No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
25d ago
What is ideal weather like where you are from?
Scattered clouds, 15°C and intermittent light breeze is the perfect weather. Not hot enough to sweat when walking, not cold enough to need a jacket, just perfect.
No_one
25d ago
There was a treatise and also some horribly smug memoir.
The clown part is that it took years for people to surface that crap even though half a day of effort would have found it back then. But that'd mean someone out there would have to be proactive.
No_one
25d ago
Dunno, maybe autocorrect /word prediction simultaneously enabled for several languages at once?
No_one
25d ago
Man just noticed.. I should have added 'for sexual stuff and profanity' .. It has an impressive vocabulary but for swearing and lewd stuff it's not that great.
No_one
26d ago
” It’s such a clownish statement you would never believe it actually came out of someone’s mouth, but it did.
You live in clown world. A CRS insider published a book bragging how he and his colleagues have been secretly stage managing race riots, race controversies and so on, in confidence from everyone but maybe some senate committee and president since 1962.
Yes, they only tell congress what they want to tell congress, and they're not subject to FOIA. Book was published in 2020 or so.
Most everyone assumed this crap was managed and CRS was even mentioned because they're not that secret, but e.g. knowledge of this book only came up in 2025.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56253400
In short, it's a clown world so I'm not sure why you're surprised people act like clowns.
No_one
26d ago
In case you really, really do not get it, it's what's called 'sexual innuendo'. English has a relatively impoverished vocabulary so people just substitute whatever words seem roughly appropriate and arrange them in a way that's suggestive.
No_one
27d ago
For a system to last young people have to be able out maneuver the old. First past the post makes this hard.
Given the cohort size disparity, no one is ever 'outmaneuvering' boomers in Germany. They'll keep voting CDU till they can't. Clear eyed people I know are saying they can only imagine things changing for the better after the boomers die out as a group.
No_one
27d ago
The Left has individuals with TV, radio, or podcasts, but they really don’t support each other. Raechel Maddow doesn’t tell the same story as Ezra Klein who doesn’t tell the same story as Thom Hartmann.
No? I recall everyone and their mother calling J.D.Vance, the seemingly most normal guy in politics, ever, weird. There is clear coordination. Back during Trump's first campaign, there was a minor scandal that pretty much every major media sent a high ranking guy to some Clinton event to coordinate campaign messaging.
Also, the TV and newspapers pretty much belongs to the democrats. Not that anyone except those who await death pays attention to legacy media (, but the left has something like 75% of the TV and 90% of the paper market, at least.
No_one
28d ago
Dunno, trying to farm some quotes you could lob at DNS registries to try to get this place banned? Seems excessive for that, who would care that much?
It is odd behavior.
No_one
29d ago
overthrowing a US-backed monarchy
The monarchy was overthrown because the US under Carter refused to support it. (or at least Nixon thought so and blamed Carter for it) They were told if they cracked down on the revolutionaries US would not back that decision.
Making my way through "Suicide of the West" ,a 1962 book by James Burnham. It's a book about liberalism, or more specifically 'liberal syndrome' - Burnham doesn't think liberalism is coherent enough to be called an ideology.
The book aged very well, perhaps the only exception is that back then liberals were typically for freedom of speech for communists -Burnham was basically cancelled for supporting McCarthy, presumably because as a CIA connected guy he knew more than the average left-winger.
Now it's generally true that they're usually soft on islamists.
No_one
29d ago
I read Gibson-Neuromancer and a related book but didn't like it. All style, no substance.
No_one
29d ago
I'm pretty sure I saw someone talking about this and the author is from Singapore.
Ofc, you may think "just how bad could military service be in a city state" well the answer is they do military exercises in Northern Australia in those swamps full of salt-water crocodiles and other Northern Australia goodness.
Yeah, checked it out. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/completed-sublight-drive-star-wars.1095425/all/reader/
'City of Lions' - that's Singapore.
No_one
30d ago
Well, exercise could always speed it up although that'd probably be incredibly unpleasant I guess.
No_one
30d ago
There's some guy out there who was losing like a pound a day bc his doc gave him some combination shot of several anti-obesity drugs and ended up going almost blind and with severe nerve damage and now is suing.
Really put the scale on a firm surface and make sure you're losing it at a fast pace, not something you want to risk. How do people even get that big, food is quite expensive and not needed in excess anyway.
No_one
1mo ago
Enforcing borders is not at all arbitrary as that famous wolfpack range map shows. It's as arbitrary as childbirth.
No_one
1mo ago
Yes, it would. It takes a gigantic amount of shells and a lot of time to level a city.
Several H bomb blasts would accomplish the same at a fraction of a cost.
No_one
1mo ago
IAEA said they're days away from having 300 kg of weapons grade material, enough for a dozen nukes.(How they found out? Spooks? Or is it a lie)
Technologically not that stupid Iran stan was saying they already have a compact implosion design, and that the clandestine nature of their program and constraints(bunkers)have made Iran some of the develop world's best centrifuges.
If you're making plutonium byproducts leak and are detected, but you can do isotopic separation on uranium all you want and it's going to be hard to tell.
No_one
1mo ago
It's quite possible clear the sites are deeper.
Back in the GWB II era neocons American like Cheney were obsessed with hydrogen bomb bunker busters and talking loudly how such strikes are clean bc the radiation is mostly contained. Which is kind of true.
No_one
1mo ago
The only way Israel could really hurt Iran is hitting the oil industry. All the HEU (60% HEU enough for 18 warheads, half a ton IAEA said) and much of the centrifugal capacity is under 200m of a mountain, only possible to attack it with thermonuclear bunker busters.
No_one
1mo ago
I'm sure most people here would be able to pick out the human from the ai 10 times out of 10.
No, they wouldn't. It's easy to make an AI stop using the annoying chatGPT style. I'm not the sharpest tool, don't work with AI in my job aand it took me 1.5 hours to make a text I had a hard time telling apart. And I have plenty of experience looking at AI outputs and being annoyed with its stylistic quirks.
No_one
1mo ago
Can you elaborate? Who's "you," how was the goodwill of the working classes burned out, and who's being asked to accept a 1950s standard of living?
Americans. Without Chinese imports, American standard of living would go down in a big way until a supply chain of substitutes could be created. A decade of suck, at the very least. Millions of people who depend on reselling cheap Chinese imports them would lose their livelihoods.
You're Indian and raised there. To the British and many central/northern European guys, 15°C is shirt-sleeve weather when doing anything more active than sitting outside. If it's 15°C and sunny, I often just go shirtless because after the bloody winter it feels so nice to feel the sun on your skin once more.
Temperature sensitivity is bound to where you were raised, I think. I have seen black people wearing puffy jackets in a thirty degree weather, the kind of jackets I unzip when it's >10 °C because I'd sweat otherwise.
Autonomic nervous system just gets used to some particular temperature..
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