Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
2hr ago
Presumably you have no complaints about the BRRRRT Act? It's not boring, but it's as neutral as you can get.
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
The Maritime Executive… I love it.
Maritime Executive is my go-to lunchtime reading. Partly because I used to be in an adjacent industry, and partly because it's so damn reassuring and unpoliticized. Reassuring because no matter what's going on in the world, the large shipbuilding and shipping and tourism companies really don't give a damn except for a bit of geographically local excitement.
So Iran made two southern-approaching ships turn back
It's possibly worth noting that both of these were Chinese vessels... There's some geopolitics going on there beyond just coincidence, or I'll have a hat sandwich.
Mantergeistmann
10hr ago
Poland is about to get its first, I believe, and Czechia is expanding theirs.
Mantergeistmann
10hr ago
If those were their only assets and if they needed to threaten a larger nation than Taiwan (say, Japan or Philippines), I would agree with you.
Mantergeistmann
11hr ago
built any amphibious invasion craft
Your info may be out of date.
Mantergeistmann
13hr ago
For God's sake, he was a time-traveling, long distance running cyborg Rainman with 3 kinds of gigacancer!
Also a professional snooker player and semi-pro London footballer.
Mantergeistmann
13hr ago
But off the top of my head no example captures a proper parallel, because a proper parallel doesn't exist, can't exist; there's too much intersectionality to the situation.
Not even intersectionality. Most people didn't have an "autobiography" that's seeming to be chock full of more lies than Marco Polo's journal about to be published that they were gearing up to do a press tour for at the time the scandal reared up.
Mantergeistmann
13hr ago
On the other hand, the abstraction only works when all parties accept the implication: the Taliban didn't have the good sense to give up in the face of overwhelming force that wasn't accompanied by wanton destruction. Neither does Iran, it seems.
Yes, unfortunately, it gives any defector in the system too much power, so long as public opinion will be on their side as poor victims. If public opinion of Iran's behavior was similar to that of General Sherman talking about the South, things would be far, far different, I feel.
A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.
Mantergeistmann
15hr ago
I don't know about the PSP remaster, but I'm pretty sure they did something to fix it in the latest PC remaster.
Mantergeistmann
16hr ago
Currently the US spends 3.4%, and that's projected to go down in the future.
Minor quibble: that number would have to go up very slightly to meet the new NATO requirements, and I presume the US will be more than willing to meet said commitment.
Mantergeistmann
17hr ago
Sometimes I saw people saying about war 'why not just do arbitration instead or go to the UN or do an elaborate computer simulation to see who would win' but the violence is the point, that's the proof of work that no judge or agreement can override and sometimes it just feels good to hurt people.
So what I'm hearing is that the objectively best solution is to replace warfare with giant robots in a civilized fighting tournament.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
It was playing the PS1 version of Final Fantasy Tactics
It probably says something that you didn't even need to finish your explanation after that; I knew exactly what you were going to be referring to.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Googling suggests Wexner had a peak net worth of $9.6 billion, so Epstein got about 4% of it. Epstein was, over a 20-year period, managing basically all Wexner's assets apart from his L Brands stock, as well as large parts of his personal life.
It is just about plausible that Epstein was exploiting Wexner's trust to charge ridiculously high fees (charging 2-and-20 to buy leveraged S&P futures is a good living if you can get it) to manage Wexner's non-L Brands assets and made the $350 million in a legal-but-scuzzy way.
Did he even need to charge that much? 0.25% of $9.6 billion is still $24 mil annually, and over 20 years... hell, if anything, only charging a 0.25% AUM fee would have probably been seen as too low to have value by someone with that worth.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
My credit rating is about ~6 points lower than it was when this whole saga started, but at this point I'm not going to fight it.
6 point fluxations are basically nothing, in my experience, and could correspond with the weather or the horoscope for all I can tell.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Presumably there would have been no sympathy if the person he reported to the police had killed thesmelves. Instead, it would have been seen as vindication that Arday was in the right, and that the person he reported could not live with his own lies and malice.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I'm honestly more surprised that it's actually been updated in the past 5 years than I am that someone doing so would use AI.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
At this point, the owner of an adjacent lot (where he is constructing a house much larger than mine) suggests that I pay him 100 dollars to get the grass cut by the Friday deadline. I accept this offer.
Could have also probably gotten a neighborhood kid to do it for half the price.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I’m pretty sure individuals used to offer rooms more, too. Some of the quirks of Remains of the Day come from the butler protagonist staying at various private homes which operate more like a bed and breakfast. This is as he’s making a multi-day trip across…England.
So... AirBnBs?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Initially I thought this was going to be about medical mistakes.
"I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general." -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
That is to say, I know that a lot of Canadians are angry, and I know that a lot of Canadian politicians also claim to be angry
As I understand it from my Canadian friends, the defining point of Canadian culture is being "better (morally/culturally, rather than economically/militarily) than the US". The 51st state talk really riled them up far more than any trade war could ever have.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I figured there was a non-zero chance it'd be a "this is normal as people get older; here's XYZ that tends to help." But I do appreciate the advice.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
He is fighting zombies as much as his stupid wife and other whining morons from his group who complain about lack of toilet paper. It is basically a middle management bad office drama story, cheating wives, stupid kids doing stupid shit but just with zombies. In fact zombies are something like bad weather or environmental hazard, it could as well be a series about bunch of morons being transported to Alaska
My understanding is that's most zombie stories. They're not about the zombies, they're about the people, and the zombies are -- as you say -- easily replaceable by any stressful environmental hazard. They're window dressing for the set.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
the way they are presented and consumed precludes longer form text. You won't find something equivalent to Blood Meridian or Moby Dick published online
I dunno, publishing novels as serials used to be fairly common, to my understanding.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Including Sherlock Holmes in there has aged possibly better than any other comedy line out there.
Could the Thames be reclassified as an International Waterway if London were to secede?
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