netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
We’re not actually worried about being attacked. Not like Russia rolling over the border to Ukraine. It’s the rest of our interests that are at risk. Erosion of our hegemony over the ocean, space, finance, etc. A long series of bad trades just under the margin of what we’re willing to fight. Securing that is more complicated than just looking dangerous.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
I wouldn’t be quite so bold about it as @Ben___Garrison, but, uh, I don’t understand why people keep expecting coherent plans out of Trump. He was the vibes-based President.
If Rubio’s shown the right kind of enthusiasm, Trump isn’t going to have a problem folding him into the enterprise. When he inevitably butts heads, Trump will throw him out. Whether Rubio accomplishes anything in the meantime is more about his level of ass-kissing than his stated politics.
Personally, I give this dynamic a lot of credit for the legal hurdles faced by the Trump admin. But I doubt that’ll convince anyone who prefers the Deep State explanation.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
I found this blog when I was trying to figure out what a “Soviet triangle” meant. Thought it was interesting reading. That article is about bus networks, but there are others on subway placement, throughout, all sorts of stuff.
congestion fees
Those certainly disincentivize traffic, but I’m not sure I grasp the economics. Taxing consumption reduces the clearing quantity. But the clearing quantity for roads is the supply of workers! Any intervention that doesn’t change the ratio of road usage per worker is going to affect the cost of labor, too.
So we need to ask whether self-driving cars fundamentally changes that ratio. I think it has to, right? Flawless zipper-merging. Reduced accident rates. Shorter following distances, perhaps ending in attached convoys to reduce drag. There’s a lot of room for technical solutions.
I don’t think we’ve hit the limit on people-miles per hour. Until we do, we still have room to make congestion more efficient.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
Normal people don’t usually make memes about murdering their political enemies.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
I would guess they’re into light rail and even buses.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11d ago
Visceral, seething hatred is not license to ignore the rules.
90 days this time.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11d ago
Anthropic principle?
Or related terms like the self-indicating assumption.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Flashbacks to Planetary Annihilation ruining the best part of Supreme Commander by making bases guaranteed messy
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Glad I could be of service.
How did you find out about your bomb range? How common are those? I’m in Texas, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few nearby…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
People still do. I think it was shunted through YouTube for a while; there are pretty large groups that moved from video game covers to mainstream covers to live shows. For all I know this has moved to TikTok.
We still have things like an Avett brother doing a ten piece tribute album. Here’s Duran Duran covering all sorts of stuff. I personally loved the covers on Adrian Quesada’s Boleros Psicodelicos.
And then there’s Europe. I was going to say Eurovision, but the song I had in mind was actually X-factor. Talent programs may have peaked twenty years ago, but they’re still a source of covers!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Jesus Christ.
I only knew SAE for something extremely tasteless they did while I was in school. I’d worry about giving away personal information, but their list of incidents is too long to really narrow it down.
Does your Trump theory have any predictive power? The valence was basically predetermined as soon as they said the word “fraternity.” Calling it a hate crime is a pretty natural addition when they’re on video calling him a faggot or whatever.
Here’s a local site with a similar spin.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
abrasive, transparently insincere, and has had consistent staff turnover issues for her entire political career
If those are dealbreakers for you, boy, do I have some bad news for you!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Man. I want to argue with you, but I think you enjoy being miserable.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
Nothing.
He’s known he wouldn’t be president again since August. If he had an uncontroversial, good-vibes project in mind, why not start it earlier?
For 1, he’s not going to get anything resembling a compromise. Not without something bringing Putin to the table.
Trump has already tarred 3 for Democrats.
I guess digging up another park would be a decent option. It doesn’t involve him giving MAGA exactly what they want, though, so I assume it’s dead on arrival. Maybe that’s too pessimistic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
If he slashes regulation on oil rigs, and we have some sort of horrible spill, would you assume Deepwater Horizon was planned?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
People also died of all sorts of shit for thousands of years. Sometimes literally.
I agree there’s little reason to treat raw milk as the fentanyl of animal products, but it’s not because of the Founding Fathers.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
Amy Coney Barrett, who authored the linked concurrence.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
The prospect of Elon Musk crippling the entire SAP infrastructure because they don’t want to answer his questions just made me physically cringe.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
First, they aren’t unrelated. The Twitter trend has seen to that.
Second, it’s not well-documented. If it were, you could show rates of dog or cat consumption in Haiti rather than just asserting that they’re really high. Dog consumption appears highest in East Asia; I’d be willing to believe that Haiti has flown under the radar, but I have yet to see the evidence.
@cartman and I cannot tell where you got your prior that Haitians are total dog gourmets. If it’s because of voodoo, show me dog sacrifice numbers. If it’s because of an epithet tossed around in the 80s, tell me why you think it’s particularly accurate today. Surely you can do better than repeating “well documented!”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
As it stands, we see rising edges in credibility with Democrats each time a Republican is elected. I want to see if that holds for Bush Sr. or Reagan.
I suspect the curves have more to do with media technology and the collapse of newspapers than with the actual Democratic establishment and their mana pool.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
16d ago
Haven’t you been arguing this exact line for at least a year? What difference did the summer really make?
More effort than this, please.
We are a discussion site, not a link aggregator. Or, uh, a quote aggregator.
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