philip-bidwell.bsky.social
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My impression has always been that the US wasn’t even considered an emerging global power until after this time period. Any wealth was still mostly owned/leveraged through Europeans
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Unsurprisingly signed by a literal Chad
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Poor ethical and intellectual standards to protect one sided friendships with awful people
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I think this explains a lot about the current media landscape: self-proclaimed liberals twist themselves in incomprehensible linguistic and logical knots to protect “friendships” with right wing blowhards that would in no way show a fraction on reciprocity
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When the original work is mush, honest evaluation with go over the head of the creator because they don’t even understand what they wrote
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It’s like the “not all men” response to me too. If you feel called out and need to defend yourself, that lack of self awareness IS the problem.
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Lack of self awareness to distinguish between masculinity and misogyny/bigotry
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He’s 47, but actually looks someone in their mid 50s with anemia that has had a ton of mediocre plastic surgery
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It’s gloating and preening with the intent to demoralize not distract.
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At best, AI could maybe be effective at identifying patterns in large well-defined data sets and verified outside AI. But current AI is effectively trying to integrate frequently dubious data across an expanding amorphous blob that is internet
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With any data processing, starting with good source data is a necessity. AI operates under the assumption that you can logically sift through all possible input data (regardless of quality). You need learned experience from experts to find good input data. Finding good experts is a skill itself.
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This is of course 18 months after Musk and Thiel purchased the entirety of El Salvador to become Libertarian Zone of New South Africa
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Also, that line of thinking is dismissive of single parent families of moderate size (3-4 kids). Do those situations require a level financial support and/or social support outside of the core family unit (extended family, friends, neighbors) that is well outside the norm? Sure, but it’s possible
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Kinda feel like fox folks will take this as the fault of TOO MUCH regulation, and unnecessary over-caution over bird flu
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Does Trump thrive on this type of stupid drama? sure, but conceding with minimal resistance makes it easy for Trump to create other stupid drama.
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Hypothetically, could the working attorneys file charges against Bove/Bondi for corruption?
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The poster’s profile pic is a little too on point: nameless, faceless, mass produced, and expendable fascist henchman that is comically unable to shoot the good guys
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Use of “T” as a term is an immediate red flag
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Too young for Vietnam and too old for Iraq/Afghanistan wars, and as a result didn’t develop healthy cynicism/distrust certain elements in power
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I am personally not interested in fighting over whose fascism wins.
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D-Day = years of bureaucratic logistics planning to support… more logistics
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And Congressional Rs like it because they can and will use this strategy insulate themselves from public blowback
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Also he doesn’t understand that endowments are not just excess pools of money on a balance sheet, but assets/investments that many of which can’t legally even be sold
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It’s like saying “I’m not siphoning the gas” while slashing the tires and removing the spark plugs
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And the reason he doesn’t see a threat to his kids is they have secret service protection
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Plans for Mt Rushmore are next
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Needs the line “my only recourse is to bring marshmallows on my next flight so I can toast some in the fire as my last meal”
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Also, encouraging sudden mass retirement of judges willing to have Trump pick their replacement would backfire in the short term creating a lot fewer judges friendly to trump agenda
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High level technical aptitude does not equal smart. Those types frequently are some of the most extreme examples of Dunning Kruger Mount Stupid
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In other words, they’ll be looking at how many crashes the public will tolerate before it impacts airline profits
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So you’re saying we need to be saved by a lovable Canadian
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Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
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At this rate you’ll have a concussion by in a few weeks