DradisPing
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DradisPing
7mo ago
They make new writers watch every star trek episode from TOS - VOY before they start, so there are a lot of throwbacks. It's fun if you're a fan.
But Mariner is extremely obnoxious in the first three episodes.
DradisPing
7mo ago
In one of Canada's few contributions to the English language, it's actually the Dominion of Canada.
It's meant to convey a large self governing territory that's part of a larger empire where there are sparsely populated areas and native tribes that aren't exactly under the control of the government, but don't have the population or organization to be recognized as their own territories.
DradisPing
7mo ago
The only downside is, it's not 3d. Why, I can't tell you,
I prefer Satisfactory because I like the 3d.
However there are definitely people who strongly prefer the circuit diagram type problems that Factorio makes you solve.
It could be a visual thinker thing. Or possibly a electronics vs software background.
So the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight is tonight next friday.
I'd like everyone who's watching to take some time to watch Mike Tyson Mysteries, a four season cartoon Tyson did.
It features Norm MacDonald as a talking pigeon and Jim Rash as a victorian ghost.
DradisPing
7mo ago
I think the reality is that Kamala's signature legislation would have been farther left than she's comfortable campaigning on.
Trump couldn't get border wall funding from Congress with R control of the House and Senate. I don't think his campaign expects a new Congress to be very supportive, so why bother with some bold legislative promise.
Legislative promises during the Presidential campaign always seemed kind of weird custom to me. It's literally not part of the job.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Richard Barris is doing at stream starting at 6:30, https://youtube.com/watch?v=o9hRIV2amiI
He gets a bit scatterbrained when he doesn't have a guest on and jumps around data topics. But he'll have a good analysis of how the information coming in compares to past results and who's turning out to vote.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Method varied by county, but in 2000 Florida a lot of the recount counties used punch cards. You needed to poke a hole with the stylus on a paper ballot and then they were machine counted. So it was easy to poke multiple holes or not poke all the way through. There were also overvotes where someone would punch "Gore" then write in "Gore" in the write in space.
La Griffe Du Lion had a take on the 2000 Florida ballots back in 2001, http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/elec2000.htm
DradisPing
7mo ago
The far left has been strongly focusses on Gaza for the past year. It's not clear they have enough gas in the tank to gather mobs in the case of a Trump victory.
DradisPing
7mo ago
The AG has a lot of power to go after individuals in the state. So if a dangerous nutter starts gaining steam in a major party primary it's easy for a better tempered opponent to raise money against them. People on both sides face risk so the other primary candidates can get funding from people who normally wouldn't donate.
Also voters usually just want someone polished and respectable to be AG. There's less demand for someone ideological.
DradisPing
7mo ago
It feeds into the culture war. This was a multi agency raid with judicial warrants to kill a squirrel and racoon.
Blue tribe members love to talk about how much government money is spent on rural people. But then things like this are counted as spending money on rural people.
It touches on other aspects. The agents used the search warrant as an opportunity to grill the woman of the house on her immigration status, which is something they never would have done to someone in NYC.
It's common to hear online that people can't understand why other parts of the state would want to separate from NYC when it brings in so much tax revenue.
But a rural view of the situation is sort of like this: A man from the government walks up and demands $5. He then pays his friend $10 to slap you as hard as he can. Then the man goes on a long rant about how much he spends to govern these fucking takers.
Sure, the government man is net spending money. But the rural guy isn't exactly happy about the transaction.
DradisPing
7mo ago
It's hard to square the Selzer poll with anything else we're seeing. Looking at Iowa early voter turnout as a percentage of 2020, R got 83% and D got 56%. Sure it's possible that there's a huge block of voters coming out on EDay or that large numbers of Rs are coming out to vote for Harris.
The top 2 issues found in the poll were Democracy and Abortion. Which seems a little weird. Iowa passed some major abortion restrictions over the summer. It seems possible that voters would take that out on Trump, but it's odd that it's suddenly showing up in a poll.
Ann Selzer is 67. It's certainly possible that she took a big payout from someone so she could retire and the Harris campaign could save house seats. Or it could be a polling miss.
Or it could be real. But I'm surprised no one else noticed it if it was real.
DradisPing
7mo ago
My suspicion is that Harris did work ad McDs, but it was in high school in Montreal. Her campaign doesn't really want to draw attention to her childhood outside the US, so they are being evasive.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Mental fatigue is a real thing. If you only count hours spent actually running then training for a marathon doesn't seem that impressive.
Spending 2 hours a night and 6 hours a day on weekends learning math is going to be exhausting. But it's pretty easy to do that with video games.
DradisPing
8mo ago
They're upset at Elon because they think he doesn't know his place. Aerospace and Car Manufacturing are two big powerful industries in the US. Don't forget about the recent Boeing whistleblower "suicides" where the FBI just shrugged.
He's embarrassed a lot of powerful people and they are trying to teach him to be properly deferential to his betters.
DradisPing
8mo ago
It doesn't seem fair to call it a pyramid scheme. It's just sharing revenue from platform subscribers with the accounts they like.
Twitter is in a strange place where major leftwing users have been trying to bankrupt the company. Encouraging advertiser boycotts and discouraging their readers from getting a paid account.
It isn't really surprising that Twitter went with a monetization system where those users don't get paid.
DradisPing
8mo ago
That's a fairly short timeframe to get the highest gdp per capita on earth. On the other hand it'd be the highest concentration of extremely high iq people.
Realistically they'd need to develop and market a major tech breakthrough like the next Ozempic or something in AI.
That kind of sudden gain in wealth is going to generate blowback regionally and internationally. It'd be difficult to pull off.
DradisPing
8mo ago
What I've heard, and I'm not really competent to explain, is that it has to do with the UN and changes to international law post WW2.
There were a bunch of attempts to use rules to make war without the security council's approval illegal. Also major leaders were unhappy with countries who tried to stay neutral during WW2, so there are a bunch of rules that make staying neutral difficult. I don't remember the specifics, but it's something like letting one side's ships use your ports or pass through your waters makes you a co-belligerent. There are also some rules about trade.
So actually declaring war makes things extremely awkward for your friends and allies.
DradisPing
9mo ago
The Steve Bannon prosecution over the build the wall foundation happened in SDNY. The recent "Tenet Media indictment" of two Russians took place in SDNY. No connection to NYC in either of those cases. There are a lot more, I don't have a list handy. Ricky Vaughn was going to be prosecuted there, but they filed in Easter District NY instead because they thought the jury would be better.
Maurene Comey, James Comey's daughter, works there.
When Geoffrey Berman ran SDNY he tried to claim that AG Barr couldn't fire him and tried to continue to serve.
It'll take an effortpost to go into depth.
DradisPing
9mo ago
The big red flag is that the crimes seem to take place in Miami and LA, but the indictment was filed in SDNY. SDNY is where they like to do their politicized prosecutions. Charges filed there with a dubious connection to NYC implies that this is about him pissing someone off. Twitter is just a guess.
DradisPing
9mo ago
My suspicion is that it isn't related to MeToo at all.
Powerful people in DC are still enraged about Musk's purchase of Twitter. This arrest happened shortly after it was revealed that Diddy invested in the Twitter purchase.
So I think that Merrick Garland saw Diddy's name in the Twitter investors and told the FBI to dust off their Diddy file and throw the book at him.
DradisPing
9mo ago
I was trying to find the right words to capture a bunch of different things. I was thinking of having the lawyers explain to the bosses that making passes at subordinates endangers the company and they will be fired, while also making sure that they are aware that there are a lot of ways to use money and status to get sex outside of the office.
DradisPing
9mo ago
The people pushing MeToo didn't really understand the situation.
The first sexual harassment was in 1974. By the 90s lawsuits we common enough that Michael Crichton's Disclosure (1994) featured a fake sexual harassment complaint as part of a conspiracy.
Business men protected themselves through a mix of better behaviour, legal strategies, and other techniques to avoid trouble.
However since the lawyers involved were strongly left wing, liberal strongholds like Hollywood and the Media were given a pass and ignored. This was compounded by the fact that those industries attract a lot of pretty girls, have powerful men at the top, and look down on traditional sexual rules.
This wasn't well understood on the left, and they all insisted on believing that Republican businessmen are the worst people ever and much worse about things that MeToo covers.
So activists pushed MeToo hard. Then they noticed that all the big fish going down were on their side. So they sort of stopped talking about the whole thing.
DradisPing
9mo ago
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
In this case the LLM is trained on data containing word tokens instead of words. So it can't actually see the letters of words and can't do certain wordplay.
DradisPing
9mo ago
The Serbia-USA game proved conclusively that the racial makeup of the NBA is mostly the result of racism. An all white team played the USA all star team to the fourth quarter, a USA team that didn't feature a single white player. There wasn't a single white American who was even particularly close! Yet even if we assume that Slavs are uniquely, among whites, good at basketball: the USA has vastly more Slavic citizens than Serbia. You have to play serious genetic gymnastics to come out with a logical genetic explanation for American slavs relative lack of talent compared to European slavs. We're missing out on a lot of talented players!
Blacks physically mature a bit more quickly than whites, and there is a real bias against white players at the high school level. Tall white kids tend not to get court time on the high school teams and often go over to baseball where being a tall pitcher is a plus.
You have to understand the power asymmetry. The Women's side of the gender discourse is run by Women's Studies department with tenured professors. Low grade trolling is a bit beneath them. They don't want to trigger people like Groypers. They dislike being reminded of the continued existence of Fuentes and Tate.
Also trolling like that is an aggressive guy thing. The equivalent is probably that ex-teacher on Tik Tok who talks about politics in a pre school teacher voice like her viewers are small children.
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