Liam

Everyone on NPC is a pathetic joke who wants the org to fail 👍

Israel is really a nationalist ethnostate, intent on protecting its landed & propertied classes, which uses a necessarily diasporic religion as part of its national mythos? You're telling me this now for the first time

I do respect Matt Yglesias for being a classical liberal in the true sense, in that he would watch untold horrors unfold throughout the world and simply sigh and say “ah well, we must follow what wins I suppose”

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

in a research library that has most of the entire set of the documentary history of the ratification of the constitution and i am in hog heaven

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

on some level, this is just a form of anti-politics.

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At least originally the whole appeal of an Airbnb ime is that it's cheaper. I can usually find a motel for $50-75/night, but when I can't Airbnb almost always has something

It's far easier to load DPS trays and packages onto the side tray than the LLV, and it has headroom adjustments that make it easy to see over the hood for both minimum and maximum heights. As anyone else who's driven LLVs and two-tons will know, this addresses LLVs' chronic pain and safety issues

your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!

Why does intention matter at all here? The result is the point!

Agree with this (although it necessitates a re-negotiation of the term "manipulation") and the two scenes that illustrate it the most are that where she describes the original Theranos device and that where she fails to understand Who's On First

Rare post-Covid BnR W

If you think like this can you go live on an island or something, I don't want e.g. social infrastructure or industrial policy or works of fiction by you

I find it so strange when people don’t understand why not everyone always feels like entertaining this premise but it happens a lot on here in these conversations

very underrated that you can use deepseek without having to listen to a guy holding a flashlight under his chin

This is millenarian, apocalyptic thinking! At the very least please understand your beliefs pattern match exactly to doomsday cults! Consider that you might be susceptible to these modes of thinking because of your upbringing or hard wiring

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Foucault & Nietzsche undefeated

my explanation for why this is a big deal is that it is actually a theological dispute concerning the apocalyptic beliefs common in the ai industry and specifically that roon and nick are trying to pull influence from the specific cult in berkeley

Do these charts always compare on API pricing, because if so there's basically no way to compare models if you're a person with a normal amount of money looking to spend no more than $20/mo

I see people say this all the time and I think it’s just wrong in general. I don’t think you can make human skin out of pebbles. This is not because I think human skin is magic and pebbles are non-magic. I just think you can’t, in general, make everything out of everything.

[blameless retrospective voice]: it turns out that the people who design systems for the entire world living in a dysfunctional nimby dystopia that effectively forces them to live in communes perhaps causes dysfunctional nimby dystopia commune assumptions to leak everywhere

If you think a car driving upside down and doing a kickflip is cool we're probably off to a bad start

I am banging my "read Foucault" drum until I die

Since there’s an opening for press secretary, I know a great candidate who’s not only a lawyer, but a neurosurgeon, a Grammy-winning recording artist, and the inventor of the Post-It Note.

if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

Very funny to be saying this in a thread about somebody mistakenly getting a bill for $500k, a mistake which under M4A would have an accountability process and under the private healthcare system comes with a big “fuck you”