We must pick our hottest process engineers and steer them towards politics.
I absolutely believe that Trump's success since 2015 signals the inevitability of Streamer Politicians and of course Streamer Presidents.
Essentially no one in that category can be trusted to understand, say, bombing Iran has an XX% chance of catalyzing a global depression.
Maybe this has always been true, but it's clear one of the biggest problems we face in the 21st century is:
The Venn diagram of "people who understand material plenty isn't magic but instead depends on a whole world of logistics" and "people with political charisma" has a vanishingly small center.
My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.
Costume design for Lysistrata — George Barbier, 1918
Gouache
"Where is Strait of Hormuz?"
"Strait of Hormuz how get around?"
"Strait of Hormuz, alternative?"
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
No, I don't want to concede that the left is all censorious schoolmarms while the right gets to kick back and have fun. This is completely contrary to my experience of the world - the scolding 'SJW' stereotype is long gone, and as the article shows the right use humour to hide sadism.
The thing I hate about "distraction" discourse is that it tends to proceed without a good way to distinguish between "the strategy the enemy is adopting is to do this as a deliberate diversion from something else" and "this is less worthy (or unworthy) of our attention and condemnation". 1/
lmao let’s goooo
@jamellebouie.net on Cory Booker's tax plan: "I think it's stupid."
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The attacks on immigrants and the wars were also pushed by sadistic viziers--Miller with immigration, Rubio with Venezuela, Hegseth probably with Iran--but they appealed to Trump because he gets to show his power by hurting people, and that is what he likes best of all.
The thing about the early Church is that they did a pretty good job of identifying the most plausible texts.
the Mad King is also culpable for the schemes of his evil viziers
Aye, ending USAID is probably the worst thing Trump has done in his life, and it will be very hard to top.
Just in consequentialist terms of death and suffering caused, on average, starting a non-defensive war is the greatest crime any individual human being could commit.
labour have gained 0% of reform voters & lost half of theirs
that's right, ive read War and Peace who want me 😏
Has anyone heard of the Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge? Is this a phishing email?
Now why does war entice us, beckon to us like a lover;
how can we see the beauty of a flower that is on a grave?
- is a line from an anime theme tune that I personally think goes too hard for that context but other people think is at an appropriate level of melodrama. Opinions differ.
There is a lot of somewhat melancholic English folk music from the medieval period that is great. Of those that I know, cliché as it is, I really do think Scarborough Fair is best. The sense of fae weirdness it conveys is just so compelling.
The cunning Donald Trump has masterfully twisted the Republican party and CENTCOM around his finger and hoodwinked them into doing the exact thing they’ve been wanting to do for half a century
For what little it's worth I think starting pointless wars is among the most immoral things a leader can do. Bunch of people on here saying it's a distraction from the Epstein files, but I sincerely think that so far as these things may be compared the Iran war is worse.
I mean surely there must have been one anti racist without a Nazi candidate that might have been better?
the thing is that, had they really leaned into her being artificial, like Hatsune Miku, it could have legs. Better a superb weirdo bot than a mediocre human imitation
@britwarmemorial.bsky.social
Dulwich Hospital War Memorial
To simplify, in the UK, the major party factions’ singular aim is to destroy their party from the inside to ensure other parties win, thereby proving the other parties can’t govern, ensuring they win during the next election in five year’s time, but nobody has any desire to win on policy or govern
Walled City in Autumn Landscape | Wassily Kandinsky
