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I write about space, in several places. Used to write about other stuff? But now pretty much it's space. I also talk about gaming here, though. Also politics, sadly and mostly unwillingly, but I do try to damp it down a bit
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No he wasn't, and no they didn't. This is weird cope.
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Look, bud, nobody cares about or likes this "real loyal Democrat" stuff. They find it grotesque, frankly, considering how the Dems are so closely tied to the overall American electoral system.
The Dems aren't loyal to you, so you have no reason to be loyal to them. They're just a vehicle. Sorry.
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And Landers would have probably worked as a compromise candidate to cover both that and the experience fears with Mamdani
As it is...
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Fucked up that you don't value firefighters but sure
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I'm still confused as to why they didn't just coalesce around Lander, an intensely Normal guy who did funny-weird roller coaster videos and was a competent city official
Lander pulling around 16% in a race this polarized suggests he'd have been a serious contender with Cuomo's level of backers
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I'm still grumpy the damn bots stole my emdashes
You can't have them you robot scum—they're MINE
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Goddamn telemetry, yeah, just absolutely obnoxious even without considering the ads and Meta/Google integration
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I've read that something about modern TVs just doesn't work with 30fps framerates the way that older ones did, so something that was Basically Fine during the sixth or seventh gen is really painful now
It's a known issue with OLEDs but I wonder if it's a thing with modern LEDs too
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Not really seeing what normie-alienating things Bernie was doing, TBH. Normies generally love him, to the point that he had crossover appeal.
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People forget that what stopped Bernie was Obama putting his thumb on the scales both times
He's the only Dem that knew how to win, and he's clearly stopped giving a damn about these people
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Mamdani is basically a big neon sign to the Democratic Party saying "David Hogg is going to take your fucking jobs no matter how much procedural bullshit Weepy Ken digs up"
It must be terrifying
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They might pivot to Adams, but then they're simply done with Democratic voters and the Democratic base, there's no going back
So if the Republicans fail to keep their Eternal Regime, they're eventually out in the cold. Even if they do, Trump hates them too, so they're fucked either way
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It's possible, but all Cuomo ever had was "I'm the inevitable insider choice of your moneyed nobility, just give in you fucking serfs"
Without that inevitability he's just the newest version of that guy that got demolished by AOC, pathetic wormtongue candidate
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Seriously you billionaire dumbasses this could have been your guy
But you simply had to have abundance bro failson solidarity with fucking Andrew Cuomo of all people
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CERN finally reprogrammed that damn collider
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...wow Mamdani was winning in the first round. NOBODY called that. This must have been an absolutely cataclysmic blowout.
Now I get why the Cuomo contingent sounded so desperate. The polling models must have been brutal.
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Tag yourselves im crortex
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What's funny is that the person getting VERY mad about the brain study was doing all this hairsplitting about "well can you even call that neural damage the neurons are technically fine"
Meanwhile here's one of their beloved LLMs trying to model brain structure, to the bemusement below:
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Nadella doesn't care about anything except the brain-melting chatbots and it's gonna be real funny when the bubble pops
Meanwhile Phil is probably just trying to ride this long enough to snag that golden parachute, leave Bond holding the yoke as he bails to safety
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If this is true people are going to start losing their minds playing Metroid
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Well hell that ain't good.
Good thing I can't buy a decent case so I'm playing it docked, I guess
(Fuck carrying it around without protection it's pricey as hell)
(My Deck OLED came with a great case, just saying, and also it's OLED)
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...dang I'm pretty sure this is the one from Morel Orel and no kidding
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A ton of power comes from recognizing the parts of life and society and culture that we share: of loving the same things, experiencing the same things, even disliking the same things.
This is literally "soft power" in IR theory.
And, yeah, that includes simply enjoying funny cat videos.
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Like, yes, "everything is political" is true, in the sense that power infuses and shapes all human interactions and relations.
But if you think that means that you need to look at EVERYTHING through a nakedly political lens? You're not only hugely tiresome, you don't understand power at all.
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Yeah, I think a lot of what people actually want are creators who are unafraid to reveal what they believe, and not do the YA author thing of repeating whatever you think will get you the most backpats
Kojima literally changed his game to be more polarizing: he ain't doing this to please you
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Goddamn these coastal machine politicians are so bad at the simplest retail stuff
Just say "Mets" even if you don't believe it, easy cred
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I wouldn't be surprised, every asshole chancer that was burning his house down trying to mint bitcoin with a bunch of unprotected GPUs has now pivoted to AI
(Often with the same damn GPUs)
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Ah, yes, PlayOnline: the reason why the guides of the era are all unusable, and nobody has ever figured out how to log onto Final Fantasy 11
(They just fake the screenshots, it's quite elaborate)
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Trying to do sixties protest song in Mario Voice but it's too dang hot rn
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TBH I lean towards "wait what the hell is this tuning fork thing Mama built, it doesn't look anything like a zipcord..."
and then the next twenty seconds change your whole goddamn life
(Honourable mentions: "wait it said I can use the floater?" and "THREE BLUE LINES, KOJIMA, FUCK YOU I WIN")
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Good point being made there about the value of infrastructure, too, and how it's a collective project
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Reminds me of how all that AC Unity weirdness was apparently caused by the mobile integration
Once they removed that the game mostly worked okay
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BUT HOW CAN YOU GO ON URSELF lmao gottem
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...people used to say much the same thing about Ignatieff. And Freeland, for that matter.
Carney didn't win because of credentials. He won because he ran that abandoned "elbows up" campaign. You yourself said that he wants to export more energy to the Americans.
He fired the Science Minister.
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Come on, buddy. You were pretending that he wasn't an economist, that he's just some dim knuckle-dragger, now you're moving goalposts to feel better about yourself.
He was and is intelligent, and he absolutely beat the Liberals repeatedly. His enormous flaws didn't come from that.
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Martin very specifically promised a different route, and much the same one as Carney: blind reactive centrism with no values beyond doing what Bay Street tells him to do. "Facilitating" their resource extraction business.
The weird part is that Carney didn't run on that. He's just doing it.
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Saying "actually Harper didn't win because of anything he did, it was just Liberal fatigue" is just cope, buddy. Come on.
He BEAT Martin. Badly. Liberal partisans who can't accept that out of blimd arrogance are part of the reason Canadians become fatigued of you.
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A very quick googling would have revealed an Ottawa Citizen article on the subject which revealed that TD Bank's Chief Economist had a Master's in Econ, not a PhD. Just like Harper.
One wonders why you didn't bother to check.
Again: this kind of arrogance is why Martin's Liberals got destroyed.
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One does not need either of those things, sorry. One isn't quite sure why you think that the public would care.
It just comes across as desperate to pretend that people can't be both immoral and skilled or educated. Boomer-brained Just World mindset.
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Pretending that bad people must be stupid is exactly why they can beat you. It's exactly how Harper beat Martin. Don't delude yourself.
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In that kind of situation, things would be so wildly alien that it's not really worth discussing. It'd be easier to send solar from LEO at that point.
At this time, in this world, Carney is running a Harperite government that nobody voted for and nobody wants, mostly by exploiting anti-US momentum.