To be fair the same argument applies to the second amendment (and others). The founding fathers couldn’t have foreseen in 1791 the developments of unwieldy muskets.
Blueberry
10mo ago
Zelensky was told to wear a suit, but he ignored this request:
One small but not insignificant factor that irritated Trump was the fact that Zelensky didn't wear a suit, two sources with direct knowledge told Axios. Trump's advisers told Zelensky's team on multiple occasions that it would be more respectful for Zelensky to ditch his military-style attire when visiting the White House.
Blueberry
10mo ago
distance within, say, white people is much larger than the genetic distance to a black person
This is often repeated, but I think this is false (Lewontins Fallacy?)
Blueberry
10mo ago
Yes, wouldn’t it be scarier if Musk focused on only one agency, established sort of a protocol/playbook to clean it up and then moved to the next? Currently this looks like a scatterbrained approach.
Blueberry
10mo ago
I am more interested what sperm was used. My guess is Altman, as he is more ambitious, but also I would not think he has a big family wish, so maybe it was a concession by him to his partner?
Blueberry
10mo ago
“Man carrying things” parodying the vibe change:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWPhZu0EeXg
Then there was this posted by Cenk Uygur (the not so young anymore Young Turks guy):
https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/1892057431179477251
Yesterday, @nytimes had a story about Democratic donors fleeing the party. That explains why the Democratic leaders look like deer in the headlights. Since the donors are gone, there's no one left to give them orders. So, they're like robots frozen in place, awaiting commands.
Didn’t have time to find the nyt story yet.
Blueberry
11mo ago
According to Andrej Karpathy:
As far as a quick vibe check over 2 hours this morning, Grok 3 + Thinking feels somewhere around the state of the art territory of OpenAI’s strongest models (o1-pro, $200/month), and slightly better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Which is quite incredible considering that the team started from scratch 1 year ago, this timescale to state of the art territory is unprecedented.
Blueberry
11mo ago
Do you believe that there’s a legitimate distinction to be made between “gay men” and “men who have sex with men”?
Gayness is a white construct, other (sub)cultures may reject the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_(sexual_slang)
Down-low is an African-American slang term[1] that typically refers to a sexual subculture of black men who usually identify as heterosexual but actively seek sexual encounters and relations with other men, practice gay cruising, and frequently don a specific hip-hop attire during these activities.[2][3] They generally avoid disclosing their same-sex sexual activities, even if they have female sexual partner(s), they are married to a woman, or they are single.
Blueberry
11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident
Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was shot by eleven young naval officers (most were just turning twenty years of age) in the prime minister's residence. Inukai's last words were roughly "If I could speak, you would understand" (話せば分かる, hanaseba wakaru) to which his killers replied "Dialogue is useless" (問答無用, mondō muyō).[1][better source needed] The original assassination plan had included killing the English film star Charlie Chaplin who had arrived in Japan on May 14, 1932 […] Chaplin's murder would facilitate war with the U.S., and anxiety in Japan, and lead to "restoration" in the name of the emperor.[3] When the prime minister was killed, his son Inukai Takeru was watching a sumo wrestling match with Charlie Chaplin, which probably saved both their lives.
Crazy.
Blueberry
11mo ago
No US government would survive locking up 5% of the majority white male population.
Blueberry
11mo ago
What amount of money do we speak about and how many people are treated?
Blueberry
11mo ago
In 61 AD, in honor of his 45th birthday, a monument was erected to the Roman general Pompey bearing this inscription:
Certainly this is 61 BC?
Blueberry
11mo ago
Non-American here: what did the federal department of education do?
Schools/Colleges are done by the states?
Blueberry
11mo ago
He was a long time confirmed bachelor until, late last year, he got engaged to Huma Abedin (she’s 49, he’s 38).
There are photos were he has models as arm candy, so maybe he over compensated in settling down with someone serious?
I just remember now how uncomfortable the Weiner documentary was and how angry I was on Abedins behalf, who was oddly calm.
Wiki:
In the memoir, Abedin wrote that in the mid-2000s, an unnamed U.S. senator had "kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa"; she wrote that she had "buried" the incident until accusations of sexual assault against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 triggered her memory.[24] In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning to promote the book, she said she did not feel that the senator was sexually assaulting her in that moment.[25]
You can google the story, but it is rather meh. After dinner a senator invited her into his home for “coffee” (who drinks coffee before night? Some people just are oblivious), she was shocked when he kissed her, he was shocked that she was shocked and apologized for misreading the signs. Subsequent meetings with the senator were low key awkward but then she forgot the incident, until it was time to write a book.
In a May 2022 interview, Abedin said she struggles with anxiety and has been in therapy due to the shock and trauma of dealing with her husband's sexting scandal. She also said she has started dating again and feels excited about the process.[69] In July 2022, Abedin was in a relationship with actor Bradley Cooper.[70]
I want to edit my statement: I am not baffled by a billionaires choice to marry her, but instead in her taste in men. Nothing against Cooper, but at some point an adult woman must know that narcissistic politicians, sonnyboy actors and boyish billionaires are maybe not the best partners for long term relationships. Jesus Christ, marry a dentist and provide some boring normalcy to your poor teenage son!
I was recently thinking wistfully of the brief golden age of Facebook, and how it made me more connected to my social network.
I have the same nostalgia and even some more:
It is noteworthy that "The Facebook" startet as the hip place for students and required a university email address for signup. Imagine being a young adult moving for the first time away from home and to the big new city and starting your new exciting student life, only that you know no one, everyone is a stranger, and university life is complicated in all kind of ways. If I recall correctly TheFacebook had group chats, like mini message boards, which were made by students for every course (and of course used for organizing partying). You could stay organized. You could connect. This was a very useful and fun service. I wonder if it was lightning in a bottle or could it be replicated today? The students I know today organize with group chats on WhatsApp (I think this is less a thing in the States?). And Family networks also moved to group chats. But this is not discoverable (which to be true is a big feature as it provides intimacy/privacy, but it also loses something).
What changed? You say it was monetization which drove more and more antisocial features, but there was also a big vibe change when everyone could join and your grandma first time commented disapprovingly your binge drinking party pics. And does one want your colleagues and work aquaintances see your children pictures or "its complicated" relationship status? Anyone remember Google Circles? They tried to out-facebook Facebook, but couldn't make the separation of friend circles stick as managing "circles" was too cumbersome. (Was it though? We do it fine in group messengers.)
The other explanation is that Facebook was always doomed to doom-scroll, as every new generation tries to find their own new cool thing but like all non-crab crustaceans evolve into crabs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation) all "social" networks seem to evolve into anti-social doom scroll time sinks: Twitter -> SnapChat -> Instagram -> TikTok
Blueberry
11mo ago
it's about Musk's affirmative reply to this tweet.
Btw, I can’t read that tweet in Europe:
“This Post from @breakingbaht has been withheld in Germany, France, Ireland based on local law(s). Learn more”
What does it say?
Interesting! If I understand the Wiki article right then West Berlin representatives in the W-Germany parliament only had advisory roles and all W-Germany laws were “shadowed” by W-Berlin senate, with a few exceptions like there was no draft in Berlin had no army. Theoretically they could have gone the independent way like Singapore.
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