backs of your own troops. The reality of war is that the winner wins. Nothing else matters, although losers love to find excuses. Napoleon is a great example of a loser here - spent a lot of time making excuses in his last exile. Weygand too, from the safety of a country that other men liberated. I recommend against taking the perspective of losers.
And there is no vote on-screen, and canon material consistently describes the declaration of the Empire as a proclamation, not the result of a vote.
I don’t remember that detail from the film, but it has been many years. If that’s so, it’s so, and the comparison to Caesar would be more appropriate. (I’d hold that Napoleon in particular is a bad comparison. The representatives were deliberating over whether to declare him an outlaw when he came back with men with guns and dispersed them permanently.)
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1hr ago
My gut says he's probably a PRC nationalist, though I say so with low confidence. Taiwanese have a generally warm view of Japan despite having been colonized by the Japanese for decades, so not all Chinese see the Japanese as a nemesis. The idea that "Japan was the ultimate enemy" is probably the strongest most unambiguous message in PRC propaganda, closely followed by "we must never forget the Century of Humiliation at the hands of Western powers" and "the CCP deserves undying gratitude for creating the 新中国 which awakened Chinese racial class consciousness and helped unify 中国人 enough to end their exploitation by evil foreigners." Given that, and given that the "Chinese=Han=Standard Mandarin" as an idea is pushed to promote national unity (no criticism here, every European country did it in the 19th and 20th century), I would take his linguistic theories with a grain of salt. Of course, I don't know the guy, so I'm speculating about his beliefs a lot here.
I'd be curious to hear what he actually believes if you feel you can broach this rather sensitive topic with him.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1hr ago
I don't know, the argument seems sound to me. Of course right-wingers really, really want this to be caused by Leftism, the same way left-wingers really want every mass shooter to be a racist white guy and every black man shot by police to be unarmed, but the data just says that targeted political killings have all sorts of alignments but are always caused by the same sort of self-actualisation-starved young men.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1hr ago
Your post would be perfectly fine without "wokestupid" sprinkled all through it. Don't do that, it's nothing but sneering. Just like if a liberal wrote a post criticizing "conservatards."
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1hr ago
I assume you are jewish.
This is the definition of an ad hominem. Even if he were Jewish, "Your opinion is invalid because Jew" isn't acceptable.
You've been warned and banned repeatedly because of your antagonistic obsession with Jews. As we are obligated to repeat over and over, you can hate whomever you want, but your posting needs to follow the rules.
Banned for two days, but next time you are looking at a longer term ban.
Link seems to be dead for me, but yeah I'm aware, hence my reluctance to outright dunk on him or declare him a lolcow. I appreciate that he still speaks his mind (if nothing else, he is a useful weathervane for a person disconnected from American politics) and do not shame him for being mentally ill, but I reserve my right to call out shoddy logic and uh, generous epistemic leaps even if they're partly caused by said mental illness.
Galaxy-brain-level deflections are not exclusive to Freddie, although he is a fine example of it, so I think the patterns are still useful to nootice before consensus or "consensus" starts forming in earnest.
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