Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
13d ago
Trump Senior will be backseat driving
Trump senior is not fully in the driver seat right now. Let's not pretend that there will be much of his mind left in 4 or 8 years. And his mind is terrible at driving anyway. Good at winning elections. But at best mediocre at governing.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
Accurate.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
War is ghoulish endeavor. There was a saying that only losing generals have glorious victories, because they are the ones that haven't seen what battlefield aftermath is after winning.
Lizzardspawn
14d ago
Probably because it is a game.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
findom practices instead of Da Jews
Some jokes just write themselves.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
The C++ and Javascript creators foresaw that this day would come and made sure you can never get rid of technical debt.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
In the last couple of year you can see in the gaming industry that small teams deliver great games and rake massive profit s - not that it hadn't happen before, but they are encroaching on AAA territory. If you can deliver the same as a massive bloated company at fraction of the costs - eventually someone will displace it.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
What kind of catastrophic scenarios are you thinking about?
There is only one cohort of white collar worker that knows what is to be obsolete overnight in the world today - the Eastern Bloc boomers and oldest genx-ers. The ones that were in their 30-s and older when the berlin wall fell.
And they didn't took it easy. So I expect if we shed white collar jobs fast the shock to be painful. And few of the white collars today have the rural connections to be able to move into trades or something similar.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
I was thinking about hunger strikes recently. And I figured out there are two things to be done - either force feeding them, or locking them in a room to make sure they won't cheat for at least 60 days.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
You have put quite a lot of links showing that single people are not trying, few that prove it is hard.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
Learn to cook and make cocktails. Create facebook events for house parties. Eventually someone will bring couple of girls they are hitting on. Befriend them. They have friends, they can invite other girls and they will vouch for you that you are cool guy and not a creep.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
My observations shows that the genz are as outgoing as the millenials and X-ers before them. They gather and drink beer in the park when the weather is warm, love going out clubbing, love going out on hikes and so on and attend shittons of house parties. There is probably selection bias since I drink quite a lot with the outgoing ones, but I don't think that there is massive epidemic of reclusive people.
Covid did move to house partying - but that is not a problem - you could obtain or host one.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
And this is why only clueless people use pure online dating. Meet girls IRL. Chat with her a bit. Take her contacts. Is it THAT hard?
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
Every induction hob I have used - and I have used a professional 3.5kw for my home for long years is bang bang for low power. This is not fun if you need gentle simmer. 300w/s and 1200 for a second every 4 is not quite the same if you don't have huge thermal buffer.
The other problem is that they have a quite stupid overheat protection and don't allow you to properly run hot something for searing.
If those two things are no issue for you - it's the best tech there is.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
Trump is good at identifying problems. Terrible at implementing solutions. Rise of china was fueled by hollowing of the rust belt, Europe is not paying for it's defense, multinational companies do take disproportionate profits from US and so on, immigration and birthright citizenships are loopholes, the universities are too woke ... he just doesn't have the proper managing capacity to solve them right. And he is just using brute force and clumsily.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
I mean im pretty sure 1900s France was doing the “stop or I’ll send a letter to the League of Nations” up until they got invaded in WW1.
Your timeline is off. League of nations was created after WWI. And France was both massive colonial empire and they fought quite the good fight in WWI.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
Israel doesn't have diplomatic relations with Iran, so for them the consulates and embassies are just buildings.
anarcho tyranny is a situation in which the government can get to anyone, but doesn't have the capacity to rule/subdue/pacify everyone. In a true tyranny the streets are safe, in a true anarchy the government can't shoot you at will. In an anarcho tyranny the government can shoot you at will but doesn't have the capacity to shoot everyone that makes the streets unsafe.
So what i am saying is that I don't expect the US to decline to even that stage on the road to ruin.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
I don't think there is going to be civil war. If the USA collapses it will be in a surprising way. Just a hunch. I doubt that you will even get to anarcho tyranny during Trump years.
Lizzardspawn
26d ago
They are (not quite implicitly) concerned that if they go hard on the protestors, the protesting-supporting teachers will go abroad as well
I always enjoy when I read such statements. Go where? Everywhere else in the world they pay less. Almost everywhere in the world there is less tolerance.
Lizzardspawn
26d ago
And with Hamas in control, October 7 will inevitably repeat as soon as the IDF is out.
Wasn't Oct 7 mostly IDF incompetence, and not hamas prowess?
Insights from Taleb and Mandelbrot about tail risks and black swans are another good example of something "obvious" that it took smart people a long time to come to terms with
Really? People have been quite risk averse since forever. The first thing and Eastern European kid learns in life is never to drink from Coca Cola bottle with a Fanta cap (there is something mild inside usually - no more than 120 proof, but kids and foreigners just can't drink) and from there on till the end of their life - first they smell then drink.
What Taleb peddles is mostly common sense. It is not great insights.
Lizzardspawn
27d ago
Can anyone explain what is going on in Gaza? Israel seems to be doing another ground operation, but their goal and why are murky.
Lizzardspawn
27d ago
A market has no objectives aside from matching buyers and sellers.
I am probably the biggest Trumpist here. Just to calibrate your priors.
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