Blueberry
6d ago
And her children look like her, so a secretly-adopted-conspiracy can be dismissed.
Blueberry
7d ago
Italy voted a porn starlet into parliament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller
In 1985, she switched to the Radical Party, campaigning on a libertarian platform against nuclear energy and NATO membership, as well as for human rights. She was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, with approximately 20,000 votes. While in office and before the outset of the Gulf War, she offered to have sex with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in return for peace in the region.
Blueberry
8d ago
we should expect the actual undoing (if it should ever happen) of woke will be mocking it and making it low status (somehow?
Matt Walsh making Robin DiAngelo pay $30 to his black camera man was effective in that even mainstream media talked about the scene and she vanished in shame:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9JSjAnGwzqI
But mocking is difficult, as the superweapon of political correctness was to make mocking cringe, one can’t make deriding jokes of gay/fat/trans/ChingChong/disabled/mentalIllness/unhoused/otherness when it is punching down. Sort of a jiujitsu move: being gay was low status and destroyed careers until coming-out got the quality of braveness. This can be easily transferred to other former icks.
Blueberry
8d ago
As Zagrebbi argue here https://salafisommelier.substack.com/p/a-robin-hanson-perspective-on-the Marxism is really the Platonic Realm of wordcellery!
That little link has 6236 words and a hundred links! The post makes one interesting (novel?) idea in positioning itself against Hanania and others: Wokists are not woke because they believe in equality, but they believe in equality so that they can signal wokism (to differentiate themselves as elite from the non-elite underclass). Wokism is more viral than Marxism, because the latter was born in a homogeneous society while Wokism evolved in the multi-ethnic world we are living today and is used in credibly giving a pro-social signal to minority-elitists. Wokism is a tool in the status hierarchy. That also means we have not reached peak wokeness, as the tool will remain useful in future.
As a side note: some Russian nationalists bemoan that USSR-Marxism developed wokist elements (promoting the minority out-group). For example Ukraine getting Crimea under Khrushchev instead of Russification like under the Zars.
Blueberry
9d ago
If Zelensky were to make peace, he'd have to fight the nationalists who won't give up this easily
Isn’t that true for any Ukrainian President? How would a US replacement/puppet be accepted?
While Russia is currently winning, they are winning very very very slowly. The war can go on for a long time.
Blueberry
10d ago
I don't doubt that the cops in question were horrible predators.
The kneeler Derek Chauvin maybe, but Alexander Kuong and Tou Thao seemed more incompetent/overwhelmed than evil. Thomas Lane, the other white cop, was unlucky as it was his fourth day on the job and he challenged Chauvin only with questions but not with actions.
Blueberry
11d ago
they couldn't be sure if the blood donated from gay people at the time could have infected people with HIV so he ordered the blood thrown out
Wait, what? This is insane revisionism, the bloody scandal was in the other direction!
https://www.dw.com/en/infected-blood-scandal-a-horrifying-global-disaster/a-70093762
Hundreds of thousands of people got HIV and/or hepatitis via infected blood transfusions over the past decades, and people are still dying.
"Any country that bought contaminated blood from the US in the 1980s was affected," said Wherry.
In Canada, 2,000 people contracted HIV and 60,000 people developed hepatitis C. … in France, more than 4,000 people contracted HIV.
In Germany, a scandal erupted in 1993 after government officials tried to cover up reports of HIV/AIDS in people given infected blood. Over 400 people died, and a third of the country's hemophiliacs (2,000 people at the time) were infected with HIV.
China also saw HIV infections from contaminated blood bought and sold internally. An estimated 300,000 people were infected with HIV through blood selling-schemes in the 1990s.
People are still being infected with diseases by contaminated blood products. In 2016, more than 2,000 people in India contracted HIV from contaminated blood transfusions
Yes you can screen blood, but this was only developed in the mid 80s and had high failure rate, for example it detected antigens which are made by the body after months of infection, so a freshly infected could still contaminate the blood supply.
Blueberry
15d ago
Meditation and yoga sessions and cheap decorative Buddha statues you can put into your garden/house without making a strong religious statement.
Blueberry
18d ago
This is so fucking primal that you see fashion Heiresses getting knocked up by sexy felons and a literal Rothschild leaving her husband to date a rapper.
Looked both up as the links were a few years old:
Chloe Green does have a son with Jeremy Meeks, but they soon separated. She now has a second child with a successful businessman who is not as tall, is white, without tattoos and has a dad body.
And Kate Rothschild has a baby with a (lot younger than her) soyboy environmental activist.
The hot criminal seems to do ok. He doesn’t have a superstar career, instead a bit of modeling and acting in cheap D-Movies, but a quick search doesn’t find any scandals or unhinged drug stories. I found a recent interview where he sounded normal and self-reflected.
The rapper Jay Electronica was for a time a mysterious wunderkind star, but he never delivered (people waited a decade for his first lackluster album). He made the news a few years ago for this banger verse:
"I bet you a Rothschild I get a bang for my dollar, the synogogue of Satan want me to hang by my collar"
Blueberry
24d ago
I copied your post into o4-mini ChatGPT, without the last two paragraphs and the PSC idea, and this was spit out after a minute:
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Here’s a proven, zero-Downtime–capable way to copy your Cloud SQL for MySQL database from Project A into Project B without dumping to GCS or exposing it publicly: use Database Migration Service (DMS) in the destination project, treating the source instance as a “self-managed” MySQL endpoint. This leverages private connectivity (VPC peering) so data never traverses the public Internet.
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Prepare your source Cloud SQL instance • Enable binary logging & GTID, and use row-based replication on your source: set log_bin, binlog_format=ROW, gtid_mode=ON, and retain logs (expire_logs_days or binlog_expire_logs_seconds) for at least a week. • Create a replication user with REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT, SELECT, SHOW VIEW, EXECUTE, TRIGGER, etc., per your migration type .
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Enable DMS in the destination project • In Project B, enable the Database Migration Service API and grant yourself the Database Migration Admin role.  • Ensure the DMS service account has compute.networkAdmin so it can set up peering. 
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Set up private connectivity (VPC peering) • In Project B, create a Private Connectivity Configuration under DMS → Private connectivity. Select the VPC from Project A that holds your source instance’s private IP; DMS will automatically peer its service-network VPC into that network. 
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Create your Source Connection Profile • Still in Project B’s DMS UI, go to Connection Profiles → Create Profile → Source. • Engine: MySQL • Classification: “Self-managed MySQL” (even though it’s Cloud SQL)—this bypasses the same-project restriction . • Host: the private IP (or public IP + authorized network) of your Cloud SQL source. • Credentials: use the replication user you created. 
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Create & run the Migration Job • Go to Migration Jobs → Create Migration Job in Project B.
- Name your job.
- Source: select the connection profile from step 4.
- Destination: choose an existing or let DMS create a new Cloud SQL instance in Project B.
- Connectivity: pick Private IP and select the private connectivity config you made in step 3.
- Type: choose One-time (initial load only) or Continuous (CDC + initial load).
- Test, then Start the job. 
DMS will do an initial data copy over the peered VPC, then (if you chose Continuous) apply changes in near real-time.
- Cut over to the new instance • Once the initial load is complete and lag is minimal, stop writes on the source, then in the DMS job click Promote. This switches your application to the target instance in Project B. 
Why this works
• No GCS buckets or manual dumps needed.
• Data never leaves Google’s private network—no public IP exposure.
• Cross-project works seamlessly by treating the source as self-managed and running DMS in the target project.
• Scales to multi-TB databases with minimal downtime (CDC mode)
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Is it wrong?
Blueberry
26d ago
Wickard v Filburn is insane mental gymnastics, but in the politics of its time it makes sense: Every farmer wanted regulation to prop up stable prices and Filburn defected (always hated). Wheat couldn’t be exported as world prices were much lower. Congress was seen as doing their job and any other decision by the court would have been seen as head-in-clouds-lawyers screwing up a common sense solution, that is why the decision was 9-0.
A constitional amendment would have been cleaner
Blueberry
27d ago
Bentham (the author) countered that Argument by saying he is not eating Almonds.
Blueberry
1mo ago
To be fair, I wouldn't expect to learn that much Spanish from Dutch Duolingo.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Asian tiger parent culture is different due to bugman conformalism
I can’t parse this sentence. Asian culture is more conforming, so their children go to public instead of private schools? Weird tech-nerds are more non-conforming? I don’t know what bugmen are.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Call me a dirt poor europrole, but I would rather get $480K (plus interest/stock increases) when turning 18 years old, instead of my parents paying half a million for Duolingo.
It tickles the mind though how education could be disrupted/advanced by modern tech.
Or maybe it is not so important after all? One comment on the blog claimed that Finland and Japan have similar PISA scores, despite Japan/Asia being famous for forcing children to grind obscene hours for school.
Blueberry
1mo ago
He goes through a TON of research literature
And is really really really well written! I read last week the easthunter substack about this topic (which is also linked by Scott in his post) and I got totally lost halfway through. But Scotts strength is to communicate complicated topics clearly. And he makes his opinion visible but still gives room for the other side without snark.
Exceptional blog post! Must have been a ton of work and I was not suprised that at the end he thanked a few other (presumably very smart) people who helped.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Nearly 3,000 soldiers were killed between 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. – all because the Allied commanders refused to end the fighting immediately. Instead of letting the war end as soon as the papers were signed, they decided that the war had to officially end at 11:00 a.m., supposedly to give the news time to spread. In reality, it was a decision based on pride – a final show of force against a beaten enemy.
Your logic is confused.
The majority of US states are (still) allowing underage marriage (age 16 or 17) if a parent or other legal guardian consents, but that doesn’t mean that parents can legally force a marriage against the will of their child.
Or if in a restraining order a judge forbids you to get near someone, that doesn’t give the judge the power of an “anti-restraining order” where you must stalk someone.
There are many (state) law exemptions making underage drinking legal when provided or in the presence of a family member. But that doesn’t mean your parents can legally force you to get black out drunk.
If my rent contract specifies that I am not allowed to paint walls black, that doesn’t mean my landlord can force me to paint the walls white. That would need to be another term in the contract.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Originally a scholar from modern day China, Fang Yuan died and reincarnated in the world of Reverend Insanity. .., "There is only immortality, only eternal life should be the goal one should pursue! If one cannot live forever, is there any difference between a rank nine Gu Immortal and a pile of shit in the gutter?! I am a huge fool, but I do not wish to be a fool that is made of shit...
But reincarnation (not to speak of magic) should be a big proof that there is more to the world than material shit. Fang Yuan should have rather perfected his soul.
Do you have more background info? I am surprised how negative here the reaction is too. I will come out as saying that while I didnt follow her I often found her insightful to read (whithout necessarily agreeing).
Dutch cities in the 70s.
And currently car centric Oslo is transitioning to be a cycling city:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmp09Fd07oc
And of course Paris:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=woFlJx7Rv78
Yt comment:
I remember when I was cycling to work in Paris 8 years ago, I was all alone on my bus lane. now everyone is cycling! Simply amazing
It is a bit counterintuitive, but every bike ride is one less car ride, and this means a great cycling city has less congested traffic for cars. And fewer cars also cause less dedicated bicycle infrastructure. Typically no bike lanes are needed in low car streets.
Blueberry
1mo ago
the design and implementation of stupid and dangerous bike lanes
Why are NY bike lanes dangerous?
Migrating where? Which country would take 2.1 million refugees?
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