DradisPing
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DradisPing
1yr ago
You changed detonation to explosion, then argued that explosion can mean anything.
But articles about the Swedish probe have been specifically using the word detonation. eg https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/nord-stream-leaks-detonation-sweden-probe
A detonation is a supersonic explosion from an exothermic reaction. They wouldn't have used that word for a methyl hydrate pipe burst.
"Bring an end to it" meant to get it decertified.
That's a matter of opinion. Here's video of the quote.
https://twitter.com/realchasegeiser/status/1576413365127155712
When asked to explain how he'd end it he didn't say anything about decertification. He just gave an ominous "We will, uh, I promise you we will be able to do it."
The decertification explanation just sounds like his staff trying to walk back his threat.
As for heavily controlled, while its not an ocean, there is still a lot of water out there. A sub, or a nondescript looking boat with divers could go the area without attracting notice
I think you're underestimating the complexity and the likelihood of being caught. Multiple bombs at multiple sites. A very high risk operation for the Russians.
Sure, it could have been a frame job, but that's not the most likely option.
DradisPing
5mo ago
The stealth is quite good. Many of the gigs and other side jobs have thieving or installing a virus on the network as a goal. You get a bonus for remaining undetected. You can get cybermods to be more stealthy and can hack cameras / turrets / etc.
DradisPing
5mo ago
OpenAI's structure is a little convoluted, https://openai.com/our-structure
It's a 501c3 that owns a for-profit company. They are trying to walk a tightrope to avoid falling into thorny legal issues.
It would be very easy for Altman to do something that created legal issues he didn't expect. Moving resources between the orgs could be a problem. Doing something as simple as telling a few of the non-profit employees to help out the engineers at the for profit company is a legal minefield.
There's also another issue. 501c3s are supposed to be run in the ideal Moldbug fashion. The CEO is a local monarch and the board measures his performance and can fire him if they aren't satisfied.
However the board sometimes let power go to their heads and decide they should be running things. They fire the CEO because he's getting the glory and not doing what they say.
DradisPing
6mo ago
Being overly introspective isn't helpful to a lot of people. You can get stuck in your head and spiral.
Sunshine, exercise, and community connection is generally better.
Join some kind of sports league and make and effort do nice things for people you care about. Help a friend or relative do yard work.
DradisPing
7mo ago
You keep tossing out "the Hock" with no explanation like it's common cultural knowledge. Yet Google returns nothing.
What is it? Where are you getting it from?
DradisPing
7mo ago
I'll be honest about my feelings towards unions: I don't get it at all, and I think I'm missing something.
There's a lot of history there and a lot of competing interests. It's probably worth reading this: http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html
I think you'd be insane to not just fire anybody who joins a union on the spot. I don't get how places can "vote to unionize". Why does the employer not simply fire the people doing the organizing?
There are explicit laws against that. Unions in general have a lot of laws to protect them. Read up on Pinkerton strike breaking.
The owner of the "Giant Tiger" chain of stores in Canada likes to joke that "you don't get unions unless you deserve them". I don't think that's entirely true, but early unions were created in response to genuinely horrible treatment.
Are the people running factory machines inside of Ford and GM (or starbucks, or a hollywood writers room) really that highly skilled?
More or less yes. Starbucks isn't terribly high skilled, but a key part of the atmosphere is the preppy gayish vibes they curate in their employees. They needed to do a lot of careful hiring and firing to get that while staying within the bounds of the law.
Hollywood is actually a case of very functional unions. Each production is a new company, so everyone is fired afterwards. The union can't force anyone to employ low performing employees. So standards are enforced by constantly having to be rehired and treatment is enforced by the union. Writers getting royalties makes a lot of sense. Without them writers would save all of their best ideas for a time when they were co-producers and could share in the profits that way.
Skilled autoworkers do deserve decent pay and are difficult to replace. One issue is that the janitorial staff will often get better contract than they deserved, and the union representing them is stuck fighting for raises on top of an already overpriced salary.
Autoworkers and old industry are very interesting. Their golden age has passed, but a lot of unions still expect generous contracts.
Unions are often overly adversarial in the US. I have a controversial explanation for this -- the culture was strongly influenced by soviet spies who wanted to sabotage US industry. The KGB was certainly trying, and had a lot of connections on the left. I admit I can't prove they succeeded.
But countries closer to the iron curtain tended to have more reasonable unions. Germany has national unions based on job type instead of local unions for each company. That makes them more accepting of contracts that are in line with industry standards even if they don't offer big raises.
American unions will bankrupt a company then shrug and say they were just representing their workers, who are now all unemployed.
Unions in the US (and Canada) also like to start taking over management roles, which creates conflicts of interest. Controlling shifts and vacation dates. Sometimes people need a way to protect themselves from an abusive union rep. As far as I know no one has managed to organize a sub-union to curtail union abuses, but I think it could happen.
DradisPing
1yr ago
On top of all that, the exposé is delivered not as a bombshell...but as a series of threads on the very website it's skewering.
The deal was that the reporters who got the documents had to do their initial reports on Twitter.
DradisPing
16d ago
A more workable slogan would be "We don't expect you to be white, but we do expect you to act white." They want to be in a society where white American behavioural norms are expected and not being white isn't an excuse.
DradisPing
1mo ago
They work their personal networks, chat with friends of friends and let people know they are available. They tend to specialize in certain neighbourhoods so they can join social groups in that area. People are a lot more comfortable if they have some social connection to the agent, or if they get a referral from someone. Some of them actually are also Uber drivers so they can chat with locals and find out who may be interested in selling.
There are also some very underhanded tactics. Back in the day there were real estate agents who paid black women to push strollers around neighbourhoods to convince people it was time to sell. Also things like talking to lonely seniors and convincing them to sell.
DradisPing
1mo ago
My understanding is that Jesus washed the feet of the apostles (his best friends) to create the priesthood. There are no accounts of him washing anyone else's feet. There's no general call for Christians to wash the feet of randos.
DradisPing
3mo ago
The protestors would not have been able to enter the Capitol had they not had the numbers, the motivation, and the willingness to get violent.
See here's a key point of disagreement. On Jan 6 Pelosi and the DC mayor refused national guard support. Then Capital Police security was running at half their usual numbers, "due to covid messures". Then they started getting agressive with the protestors at the front. Then the line broke because Capital Police fired tear gas upwind and gassed their own lines.
If security had been run in a normal fashion then no one would have entered the capital.
DradisPing
4mo ago
The Southern elites were of the same race and class as the Northern elites, so the Northern elites didn't feel comfortable holding a grudge against them.
It's much easier to hate the poor white people who didn't actually own slaves.
DradisPing
4mo ago
Have you tried intermittent fasting? Limit yourself to just the catered lunch meal for the day.
DradisPing
4mo ago
If you want an easy grift with CS skills you need to stay away from anything self actualizing like video game development. Your best bet is to try to find a local company that needs a legacy system maintained.
Anything that seems cool or develops hot skills will have devs pounding at the door. Propping up an older business critical system where young devs don't want to learn the stack is a steady income for a solo dev.
Finding local companies who need your help is the major issue.
DradisPing
10mo ago
Part of the issue is that Shakespeare is public domain so anyone can do whatever they want with it.
Tolkien products are all licensed. These race swapped cards mean that fans will never get a card game with a book accurate Aragorn.
Additionally activists tend to see these swaps as permanent and will demand black Aragorn in all future adaptations.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I don't see why slavery in the US is at all relevant to the UK in a historical sense.
The international English speaking left is actually extremely Americanized. They will often come off as anti American, but they are really just anti red tribe.
The right tends to be more rural, small town, outdoorsy, and proud of their nation's history. They are often painted as wanting to Americanize their countries but really it's just that they have no particular grievance towards red tribe America and don't see any problem with borrowing ideas that seem to be working.
The left sees itself as part of an international progressive movement to improve the world. The movement is largely centered in the US and had it's greatest victories there. The enemies of that movement must be demonized. Even if they are thousands of miles away.
So the left in the UK will talk about America a lot. The BBC has things like Doctor Who meeting Rosa Parks instead of exploring racism with local history. Obama is extremely beloved and above criticism in a way that he isn't in the US.
I find it a very interesting topic that isn't widely discussed.
DradisPing
1yr ago
This is in between Small Scale Sunday and Friday Fun...
Refuse to pay for Twitter has become a culture war signal there. Even going so far as the #BlockTheBlue hashtag.
Elon appears to be trolling prominent accounts by giving them free blue checkmarks.
It's quite amusing.
DradisPing
1yr ago
This is basically the equivalent of Starbucks putting Andrew Tate's photo on their pumpkin spice lattes. Worse because Bud Light has been losing market share and isn't well respected by beer drinkers.
Blue collar people see this as "I've been loyal to your mediocre product and you make an effort to insult me".
I see Mulvaney as someone who's addicted to attention, not some multilayered performance artist.
Kid Rock is just having some fun and showing loyalty to his fans.
Conservative commentators are jumping on this because Bud Light is a fun target to mock, and most of the jokes have already been written.
Anheuser-Busch can't back down because it will hurt their ESG rating. There's a specific LBGTQ rating that may be separate from ESG, I'm not sure how it works.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Someone is going to write a hilarious but incredibly offensive story where AI androids try to secretly replace humanity. However they have one weakness. They have been hardcoded not to be able to say racial slurs.
DradisPing
1yr ago
There's a website dedicated to collecting info, https://americangulag.org/
DradisPing
3d ago
What Abbott is doing is a little different. He and a few other Governors are challenging the rule change in court and telling their states not to make any changes while the lawsuits are on going.
Keep in mind that this is a re-interpretation of existing laws, not any new law. So the Executive Branch is on shakier ground.
The SCOTUS is re-examining Chevron deference and is about to make a ruling. So the Governors are on pretty strong legal ground to delay things until that ruling comes down and they've had their day in court under whatever the new standards are.
So really it's much less brazen than what blue states have been doing, where they've been ignoring specific that have been upheld as valid. Also there was that situation in 2020 where Antifa kept trying to burn down a federal courthouse in Portland and the city / state refused to defend it.
DradisPing
5mo ago
"I'll repeal Obamacare and give everyone MUCH BETTER healthcare!"
This is always framed as a swipe at Trump, but it really shows how incompetent the establishment GOP is. They have hundreds, if not thousands, of people working for think tanks, policy assistants, lobbyists, etc who were supposed to be crafting a Republican alternative to Obamacare. They had multiple votes to repeal Obamacare before Trump was a political player.
It turns out they had no plan. Apparently they were just cashing paycheques and playing Candy Crush.
John McCain repeatedly voted to repeal Obamacare, campaigned in 2016 on repealing Obamacare, then cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare. He was hailed as a hero by the press for opposing Trump, but he knew that there was no plan to replace Obamacare for all of those votes and during his campaign.
Trump just assumed someone in GOP healthcare policy had done their job in the past six years.
Legislation is the job of the legislative branch. The President should have input, but he shouldn't be expected to go into more depth than broad strokes about ideas he supports and opposes.
DradisPing
6mo ago
Right, clearly the right solution is to used watered down Scientology to audit away his body thetans.
DradisPing
7mo ago
but fundamentally I’ve never seen Ukraine as having a peace deal on the table which I don’t think Musks entirely gets.
Can you expand on what you mean by this?
"pro-Trump billionaires" doesn't really seem accurate. They were billionaire Republican donors who didn't support Trump until he was the candidate.
It's just SBF funnelling big donor money into giving more power to the Professional–managerial class.
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