If I wait for you to go to work, then rob your house…
My system worked exactly as designed.
That doesn’t mean it’s a fair system or that you have to accept that its my system.
Just that it’s what I’m doing.
We pried the DNC out of the cold dead hands of neoliberals over a year ago…
If we can do that, we can recapture the prodigal state parties. We just have to do it.
Because they don’t want to “win”…
Bibi and trump both, they don’t want a victory, they want a forever war they can use as justification to cancel elections.
Look at the people responsible for stopping terror attacks, they’re trying to make one happen thru sheer incompetence if nothing else. trump is desperate for some type of “attack on America” because he expects a 9/11 style bump in approval, when it’s likely to be the opposite reaction if it happens.
Cali really needs to fix their primary…
“Top Two” just blocks progressives. The oligarchs always pick a Republican and a neoliberal and give a shit ton to both to ensure come general, those are the only two options.
A separate primary for Ds and Rs would let a progressive make it to the general, and then easily beat any Republican in the general when the masses vote.
Cali is up there with NY as the worst Dem party tho, so it’ll be a hard fight if they ever fix it.
AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…
Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.
This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.
And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.
It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.
Edit:
Also, isn’t this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?
Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?
Because raping kids isn’t the worst thing they could have been doing to kids…
As much as Mr “I could shoot someone on 5th ave” thinks he could get away with, he’s terrified about the Epstein files being released.
It’s some fucked up weird shit in there. Shit that would make anyone hate him.
Plot twist:
People are betting it happens so the corrupt assholes will prevent nuclear war so they can win the long odds that it won’t happen.
Welcome to America.
how hot you’re being about this
“It’s only nuclear war, why is everyone getting all worked up!?”
Weapony that the former USSR had claim to and would have been a justification for intervention.
Hate to break it to ya…
But after the dissolution of the USSR, there wasn’t anymore USSR.
Russia had claim to those weapons, just like the nukes.
Ukraine kept the conventional equipment, and gave up the nukes back to Russia instead.
This isn’t a hypothetical, this is what happened, and if you don’t know what happened, it’s hard to trust you on hypotheticals. Youre making them without all the facts
but at the time the only thing they had were nukes.
Wildly incorrect…
Like just look at any map, Ukraine was the front line to Europe, think about how much military is built up in Texas because it’s a border. Ukraine had a shit ton of all types of weaponry when the USSR dissolved
Yep, anytime it comes up a shit ton of .ml accounts all keep insisting it wasn’t necessary even tho the alternative would have caused more deaths and a shit ton more human suffering while ignoring that it fucking worked even when the Japanese government considered imprisoning the emperor to prevent him from surrending before the bombs were used.
That’s what people don’t get, Japan wasn’t going to surrender. The military had seized control and would 100% continue fighting to the last person, the only thing that stopped them was showing that continuing to fight would leave all of Japan a barren rock.
The complete destruction of their island was the only thing that would have worked.
But as sure as I just said that, it’s all hypotheticals and guesses, no one really knows how much it would have taken without nukes, but every indication is it would have taken a lot.
I… uhh… disagree intensely that Harriet Tubman would meet any of the diagnostic criteria of psychopathy
Well, you also keep using an outdated pop psych term instead of the actual clinical diagnosis…
So my first guess would be you’re not actually familiar with the criteria in the first place.
And youve somehow made it this far without reading any of the things I’ve said:
Callback to my first comment illustrating that if you only study criminals, you’ll only find criminals…
But I assure you that violence was still part of the underground railroad, and there’s no way her hands were clean. Even avoiding physical violence, that kind of only leaves manipulation.
And diagnosis criteria aren’t a checklist where if you don’t get them all, you pass clean.
Like, that’s another thing I’ve already said, it’s not binary, it’s a spectrum like basically everything else.
We did send them aid.
We pledged armies…
30 years ago Ukraine was the 3rd largest nuclear superpower in the world.
They didn’t trade that for a couple crates of old ARs and malfunctioning body armor
Ukraine got a major economic boon from disarming.
Completely wiped out by the multiple Russian invasions…
They traded real security for comfort, and comfort always can be taken away.
It’s almost impossible to get real.security, look at Iran.
Like, there’s no rational reason for a sovereign country not to be developing their own nukes these days. And that’s dangerous
Depending on where the fleet is, this could potentially be done with no direct civilian casualties.
And huge environmental damage leading to indirect death and suffering at a wide scale…
It’s pretty clear cut: the Americans dropped the nuke to primarily rule out Soviet influence as opposed to being a decisive means to end the war
No, that’s from an opinion on a random website it doesn’t prove anything, just tells you the authors opinion…
Your new one agrees with me at least:
To regard Hiroshima as a moral violation is also to condemn the firebombing campaign, which was deliberately aimed at city centres and completely indiscriminate.
But I didn’t bother reading more than you quoted.
Weird…
I thought the peace sign emoji meant you were done.
The primary feature of psychopathy is a pronounced lack of empathy.
“Empathy” isn’t one thing.
There’s the oxytocin system, that’s the “built in” empathy that is variable.
However even people with fully functioning oxytocin systems can lose empathy towards groups. In facts one of the changes males go thru after reproducing is a huge boost in oxytocin which for them also correlates to aggression toward their out-group or “them”.
Someone with significant ASPD doesn’t experience that, and as such they’re likely to be one of the very small section that truly has no racism or bigotry, they just don’t care about those superficial differences.
And while someone with ASPD doesn’t have innate empathy, they’ve been faking it their whole lives, and sometimes “fake it till they make it” to the point they’re the most empathetic and caring person you met. Because they’re actively spending mental resources to keep things moving smoothly, simply to not deal with drama.
I don’t doubt that we live in an unjust society, but I’m yet to see anyone with psychopathy or psychopathic tendencies do anything but make it worse.
Can you point out any examples of psychopathy-spectrum people doing anything useful or important in society?
Callback to my first comment illustrating that if you only study criminals, you’ll only find criminals…
But it’s less that you want to break laws, and more that you believe your personal morals should take presidence.
When someone’s morals exceed their societies, like Harriet Tubman, she meets all the clinical requirements because she gave no fucks that slavery was legal in some states. By the laws in slaves states she was habitually stealing valuable property with zero remorse.
When their morals are lower, they go to jail and get labeled “psychopath” even tho the diagnosis is ASPD.
It’s all frame of reference.
Once we actually get past them being monsters, we’re gonna realize they’re all over the place in varying degrees, and often have zero idea they’re different.
The parallels to how homosexuality was treated will eventually be obvious.
I get paid a lot to be right and say it in ways powerful idiots understand.
Not having to be polite is a relief valve, but it doesn’t mean the information is incorrect.
The smallest “tactical nuke” is orders of magnitude bigger than what was used in Japan and even at their lowest settings would snowball into environmental catastrophe.
You can’t contain an atomic blast. Even what’s left is irradiated and now nuclear waste. Especially any kind of metal, which is probably going to be whatever you nuke.
Being smaller just means idiots are more likely to use them.
Modern tactical nuclear warheads have yields up to the tens of kilotons, or potentially hundreds, several times that of the weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They could be dialed down lower, but even a “small” tactical nuke is bigger than what got dropped on Japan.
It is not a “bunker buster” type of munition.
And I have no idea what you’re second rambling source is trying to say.
If trump was constrained by a system of checks and balances, sure.
But I think there’s a strong chance he “declares” them cancelled, Dem states hold them and Red states don’t…
And then we see what happens on 1/6.
Like, we can’t just expect them to play by the rules when there entire ethos is “fuck you, make me”.
Someone’s gonna have to make them… Whether thats words or actions is what we need to find out.