I actually changed my mind about the crab bucket bit and edited that out before I saw your response to it. I wrote it before I spent some more time reading Hanania's timeline and losing the will to disapprove of the people attacking him.
I forgive him for namefagging because he didn't start doing it until he was outed by a journalist and made unemployable. Namefagging is his only way to make a living now, he has no choice. He could have been a right wing youtuber if he wanted, but instead he decided to picks fights with his former comrades for twitter-clout.
JD Vance did the same thing in 2016 and he was forgiven. So it's never too late to repent, I guess.
I went into that data prepared to agree with you and I'm not seeing that big of a difference. Set it to Tuesday and flip through the routes labeled "Affected" and they seem barely changed. I personally would be much more annoyed paying $9 every day than pleased by the 5% improvement in transit time. The hedonic treadmill will make you forget all about the benefit of lessened traffic but you'll get to experience the annoyance at the toll every single day you pay it.
spamming the comments section of the debate with petty insults about his appearance
Hanania did help bring it on himself by intentionally riling up the Chuds during the H1B visa kerfuffle.
The comments on that reddit post are not as one-sided as I expected, looks like this issue splits redditors differently than the other wedge issues.
Got any suggestions? They're not going to use Khazaria. They'd probably be best off calling the entire country something derived from Kiev or Kievan Rus, but the syllable Rus is probably out of consideration now as well. Kievia? "Geralt of Kievia" sounds plausible. Maybe "Kievan Republic" could work like Czechia/Czech Republic.
Edit: Nobody calls Basque Country Euskadi
NickRiviera
9d ago
Watching people bristle at the word "the" is amusing enough that I sometimes do it out of contrarianism. I have no opinion whatsoever.
I'd be excited to see whatever alpha versions you come up with, and I know there's a couple game developers here.
I wish someone would make a good VR port of a drone flight simulator like Liftoff. Doesn't seem like it would even be all that hard to do, but it wouldn't be profitable in any way. It might make a good first project for someone.
On a related note, the very best drone flight simulator on PC right now is a free mod for GTA 5. Nobody made a dime off of it.
NickRiviera
22d ago
Never ask a man his income, never ask a woman her weight, never ask a white supremacist the color of his girlfriend
I know the marketing material says 20-30 miles for the radio control link, but if you follow the FAA rules regarding altitude, your video connection will get you between 1-2 miles (with the Mavic 3). The furthest I've ever been with it is 2 miles away while at 400' altitude while standing on my roof, then when I turned it around to fly back, I lost signal and the drone had to use GPS-return-to home until it got back into range. Obviously you could have infinite range if you're flying at 2000' while standing on a mountaintop but I don't think that's very informative to people when they ask what kind of range your drone gets.
How far away have you actually seen the Mini 4 fly? If it's much more than 2 miles I'll go upgrade immediately. I only have a Mavic 3 and DJI-FPV (O3 video transmission protocol) and not a Mavic/Mini 4 (O4), but it seems unlikely that the new revision would be that much better.
Consumer drones with the best range and battery life ($1000) get you about 15-30mins flight time and 1 mile of distance, commercial drones ($20,000+) driven by cellular LTE modem can fly for an hour on battery and for indefinite ranges if they have wings or are internal-combustion powered. Would be very hard to catch one class of drone with the other.
Another reason they aren't doing that is that flying a drone within city limits in a blue state is almost always illegal and if somebody did do that, they wouldn't want to admit to it. Pretty much the only way people get in trouble with drones is to break the law and post video footage online.
What you're describing I totally understand. I call them "fat thoughts" and I live my day-to-day life suppressing them. I imagine that "fat thoughts" and "gay thoughts" are distinct categories of intrusive thoughts but I feel like I could understand one from having experienced the other.
I hear that the GLP-1 Agonist drugs make the fat thoughts go away, it would be super funny if they turned out to also make gay thoughts go away too, someone should test that.
NickRiviera
1mo ago
NickRiviera
1mo ago
Just FYI, writing "G-d" is a very common thing among orthodox/observant Jews.
NickRiviera
1mo ago
You're fine dude, you're just stressed about something.
I once had food allergies for a year that disappeared when I passed an exam.
NickRiviera
1mo ago
As someone who has experience in a lab, it drives me up the wall when I hear a prosecution lawyer say the chances of a DNA-related false positive being one in billion; the chance of a lab error or human bad actor being in the chain of custody are both far higher than that. This actually happened a few years ago, a lab manager went to prison for making up test results.
I'm sure that if firing pins had a unique identifying pattern on the strike surface, you could probably make something like this work. However I don't think firing pins are really different enough from each other to stake a death-penalty case prosecution on it, I think the best you'd be able to do is rule out suspects as opposed to making a definitive match. However I don't know anything, all I know is that nobody in life seems to be as competent as they want us to believe they are. Seal Team 6 couldn't even attack Osama Bin Laden without crashing their top-secret stealth helicopter, then they couldn't stop Russian/Chinese spies from documenting the crash site before they got it covered with a tarp. If that's the performance you get out of the cream-of-the-crop, then I don't know what to believe anymore. (Not even aliens seem all that competent, crashing their saucers everywhere like a bunch of rookies)
How old are you? The rule of thumb is that if morning erections are happening, it's a psychological problem and not one related to circulation. (look up the postage stamp test) Are you on any other meds?
NickRiviera
1mo ago
I've read that rifling pattern analysis is voodoo akin to polygraph tests. Here's a substack about that: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/devil-in-the-grooves-the-case-against
NickRiviera
1mo ago
The second, he emphatically denied something that was objectively true. There's several letters to publications he wrote where he "corrected their mistake", and he's on camera doing it in an interview at some point.
NickRiviera
1mo ago
You're essentially living inside an all-you-can-eat-buffet for a week. You will 100% come back fatter.
NickRiviera
1mo ago
The politician Geert Wilders in the Netherlands is actually 1/4-Indonesian but dyes his hair blonde and wears blue contacts in order to be a credible anti-immigration candidate. (I don't really think rounding up 75% to 100% is that big a deal but the aesthetics of looking dutch are probably pretty important to him.)
NickRiviera
1mo ago
Bobby Fischer emphatically denied his own jewishness towards the end of his life, but he didn't get any financial benefit from doing that, it was done as a performative political gesture.
*Here is an article about the ADL pressuring social media to stop criticism of its agenda.
*Here is an ADL press release with policy recommendations to criminalize opposition to mass migration to Europe, reacting to Lauren Southern's documentary about the NGO-run Libya to Italy boat migration route.
*Here is a more detailed look at the human-smuggling NGOs ferrying migrants from Libya to Italy.
*Here is an animation made from the ship tracking data of the NGO boats in question.
*Here is an ADL press release from 2015 condemning the rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Europe.
*Here is the ADL's propaganda packet made for high school teachers focused on pushing the youth to see migrants to Europe sympathetically using that viral photo of the drowned boy on the beach in Turkey.
*Here is an article from the Daily Forward about the Zionists of America criticizing the ADL for fighting anti-refugee activism in Europe because the mass migration of muslims into Europe was causing increased antisemitism.
I hope this infodump is enough to convince you.
Epstein-Island and AIPAC were both created to increase support for the Israeli government among US leaders and both contributed to the decision to invade Iraq and waste trillions of dollars on middle-eastern forever-wars. They aren't irrelevant.
And how is anything irrelevant when it comes to the formation of opinions? I could be upset about the Israeli cultural appropriation of hummus and while stupid that still isn't antisemitic. Calling someone's emotional opinion irrational or antisemitic isn't going to make them like you more.
Hoffmeister25 was just paraphrasing a very widely discussed Pew Research Finding and talking about the potential reason behind the non-controversial fact that "Black people care more about being Black than white people care about being white." There's an order of magnitude difference in the proportion of people giving the most extreme poll response.
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