Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
13hr ago
Drink more water and a high-sodium diet (within reason) is not a problem.
Quantumfreakonomics
13hr ago
That was the proximate cause of me writing this post, but I had already noticed ChatGPT acting weird.
This is one example from a few days ago. Just completely unhinged.
Also, I'm still having the Safari problem. If any of the tech geniuses here have non goblin-related solutions I'd love to hear them.
How do I get ChatGPT to stop bringing up goblins and gremlins in every chat?
Quantumfreakonomics
17hr ago
Speaking of that campaign, it’s pretty crazy how abortion just completely dropped off the map as a hot topic immediately after the election was over.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Isn't the Correspondents Dinner attack evidence that the balance of equities do not favor enjoining the project? This motion seems pretty deep in the procedural weeds, so I have no idea if that is a reasonable thing to bring up at this point.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
I guess it does prove the need for a White House event room, because there is no way for the President to hold events in a public space to the level of security you are expecting. You couldn't have preveted the JFK assassaination with more security. The only robust solution is to not drive around Downtown Dallas in a convertable.
I got stuck behind the presidential motorcade in traffic once. The security presense was immense. They blocked-off every freeway entrance on the route for what felt like 15 minutes before the bulk of the motorcade passed by. I had about a half-second of direct line of sight at 60-80 feet on Cadillac One, and that was by pure chance with no advance planning at all.
Every rooftop and every window is a sightline. Every organization that has people in the hot zone is a potential infiltration route.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
One thing I noticed in the preteen Braveheart discourse is that while “antisocial” in the US describes someone who doesn’t go outside, in the UK it describes street hoodlums.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Reports are that Kash is on the way out. He may see him as not a live player in the administration anymore.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
That's two out of three Trump assassins who were oddly fixated on Ukraine.
Ideas?
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Meghan Trainor looked better before she lost weight.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
That’s still insane. The Protestant Reformation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
If I came to the conclusion that the only way to maintain replacement-level fertility was to spend 25% of GDP on a brand new "Department of Reproduction" tasked with paying millions of professional surrogates to gestate eugenically selected embryos to ensure a viable next generation, that's probably what I would put in my abstract for publication too.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Aella Twitter poll: If you ended up in a romantic relationship just like that of your parents, would you be happy?
Yes - 31.2%
No - 68.8%
The decline in marriage makes a lot more sense with this datapoint. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
>Invents new map projection to counter Eurocentrism and emphasize the true importance of the Global South.
>Has horrible distortion at every lattitude except 45° N and S.
Ibram X. Kendi never grifted as hard as Arno Peters.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
If Batman really cared about crime, he’d kill Rick Scott The Joker.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
I guess if by “Jews” you mean Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg then yes.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
I don't see why allegations that districts were drawn for partisan advantage is nonjusticiable while other questions of district drawing (ex, racial discrimination) are.
Race is a real and justiciable subject matter for electoral law by constitutional fiat (specifically the 15th amendment).
And the constitution has nothing to say about this effective denial of the ability of a political community to have a representative represent them?
The constitution doesn’t give representation to “political communities”. The constitution gives representation to states and to the people. What if Nashville voted 85% Democrat? Maybe putting them all in one district is a partisan gerrymander? Is disproportionate representation okay because some areas happen to contain high-densities of single-party voters? There’s no way to get a satisfactory answer to these questions from a judicial process.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
I’m not surprised by this. Polymarket already folded in principle weeks ago. There are legends in the community of internal prediction markets at intelligence agencies and corporations which got shut down not for being inaccurate, but for telling truths that were rather kept secret. Looking back, obviously no company with exposure to the US financial system (which includes all of our allies by the way) was going to sell a product that lets America’s enemies know whether we’re planning a sneak attack or not.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Philosophically, how could Rucho have come out the other way? There are no constitutional issues with partisan gerrymandering, not least because the two-party system is neither mentioned nor envisioned by the constitution. Any person in any 760,000-person congressional district has the same voting power as any other person in any other district.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Prior to Rucho v Common Cause in 2019, this level of extreme Partisan gerrymandering would have been presumed illegal. It was only a matter of time before the requisite shameless met with opportunity.
Maybe we will finally get another constitutional amendment out of this.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
You don’t think they use the term “antisemitism” amongst themselves to describe (what they think is) a real concept?
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Then one must ask why is this anti Israel misinformation so much more potent now? It's not as if antisemitic propaganda is a new phenomenon, what has changed to make it more effective?
Another hypothesis I want to consider is the switch from text-based news and commentary to audiovisual news and commentary. It's easy enough to defend Israel over text. Jews needed a place to go after the holocaust. Mandatory Palestine had a thriving Jewish community thanks to the British and early Zionists. The PLO did a lot of extraterritorial terrorist attacks you can rattle off. They bombed a damn pizza place. It's not until you've seen the bombed-out remains of Gaza or Lebanon, talked to the guy in the West Bank who used to have an olive grove on the other side of that hill but can never get to it ever since the settlers moved in, and seen the literal walls that separate the Jewish part of Hebron from the Arab part of Hebron that you realize what a mess the whole thing turned into.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
I'll defend them on this one. Swift execution is the only way to prevent murderers from being released in the inevitable next hostage exchange.
I'm pretty sure this one of the Supreme Court partisan gerrymandering cases had this exact fact-pattern. They wrote a computer program to generate hundreds of possible maps that all comply with "traditional districting criteria", then picked the map that had the most Republican seats.
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