King Blackwhale

Possible rational explanation is that Iran has stated they‘d open the straights if the bombs stop, and they expect Trump will declare victory and retreat, and it will reopen

Moneyball’s strategy isn’t the issue, people just never do it right.

Step 1: assemble three all-star ace pitchers who lead the AL in wins back-to-back-to-back on rookie contracts

Step 2: do Moneyball

They were able to refill the Based Content reserves

It’s a TACO rally

But the analysts’ failure here seems less ”which move will the amateur make” and more ”is this player an amateur.”

Ie, the seemed to assume that the player was an expert because they’re playing in the tournament, despite repeated evidence to the contrary

This is exactly Trump’s strength — he just runs with the first thought he has, which is the first thought lots of people have, and they like seeing someone important telling them they’ve always been right.

And then he drives off the cliff, bc he can’t comprehend there‘a more thoughts after

I oppose any execution of children that raises my cost of living

Also, AI doesn’t *need* to be conscious to be massively disruptive, put us past a singularity, etc. Tech being a multiplier to human intelligence can move things exponentially. Eg. writing, books, mathematics, databases, etc. - all transformational.

Its PR or psychology to focus on consciousness

Sure. Like Geordi got freaky eyes instead of a cool visor

This is “alternate future farmer Picard“ from the finale, not “unresolved trauma from non-consensual cyborging Picard”

lol duh yeah.

The world is “tough but fair.” So if an idea isn‘t tough in some way, it can’t be fair. No free lunch, etc.

Means tests are everywhere because policy has to be mean to someone to be serious. This is a consistent theme of MSM and political consensus. A policy proposal must be deliberately cruel or exclusionary to *someone* or it’s silly fantasy.

Look for this and you’ll start seeing it everywhere.

Media’s been running the “insiders think LLMs may becoming sentient“ story for years. Never a lick of evidence in the real world.

It can still be a profoundly transformative tech as a tool that exponentially boosts human productivity & development. But they ain’t silicon people.

“Mal! It’s the Reavers! They‘re trans now. They’re all trans!”

I want a searchable federal database of ICE officer mugshots and areas of operation, alongside a waiver of the government’s attorney-client privilege relating to ICE enforcement.

>What's Stancil's actual deal? He goes around on social media pronouncing vaguely leftie to liberal takes with an authority that seems unwarranted but is stated confidently. Why does he think he knows better?

What here doesn’t also apply to Graham Platner?

Trump only ever really raises one legal argument: I have the inherent power to do what I want, I am the state.

“No Kings” always the right frame. MAGA‘s been likened to Nazis, Soviets, antebellum South, banana republics — but best is prob *Royalist*

Does sovereignty rest with the people, POTUS hired for a public job with duties and authorities; or is Trump imbued with personal sovereignty owed deference

This is fucking PATHETIC

Germany attacking Russia because is would retaliate against Austria-Hungary’s attack on Serbia?

In a sense Prohibition actually succeeded, because there was a durable fall in alcohol consumption after repeal that’s lasted a century.

I’m from the SF Bay Area. Republicans routinely say the vilest insults about me, my neighbors and my family, and openly celebrate when members of my comm die in natural disasters.

In 40 years of life I have never ONCE heard a mainstream pundit criticize the right or suggest the need to respect me

It’s incredible how Yglesias’ analysis on how to win elections is so easily disproved by two seconds of looking at who won the last elections

Only until the murder convictions

MAGA has somehow, impressively, combined 1930s Germany, the antebellum south, the Cultural Revolution, and every tinpot strongman with a hanging vest of cheap medals — and then dropped the love child of Rob Ford and Buddy Cianci on top

Is Britt the new Paul Ryan? A hard right ideologue who only ever does hard right things, but who the press desperately and unfathomably replaces with an imaginary moderate

One thought I’ve had: what’s the last important story you can remember CNN breaking?

The ”Charged with domestic violence“ to “MAGA soldier“ pipeline strikes again

like those German “refugees” fleeing to South America in the early 1940s…