Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
7hr ago
A dictator not feared is finished:
If the military stands "behind" him - the real dictator will be some general or cluster of generals. He will be a rubberstamping figurehead.
I think that we people in the west have really forgotten the meaning of Cersei's "Power is power". The reason people don't get disappeared in the streets of Paris and Berlin like in moscow, are not because the government can't, but because they don't want to.
Lizzardspawn
9hr ago
It depends if the military have appetite to run the country or not. If they decide they want to - whatever parliament does is void.
Lizzardspawn
9hr ago
The problem with low tfr in the West is mass immigration, not labor shortages. If natives in Germany or Sweden stop reproducing, they’re going to end up being 30% of the population by 2100 and they and their descendants will be living in somebody else’s country, forever. Korea and China will likely still be 90%+ Korean and Chinese, there will simply be fewer of them. This is no major issue.
All the technologies you listed can automate genocide too if push comes to shove
Lizzardspawn
10hr ago
Have you tried anime? Great 2D-animated movies are still being made, just not in America.
Yes. But it is not the same. The western animations are rooted in western culture and deeply integrated with the musical theater and pop culture tradition of the USA. Not that there aren't amazing animes and I enjoy them tremendously, but it is completely different beast, that just can't scratch that itch.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
And that is literally a blank pardon with a small asterisk
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
(Quick) Edit: Ah, well. Guess I was wrong
Don't read too much. Right now trashing Biden is zero cost for Trump. So he is doing it.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
I think the pardons need to be precise and specifically define which crimes are being pardoned
Nope. With the discretion that the prosecutors have and the US penalty code vastness - let's say for Jan 6 participants, anything but a blank pardon will leave further door for prosecution.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Meh, nothingburger. But he missed an opportunity here - he had to pardon Trump and the Jan 6 rioters too. With - let's tone down the political persecutions message. I think the democrats would have been too confused to exactly what to be outraged about, that they would just stay silent AND the republicans would let it slide. And he would take some of Trump's wind.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
It's first of December so of course I am listening to Once upon December. Classical animations are so eternal and age so gracefully or even at all. I really miss that they don't make them anymore
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
What do you have against basic human decency?
Who gets to decide what basic human decency constitutes. Your basic human decency many be "enabling the delusions and fetishes of mentally ill people" for others.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
Some riff on Tzatziki is the best - semi-strained yoghurt, plenty of lemon juice, garlic and dill, salt to taste. You look for naturally lactofermented yoghurts, with nothing added, on the tangier side.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
New media isn't conventionally left or right, but the most popular versions tend to lean republican.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers
The total media dominance in print, tv and web news and the monoculture turned everyone even mildly dissenting to alternative pastures. And there was demand for right wing content and the market delivered.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
I don’t think there was any significant damage.
Sending a "We can get you" message does quite a bit of damage on morale and the government image.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Did it hit?
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Also why would you assume blue sky wouldn’t be an echo chamber
It won't be echo chamber, it will be the singularity in a black hole. The circular firing squads already started.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
at risk of Russia going after NATO, and until the last Ukrainian dies in a foxhole
Russia will go after nato with what economy and military industrial complex?
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
which I find surprising.
doctors know how to cook their books.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
Anyone into knife sharpening? Especially with diy jigs/systems? Looking for something that can utilize an already sizable collection of full size whetstones, and not the tiny ones that Edge pro apex 4 uses.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
I was joking couple of months ago that when guys need therapy they need to do with their best friend two hours of hiking, two hours of lifting, two porterhouse steaks and two bottles of bourbon.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
What is the obsession of Americans (and unfortunately younger Gen Zs in Europe too) with therapy?
Anyway my opinion is - LLM delivered quackery will be as efficient as the human one. But at least will be substantially cheaper.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
The penguin was amazing show. Too long since we had a proper protagonist that was flat out irredeemable.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
Honestly I just want to see in what kind of circular firing squad Bluesky will eventually turn out to be. I do hope that X will have some competition, but not exactly bullish on that.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
Obviously overpaid. Marissa Mayer ruined Yahoo for 239 million dollars, I would have gladly ruined it for 150 million. And there are people that would run it into the ground for a million and some for free.
No, but "if you were able to drive sober airbags wouldn't be a top issue" still works as a non nonsensical retort.
If you remove the reckless drivers from the road the value of car safety features goes down substantially
It is a blunt, inefficient instrument. I agree.
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