ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social
Board gaming; wordplay; opinions/observations offered for free and mostly left on the shelf anyway.
"You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
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The idea that either Musk or Trump has "friends," and not just scheming hangers-on, is certainly something.
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De facto already is if you look at child marriage laws at the state level.
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The utility of this poll question seems limited when the subject is Israel. If people say that they disapprove of, e.g., China, one can assume that the vast majority mean that they think the polices of the Chinese government are bad, not that China should cease to exist. Here there is ambiguity.
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Not an expert, but one big effect is that you presumably can't use Federal financial aid at an unaccredited institution.
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Trying to make popularism about *policy* is extremely stupid. Being insincere and unprincipled is inherently offputting; it will never be popular!
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Much like the rights of Palestinians to be free from Israeli apartheid and violence do not depend on them being perfect in resistance, neither do the rights of American Jews to be safe depend on them having perfectly pro-Palestine politics.
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That's been every day on social media for two and-a-half years now (and intermittently before then).
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You can be king for a day, but they'll be a palace coup sometime after noon.
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People in glass houses shouldn't walk around naked.
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I watched both The Raid and Brick based on recommendations you made at the old place, and I was not disappointed either time.
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Wasn't the author of the Genji Monogatari an aristocrat?
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Good news: authoritarian rulers also care about public opinion.
Bad news: Putin invades a neighbor whenever his rating drops too far, so the precedents aren't reassuring.
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(Replace "got" with "played") Terraforming Mars, Wingspan, and The Quacks of Quedlinberg spring to mind.
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Crazification Factor has proven impressively precise, over and over again.
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On the bright side, if we get through this, civil service jobs are probably going to have to pay quite a bit better on the other end.
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I think there was always an unstated <Family Guy color palette> meme in the background.
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Yes, I agree with this. But both machine learning and organoids are legitimate technological advances, and a lot of the commentary is obscuring that in the rush to be snarky.
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I don't think that view has existed on the right except as an exceptional one in my lifetime (born during Carter admin).
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Be mean to antivaxxers! I am so serious. They are going to kill us all. Children are dying and they’re in a tin foil hat circle jerk claiming to be the real victims of some malicious attack, when it’s just predictable and preventable childhood infectious disease as usual. They don’t deserve respect.
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I wouldn't trust the current regime to implement it effectively, but as a reminder, understanding chemical toxicity is something AI has actually demonstrated a capacity to do: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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At the rate things are going, I think it's premature to rule out "they all get scared away".
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The left-leaning ones occasionally scoop the NYT, and regularly make its journalistic standards look bad by comparison. Profiling the fascists, who do not actually do any journalism, is safer.
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They are running out of lawyers.
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I meant that this would force the lawyer to resign. At which point the regime has to send someone with actual authority to court, and that person can be the contemnor.
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I'm finding it a little hard to credit that you don't know the etymology of the word "robot".
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@skywatch.blue add to MAGA list
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The second paragraph is correct, other than the stupid "WW2 enjoyers" gloss.
The third paragraph is insane; Hitler explicitly laid out a multi-generational plan for world conquest, in which his successor would lead a European reich against the United States.
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Why is "sidewalk chalk" an anacronym?
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Is there a reason the judge couldn't force the issue by saying "either show up to court with answers or be held in contempt for not doing your job"?
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I don't think anyone sees them "trying" to help Trump; some of us expect that to be the unintended consequence. Opposing this doesn't mean one wants to inflict harm; it means one expects the harms that follow fascist consolidation to me be much, much worse.
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From the producer and importer's standpoints, there is no difference between "there is a tariff" and "maybe there is a tariff". Uncertainty will kill orders just as surely as tariffs will.
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Solidarity is either omnidirectional or it's done. If they aren't there for the rest of the coalition, or indeed society, than why should anyone have their back?
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US persons, not just US citizens.
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The Washington, DC area has been unseasonably cold, actually.
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I've been tempted to mail every Republican member of Congress a copy of Mother_Night, and I think that would also apply here.
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Yes, what are they going to do, fire them for failure to zealously advocate?