campfireSmoresEaten
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campfireSmoresEaten
22hr ago
I think one of us has misunderstood the other. I'm saying what if there never was any corrupted data and the FBI guy was just talking out of his ass?
campfireSmoresEaten
1d ago
https://cha.house.gov/2025/1/chairs-loudermilk-massie-release-january-6-2021-pipe-bomb-report
"The FBI’s Investigation into the Pipe Bomber: The FBI did not receive “corrupted data” from one of the major cell carriers in connection with its investigation into the pipe bomber. A former senior FBI official testified that the major cell carrier companies provided “corrupted” cell data to the FBI and suggested that that “corrupted” data may have contained the identity of the pipe bomber; however, in responses to letters from the Subcommittee, the major cell carriers confirmed that they did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data."
I'm not sure the corrupted cellphone data thing is as you're describing it.
Based on this report, it seems like either
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There was no corrupted data and the FBI guy just said something completely erroneous out of incompetence.
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The cellphone companies are not aware of the corrupted data, but it's real.
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Some sort of miscommunication based on different definitions of the term "corrupted data" between the FBI and cell phone companies.
campfireSmoresEaten
1d ago
The j6 pipe bombs could have been planted by a foreign adversary, couldn't they have?
campfireSmoresEaten
2d ago
Our cheap raw materials and manufactured goods all rely on unsafe, exploitative labor performed in the Third World.
Some of it is exploitative, some of it is just because life in poor countries is generally not so great. Of the part that is exploitative, some of it is because the politicians and other elites in these countries are corrupt, and it is genuinely difficult for even a benevolent rich country to change that.
Based on historical evidence and my understanding of the underlying economic mechanisms, it seems to me that trade is very good for making poor countries not poor anymore. I think that rich countries have screwed up many times in this area, but:
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For the most part, life in poor countries is bad because that's the definition of being in a poor country, not necessarily so much because they're being exploited by rich countries.
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When poor countries don't get rich, there are other factors at play besides the machinations of rich countries.
Those factors would be:
a. Corrupt rulers.
b. Locals who use their power to support economic policies which turn out to be counter-productive, whether the locals are the rulers or the public at large.
Some would say this is what happened in Mexico with their domestic oil company, Ghana under Nkrumah, Brazil's attempt at trade-substitution, the Sri Lankan energy crisis, Argentina under both Peron and the military junta that deposed him, etcetera.
I know this is a tangent, sorry.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
staple statement
What about things that are both highbrow and lowbrow, like old Buster Keaton films? Or for a more recent example, the cartoon Over the Garden Wall?
Edit: for that matter, what about the first three Indiana Jones films? Not highbrow, but are you really going to criticize an adult for being an Indiana Jones fan?
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
Cook for her? That's my only idea. Desserts are generally fun to make, too. And for the meat side of things, I endorse this recipe: https://www.keepingitsimpleblog.com/food/ottolenghis-seeded-chicken-schnitzel/
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
The idea of trying to make theme park-like rides and themed entertainment for cruise ships is kind of interesting to me from a design perspective, but I wouldn't want to ride on one.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
Well, we may or may not suspect that a giant orgy has a pernicious effect on one's psychology like taking steroids and pro wrestling has a pernicious effect on one's body, but I don't think we know that first part for sure.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
The grey tribe attributes dysfunction in healthcare to evil CEOs less than any other group in the world, it feels like. It's always complex economic arguments. Evil CEOs only come into the picture with regulatory capture.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
On Wikipedia (for what that's worth) the page for HTS says they've made some gestures towards tolerance for Christians and Druze.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
Well, it all flows back from western superhero comics. Batman has fought villains who were obsessed with wheels, pennies, hats, sports, aesop's fables, basically everything.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
Here is an online comic book about Snooker, titled "Giant Days: Snooker Could Be Better". It is a crossover between a comic about young women attending university called Giant Days and a comic about a man who dresses up like a bat and fights crime. I am fond of it.
https://scarygoround.com/giantdays/index.html?pg=91#showComic
Also: 'Cue-Man'-Fu is a brilliant nickname.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
Fun fact: Tycoon comes from the Japanese word taikun, and was first used in English by Commodore Perry to describe Lincoln. It's probably the first Japanese loan word in the English language.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
I think if you have this belief you're required to write a novel about the historical dragons and what they were like and what happened to them. Or at least have one ghost-written for you, if you're a famous guy like Rogan.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
It's a physical boardgame that has digital releases.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
I really liked Beau is Afraid, which had a budget of 35 million. And I liked Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Top Gun: Maverick was solid. Joker was a good experience in the theater, although it may not be a work of pure genius.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
Huge exaggeration, in my opinion.
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
The mobile app costs half what the game costs on steam. Hmmmm...
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
"300 Colombian mercenaries killed in Ukraine, out of 500 that went there"
This is according to Russia, btw.
" “We have some records, but what the Russian government informed us—and this requires verification—is that about 500 Colombians participated on the Ukrainian side. Of these, around 100 have returned to Colombia, 100 have deserted, and roughly 300 to 310 have been killed,” Murillo said."
campfireSmoresEaten
1mo ago
I played a boardgame called Dune: Imperium for the first time recently. It's a worker placement game. And it vastly surpassed my expectations. I could see myself getting obsessed with it and sinking a lot of time into it.
campfireSmoresEaten
5mo ago
I don't think that's a fair representation of what it says on the wikipedia page.
campfireSmoresEaten
5mo ago
Like what?
campfireSmoresEaten
5mo ago
Remember to buy assets
What assets specifically do you have in mind?
Not necessarily. Just as one might be turned on by both women and men, so might one find both "educated" and "uneducated" to be appealing qualities.
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