The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Greenland just ceded sovereignty to the United States.
Not sovereignty; suzerainity.
SpaceX will announce a massive deal to connect Greenland up to Starlink. (Actually it will probably be pretty cheap and derided even as “small”.)
Starlink already works in Greenland (it didn't originally because it was too far north, but the constellation has been expanded). However, it is illegal due to the actions of the Greenland government. Because Greenland retains self-government, that ban will remain (though it obviously does not apply to US bases)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Correct, the IRS traditionally starts by hanging you upside down and shaking you until the money comes out of your pockets. Then they start on your toenails.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
How many software engineers [or others directly threatened by AI] are not Blue-no-matter-who, though?
More than there would appear. Many were purged during the height of woke, but most of those ended up somewhere else and hid their power levels better. Some managed to hide their power level the whole time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Greenland has some degree of self-government. The native communist eskimos might invite Russia or China in just out of fit of pique, or in a corrupt bargain.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The hallucination argument is losing power.
No, it most definitely is not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Nevertheless, I think the complexity argument might fail for accountants. Complexity actually favors AI. They are good at it.
AI fails for accounting not because of complexity but because of care. Accountants have to get the numbers right, and occasionally hallucinating shit isn't going to cut it. Maybe it would work for mob accounting, but I suspect the mob wants their made-up shit to be less random.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If at the end of the day Trump is in the dustbin of history, the Democrats hand the strait to the Ayatollahs, and then Iran gets a nuke, Iran has won. By restricting the flow of oil, Iran makes that outcome more likely, therefore Iran is winning. Unless they die first, but like I said, they have 90 million citizens they can use up to survive.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Dog whistles are meant to be un-noticed by those not their targets. The term "anti-Zionist" is merely the thinnest veil of plausible deniability in most cases.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Ah, it's not because he waged the culture war. It's because he waged the culture war against an enemy that had resources.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Texas looks to be turning blue this term. I expect once Desantis is gone, Florida will go back to blue also.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Conservatives are also racking up wins on gun rights.
Only fake ones, like pot users getting to buy guns in states where others can. This year another state (Washington) moves to a permit-to-purchase system, and the states which didn't issue carry permits before are now issuing carry permits which don't let you carry. The AR-15 and the Glock are being subject to bans in blue states across the country.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
As long as the war is still going on and Iran is able to restrict the flow of oil, Iran is winning politically.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Which means North Vietnam won. If Iran agrees to accept defeat, the US leaves and ends the blockade, then Iran renegs (restarts its nuclear program, supplies Hezbollah, tolls the strait, whatever) and gets away with it, then their apparent surrender was merely a ruse de guerre which worked.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Actual conditions in the Strait are unknown. Everyone's lying (except maybe CENTCOM, and they don't say much) and always has been. Gas prices are going up despite the summer demand peak being passed. The Houthis have the mandate of heaven and are pretty much rolling up government and Saudi forces and could stop traffic in the Bab-al-Mandeb at any time; they can also continue to threaten the entire Red Sea. The East-West pipeline was hit and is shut down. Iran is cut off from oil sales, but they're fanatics who don't care about the well-being of their population, so they have 90 million people to basically feed into its war machine to survive until the US can't take it any more (2029 at the latest). Not really looking good at the moment.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Only the US has agency; there is no novus actus interveniens from any other actor downstream of US action (or sometimes, inaction) so the US is responsible for all deaths attributable to its action or inaction, even indirectly.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I am always baffled by the inability of people who care about an issue to send conspicuous non-partisan signals.
This is easily explained if you accept the obvious (but uncharitable) explanation that they are partisans first and foremost, and that their issue is a soldier in their partisanship.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Will the memes be in Farsi or English?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Currently the biggest danger AI presents is to its users. People who spend too much time conversing with AI tend to get a bit off. I suspect this might be related to the phenomenon of AI training on AI-generated content causing model collapse. If you value your sanity, do NOT self-modify based on AI advice.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Your proposal works as well on the actually innocent as it does on the criminals released because the prosecutor likes certain sorts criminals, and for that reason among many others there is absolutely now way it would fly in the courts.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Democrats might unilaterally end the blockade and protection of ship traffic, abandoning the war. At which point Iran is in full control of the strait, a big win for them. They can continue attacking the pipelines at will. And without the threat of bombing and with all their nuclear material they can restart their nuclear weapons program. Another big win for them.
Whether that's better than taking Trump's deal depends on how much the Iranians value their nuclear material and their defiance. And this seems to be "quite high", compared to how much they weigh the welfare of their people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Better than not mowing, which is what lead to the October 7 attack. But the US had an easier task -- we didn't need to convince people who considered us our sworn enemy to be destroyed at any and all costs not to attack us. We just had to convince people who hated us but mostly wanted to run Afghanistan not to attack us nor give shelter to those who would.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
A juror is certainly allowed to say during deliberations "I think that witness is lying, there's no way it could have happened that way" by relying on his or her experiences or expertise.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
It turns out the EA people were wrong about their signature policy: they should have been funding malaria vaccines.
But yeah, Africa's problems can't be solved by throwing money at them. Because even if your target is good, when you throw money, there's always people happy to get between you and your target.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
It couldn't be done by air. But the US could have invaded, killed Al Queda in Afghanistan, killed all the Taliban who protected them and their subordinates a few levels deep, and then left -- basically a punitive raid on a massive scale. The new Taliban that would take over after that would likely get the message, and if they didn't the lesson could be repeated. I think this is basically what we should have done, but only in hindsight.
US and Denmark and Greenland. So if Greenland leaves Denmark (which is somewhat more likely than NATO falling apart, I suspect), the deal still holds.
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