Pasha
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Pasha
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1d ago
She is reaching the end of her career in the coming decade and still has to live off her earnings for close to half a century. If she cannot arrange some alternative income stream that is probably actually barely an upper middle class lifestyle living off her current wealth and not leaving much to any children.
I think the burden of having a very well known prostitute as your mother also does require some more golden spoon than the average to carry.
And she has been hanging around relatively wealthy successful people and prostituting herself to very rich men for a while. I am sure her perception of wealth is quite skewed.
Pasha
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1d ago
Kitty Genovese
I remember learning about this stuff in my English class as a teenager (in the context of some weird psychological mystery of how nobody helped etc) and the actual story went completely over my head. After some life experience of racialised underclass dynamics and now that I google and see photos of the perpetrator and the victim... the story suddenly clicks in my head very well
Pasha
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4d ago
Is there any reason the test was treated as a holy grail other than the "Turing" name brand? I can't see any theoretical justification for it.
Pasha
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4d ago
I cycle through Amsterdam city center very regularly and any part of the city where you might visit as an outsider is totally not representative of a city with good cycling infrastructure (which is almost every Dutch urban area except center of Amsterdam). Narrow 17th century canals with uneven side-streets and rarely any sidewalks wider than 1.5 Americans. It is a city designed for boats and commerce, not for a million tourists strolling around unaware of their surroundings. Also the cars are blocked from the city not for pedestrians but for the bikes. The problems you describe arise because unlike many other old touristic European city centers, Amsterdam is not simply a tourist attraction and has a very dense population who live and work in it. These people go almost everywhere almost entirely by bike. Cyclists you come across aren't a separate breed of people, I have literally never met anyone in this country (except 2 American expats) who don't bike in their daily lives.
Also they shout at you because you are a tourist and they hate you.
Pasha
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5d ago
Overall GDP can grow thanks to a couple of sectors while most others are left stagnating. Without looking too much into the numbers, one can guess finance and tech had this role in western economies in the last decades.
Pasha
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7d ago
I would have never believed what you are describing if I didn’t see it happen to a friend in real time. Big gay pedo rape fanfic writer and all. This was a rather cute but just very shy and nerdy girl who explicitly flirted with me a couple times at the beginning of college but nothing ever happened and I think she went from kissless virgin with weird internet habits to full blown weirdo of exactly the type you are describing during the corona years after some sad family experiences and a lot of social isolation. Once in a while I get a sad “could I have cured her if I pursued her sexually” thought and suppress it.
Pasha
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14d ago
As a funny add-on: a photo of core Rust (programming language) contributors celebrating the 10th anniversary of the language launch: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/15/Rust-1.87.0/
Pasha
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16d ago
Probably was true back in the day when diet drinks were niche and only fat people drank them. Nowadays I can hardly find coke with sugar anywhere
Pasha
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16d ago
Congratulations and good luck! Do keep in mind that when you work in the type of companies that pays that sort of salaries, you will start meeting the type of people who earn significantly more than top-1 percentile. Easy to lose perspective and get sucked up into an unhappy race.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
27d ago
Greek-Turkish population transfers were negotiated between Greek and Turkish states at peace time with no direct urgency or threat. It’s not a good comparison at all.
Don’t get me wrong, I also wish my countrymen could be more enlightened about their patriotism. But then I should ask, as I know many British people personally from various backgrounds and education levels, where are these principled defenders of the British Empire? I certainly haven’t encountered many. What sort of effect do they have on the national consciousness of the general public? Close to none. The country we are supposed to imitate according to you is so lethargic that it cannot even react to the organised race-based rape of digit percentages of its young girls. Fuck no thanks I will take jingoism over that.
Pasha
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27d ago
There is something rather reprehensible about picking up on certain events that happened 100+ years ago and then insisting on prefixing every mention of a nation with that event like a Homeric epithet. It has only two possible outcomes: maximal woke virtue signaling competition to derive somehow moral superiority from talking about horrible things your grandparents have done (a la Germans) or Balkan-style history fights because if you are aware of any history beyond John Oliver sketches then you know that events don’t occur for no reason.
In 1915 something like a quarter of the Muslim population in Anatolia were recent refugees ethnically cleansed out of Caucasus and Balkans in very similar ways to Armenians. Country was fighting for its survival against the Entente that had explicit plans to further this ethnic cleansing from both western and eastern directions until Russia collapsed. Probably a majority of non-Kurdish population of Turkey today has near ancestry who were ethnically cleansed out of their homelands during the events of late 19th-20th century. Something like half the countries in yesterday’s Eurovision rooster holds some significant responsibility for these series of cleansings which included the 1915 Armenian one too. Somehow as long as they don’t challenge NATO consensus these countries never get to carry a genocide epithet.
It’s commonplace for Turks like your friend’s boyfriend to act opportunistically hypocritical but I am generally quite proud that our population at larger never succumbed to the propaganda regarding their own ancestors unique evilness.
The life experiences she gets from her weird upbringing/being very attractive/hypersexuality/knowing interesting people/extreme class mobility/unusual revenue streams make for an interesting read of her blog. Her data science work is just dogshit people tolerate for the rest. It is like talking to an elderly woman about your life while using horoscopes as the "context". The point is not the horoscope, it is talking about your life to someone.
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