DradisPing
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DradisPing
3d ago
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was blocking National Guard from staying at DC hotels in 2020 and was arguing that the Third Amendment prevented the feds from overriding. It never went to trial. You could run with that idea pretty easily.
DradisPing
6d ago
So these long term Senators are senior members of both political factions and patronage networks.
Those don't have any legally recognized structure. So it's hard to transition them to a new leader.
Basically if Mitch dies then a lot of his friends and long time supporters are likely to get cut off by the next guy. Even if he carefully tries to arrange a successor, which is hard given nominations and elections, the new guy will have his own allies so Mitch's guys are probably still going to face reduced access.
Also the Senate does a lot of things by seniority. So his replacement will automatically be less powerful as a freshman Senator.
A retiring long serving Senator needs to find two replacements, one for their seat and one for their political power. Not easy to set up.
DradisPing
6d ago
I'm 19 and about to start college, so this may be a possibility.
Yeah in that case definitely try traveling to some youth hostels if you have the cash. The girls there are pre-selected to want to meet new people and be open to some vacation romance.
It sounds like you just don't have enough casual social contact with girls.
Also you're too young to visit youth hostels in different cities.
I think your best bet is to sign up for dance classes. Something like Ballroom, Salsa, Two-Step, or whatever is popular in your area.
Think of it as networking with girls. Even if none of them like you they probably know a tall girl who is dying to wear heels at events without being taller than her date.
If you're not even in college I'd avoid getting into any discussion of politics, being politically compatible shouldn't* be a thing at your age. You're teens trying to have fun together, not build a life.
DradisPing
17d ago
Yeah, I’m a bit surprised at the nonchalance toward stochastically scratching/dinging other people’s cars.
It depends on where you live...
Some malls cheap out and use narrower spots to pack in more spaces. Combine that with more rural areas with a lot of trucks and SUVs.
You get into a situation where dinging peoples doors is a matter of when rather than if. Also you probably have a few dings on your car that no one fessed up to, so a bad reaction from the other driver seems like an overreaction.
DradisPing
18d ago
So there's a lack of granularity in that graph, it makes more sense with more detail.
Essentially a previous government had struck a deal with the big gangs to behave, and that caused the initial murder drop. The gangs decided to come back with more demands and the murder rate was going back up just before Bukele.
Bukele came in with a "fuck negotiations, lock them up" policy and the murder rate collapsed.
DradisPing
24d ago
It's one of those things where the FDA can be incredibly overzealous on a whim. They have a lot of discretion. Midjourney needs to be very careful about what they say.
DradisPing
29d ago
Essentially the issue is that the Tony Blair government set out to permanently change the UK using immigration policies and the political class in London were dead set on covering up any problems. Pakistan took the opportunity to rid itself of some of it's worst behaved ethnic groups.
There's too much complicity for important people. The Crown Prosecution Service is a key figure in covering up the crimes and it was run by now PM Keir Starmer.
I actually think they only way to fix things at this point is for a judge in an ICC signatory country to indict Starmer.
Europe already agrees that the ICC can ignore the parts of its charter against indicting heads of government, so I think it's the only way to force the issue. There must be a Canadian judge wild enough to do it.
DradisPing
29d ago
The correct remedy is for the bar association to suspend the prosecutors license, but they aren't going to do that.
DradisPing
29d ago
Developers seem to be split Claude and Codex (ChatGPT) right now. In my experience Codex seems to be a little better at thinking but a little worse at making sure it didn't hallucinate the function. Claude is a little better at doing what other developers are doing. That can be a problem with things like React where it has been trained on a lot of bad code.
The developer split seems kind of ideological right now since people have strong opinions on Anthropic vs OpenAI.
Gauntlet.ai has a free "night school" with videos of talks that will help you stay up to date.
https://apply.gauntletai.com/night-school
They push you to apply but just ignore it if you don't want to.
DradisPing
29d ago
Back in 2022 the Canadian government saw the trucker protests as well as a report from the RCMP warning about domestic revolt.
In response they seem to be trying to form a Varangian Guard. It's not going well.
In 2022 they opened up military officer positions to permanent residents instead of just citizens. Because of the governments commitment to French language, they have been recruiting from French speaking African countries.
They've lowered standards and had to deal with problems.
They are not deterred by the problems and have added an express immigration category for "highly skilled foreign military applicants". https://archive.ph/4JgpZ
DradisPing
29d ago
Yeah, all of the shady peptide sites offer Retatrutide.
DradisPing
29d ago
Doctors have an old joke that goes something like "if your patient manages to loose weight, check for cancer".
People who don't gain weight have a feedback mechanism where if they eat a big meal in the evening they will not be hungry the next day and eat lightly. In fat people, for whatever reason, that's not working. They'll eat a big dinner and be hungry at breakfast. While dieting their body will respond by becoming lethargic to save energy and store whatever they eat.
Yes you can loose weight by aggressively counting every calorie for the rest of your life, but the effort is huge and the quality of life is bad.
The new weight loss drugs just dramatically improve people's lives. They get to experience the sensation of being not hungry for the first time in their lives.
So my take is that Dario really likes the Biden era AI plan where there would be a small number of officially sanctioned companies who worked with government on regulation and all other AI vendors would be effectively banned.
He thinks that by making threats and warnings he can get that back.
However he is bad at politics. He doesn't seem to grasp that the Trump admin isn't going to give him any control over government policies. They are philosophically opposed to a setup where the elected President has to follow the dictates of a specific citizen with no constitutional authority.
The Fable block is best understood in this light.
"Our model is so dangerous! Congress must act to regulate us!"
"We can regulate you without Congress."
So I think we're going to see a long series of events where Anthropic pokes the government and the government smacks them down. At least for the rest of Trump's term.
Dario might end up putting himself in a position where's he's ousted. I think that's more likely than him learning to back down.
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