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Had a dream where the Supreme Court killed the VRA but redistricting wasn't that bad because chud congressman didn't want to represent black people

If I had access to unlimited AI compute I would use it to generate videos of Trump reviewing graphics cards and other PC components. Might do some Obama ones for good measure.

I finally make enough money to the hotel minibar, and they phase that whole institution out. Life can be so cruel.

I'm also not an expert! I just think the Hellenistic kingdoms do combined arms as adhoc strategy (which is why only their goats do it well) and the Romans do it as doctrine which is why their mediocre generals pull it off casually

Roman cavalry is FAR more capable of hammer and anvil tactics than Macedonian phalanxes are of decisively winning battles

But also tactical maneuver units for heavy infantry. It gets less weird towards the end of the Republic when cohorts are the infantry maneuver units and maniples (probably) continue to exist as a strictly organizational unit

Right but each Roman maniple organically integrated light infantry, heavy infantry, cavalry at the manipular level. Also both light and heavy Roman infantry had the capacity for shock and ranged engagements. Maniples are also kind of weird because they're integrated organizational units

Also comparing black swan generals to a civilizational average isn't super fair (though the civilization average being really really high is obviously a hall mark over the Roman system)

The Roman approach where they organically integrate combined arms at the maniple level feels way way more doctrinally mature than anything any Hellenistic general does. Carthage gets much closer but it's still more "bolted together" than Rome

It's crazy that the Romans figured out "Combined arms are good and junior leadership is important" roughly 800 years before everyone else

Dumb guy who says racist and sexist stuff and then votes with Democrats 95% of the time would be a huge improvement over Susan Collins

Prediction: The gains from general intelligence AIs will be on trend with advances in traditional compute, but specialized models for specific applications could be pretty revolutionary.

85\15 being participants in legacy entertainment media

They're definitely way more right wing, but I think it's like 50\50 as opposed to 85\15

I'm going to help DSA with PCI DSS compliance

Yeah I feel like it's easier to get large portions of the security forces to side with you when it's full of guys who don't want to be there as opposed to like a criminal military aristocracy

Broad based revolution is tough without mass conscription. If you want to impose Communism these days you probably need to takeover the military from the inside then execute a coup.

Windows 12 preview is awesome. I especially like how they replaced the Start Menu with the Xbox Game Bar, and how you need an E3 license to get past the the login screen.

Follow step 15 specifically you don't have to do anything else

This is super old, but the procedure described will fix most Outlook search issues. Local outlook hooks into the windows search index which needs to occasionally be nuked from orbit. (This is also why OWA search usually works fine) decentsecurity.com/holiday-tasks

It's an elite coalition of low taxers and immigration hardliners, they're willing to compromise on anything else which is how you get their not super coherent big tent for the rank and file.

If US political geography was such that Democrats could move a little left and have a trifecta most of the time, or move a lot left and keep a trifecta about half the time I'd probably choose the latter. I think both strategies are rational!

This happened to me and the fix was I finally had to switch over to the new outlook it's horrible

Okay but to be fair if Democrats had the same structural edge as the GOP I would probably want them to spend down like 60% of that edge on being ideologically extreme. Being insane is a totally rational viable strategy for their elites.

If I was around for the dawn of civilization I would have immediately understood it as seminal, and would have thought about it through the lens of modern history and economics.

Dads love to text "Call me when you have a minute" with no way to tell if your family has suffered a terrible tragedy, or if he just needs help with the router.

The last time he did it Netanyahu corrected him it this time he just looked defeated

Trump just did an Israeli accent while addressing the Knesset lmao

The Browns haven't had their chosen quarterback since like Baker Mayfield

I think they can probably win 50+1 in the Senate I think they need to be more strategic if they want to keep the house