CertainlyWorse
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Some of the "best" Twitter threads are just a dozen tweets and screencaps of random books/papers tied together to make some coherent point that you can nonetheless swipe through in 5 minutes. Is such content plagiarism? I find the notion itself absurd; this isn't academic writing.
I think it's poor form to not give a 'H/t to @meduka for giving me the idea for this thread' or similar. It takes 2 seconds and gains you status, rather than loses it.
Edit: Saw that he linked Dinomight. Lessens the 'wrong'
CertainlyWorse
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2d ago
It's so overt that Pakistan's defense minister almost let the mask slip off.(ignore the twitter handle, video is real)
What the hell? His argument is 'we're only a state sponsor of terrorism because the West trained us to be'?
Well, I guess the pressure's off Hegseth with Defense Ministers like this bumbling around.
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3d ago
Yeah, I would struggle to understand how 'facilitate' doesn't mean make a diplomatic request. No need to send in a SEAL team if they're told no.
But it also seems so strange to request an extradition? of an El Salvadorean from El Salvador into ICE custody.
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5d ago
Why didn't he think of the memes?
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5d ago
Desolation Island. Aubrey scammed out of accolades for taking Mauritius for the British. Apparently he's now headed to Australia.
I expect battles, bad puns and likely Stephen Maturin getting excited over a platypus.
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8d ago
Good question. I'm not a signals expert, but perhaps jamming everything except a narrow band for their own comms. The comms band is cycled regularly (daily?).
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9d ago
Really hope it works out for you. I've been in jobs before where the collapse is inevitable and its a horrible feeling.
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9d ago
Rupert Murdoch has only six or seven kids, and it's a fucking mess out there.
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9d ago
BTW Putin has been reputedly jamming the shit out of area around his limo since early 2010s so it seems someone knew about FPVs back then
Could also be jamming remote triggers on IEDs, but good security regardless.
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10d ago
Your job sucks. It sounds like the company doesn't want to pay its staff and is having cashflow issues. Expecting you to do massive long round trip drives and pressuring you to not count those hours somehow (eg your lunchbreak was while you were on the road or some similar bs). Also not paying maintenance on your truck so you have to pay for maintenance out of your own pocket?
I’m bleeding working this job, and hearing the overwhelmingly positive feedback from my supervisor almost feels like gaslighting.
Of course. They're underpaying you and you're working for free. He will say whatever he needs to to keep you bleeding for the company and his own KPI's.
I know you're already doing it, but get another job ASAP.
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16d ago
I'd try to remind myself that someone resorting to ad hominem has lost the argument. There's little point in pointing this out to them as it will likely result in more ad hominem, but to neutral parties, the one resorting to insults isn't the one that is credible.
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16d ago
Welcome back.
I've teased you in comments, but I'm glad you're alive and well.
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17d ago
Maybe his calculus was that the only way to reshape
existing trade relationsAmerica was to just rip the band-aid off, because otherwise governments and businesses would have just eternally dragged their feet.
As a general rule I'd say his attitude is the above. If you slowroll any policy it will just give the opposition time to bog things down, or so the thinking goes.
I think it was JD Vance that said they've set themselves a target to accomplish as much as they can before the mid terms.
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17d ago
I rode a motorbike without owning a car for about 10 years.
Basically if you can control yourself (which is a big 'if' for most riders in their 20's) the largest risk comes from inattentive and reckless drivers in other vehicles. Think of the worst driving you've seen in a car where people don't effectively check mirrors, blind spots, or oncoming traffic. Now crank that up 2x or 3x. That's how often you will see people turning into your path from side roads or changing lanes directly into you. Some people train themselves on only noticing car sized objects or larger in their mirrors.
You need reasonable reflexes (or riding experience) to defensively react quick enough to this sort of behaviour. It's probably the main reason I gave up motorcycle riding.
If you do get a bike, remember to wear All The Gear, All The Time (ATGATT).
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19d ago
Most things from the golden age of Science Fiction are pretty good. Things by Robert Heinlein, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov etc.
Most of the heroes are strong willed masculine archetypes, but flawed in one way or another.
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20d ago
The Mauritius Command. Somehow Aubrey now has kids.
I wish the series were better spread out over the Napoleonic Wars, but I guess the author didn't realise how popular the series would get when he started writing it and timeskipped too much to cover the best bits of the wars.
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23d ago
I'm sure posters here could provide a reasonable steelman for Trump's position if asked
I asked this after the election, because the tariffs were on the horizon even back then.
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24d ago
It's bizarre.
It's normal hyper-agency in action. This is not a child, its a male adolescent and thus has full agency and responsibility. How else could the filmmakers make their point?
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24d ago
I had to read several articles about this to really understand
I hate journalists so much. They deliberately lie by omission because of their ideologies (Right wing journos leave things out too).
It shouldn't take so much time to figure out what all these people are arguing about.
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27d ago
Try toasting croissants open with ham, cheese and tomato filling.
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1mo ago
Yeah, it looks like Waltz's (now deleted) Venmo account was full of journalists including from MSNBC and CNN.
He might not necessarily have been previously leaking info to Goldberg. Maybe Goldberg previously contacted him asking for comment and was saved as a standard phone contact that way. Maybe someone else sent him a dodgy contact card which he saved into his phone. This contact was then imported into Signal and then he accidentally added it to the group chat. He made a comment about contacts 'getting sucked in' in a recent interview.
I think Waltz is basically lying through his teeth right now for damage control, so I don't think we're going to get a straight story from him.
Great travelogue. Looking forward to the sequel(s).
They have an advanced form of analog Tinder. There are hundreds or thousands of essentially dating profiles on laminated sheets of printer paper laid out on the path. There are sections for foreign matches and all sorts of categories. Some have phone numbers; some are tended by the prospective matches or, more commonly, their parents, uncles, or aunts. According to the wife, the women greatly outnumber the men. It wasn't clear to me why, given the sex imbalance should lean the other way.
My understanding is that you need a residency permit to live in Shanghai. Women from rural areas travel to Shanghai on temporary permits to work and live a more modern lifestyle in the big city. Then if they want to stay they need to marry a local man with the proper 'household registration' (hukou (户口). Demand for 'eligible' local men is sky high. There's parallels with people moving to the West on temporary visas and trying to marry a citizen.
Edit: Grok says its less of a residency permit and more access to resources:
'Cities like Shanghai, Beijing, or Guangzhou offer “urban” hukou perks: better schools, hospitals, social welfare, and housing benefits.'
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1mo ago
Glenn Greenwald agrees with you.
I've struggled with this because of Goldberg's hostility to the administration, but nothing else fits unless someone else had access to his phone. He already denied that a staffer of his changed the contact.
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1mo ago
This tweet is doing the rounds that says advanced warning that the US will attack is automatically classified as Top Secret. The only way I can square the weaseling is if I squint and say SecDef has the ability to declassify any DoD classified information, which he presumably did by posting it in the chat.
The CIA director alluded to this argument in his Senate Intelligence answers today.
Absolutely. There's really no excuse for it. Billionaires can afford to employ a 'fixer' to get them whatever they desire (presuming what they desire isn't something explicitly underage). It's not difficult to do a background check to confirm all the girls are 18+, check them for discretion, make them sign NDA's etc.
I will agree that finding and employing a trustworthy fixer is something that would likely take time and effort though.
It was blatant. As soon as cameras malfunction in a prison a tech is called out. High priority camera feeds are constantly monitored by people in a prison's control room on a monitor wall. A camera that is used for suicide watches malfunctioning is not something that can happen unnoticed. If a camera or NVR (recording server) malfunctions, a large blatantly clear alert pops up on the security management system. Most systems, especially those in prisons, have a redundant recording server so there are two copies of the video feeds.
I don't know how they got all the prison guards to shut up about it though. It would have been an expensive and high risk operation to shut so many mouths.
I also don't know if it was a paedophile ring, but Epstein clearly knew something that someone powerful didn't want getting out and that someone tied up loose ends. It must have been very important to them to make such a blatant move that clearly erodes so many peoples' trust in the justice system.
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