TeknOShEeP
4d ago
Catholics are not allowed to ignore the pope. A Catholic potus has an obligation to obey the pope or they are not Catholic.
Billions of Catholics ignore the pope's directives every day. You may feel this is some sort of contradiction of the religion, but you are grossly, vastly outvoted.
Insert Ex Cathedra explanation here
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
Nothing fancy, I do most of the cooking in our house and just try to keep things simple and relatively quick. I used to go more all out and do more sophisticated stuff, but nowadays I just shoot for quick, relatively cheap, and tasty. This is just one of about a dozen or so casserole variations I do, none of them take very long, and you basically just throw whatever ingredients you have into an AI and it will come up with good suggestions.
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
Cheeseburger casserole with heavy cream
2 lb ground beef 1 lb bacon 8 eggs 1 cup heavy whipping cream 12 oz. Cheddar cheese 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cook beef and bacon separately over medium heat until brown. Place beef in a casserole pan, add the bacon, mix well, and spread in an even layer. Mix eggs, cream, salt, (and pepper) well. Add 3/4 of the Cheddar cheese. Pour the batter over the beef and bacon and sprinkle the remaining Cheddar on its top. Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes until golden brown.
Its a carnivore recipe, so extremely calorie dense, and easy to digest. How health it is depends on your personal level of trust with nutritional science.
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
Correct. At this point the majority of what the US government does is redirect money from people who have earned it with productive labor to those with the right political connections and ability to game the system. The fact that anything gets done at all is a testament to the durabilty of the inital arrangements.
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
The cuts it involves are insane IMO and not worth it unless you think out of all that excess spending, benefits will fall out of it and accrue to other industries and subsectors
Defense spending is only about 50% fraud and mismanagment. Social spending, at this point, is 100% fraud and mismanagement. Basic infrastructure is about 50% F&M. Any government speding cuts at this point are a good thing.
TeknOShEeP
10d ago
If you're getting into arguments about politics with your therapist, you need a different therapist.
TeknOShEeP
13d ago
Yes. I hire for technical roles (actual science and engineering, not programming) on occasion, look at resumes and do interviews more that occasionally, and it cannot be overstated how little a prestigious institution for a Bachelor's degree matters. Actually, its probably a counter signal, especially if BS from Prestigious Institution is followed by Graduate Degree from Less Prestigious Institution. That pretty much screams "DEI pick, lawsuit waiting to happen, do not hire."
Best results? BS from a good state school or Jesuit college, followed up with a worthwhile grad degree from a school thats respected in the field. Shows personal growth, not coasting.
The value of an Ivy undergrad degree is the networking, that's it (other than maybe Math at Harvard or Princeton). Want a rigorous education? Go to big state U and pick the hardest major, or a Jesuit school and argue philosphy against people with a 500 years worth of cliff notes.
TeknOShEeP
22d ago
Lol what? He is absolutely offering very specific criticism of specific actions. Specific cops raided his place based on an anonymous tip, caused $20k in damage that they did not compensate him for, and so, understandably pissed, he made a bunch of music videos using security footage of the incident and yes, ascribing certain negative aspects to the cops who raided his home in the context of thst criticism. Textbook free speech, and happily the jury agreed.
The idea that you can't insult agents of the state for doing their jobs poorly is how you get dictatorships.
TeknOShEeP
24d ago
The difference is that the cop, acting in their official capacity as an agent of the state, performed what appears to be a bunch of unjust and legally actionable violations of his civil rights. Afroman is offering criticism to specifc agents of the state for their specific actions that in his eyes, warrant such criticism.
A barista doing her job for Starbucks is in both a socially and leglly different position. It has been long established in case law that defamation of public figures or state actors has a much higher bar than private figures.
TeknOShEeP
24d ago
Hmmm... have they ever been seen in the same room together? Allegedly theres a 7 year age gap, but I feel living a double life as a famous kung-fu actor is exactly the sort of thing Papa Illia would do.
TeknOShEeP
30d ago
Lol, Qatar is just Dubai Jr. Same "build a fuckload of gaudy skyscrapers in the middle of the fucking desert despite miles of empty space everywhere while relying on a population made up of 90%+ imported labor to do all of the dirty day to day actual work."
And Qatar Airlines is just Emirates with a better marking team. They fly the same planes to the same destinations with the same customers (ie- economy is full of subcontintals on transit flights, biz class is full of rich arabs or western biz people). The whole experience from glitzy airport lounge that somehow manages to be less comfy than the average Scandinavian bus stop to the glitzy permium cabin pods that are underneath the outer cosmetic shell the same parts made by the same suppliers to the glitzy menu with gold-leafed cappacinos and "premium" wines is interchangeable with most airlines these days.
TeknOShEeP
30d ago
Trump picked his cabinet based on loyalty more than competence.
Repeating the leftoid talking point endlessly doesnt make it true.
Hegseth is clearly vastly more competent than Austin (to be fair, a low bar as Austin wasnt even present for large chunks of his tenure), Bessent runs circles around Yellen, Rubio mogs Blinken, and really the only sorta tie is Bondi vs Garland. You may not like the agenda, but Trump 2.0's cabinet is actually capable of doing things, unlike 1.0 or Biden.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
The lack of articulation is really on the general public though. There is a very long winded explanation involving Iran's ballistic missile production rates and available US/Israel strike capabiltiy that comes down to "either we hit them now, or we will never again have the capability to significantly deter them from developing nuclear weapons without incurring massive civilian casualties as colateral damage". The administration made the (likely correct) decision that such an explanation would only play with the analysis nerds and fall disasterously flat with the general public, and didnt really bother.
As far as the unjust part goes, any government that happily massacres 30,000+ of its own citizens (by its own admission, outside estimates are higher) for the crime of protesting has lost all moral legitimacy, and its removal by outside forces is just. Wise? Dunno. Just? Absolutely. Fuck the mullahs, and fuck anyone who supports them.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Mines have no IFF
There are mines with IFF (Turkey and Finland make some), but I dont think Iran has any.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Nah, AT weapons simply arent at a scale they can pose any threat to a battleship armor belt or turret faces. A javelin may have a spec 800 mm of RHA penetration, but the 12.1" Class A monolithic plate that makes up the main belt on an Iowa is something north of 1000mm RHA equivalent (though RHA equivalent testing is really only done for much thinner tank armor, not naval armoring). Also, there are a minimum of three layers of armor to penetrate the citadel (decaping plate, main belt, spall liner or bomb, main, and splinter decks) with feet of standoff distance between them, that alone would defeat an EFP warhead designed to punch through one layer of tank armor.
Modern naval ships are much less heavily armored for a wide variety of reasons, but armor not working isn't one of them. Economics, geopokitics, and submarines would be the big three IMO.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
which have made carriers obsolete in the same way that carriers made battleships obsolete.
Which is to say, not obsolete at all? The idea that the battleship was made obsolete in WWII is a) untrue, and incidentally b) a highly american-centric one based on experiences in the pacific. The only way battleships were made obsolete by carriers is in carrying the role of primary offensive arm of naval strategy (ie- sail your Grand Fleet towards the enemy Grand Fleet, blow them to pieces and then blockade their coast and shell their harbors and raid their shipping with cruisers was replaced by launching airstrikes against capital combatants from long distance and submarine warfare against their commerce), in a tactical and operational sense they were still very much relevant.
Looking at the Iran situation, it would be incredibly helpful to have a vessel that was not particularly vulnerable to drone and missile stikes (through whatever combination of armor and defensive armament) that could cheaply return fire on shore- and small boat-based launchers that we could park in the straight of Hormuz right anout now.
Also, carriers can also serve as highly efficient drone launch platforms, to say they are obsolete in an era of drone warfare is circular logic.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Agreed. I would add "How was your day?" is also a way for her to judge your emotional state and adjust accordingly. Most guys (and I include myself in this group until my wife started explicitly pointing it out) don't realize that when we first come home from work, especially if theres a shit commute involved, that we're about the grouchiest we will be all day.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Here, it seems that either real insurance companies are bad at judging risk (which would be bad for libertarian utopias), or that the USG is bad at juding risk.
Neither. Real insurance companies, or more accurately reinsurers and underwriters, have certain regulatory-imposed capital requirements (specifically EU SCR II and its UK equivalent) that scale with risk in a non-linear fashion. Those requirements rapidly escalated in such a fashion as to force out basically all of Lloyds from covering Hormuz transits. Not because they didnt want to, but because you simply cannot raise capital fast enough to cover your regulatory requirements.
The DFC, being a US government entity, is under no such burden and has been given a blank check to slurp sweet premium. The rough numbers being thrown around are 75% of the value of a ship per transit, which given the spike in oil and LNG prices will still make for a profitable journey for carriers.
In short, EU regs meant to save an industry are ironically going to undermine it.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Yeah, thats Anthropics side of the story, but as you note there is no specific contract terminology put forth there. So we still dont actually know what the debate is really about, and I am skeptical a fairly young silicon valley company has actually done the proper due diligence regarding their contractual obligations to the DoW to be in the position they claim to be in. If I were a betting man, I would wager the contract between Anthropic and the DoW does not contain any of the safeguards Anthropic thinks it does, based on my experience with similar contracts.
Also, someone needs to tell Anthropic they are roughly 40 years too late on the autonomous systems thing. The Aegis system used by the navy has had a fully autonomous mode that, once authorized by a human is capable of detecting, prioritizing, and engaging targets without any further authorization. Mostly because the navy realized at the speeds of modern missile engagements there literally is not time for humans to make decisions. Hegseth was maybe just out of diapers when the DoD formulated its policy on software being capable of killing on its own.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
The problem is that the DOW agreed to their terms, then changed its mind, then threw a hissy fit and abused the law to punish them when they didn't agree to a retroactive changing of the terms.
I'm seeing this framing thrown around a lot, but no actual evidence its true. Like, what is the actual, accepted and in-force contractual provision that Anthropic and the DoW are disagreeing on? Because the OP and reporting both state this as a provision under negotiation, not in-force.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
Recasting is one of those things that is never, ever mentioned by the people who are handling your loan, unless you directly ask about it. Funny how that works.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
Nonononono! Making extra payments is a trap, because all you are doing is shortening the term duration without affecting the monthly payment. In effect, you are robbing yourself of the interest that money could be making, and letting your lender benefit from it instead.
What you want to do is recast the loan (which will admittedly require a more substantial payment) possibly combined with a refinance. This will reduce your monthly payments without modifying the loan term, which gives you the interest rate advantage.
Then you can use your increased monthly available cash to pay down the loan more aggressively if you are really trying to burn through it.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
Epstein wasn't a finance bro, he was a tax-dodge bro. His entire net worth came from buddying up to billionaires with strategies on how to tax-optimize their personal holdings. Requires a lot less intelligence when your opponent is the federal tax authorities rather than other razor sharp finance types.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
Yup, me too. My shorthand explanation is I like the policies of Bill Clinton, for the most part. Today that's most closely matched by Trump, therefore Im a fascist nazi bigot. Oh well.
For some subset of g, where g is pure logic. For other subsets of g, especially those related to mechanical reasoning and 2nd order effects, I have a large pile of former FAANG resumes that have failed the conversion to nuts, bolts, and actual atoms engineering that argues otherwise. Not to say they arent intelligent, but a "pure generalist" is not a hard requirement.
I think this is one of those "theory vs practice" things. In theory, programming is an extremely intellectually straining endevour, and the academic pipline in the West is set up with some pretty fine filters. In practice though with the way big companies PM the development, deployment, and maintenence of most software today you dont actually need an above-average IQ to excel (this is a feature, not a bug). I agree with badger that the market rate for programming salaries has probably overstated the relative intellectual demand compared to other professions of similar educational requirements.
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