DradisPing
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DradisPing
5d ago
It is not working yet! Judges have blocked almost all of his big cuts. Because they aren't legal by established law and precedent (Impoundment Control Act).
NGOs have run to DC and SDNY to get blocks because those are the most politically corrupt districts. The problem for them is that the TROs are so unprecedented and off the rails that higher courts are going to need to step in quickly.
DradisPing
12d ago
Hasidic Jews got minority status for federal programs back in 1974.
I think this was actually a key plot point in War Dogs, Jonah Hill had to pretend to be Hasidic.
This rule seems to be just extending that, since trying to determine if a given Jewish person counts as Hasidic or not is probably pretty difficult.
It is kind of silly that the two wealthiest religion groups in the US, Jews and Hindus, get special treatment for loans.
DradisPing
16d ago
People in the State Department and on the left in general want Trump to give funding to Hamas to "rebuild Gaza".
Their usual game is to play up the humanitarian disaster.
Arguing that the US should take over and rebuild with direct management counters that, because the pro-Hamas people suddenly have to argue that Gaza is fully capable of running itself.
I don't think it's any sort of real proposal, just an indication that US money isn't coming without control on the ground.
DradisPing
17d ago
But the terrorist designation activates specific regulations in the financial system. Sure, they could pass new laws and regulations to do the same thing. But this does have an impact on it's own.
DradisPing
17d ago
So, thoughts. San Francisco continues to generate weird murder suicide cults just as it has for the past... 80 years? This really needs to be investigated because the effect has persisted over numerous different ideological movements.
Climate is a big part of it. There are a lot of people who like it hot and won't admit how nice the SF climate is.
But it really is. Apr-Oct there's no rain, no heat, no cold. Just sunny days with pleasant breezes. You can just wander around in a light jacket in a dreamy state without nature ever forcing you back to reality.
DradisPing
17d ago
Cheetah's become more feminine coded once you find out that they meow.
DradisPing
17d ago
Big cats are a massive money sink. A world leader having a private zoo big cats is basically proof that they are crooked and impoverishing their people.
DradisPing
17d ago
A couple of things do that.
First the facial feature proportions of house cats are close to human babies. This activates nurturing instincts in women. More so than other small animals.
If you pay attention you can really see how that affects how men and women interact with cats. Men tend to see their cats akin to jobless friends crashing at their place. Some women become deeply concerned for their cats socialization and emotional life.
They match up better to yin and yang traits, cats being yin.
Most people these days have met enough loud outing women that yin traits don't strongly code feminine to modern eyes.
Some languages need to classify everything as masculine or feminine and from what I've seen there's a lot of randomness. In French cheese is masculine but apples are feminine.
I'll try to tie this together for a closing. Their wariness towards new people is seen as traditionally feminine coded. As is their quietness compared to a puppy. Dogs interests match up better to traditional masculine tasks -- patrol the boundaries of territory, go on hunting expeditions. Cats keep an eye on the homestead.
In modern life the feminine coding comes more from women who get them because of unmet baby desires. Also men are expected to at least pretend that they regularly trek through the wilderness.
DradisPing
17d ago
Listing cartels as terrorist organizations is actually a big deal. It enables the government to aggressively track money.
It's widely suspected that payments from the cartels to Chinese chemical companies are being laundered through Canadian real estate.
DradisPing
19d ago
Ridley Scott is 87. I imagine that he's been handing off duties on the film that he used to manage himself.
DradisPing
20d ago
Well there is this: https://instagram.com/p/DA8kWHdPBRw/
But for something longer format the rehab stories from John Mulaney: Baby J were hilarious.
DradisPing
23d ago
There was a push on Twitter to start calling them "Para-Governmental Organizations" instead of "Non Governmental Organizations" because they are intertwined with the government but don't have normal oversight like government groups do.
DradisPing
25d ago
Blair is allegedly working for free
He's working for free in the sense of drawing no salary. But by doing this he gets to maintain the world leader lifestyle to a certain degree because the NGO covers all his expenses.
Eg fly by private jet, expensive dinners with important people, stay in nice hotels, etc.
DradisPing
25d ago
Since he's inherited one of the richest and most powerful activism networks, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look up Alexander Soros' dissertation to try to get some insight into him.
"‘Jewish Dionysus’: Heinrich Heine and the Politics of Literature"
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x51t409
However I am completely unfamiliar with History PhD dissertations. Skimming it over I only noticed that he seems very into being Jewish and also that I find the text incredibly uninteresting.
Does anyone who has some subject experience have any take aways?
DradisPing
27d ago
Things like Flash Attention, https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135, suggest that there's a major problem where US AI researchers don't have enough of an understanding of the realities of what GPU hardware actually is at a low level.
DradisPing
28d ago
Paul Graham released an essay "The Origins of Wokeness" a few weeks ago. If you're not familiar, he's one of the co-founders of Y-Combinator and a key person in kicking off the post 2005 tech startup scene. His early 2000s essays were sort of proto-rationalist.
https://www.paulgraham.com/woke.html
He's strongly anti Trump and a prominent figure in the tech scene. I'd guess that essay got enough exposure in the leftwing tech scene that people who were used to saying "woke is just being a good person" suddenly found that they needed better arguments.
DradisPing
28d ago
Since renaming bodies of water is a thing these days, I'd like to point out that the "north sea" is a particularly bland name. Are there any better historic names?
DradisPing
28d ago
Their 'innovations' were things like a fucking talking paperclip which would try to distract you in word.
MS pushing Microsoft Bob and then the cartoon assistants in Office makes a lot more sense once you know that the future Melinda Gates was a marketing manager on Bob and later Office and thought that the assistant technology was an amazing step forward. Bill Gates came away from those meetings thinking he heard some amazing ideas. Eventually he realized what was up and started dating her.
DradisPing
29d ago
I haven't seen one. You'd need to write the parser to specifically take notice of whitespace like that and it's so unusual in a programming language that the designer would have needed to be very insistent on it.
Something mathematical like Maple or MatLab might support it. It's basically implementing a math shorthand to avoid parentheses.
DradisPing
29d ago
Sailer has written about this.
They react to surprise dangers better. White people are likely to look and freeze up while black people start running.
In general the pattern seems to be that they are better at spur of the moment improvisation while whites need to build and execute a plan.
You can argue it's cultural since there hasn't been enough proper study to prove a biological aspect.
DradisPing
30d ago
I thin it's due to a technicality. While under trial they are held there under a court order.
The prosecutors have to send a notice to the judge to dismiss the case, then they get released.
It's a procedural inefficiency no one has bothered fixing.
DradisPing
30d ago
Robert Barnes, https://www.barneslawllp.com/ is know here for some of his more long shot political cases and commentary, but his main job is as a tax lawyer. I think he does this sort of thing, it's probably worth sending his firm an email. You should at least get a referral.
DradisPing
30d ago
The trust is eternal so it escapes inheritance taxes. The fact that it's not technically the property of the person receiving the benefit provides some protection against lawsuits, liabilities, certain government actions, etc.
DradisPing
30d ago
I think since he brought in crypto regulation, it's important to bring up FTX.
FTX was one of the key companies fighting for crypto regulation since SBF was confident his political ties would put his company ahead.
The fact that he was fighting for regulation while committing massive crimes should tell you a few things about the sort of people the SEC is likely to put in charge.
The key point here is that this is in SDNY. SDNY likes to pretend that it's not a normal district, instead it's a second DOJ.
The prosecutors are resigning in large part to promote that myth.
Of course that's not true. SDNY has no special legal status over say the Northern District of Alabama.
Barnes specifically has long been critical of the Federalist Society. Culturally it skews more pro corporate and more authoritarian than most of the right wing base would like.
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