SCP

worse: it actually made politics even more toxic according to an NBER paper

Amazing how the ball knowers on here were like “they’re going to run out of military targets in a week” and they immediately start hitting economic/civilians infrastructure on day 8

Jesus Christ

We haven’t invented a hell hot enough

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."

But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.

They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

**the same primary candidate

Rather: “I can’t afford to live in a place like that, so why do they get it?”

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

Oh my god the only thing missing is jingling keys and him laughing and clapping like an infant

LOAC applies whether war has been declared or not

Conventions I and II are extremely clear: if you are in a uniform and aren't wearing a protected symbol, a chaplain, or otherwise hors de combat, congrats, you are a legal target

for the bajillionth time it is entirely possible to say "yes this was bad and dumb and pointless and effectively killing people for content is evil" and also acknowledge it was not in any way shape or form a LOAC violation

This discourse is going to give me an aneurysm

Hegseth is rightfully going to prison for about a million reasons, agreed.

However, genuine question here:

…This isn’t a LOAC violation, right? I do not think sinking a military ship in international waters during wartime is something that can be prosecuted.

actually can't quite get over what a poor choice mullin is for this role, in basically every way, and not just for us — for the administration, too.

the thing about foreign policy is that the vast majority of normies don't give a shit, but when you break things, they break hard. and these are the fucking people who were in charge of making it under Bush/Trump/Obama/Biden

The Sharon K institute for International Trade & Security (SKITS)

Rapidly rebranding all my search benchmarks as eval awareness benchmarks

I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability

Did we or did we not have a fascist government when Joe Biden was in office?

Electoralism is the minimum. We also need to jail the perpetrators of these attacks on our system, pack SCOTUS, and crush the billionaire class. We don’t get any of that without the right people in office to be pressured

so the world's energy mix looks like this. around 20%-25% of the world's oil (7%pt of total energy) and a third of the world's gas (another 7%pt) goes thru hormuz.

right now that's been zero'd out, and there's no clear path back. a sixth of the world's energy supply is just... gone.

Negative survival instinct

We were not meant to see such things

That’s a function of elections, not health PR strategy. Gotta put MAGA in jail and stop voting for them if we want that

The official position of government health services cannot be “you’re a fucking idiot for being anti vax” even if they believe it (they do). They need to be the place confused parents go for reliable info after *we* say “you’re a fucking idiot for being anti vax, look at this website”

Notably the approach being taken right now is “whatever the fuck RFK jr is doing” and it’s disastrous, so yeah I’d like to go back to the way the experts say we should do things.

BREAKING: The fuck plane is currently in a low speed chase taxiing down the I-5

Authorities say Lewandowski is in the back holding a gun to his head

French Laundry chef again scolds Bay Area town over affordable housing project

lmfao Thomas Keller showing up to a community meeting in his chefs jacket to complain about affordable housing being built near his 3 Michelin star restaurant is just beyond parody. what a piece of shit

“So you’ve elected a republican twice” ass headlines

Giving ol’ Gene Prigozhin a run for his money