Prisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia
This is the correct answer. If you want a deep dive into the game theoretic rationale, have at it at the link. The voices against responding are wrong. Good strategies must retaliate and forgive, this is the time to retaliate.
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ββ¦in return for her cooperationβ
What does βcooperationβ mean in this instance? Testifying? Against who?
The only βcooperationβ it could mean is cooperation in a coverup.
05.08.2025 12:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And here I thought the hatred was just plain old racism, how could we have missed this? :)
05.08.2025 12:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
But how do you feel about perfluoroalkyl substances?
05.08.2025 12:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The most polite quote I can pull tonight is from a young a doctor who simply said βI plead with any democrat to please stop this moderate nonsenseβ
04.08.2025 23:17 β π 1780 π 235 π¬ 9 π 17
Getting a bunch of "Call N. K.!" tags again. This happens every time somebody attempts to blow up/risks blowing up the moon -- which you wouldn't think would happen a lot, but here we are.
04.08.2025 23:27 β π 1554 π 226 π¬ 36 π 15
Retired MTV "The Real World" contestant wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
04.08.2025 21:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Retired lumberjack wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
04.08.2025 21:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Ace Records
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
To the tune of, "Whitey's on the moon."
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04.08.2025 21:17 β π 28 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Since No One Else Seems to Care, Letβs Remember Epsteinβs Survivors
They've already told us everything we need to know...
As everyone β¦ scrambles for further evidence of Trumpβs connection to the prolific pedophile and sex-trafficker, whatβs beenβonce againβlost in this discourse is the hundreds of women who survived the horrors Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their moneyed friends inflicted upon them.
04.08.2025 20:54 β π 1533 π 611 π¬ 30 π 26
154,000 federal workers who took DOGE buyouts are being paid to go fishing
The government has generated an estimated $14.8 billion in waste on the deferred resignation program, a new report says
So, to recap, DOGE cuts mean:
-Paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work
-A loss of over $10 billion in US-based economic activity
-$21 billion in waste spent on mass layoffs
04.08.2025 14:13 β π 275 π 132 π¬ 11 π 3
π½οΈ WATCH: βThe U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldnβt.β
Hear from Juan JosΓ© Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer JosΓ© Vega Sandia β three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT β in their own words:
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βand for many U.S. children water fluoridation is the primary source of exposure to fluoride. The effectiveness of water fluoridation can vary according to circumstances such as whether preventive dental care is free to all children.β 2/2
04.08.2025 00:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
From Wikipedia page on fluoridation: βFluoridation is however still clearly necessary in the U.S. because unlike most European countries, the U.S. does not have school-based dental care, many children do not visit a dentist regularly, 1/
04.08.2025 00:24 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
There is fluorine of a sort; PFAS is βPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chainβ
04.08.2025 00:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#MISen
04.08.2025 00:01 β π 87 π 2 π¬ 6 π 0
"Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him."
-- Plutarch, β 100 A.D.
01.08.2025 19:43 β π 1466 π 512 π¬ 30 π 11
03.08.2025 14:56 β π 23193 π 9118 π¬ 539 π 387
The goal is to destroy the US and turn it into a feudal oligarchy sound crazy but it's true
03.08.2025 16:36 β π 1718 π 354 π¬ 124 π 37
07.05.2025 23:55 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
03.08.2025 13:20 β π 2677 π 1226 π¬ 132 π 274
2^10*(2^11-1)?
03.08.2025 16:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Reminds me of all the flags i saw flying in Deploristan with the obscene phrase euphemized by Letβs Go Brandon
02.08.2025 17:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"But what universities are learning, that authoritarian scholars already know and have been saying, is that complying with illegitimate attacks does not make them stopβit makes them continue"
Super useful timeline of the attacks on GMU
01.08.2025 00:10 β π 234 π 112 π¬ 7 π 4
βThe manosphere is a varied collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism.β
01.08.2025 21:29 β π 37 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Firing the BLS Commissioner β the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality β is an authoritarian four alarm fire.
It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
01.08.2025 20:54 β π 10282 π 3300 π¬ 300 π 159
Historian here that is the Soviet Lada in this tweet! The big ugly GOP bill is really taking America backwards and making America bankrupt!
01.08.2025 19:27 β π 1005 π 244 π¬ 64 π 46
I.e., fuck the oligarchy
01.08.2025 21:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Trumpism has proven the Jamie Dimons of the world are nihilists at heart. They don't care about anything, not America, democracy, law, nor even capitalism. All their chest-puffing about the importance of free markets, liberty, and prosperity gone instantly in favor of an aging addled authoritarian.
01.08.2025 19:42 β π 2119 π 393 π¬ 35 π 11
The CDC has not provided a SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance update for 6 weeks. That is unacceptable
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