Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
What the fuck is even the point of these places?
Osama Bin Laden answered your question thusly:
(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;
(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.
(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.
(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.
(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.
(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.
(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.
(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.
You may have a different view of the moral valence of these facts, but they form a pretty useful model.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
It might be useful to have marines around if intelligence identifies a coastal town being used as a hub for minelaying/drone strikes. You want those assets in the area if you try forcing the strait open and then discover you need to do an amphibious landing.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
If you want to shell out the ten bucks to Scott you can read his case for Gavin.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
He does not have the support of any component of the Democratic base that I can think of.
What about unmarried middle-class white women? What about Hispanics?
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
That's just common sense though
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
“🇺🇸 (Brazilian)”
“🇯🇵 (American)”
“🇬🇧 (Pakistani)”
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Speaking of the school strike, I'll take this opportunity to post a contender for the Hall of Fame of cope tweets.
This guy thinks that a KH-55 (air-launched) cruise missile was fired by Iran, and then got jammed by the US in a way which just so happened to cause it to nosedive straight down into a school that was 100 feet away from an IRGC facility which completely unrelatedly was targeted by real US-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles. His evidence? AI analysis of the grainy video of a high-subsonic missile puts the wing fins at 40-45% of the way down the fuselage, whereas a Tomahawk has wing fins 50% of the way down the fuselage.
7.4 million views and 34k likes by the way.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
The United States is going to expend massive amounts of financial and political capital ensuring that Israel doesn’t get nuked. We could have done this much easier via diplomacy. The benefit to Israel of doing it this way instead is that Iran also has all of its conventional weapons and economic power wiped out as well.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Iranian Americans are extremely disproportionately religious minorities. My guess is that even a lukewarm Shi’ite Iranian would not have this reaction.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
The Supreme Leader is a dead man walking, but he also has access to 1000 lbs of 60%-enriched uranium.
There’s no way to deescalate. I don’t think Iran was inclined to preemptively nuke Israel before this war, but they probably are now. A nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran would increase the absolute risk WWIII by about 10% (anyone have different intuitions here?), which is obviously worth a giant ground invasion if that is the only way to disarm the threat.
I am ABSOLUTELY LIVID that it has come to this. We got completely played by the Israel lobby. We only needed nuclear nonproliferation. They wanted Iran disarmed completely.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
I don't know what I expected, "black man stabbed to death at 60's music festeval," to look like, but this didn't dissapoint.
It's like a Family Guy sketch.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
It’s way too early to be reading blackpills like this.
Consider the implications for a hypothetical “no hook-ups” dating app. Are they really going to ban people for consensual encounters? How would they even know?
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
I was right by the way.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Dating is anti-inductive. A parable:
Back in the early days of Tinder it was common for women to mention that they love to watch tv, specifically Netflix. There wasn't any subtext to this. That was in fact what they loved to do, and so they put it on their dating profile. Men, wanting to get laid, responded by also putting how much they loved Netflix on their dating profile, and by asking women they matched with to "Netflix and chill".
This did not result in previously unheard of numbers of interest-matched couples forming relationships. It resulted in the word "Netflix" or "tv" becoming a gigantic red flag.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
One of the wonders of AI machine translation is that you can pull-up any Iranian state tv clip on YouTube get instant English subtitles.
One particularly amusing clip was when they had the Persian equivilent of Steve Kornacki at the big board breaking it down on the map, complete with animated missiles and drones blowing up American bases. I was surprised that the map they use for Israel The Occupied Territories includes the Golan Heights, but not the West Bank or Gaza.
Of course, despite the conspiracy theories, this works with Hebrew-language Israeli sources too. Channel 14 is what I have heard is the conservative news station in Israel. I'll let you know if I find any nuggets worth sharing.
Do you guys have any takes on this Professor Jiang guy making the rounds recently?
I guess it's interesting to see which conspiracy theories are tacitly backed by the CCP. Apparently the duct tape holding American society together is OnlyFans.
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