dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2hr ago
If I was a tin pot dictator I would find Trump extremely intimidating at this point
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3hr ago
I'm not sure but I think the "problem" is we would be indifferent to Iran and at peace with them if not for Israel setting the agenda so even doing #1 and #2 were immense cost for us and to little benefit for us.
It was not very America Firsty.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3hr ago
I suppose I'm in the minority to say I think it's good to establish the precedent that if we find negotiating with your leadership very annoying and the international community has little sympathy for them, we'll either abduct them and put them on trial in NY or blow them up while they're in their house.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
I'm not that old but I think aside from the tan suit controversy Obama had the best aesthetics in living memory? Europe was so gosh darn proud of us.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
You're betting against other people though. The marketplace/exchange doesn't care how much you win.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
I mostly only saw Trump announce insane thing, people sold off expecting the crisis to deepen and then lock in a loss when Trump backpedaled.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Trump announces something insane and then the stock market hits an all time high after a brief freakout, which may or may not involve a backpedal. It's been like 9 times so far. Did you predict that?
I was reading Catch-22 on my subway commutes in NYC. Then 9/11 happened in the middle of it.
So I had this feeling of being at war, but not really sure who we were at war with. People randomly bursting out into tears sitting next to me. Overhearing some of the most jingoistic stuff ever. Huge delays because people were hallucinating suspicious packages and people everywhere.
The book suddenly felt very, very relevant.
The absurdity of war and bureaucracy. The true believers intersecting with the grifters. The loyalty oaths. Before 9/11 the book came off as a work of almost gonzo journalism and afterwards read like an autobiography.
I probably would have abandoned it out of boredom if not for 9/11.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
So. Why can't the US just get bored of blowing stuff up, declare mission accomplished and then leave without resolving the SOH?
Is Iran going to impose a permanent toll on the SOH anyway? Are they actually able to do this long term? Why didn't they figure this out until this month? Presumably they should have done this all along?
Something doesn't quite add up.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
If this goes on longer, the environment lobby should be really happy. There should be quite a significant drop in fossil fuel use globally. Definitely better than the effort that goes into doing Earth Day. Reminds me of Genghis Khan and being the "greenest invader" in history.
Trump: warrior for climate justice
Wait I fucked up the percentage math. I thought "20-50 out of 1000, that feels like the right number. oh but he wanted a percent that's 0.2-0.5% right?"
I meant 2-5%
Bah!
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
11d ago
My q: How many professional, actively managed funds beat their benchmark index over the course of 15-20 years? Guess at a percentage/range.
My guess is
One Billion Jews
Recently, Gad Saad was on the Joe Rogan Experience and he asked the host how many Jews he thought there were. Rogan responded one billion, or 500 million minimum, conservative estimate. There are in fact about 20 million Jews. Rogan was off by a factor of 25.
Ha ha. But to be fair if you're not used to doing Fermi estimates you can get tripped up like this.
I asked Claude to challenge me on some that I might be similarly dumb about but I've spent enough time in this kind of community that all of the low hanging fruit, like murder rate in the US or percentage of federal budget that goes to foreign aid has been picked.
The ones that busted me hardest were estimating the age of Proto Indo European (
I ask you, fellow Mottizens, do you have facts that we should all know that would probably punk us if we tried to estimate? Tip: you can make something a spoiler by surrounding it with two | characters on each side (check the preview).
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
13d ago
Sure, but you can do things to change what peer pool they have access to to draw friends from and can take steps to minimize what proportion of them will be druggists. But even at good schools full of kids from high SES homes you still have almost all of them on devices with social-crack apps.
Thanks, yeah that's what I was getting at. Basically, for the device that's just to assist with piano, only give him a user (meaning non-admin account), only have one application that can launch (Chrome), have it force enable (and not allow disabling) one particular extension that I DIY coded (via claude), which only allows loading that one web site and only allow embedding that piano instructor's YouTube videos and does not allow playing any other videos.
Re: the ???
- It'd be a Linux laptop, so I'd customize the desktop environment to be more like a kiosk that only allows Chrome
- I'd tap into groupware functionality in Chrome so that the admin (me) can force enable/prevent disabling the vibe coded extension
Again this is for the online piano lessons assisting device. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that I have to do this. I don't even want a relationship with YouTube but the piano course guy chose it and this is what we have to resort to. It's a shame because his course is otherwise excellent.
I find your comment rude and not generous and am mostly going to disregard it.
My kid loves piano and gets a lot of value out of the online lessons and he does them at his own pace whenever he wants. The problem and the point is the tablet, which is just to help with piano, is a distraction machine by default and tech-media seems happy with that and I have to exert considerable resources to change that.
Yes I could do a lot of things. The videos are integrated into the web site so there's written parts and video parts that need to be next to each other to not be frustrating with, say, scripting yt-dlp to download all of the allowed videos to a folder that he has to switch to and find and run.
Anyway, I'm an ex Google engineer and I'm just saying it's not trivial to work around the viral and distracting content being jammed at him from every direction. It's a lot worse than me being on the internet unsupervised when I was a kid.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
13d ago
And I also would sooner find her parents more responsible for letting her be on screens all day than the social media platforms themselves.
The fucking problem with this shit is even if you don't let your kids have a smartphone with social media apps, if you send them to school, every single friend of theirs does and they use these social apps to communicate and bond and if your kid is the weirdo without one they feel unable to function socially and hate you every day for restricting them.
I have an extremely hard time keeping this stuff away from my kid even though we're homeschooling. He does an online piano course from his tablet sitting above his keyboard. The course web site embeds YouTube video content. He's repeatedly had trouble just sticking to the course and I've had to ratchet up parental controls to the point where each video he watches has to be approved by me now. They just won't let you program YouTube to say "only show and allow this kid this piano guy's channel", nothing else
I'm on the third parental control regime at this point. Next thing to try is to replace his tablet with a locked down laptop where he can only run a pre installed web browser that force enables a vibe coded extension.
Pitch: identify male communism influencers and try very hard to boost their sex appeal to insane levels. The rest follows from there.
Details: they need to have real street backgrounds, like be artists or bartenders or woodshop owners and show promise at building a following. Then I would start hosting these conventions/parties that are communist adjacent that are really just a cover to invite these guys to hang out and give minor talks. Very important: ensure these things are like 70% female and plant a few very hot women to be all over the influencers. Leak some photos of them together getting drunk. In the early days the goal is to make these influencers think they're God's gift to women.
Once they're properly motivated and thinking with their dicks + feel the communism flow through them, from there, continue growing the conventions/parties, always maintain the high female to male ratio. Make the parties invitation only but in a hipster kind of way (you need to know it even exists). The parties need some kernel of grassroots appeal to actually take off and not be lame. Has to be something fresh. You can hire women at first to come to these but at some point you need something sensual or cool that brings women out willingly. Things like climate justice or black lives matter are tired. This is probably the hardest part though you can try a bunch of concepts with $250mm to burn through.
Anyway as these grow bigger gradually make the communist male influencers more center-stage, giving keynotes, etc. always ensuring they're surrounded by tons of women and that their high sex appeal is not in question. And start making it easier for wannabe communist guys to come to these and maybe get laid.
I give it 5-10 years before this counter-culture becomes a political movement with real weight.
On Friday
You're a day early. He posted the demand on Truth Social at 3/21/26, 7:44 PM Washington DC time. So we've got another day to go.
to totally destroy Iranian infrastructure in order to destroy the country
planefag on X pointed out that the US has Graphite bombs, which are designed to disrupt transformers without destroying them. So the US could cause power outages with repeated bombings until they decide to stop.
Okay, so, if you get pulled over by a female cop and written a ticket for a broken tail light and you feel this was unjust you get to hire an actress to play her and act out a 14 minute long amateur porn style sexual humiliation music video about her? Because she's an agent of the state and subject to more criticism? Including this kind of criticism?
It's true, in some of the videos he is indeed criticizing or mocking the officers in their official capacity. Like the fat officer in his house seemingly tempted by the lemon pound cake. Or for seizing $400 cash. But in Licc'em Lisa video he's just portraying her as a whore going around town licking clit and ultimately getting seduced and fucked by Afroman.
I reiterate that it feels the jury was so annoyed by the officers doing a bogus search and bringing claims over justified criticism that they just overlooked this really gross one that came later.
So. Is the implication that people with the wrong political opinions are a bunch of cucks or what?
I mostly agree with your political assessment but this seems inflammatory.
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