No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
39m ago
..sometimes, I wonder how more normal people's mind works.
To me, any photo I know to be artificial, any text communications or prose I know to be an output of a LLM seems..unreal. It's obviously not real, obviously as fake as most compliments and small talk.
Getting 'oneshotted' by a mirage I asked for seems as real as falling in love with a prostitute you hired. I can't rule out liking a whore - a few I've noticed are quite charming, but not in the context of an obvious business transaction. Then there are the uncanny ones - like Aella or Bonnie Blue, who by rights should not appear outside of Cronenberg films.
No_one
49m ago
I think it was... Nate Silver who posted that it doesn't seem it's hurting him at the polls. Vox Day and such are very special people who aren't that interesting.
No_one
8hr ago
I understand they're fucked because initial design had a Glock-style trigger insert safety that would have prevented firing unless it was depressed.
Sig claims some potential customer was against it, so they removed it, and then went on to produce guns which will fire at the slighest shock if a certain combinations of part sizes is involved.
Seems like an incredible management oversight, because the gun designers must have been aware of this, and if the management did not test out how a gun with maximally bad part tolerances would behave, they basically fucked themselves.
That's the least what you should do - the people who engineered the trigger mechanism should have been able to figure out how to avoid this and what's the most dangerous combination of sizes.
No_one
8hr ago
They would surely have killed him when he was a private citizen and before he was arrested and locked up in a jail in the middle of NYC.
Not everyone has perfect knowledge of what's going to happen.
Epstein’s lawyers told him he was going to die in prison and it is very plausible he told them that in that case he wanted to do it now
Why are his lawyers insisting they don't believe he killed himself? Some self-serving ploy to keep being paid by his estate or what?
No_one
8hr ago
He was a psychopath who has been getting away with it his entire life. I don't think it's plausible, at all, that he killed himself. These people are optimistic and never really give up. You could maybe expect a guy like that to kill himself once he's in a supermax with no parole, etc.
No_one
9hr ago
He has some sort of trauma because someone in his family died bc of alcoholism? I've seen similar behavior in Russian expats. They won't even have a beer bc of what they saw in 1990s Russia. Very odd people.
No_one
9hr ago
I don't think he actively prefers them.
A single look at the period photo of the prostitute he got into trouble with - Stormy Daniels(middling tasteful nude) makes it pretty clear he's not interested in teens.
No_one
9hr ago
I listened to Carlson's interview with MM and I remember MM making a claim that Epstein was more of a freelancer. Surely at times he worked for Israel and other western services , but mostly he was in it for himself and for profit - and what he did was help with tax evasion using shady financial means, steal from his clients - more for the love of the game than actual need and so on.
No_one
9hr ago
Still, a lot of epistemic commons are burned in the process, and I really don't like that.
Still, a lot of epistemic commons are burned in the process, and I really don't like that.
Compared to what went on before - e.g. transgender self-id, male pregnancy etc.. I don't find this newest, frankly pathetic attempt meaningful or even very aggravating. It's just what the post-tumblr left does. Back before it's brain was melted by lack of talent and internet, they just played games with language.
Now, the games are stupid, nobody who isn't a tumblr-type person can take it seriously and they keep engaging in circular firing squads.
Not sure this is going to influence anyone - people who already believed Trump is a philandering stupid bald nazi clown etc.. he's already maximally bad in their eyes. Everyone else has tuned out their yammering and they no longer have much of a megaphone to command with the decline in TV viewership.
No_one
1d ago
You'll get digital ID for the same reasons, you'll see.
Will anything prevent people from simply using internet without said ID?
No_one
3d ago
I think the Russian objective is to make AFU as personnel poor as possible and make them withdraw & negotiate rather than create a sudden collapse.
That's probably why e.g. bridges over the Dniepr haven't been bombed (it'd also complicate civilian situation a lot). It really is a quite limited war.
No_one
6d ago
The narrative about Assad the evil eye doctor using nerve gas to make it clear how evil he is compared to the moderate democratic Al-Qaeda affiliates he was fighting is complicated bc the munitions supposedly used to dispense the nerve gas being very short-ranged garage made contraptions that would have required a truck convoy to get within 1-2 km of the targets. The state department map shows that the only place where these could have been safe was Western Ghouta, were funnily enough basically no actual sarin residue was found.. All the places with actual evidence of nerve gas were fairly deep into the area where government did not have solid presence in.
Those who want to see it in painful detail, aerodynamic calculations were made and published.
No_one
7d ago
There were also anti-government snipers in Ukraine, cooperating with the most radical protesters and fired on both the protesters and the government, trying to spark a bloodbath.
Some of the activists were now saying, during the trial that they were shot from behind by unknown people who were in the part of a hotel which was controlled by opposition.
Of course, good people who have been brought up on a steady diet of pro-social propaganda and who have been groomed to be morally invested into a sordid little geopolitical pissing match have to believe that their side would never, ever do anything shady or horrible.
^^@FistfullOfCrows it's all kabuki.
No_one
8d ago
Would you believe Russian theories about some silly yacht and I dunno, Serbians if their warships were observed lurking over a future bomb site ? No, you wouldn't. You can't expect anyone to believe these paper-thin denial and deflections.
No_one
8d ago
Chinese bomber wings can subject US navy to 100+ salvos of anti-ship missiles through most of the places where it'd like to confiscate shipping.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRTH4sGXUAATUc8?format=jpg&name=large Also same bombers can also deploy these cruise missiles against US air bases in the region.
Unless Vietnam, Thailand and Japan decide to cooperate, US naval blockade could end up as something of a farce.
No_one
8d ago
China has far superior aerial forces and can physically subject most of Taiwanese airfield to artillery bombardement.
They have a little chance to be able to put a few planes into the air on day 2.
No_one
8d ago
The German conclusion is political theater. Ukraine may have had single digits of people with the right expertise to dive 100m down in a strong current. Furthermore the yacht they supposedly took was so small they'd have had problems carrying all the gear this needed.
"For the first few days, the harbor master said he was “not allowed to say a thing”. But today, John Anker Nielsen can reveal that four or five days before the Nord Stream blasts, he was out with the rescue service on Christiansø because there were some ships with switched-off radios. They turned out to be American naval vessels, and when the rescue service approached, they were told by Naval Command to turn back.
Therefore, the harbor master has some faith in the theory that American star journalist Seymour Hersh, among others, has put forward without any documentation: that the US was behind the sabotage. The Americans have these small unmanned submarines that can solve any task, John Anker Nielsen has been told"
A Danish ministry of defense official said he observed US ships with turned off AIS over the future blast site and when he sailed out to ask what's going was told it's all okay and to go away.
Considering that Biden said that Nord Stream 2 was going to be stopped one way or other, what more do you want ? An embroidered order to the naval diver unit ?
Nobody halfway serious believes American denials on this.
No_one
8d ago
Everyone but 5-10% of old people has already left. Also in Ukraine, the water table is comfortably off so you can get some water from wells even if the power is out I'm pretty sure.
No_one
8d ago
They are also of the opinion that if Zelensky capitulates (or is seen to) he's gone next election, he was seen as soft on Russia pre war and is being outflanked by more popular warhawks.
War hawks. Tell me, when they have been grabbing people off the street like kidnappers and they're still 50% short on fighting men, do you think being hawkish has a future? They're already struggling.
Most people believe what they need to believe and live with themselves. Most people aren't capable of independent thinking, they conform to 'the room' without giving it a single thought. It's just what people do.
When the hangover of reality asserts itself, they're going to feel betrayed. Because the situation they were in was described and understood very well early on.
No_one
9d ago
Russians wouldn't settle for 'freezing the conflict', they're not idiots. They're going to demand neutrality or keep fighting.
They have said that over and over.
No_one
9d ago
Please be serious. Where Putin puts his forces after taking out Ukraine is the concern.
There's nothing valuable in the Baltics whatsoever. Nothing at all. The population would mostly flee and be happily snapped up by European union which needs wagies. Baltic sea navigation wouldn't be improved, actually seizing the Baltic state could possibly make western Europe close the Danish straits.
HxA is a very much failed project. They've achieved nothing, really. What they do is classically liberal tone policing, and have utterly failed to do anything about the domination of academia by progressive ideologues.
Incrementalism and appealing to progressives entrenched in universities isn't going to bring balance - progressives know they're right and they know what they want. Only putting the fear of unemployment a-la Rufo can possibly succeed.
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