Nathan

Aliens existing and aliens having visited earth are two very different questions

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

Mamdani getting Trump to back down & even *compliment* him costs Mamdani absolutely nothing (& indeed actually shows his skills) & probably also saves a lot of vulnerable ppl in this city a trememndous amount of pain if it means Trump is less inclined to act shitty towards us bc of this meeting

it’s crazy how badly hakeen jefferies needs to be primaried and taken out of office

He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Not saying we can't recover, but comparing a bombed out foreign instated constitution with occupying force plus massive forgien spending on rebuilding to the Trump administration....is not any where close to analogous.

And plenty more of hundreds of years when their life is pretty bad as well. I like democracy but to view it as inevitable is woefully mistaken

Sure, but like, the comparison is in no way angolis

Says who? Most of human history is dictatorial control? It's only when conditions on the ground get bad that people revoult. There are plenty examples of hundreds of years of dictator rules when the average citizen has pretty decent life.

After an outside force defeated their leaders and spent tons of money on them?

I don't think it's just Trump, America has been set up for a long decline and decay over the coming decades, there systemic issues. I think China will be dominant in 20 years. They own all real innovation at this point in technology plus the production capacity for that innovation

Pope Leo Condemns ‘Extremely Disrespectful’ Treatment Of Migrants By Trump Administration Pope Leo XIV expressed his support for U.S. catholic leaders’ recent rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants.

Pope Leo XIV expressed his support for U.S. catholic leaders’ recent rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants.

I said that business wouldn't do residency because it costs money.
They don't, and wont. You just keep repeating that it's cheaper.
But they don't do it. Why?
How do we make someone do something when they wouldn't normally? Regulation.

You act like I don't work in this industry and don't have access to the actual spend that they use on just the infra - nevermind the engineering overhead for distributed systems to operate correctly at scale. It is not a simple, easy, oh just do it problem.
If it was, we wouldn't have these issues

Cheaper is not cheap, ffs

No, you are the one shifting policy, I explicitly said it was to expensive for business to do it. Ffs
You then claimed it's cheap!
I am saying without regulation, they won't fucking do it it, jesus

Cheaper does not mean cheap. Again, unless forced to do the redundancy, business will not do it.

Amazon Route53 APi is only in us-east-1 for example - no redundancy....I can give example after example of high level multi bill companies choosing not to do it due to cost. I have worked for them

Of failure. Realtime data consistency can be expensive especially across regions.
Not to mention the management / engineering overhead to make sure everyone keeps things nicely redundant forever.

A system that costs 1 mil a month won't cost 2 to duplicate?

We are talking about businesses here....not engineering
What I am saying is most businesses won't pay up

And what evidence do you have of cheapness?
What layer of redundancy are you thinking?
Network? Database? Region? DNS? Firewall?
Even supposedly redundant systems like kubernetes have points

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

Residency costs money, and when we drive costs to the lowest bidder and there is no consequences, it won't happen

More common then most will admit 😥

Nuke the industry from orbit.

It's cause he has managed to rely not on conscription but people signing up for money, it pays very well and for many Russians in the rural West it is their best opportunity for their family.
Vietnam had conscription which makes wars more unpopular

Ya, sadly just profit taking to shift to other AI spend 😕

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

One of my biggest regrets was not going heat pump for my last furnace 😞

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

This is the most common response when I urge people to get involved and while it’s entirely true it won’t immediately change things in federal seats, change trickles up and if we don’t start NOW we can only blame ourselves when this shit continues in perpetuity