izzle.bsky.social
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He is an Allende after all.
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Ah, so I can blame him for the ending of Stange Days.
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But that's not a moral argument. You're just arguing that there are people out there who agree with you. Ok? What if those people are all wrong, and so are you?
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I don't know, "it's universal so get on board" feels more Protestant to me.
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Moonstruck?
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Why are you just staring at me? Please, send help.
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Every time something big happens, my first thought is, "I wonder what Bret Stephens and Jeffery Toobin think about this?"
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Why does the robot need a beer?
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He was also handed Dredd at 21, though in that case it didn't turn out as well.
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Forget the tipping discourse. I wanna talk about dairy restaurants.
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Fair, but Moebius was way better at panel to panel visual storytelling. Miyazaki comics feel like storyboards, and you can tell in his head he knows how it's supposed to flow but it doesn't always translate to the page. Again, I still love it.
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Yeah. I never liked the movie all that much, but I love the manga, even though Miyazaki isn't a very good manga artist. The way he ends the story is deeply thought-provoking.
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Dairying doesn't need to be tied directly to agriculture. Nomadic pastoralists lived in symbiosis with early agriculturalists, and dairy was and is a key part of their diet.
I'm being pedantic, but I think the argument about what's natural is a dead end.
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Humans have been consuming dairy products for millennia. What they haven't been doing is consuming unfermented dairy products. That's a relatively recent development.
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I had one as a kid! I think we bought it at the Pokemon Center on a trip to New York, before it became the Nintendo Store.
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I was just waiting for the author to name drop Conflict Is Not Abuse and I wasn't disappointed. When I read the book I had mixed feelings about it, but now I feel it was totally prescient.
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I love how different Inside Man's take on its "villains" is.
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Hahaha yes! All the social mores that prevent me from being a huge piece of shit are bad! All the social mores that keep people I don't like in line are good! Freedom for me, fascism for thee.
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There's a horrifying George Saunders story about this. So wonderful that it's become a reality.
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youtu.be/MkF_u-_mm0Q?...
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People next to us walked out and my friend ate their Twizzlers. We had a great time.
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Ok, but that's just a college freshman's understanding of Nietzsche.
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Luckily, there are no other religions facing that same crisis anywhere in the world, and definitely not any that have a complex shared history with Christianity.
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That would have been a fun alternate ending to Don Jon.
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Wait, it's actually coming out????
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But that's always been true of campism. It's frustration with the massive power of the US Empire that curdles into "anybody opposing US geopolitical interests must be good." Pacifism breeds a lot of impotence so it's more personally fulfilling to simply choose another fighter.
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Honorable Schoolboy is the best of the Karla trilogy! The ending is so brutal, it makes Spy Who Came in from the Cold look like James Bond.
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Dawn of Sorrow is one of the best games ever made, and the other two are also great, so this is really exciting.
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There was an old guy at my synagogue growing up who was apparently a Russian officer at Stalingrad. One of my biggest regrets is that I never asked him about it.
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Is hypohulkamania anything?
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One of the rare times where people could use a little more Freud in their lives.
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I'm totally out of the loop on e-readers. Are high quality color ones a thing yet? I don't really need a tablet, I just want to read books and comics.
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I think I saw a headline about her being insufficiently involved in Bidenomics to take credit for it. 🤪
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I'm a big fan of your work, especially on Jewish Currents. You are right that people here can be kind of smug about not being on Twitter. But beyond that, you've completely lost the plot.
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He saw Star Trek the Undiscovered Country and he had to reconsider.
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They should have just called the magazine "Pact (With the Devil)." It's cleaner.
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I bet a week ago some of those same people were angrily declaring that calling for Biden to step down is ageist. It's the worst incarnation of modern liberalism, breathlessly bouncing from panicked response to panicked response.
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As a miserable reply guy, this is my Citizens United.
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How many chapters does Robert Caro devote to each one?
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Nah, it's the rare movie that asks Leo to play two kids in a trenchcoat failing to act like an adult, which is what he's best at.
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He also seems to have escaped the fame trap. Being a public intellectual can melt your brain, but he dropped off of social media and started writing comics at the perfect moment.
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No fraud prevention technique exists that doesn't also affect some legitimate use. And so governments are often even more conservative about what enforcement to put in place, for good reason.
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Except there are no such thing as technological issues that aren't societal. Fraud departments at private corporations all have to do the calculus of how many legit customers they are OK dropping via fraud enforcement. Except for them the only metric is profit. The government has a much higher bar.
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Ok, so then let's say you block all calls from Azerbaijan to the US, and the five people actually trying to talk to their family now can't. Anyway, many of the major centers of fraud are countries like the DR with huge immigrant populations in the US.
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No what I'm saying is that fraud is unsolvable. For many people all over the world it is a full time job to look for new loopholes and mechanisms to defraud people. Could the government do more? Almost certainly. But you have to constantly keep up.
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What about legit international calls?
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I've seen first hand what private companies do to fight spam, and they have a huge incentive to prevent the kind of fraud that leads to chargebacks. And let me tell you, they have not solved it. It's an uphill battle.
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I was talking to somebody who worked for the anti-fraud unit of a company and they said that their team noticed a weird seasonality to fraud. It took them a while to figure out that fraud goes way up from 9-5 in a few very specific time zones, and way down afterwards.
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I've heard that some employees of overseas call centers don't actually know if they are spammers or working for a real help desk. The processes are so similar.
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Not without stopping a lot of legitimate phone calls. The problem with fighting fraud is that people might hate spam but they hate legitimate calls being blocked way more. There is no magic solution. For many people, fraud is a full time job.